Why Did YOU Join FourPointGroup?

Remember the Reason YOU Joined?

FourPointGroup to begin with?  Was it because you knew how to present?  You knew how to close calls?  Probably not.  You likely didn't look for something like FPG because you know everything there is about building a business.  I would guess, that if you are like most, you joined FPG because you understood that it's what we teach, what we train, that gives people the leg up that they need.  When it becomes all about telling prospective customers your company credentials, stats, and latest products - then they lose track of the reason they asked for information in the first place.  They want someone to show them HOW to build an income from their home.  People want to know HOW to do something more than they want to know WHY the company is so awesome.  Bottom line:  Our company is awesome.  We have the awards, credentials, track record, best products and compensation plan.  But - it really doesn't matter what company a person chooses if they don't have access to that special "something" that makes success possible.  They will fail everytime without the right training and inside knowledge for making it in that company. The main thing someone you are sharing the information with needs to know before he/she will commit to joining you is that YOU have that something you can teach and that will make this work for them.  And you do:  FPG has step by step training, ways to generate contacts, and helpful marketing tools to help you get more contacts. The next time you are closing, focus on a simple way of saying FPG will show you HOW to get ahead, HOW to make money where you couldn't in other places.  Focus on HOW they have everything they need in a free support community.  Then ask them if they'd like to get started.  -By Krissy Mayse

How to Get a Facebook Custom URL

By Krissy Mayse
You can personalize your Facebook URL (web address) by selecting a unique username. It will appear in the location bar of your browser after "http://www.facebook.com/" when you view your profile.  For example, mine is www.facebook.com/krissymayse. 
 Someone who has NOT taken that extra little step to get the personalized URL would have a Facebook address that looks like this:


 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000744743055&ref=ts


Who wants to try to fit THAT on a business card? 


And really, do you WANT a sixty letter and number website address in your email signature?


 So in order to make it look like this:  www.facebook.com/krissymayse here are two options that Facebook offers for you to get your own custom web address on Facebook.  Both are FREE. The Help Center at Facebook says you can just go to this link:
 http://www.facebook.com/username.

Then you can select a username that Facebook suggests or create your own. Select "Check availability" to check for available usernames. If the desired username is available, click "Confirm" in order to confirm your choice
 The other way you can do this is to click on (from your page) Account, then Account Settings, then Name, choose Change Username.  It's to the right.  And you're all done!
   

How Facebook’s New Privacy Controls Work by Jolie O’Dell

{This article looked worth reposting. The author is Jolie O'Dell and she does a great job of discussing issues many of us are interested in}


Facebook's privacy settings and users' concerns have been debated and analyzed ad nauseum over the past several weeks. With today's announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company hope to put the talk — and the fear and mistrust — to rest.
"We made a lot of changes at the same time," Zuckerberg said regarding his company's f8 announcements of the Open Graph API and other new Facebook features. "A lot of what we were trying to do got lost. We really need to simplify the controls… The feedback we got from users really resonated with us."
Facebook's new privacy controls are dead simple, as simple as a single button-click for sharing or restricting all your information — from your birthday and contact information to your posts and photos.
Now, Facebook will give users one simple control for all sharing. In a couple clicks, you can change all your settings, and the changes will apply retroactively as well. And of course, changes will apply to any new products that might be released in the future.
Read the rest of the article at Mashable.

Stay at Home Mom’s Turkey Posole

Stay at Home Mom's Turkey Posole

As a stay at home mom, I sometimes run into people who assume I also like to spend forever cooking dinner or lunch. Not so. I DO like to cook when I'm in the mood. But now and then I just want a nice comfort warm dish that doesn't take much time to cook. I have days where I wish someone else would do the cooking too.
I've been craving "posole." (pronounced pō sṓ lày). There are two definitions when you hear people talking about posole. Sometimes it refers to the large corn kernel itself. Mostly though it refers to the wonderful Mexican soup that contains hominy, pork, lime, cilantro and chilies. If you go the traditional route you also need to spend time soaking the corn kernels. I went the short cut route due to my schedule and wanting to eat SOON.




Working at home means I can make my food while I work, going back and forth from the kitchen. This is great for me because I can do other chores at the same time. However, if you get distracted and totally in to something you can also have some cons to the whole cooking while you work. For example, I recently forgot I had 5 eggs in a small pan boiling. I won't give all the details but I will say that when eggs boil down and there is no water left in the pan, the resulting explosion of the eggs makes a sound similar to a gunshot. (Picture my kids running for cover). Someone said I should have just fed the eggs to the dog. I replied "You don't understand. There wasn't anything to hand to the dog. We are talking smithereens here. Egg pieces from one end of the kitchen to the other…."
Moral of the story: Use a Timer. A LOUD timer if you tend to get engrossed in your daily activities because you enjoy them so much.




