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The Shortest Way to Financial Freedom 7:56pm

Willy Lim,what is the shortest way to financial freedom?

- Lucia Sarah, UK

Got this question in my mailbox.

Hi Sarah,

Thank you for your email.
I hope you are learning something from my email course

I’m glad that you asked about the SHORTEST way to financial freedom, rather than the FASTEST way to financial freedom. Because financial freedom is not about Get Rich Quick. It requires dedication, effort and determination.

The shortest way to financial freedom? Hmm.
I took 5 years to become financially free, and I did it via Network Marketing.
While I’m not sure if that is the shortest ( or even considered “short) way, I can tell you the journey was definitely worth.

The key to shortening your path to freedom is find a good mentor. Better still, find a great team to mastermind with. Having someone whose been there, done that,  and is willing to show you the way, greatly shortens the process.

That being said, you play a huge part in how long it takes to get there too. Given that your income is usually the average of your 5 best friends’, choose wisely who your friends are. You can choose your friends, and hence you can determine your income.

Committed to Your Freedom,

Willy Lim

UK housewives rule in online time 9:03pm

It is really interesting to note that Chinese spend 44% of their leisure time online!
With a still hugely untapped online marketing marketing, China has huge potential in the next 5 years.

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Repost from BBC.

UK housewives rule in online time

A survey of more than 27,000 web users in 16 countries has shown that the Chinese spend the largest fraction of their leisure time online.

However, UK housewives spend even more than China’s average - 47%.

Germans are the most likely to meet someone in real life that they first met online; more than three quarters have done so.

The study also found that the UK is the least trusting of information in its newspapers among the 16 countries.

The study was conducted by global market information group TNS, which asked 27,522 people aged between 18 and 55 to answer questions about their web use and compared respondents’ faith in traditional versus online media. The average respondent in China spends 44% of their leisure time online, nearly three times the amount of the average Danish respondent. On average across all countries, under-25s spend 36% of their leisure time online; in China, under-25s claim they spend 50%. In the UK, a breakdown by occupation shows striking differences in the responses; students spend 39%, more than the unemployed (32%) but still far less than housewives. Face time And as for online socialising? On average across all countries, respondents had 17 online friends. However, when asked the question “Have you ever arranged to meet in person people who you’ve met through the internet?”, Germans came out on top with a whopping 76% saying yes. The Chinese were at the bottom of the 16-strong list, at 40% - still a reasonable fraction reporting they had crossed from online life into real life.

“What comes out in this survey is that we are actively engaging with people online, but we haven’t lost the knack for conventional social contact,” said Arno Hummerston, managing director of TNS.

“At the same time, online acquaintances are now perceived by most of us as real acquaintances.”

The average across all countries was 60% having met online friends face-to-face; the UK was just below that figure at 58%.

A further part of the study comparing online and traditional media and information sources showed national differences.

In the UK, online news sites are second only to friends as the primary source of trusted information; two fifths said they considered online news a “highly trusted” medium.

The UK was markedly less trusting of print media, with only 23% counting newspapers as highly trusted - roughly the same fraction who considered the Wikipedia site as highly trusted. At the top were Finnish respondents, who were some three times more likely - 69% - to describe their newspapers as such.

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The 50 Best Business Blogs of 2008 7:44am

Just found this very useful list of business blogs.

http://www.businesspundit.com/the-50-best-business-blogs-of-2008/

Delivering Net Profits to Your Business,
Willy Lim
Small Business Marketing Expert
InterNETwork Marketing Expert

People, Systems and the Business 5:28am

I got this question in my mailbox today.

When you are building your downline, and you want people to replicate your success, you can’t just give them a replicated website. I understand that. So what do you actually train the downline to do? Do you say “Build a profitable high traffic website like mine with some unique idea.”

That would scare away most people. How do you make a very large downline successful?

Thanks for any reply! - Richad, from United States

Thank your for your question, Richad.

There are 3 parts in building ANY business:-

1) People
2) Systems
3) The Business

In my many years in direct-selling, I realised that people are not duplicatable. Everyone is a UNIQUE individual.

Only systems are duplicatable. And technologies are part of those duplicatable systems.

Therefore, you shouldn’t allow people to run the business directly. Rather, you should let people run systems, and systems run the business. And that’s why you should focus on building duplicatable systems, rather than attempting to duplicate people.

Hence, I teach my downlines to BE themselves, to POSITION themselves uniquely and to learn how to USE these systems (and technology) to attract prospects to themselves.

Let me use the analogy of learning to drive a car.

To get to the destination (the business), we (the people) can walk or drive a car (the system).
Obviously, we would get there faster if we learn how to drive the car (learn how to use the system).
While everyone’s driving habits (everyone is unique) may be different, the car (system) has standard interfaces such as a steering wheel, an accelerator and brakes.
Once everyone learn how to drive a car using these standard interfaces, everyone gets to the destination faster.

So, while it would take time to teach everyone how to use as system such as the InterNETwork Marketing system to attract prospects , it really pays off in the long run.

Remember, build duplicatable systems. Then let people run your systems and let your systems run yout business. Never let people run your business directly.

Click below to find out more about duplicating a huge downline organisation:-

http://www.financially-free-advisor.com/duplicate-mlm.html

Delivering Net Profits to Your Business,
Willy Lim
Small Business Marketing Expert
InterNETwork Marketing Expert
Making InterNET Work for Marketing in Asia

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