Welcome to my site. My name is JoAnn Donahue. This is the home based business news page of my website.
Please feel free to email me at joann@joanndonahue.com. Email is the best way to reach me for coaching.
Home Based Business News is the page you are on.
For those of you who do not know me I am a home based business coach for the people who want to hear about the reality behind the home based business industry. There is no hype here. The facts will set you free. The following quote from The Master Key System, by Charles F. Haanel, is how I run my business:
"The trained mind knows that every transaction must benefit every person who is in any way connected with the transaction, and any attempt to profit by the weakness, ignorance, or necessity of another will inevitably operate to his disadvantage!"
Old news that leads right in todays news. Let me share/explain my home based business experience. I joined my first MLM over 20 years ago. I was a young mother wanting to stay at home, raise my 3 children and have a home based business that would provide the life style I desired. The consultant I invited into my home saw my interest and was eager to sign me up. All I needed to do was take the earnings from the sales of the candle show and apply them towards a free kit/business in a box. And of course some of my family and friends would be the first to hold shows in their homes to support me in my efforts to start my new home based business. The consultant talked them right into that. I was on my way! I attended monthly MLM trainings. I booked shows and started to make money selling candles. I was building a home based business. I went on to sponsor a group of my own. I became a team leader, I was now holding "so called" MLM training in my home, I struggled with this, I felt responsible for these gals and wanted to do right by them. I wanted us ALL to succeed in our efforts building our home based business. My upline told me to just copy her and follow her lead, but I didn't have a firm grip on the whole process so I faked it hoping I would make it. I was earning a percentage from my teams efforts, I earned free trips and went to national conferences. I was holding shows in women's homes that were generating sales that exceeded the typical. I created displays that quite frankly were stunning. I learned to "WOW" the guest. I was finding it harder and harder to find others who wanted to have a home based business so, to compensate I knew I could make decent money selling enough product. I was even asked to train at a national conference, showing the women how they to could generate higher sales using the wow factor.
Sounds great right? Just the way they tell you it would. However, eventually I ended up going back to work for someone else.
The MLM training never amounted to more than, just call past guest, book shows from shows, give out free door prizes, do it all over again. I was never trained in "real"marketing. No one ever talked about the importance of a list,classified ads,flyers around town,nothing. The focus was just book shows from the shows you are doing and share the opportunity. No real MLM training, no one offered MLM coaching, no home based business training. National conferences were nothing more than a BIG RA RA SESSION for us little guys to keep us motivated and the BIG guys were displayed like rare diamonds for the rest of us to sit and wonder, "how the hell are these ladies doing it"? "and why won't they share what they are really doing"?
Fast forward, it's 2007 I now had grandchildren on the way and I just wanted to be home. I wanted to build a home based business darn it. Feeling destined to BE-DO & HAVE more, I joined another MLM. I saw mega successful people in this industry before, I had my fair share of success and just knew I could do it with the right MLM coaching and the right MLM training. And now the computer was here to stay and the whole world was at my finger tips. I joined a well known travel company. Global Resorts Network. The guy who recruited me was going to teach me everything I needed to know about running a successful home based business because he and his fellow gurus set up a system that would do it all for me I just had to use it. This "system" had everything, the websites for my prospects to come to, a back office for me to keep my home based business running smooth they even provided the sites to run my ads. Ads? How do I write ads? I never wrote an ad before. I was told just write what you would want to read. Really? This is the MLM training I get from the guy who was going to teach me everything I needed to know about building a home based business? I was on the MLM training calls 2, 3 times a week looking for answers. Then it happened I made a few sales and I thought, okay I guess I'm getting this. Just keep driving traffic to the site. There was only one problem I didn't know how to help those who purchased from me. The guy who recruited me stopped answering my calls. I was sick and tired of the run around. I wasn't going down a second time in the MLM industry. I called the fellas I recruited and told them I was leaving. They could follow me if they wanted but I was jumping off the "get rich quick" and I was going to go find TRUTH.
Guess who got the list of over a thousand I drove with my money to "my" so called website in those 9 months I rode that ride? It wasn't me!
I have spent the last three years being educated by two MLM marketing experts. I've learned valuable lessons and most of all I have learned what NOT to do.
Listen up. The news is no different today then it was 20 years ago, except we have the internet to utilize in our marketing efforts. The MLM industry, the home based business industry, the be your own boss industry is an opportunity like no other. However, if you want to make money more than you want to learn how to earn using the internet and /or help people then stay where you are and be led around by those who profit by the weakness, ignorance and or necessity of others. It's a HUGH money making racket. Think about the few who make the money from 97% who stay down. It's a BIG piece of pie.
Now for the XTRA XTRA read all about it news, If you want to learn how to build a home based business utilizing the internet then stick around. You will not hear hype,vague overviews or generalizations from me or my partner. The MLM coaching and the home based business training that we will bring to the table will be the specifics you want, the information you want and the knowledge you want. It's time for someone to give it all away for one simple reason. It's the RIGHT thing to do. Give enough people what they want and you end up getting what you want. It's law it is written, "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."
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I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half of the things you do
you might as well turn over to me
and I will do them – quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed – you must be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done
and after a few lessons, I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of great people,
and alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine though I work
with the precision of a machine
plus the intelligence of a person.
You may run me for profit or run me for ruin -
it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me, and
I will place the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I? I am Habit.