Here is the short cut recipe for a nice spicy but lighter posole: Stay at Home Mom's Turkey Posole. It is GREAT for a cold rainy day at home! (Like today!)




Stay at Home Mom's Turkey Posole
By Krissy Dyes




Ingredient List

 1 large can of white hominy ( or 2 regular cans) – DRAIN AND RINSE in a colander
1 can of Hatch green chilis and tomatoes (if you can't find Hatch, Rotel makes a great Mexican flavored one and it's got lime in it too!)
1/2 white onion chopped
1 large clove garlic - minced
3 cups of chicken broth
1 cup ground turkey sausage
2tsp comino
1 tsp chili powder
½ teaspoon oregano (Mexican oregano is best but regular dried oregano works just fine)
Salt to taste
2 tsp olive oil
2 tsp lime juice
Suggested complements/garnish: chopped avocado, chopped cilantro, corn tortilla chips, or steamed corn tortillas




Preparation:


Crumble then brown the turkey sausage in a skillet. Then place on a napkin and blot grease from the sausage. Set aside.Chop the onion
Mince the garlic
Drain and rinse the hominy in a colander. Leave in colander til ready for use.




Saute the onion for approximately four minutes on low to medium heat until the onions are soft. (Don't add anything else til they are soft or they will take longer to cook through).
Add the minced garlic to the sauteed onion. Then saute 1-2 minutes.
Pour in the chicken broth.
Add the sausage and tomatoes/chilis.
Stir well then add the comino, chili powder, oregano, salt and lime juice. Stir again.
Simmer 15 minutes.
Enjoy with your favorite sides/garnishes.
Serves 4-6 depending on serving size.

Day to Day Activities

One of our team members volunteered a sample day of her average work week in hopes it might help everyone understand how to explain the day to day activities of what we do. It is below and if you wish to have detailed information on our compensation plan and some great benefits while you learn about our parent company, be sure to contact the FourPointGroup representative who sent you here.

 This team member is a single mom and has two children ages 3 years old and 11 years old. The 3 year old is in preschool twice weekly so her work days vary when he is in school and out of school:

 Monday:
6 am – up with the kids
7:15 am – drive oldest son to school
7:40 am – back home – put youngest back to bed and go back to bed herself for another hour to grab more sleep!
8:45-9:15 am – feed child breakfast, drink caffeine, review appointment book for the day – notate any changes needed
9:30 am – help new team member open an account for someone so they can work with us
10 am – get dressed, bathe child, turn on Dora the Explorer, and answer emails from prospective members
10:30 am – play with son, do the dishes, wipe down the counters, and throw some laundry in
11 am – Pick up the phone and call about 15 people who have requested information, leave several voicemails, and schedule 2 phone appointments for tonight.
12 n – meet with team members via telephone to discuss questions about FourPointMoms life, etc.
12:30 – eat lunch with son.
1pm – fold towels, clean the bathroom, put son down for a nap, answer questions via Yahoo instant message, post on Facebook for my business
1:30 pm – call 10 more interested contacts that requested information, leave more voicemails, schedule 1 appointment for tomorrow
2pm break time
2:30 pm – wake up son from nap,
2:45pm – leave to pick up oldest son from school.
3pm-5pm – workout at the gym, help son with homework, kids out to play, sweep floors, tidy living room
6pm – connect a guest in another state to business presentation via phone and Internet (3 minutes tops!)
6:05pm – start dinner
6:35pm – talk with guest who just listened, answer questions, help them get started
7pm - connect a guest in another state to business presentation via phone and Internet (3 minutes tops!)
7:15pm – Dinner on the table
7:45pm - with guest who just listened, answer questions, schedule follow-up appt for next day
8pm – call more interested people for new team member while she listens in
9pm – make sure kids are in bed, answer emails missed earlier, respond to online messages
10pm – bed time





 

FourPointMoms: What Do We DO Exactly?

Many times people want to know exactly what it is that we do. In fact, a few of these folks even ask this question after they just heard a 35 minute presentation. Is it because they were just not paying attention, distracted or just plain dense? In some cases, sure – those COULD be the reasons they ask. However, there are at least two other explanations we can think of that could cause someone to ask that question after just having heard the answer.


#1    Each presenter explains the information in his or her own way. While our presenters are amazing and very talented, everyone communicates their perspective in their own unique way. People are unique and we all communicate and understand in a variety of ways. For example, one presenter might say "We don't sell products or keep stock in our homes." While another presenter might say "We do not exchange goods for money or keep inventory." Both presenters said the same thing, didn't they? Some people would say yes. Others would say "It depends on what you mean by the words "sell products vs exchange goods for money." This is just one example of how people communicate differently. (For the record, FourPointMoms does not exchange goods for money nor do we keep or stock products in our home in order to sell them. We do however, endorse and open accounts for a company that does manufacture their own products.)



#2    The 2d reason I think people still want to know what we do after they've just heard about us is that they cannot quite wrap their minds around the fact that an organization would be so generous with their time and resources at no charge. People have been taught to believe that nothing is free and everything has a catch. When they encounter a volunteer organization like FourPointGroup and FourPointMoms, it is just incomprehensible to them that a group would spend thousands of dollars a year to help them get started with free resources. So, when someone comes off of one of our presentations, we do encourage our members to reiterate the fact that our members do receive ongoing mentoring, coaching, free websites (no hosting or maintenance charges, setup is free) and the ability to do their home business on the Internet. Granted, we DO pay a $29 membership fee to our parent company so that we can get started and it includes an amazing membership kit but everything that FourPointGroup and FourPointMoms provides it's members is complimentary.



So what do we do? In a nutshell, we setup accounts for an international company that manufactures green products. Plain and simple. We can do this using the Internet or we can talk to people that we know. It's a matter of choices. Through the years, FourPointGroup has had many men, women, married, single, with and without children get excited about what they see and join our team. We originally began with the concept of helping Moms stay home around their children. Many of our features and resources were developed BY moms FOR moms because moms with children at home have specific needs. Turns out a lot of people – male and female- with and without children love the flexibility that we offer too!
What we do is straightforward and uncomplicated. We're independent contractors. We receive a paycheck on a monthly basis for the work we've done (with weekly pay options). Checks are mailed on the 15^th of each month. As an independent contractor, we receive a 1099 at the end of the year instead of a W-2. We're not the ones writing the paychecks every month. Our paycheck comes from our parent company. We set up accounts for them. We train you how to acquire and set up these accounts from the comfort of your home using your telephone and the Internet. You do not have to "know" a lot of people to be successful working with us. Your day to day work is simple and the key is to be consistent.

FourPointMoms Members Can Qualify for Weekly Pay Options

It’s been an exciting month! Our parent company just offered us the ability to get our monetary bonuses directly deposited into our bank accounts on a weekly basis. We love it and it is great to be able to offer a brand new team member the opportunity to get a paycheck the week after they get started! Even typical jobs can’t always promise that.

In today’s economic environment – it is a blessing to offer someone the chance to have money in a matter of days. We are not the company writing the paychecks. Our parent company, Melaleuca Inc. does that. Our members benefit from many advantages already. Free training, free websites, contact generation and a free, voluntary support team. NOW FourPointGroup is excited that our presentations let prospective team members know that they could feasibly start working on a Saturday and have a paycheck just 4 days later. How cool is that?!

Here is how the weekly pay option works for a brand new team member: Each week on Monday night at midnight, your previous week’s work is calculated. On Tuesday at 1pm mountain time, your weekly check amount will be posted at the Payment Center. These bonuses will be deposited directly into your bank account when you go to the Payment Center and request to have your bonuses deposited into your account.

So, the great thing about this is that a brand new team member could get started on a Saturday, open 5 accounts over the weekend and on Monday night – their work gets calculated and ready for them to deposit into their bank. On Tuesday, a person who opened 5 accounts just a couple of days before, could have $300 in bonuses directly into their account. Pretty cool! ($300 is just an example. The amount could be more or less depending on what that person did but you get the idea!) Imagine how that could help someone if they did that 4 weeks in a row? Using the $300 as an example, that’s $1200 in bonuses directly in their account before they ever even get their base paycheck sent to them.

Is FourPointMoms “Recruiting”?

A common mistake that many people make when looking into FourPointMoms is thinking that we are simply “recruiters.” Another mistake they make is when they think that they have to “know” a lot of people to work this business. Interestingly enough, they understand that they need to have a contact list but they forget to think about the myriad of other ways to generate contacts. They just assume they are going to be pounding the pavement and having to beg their great aunt Ida to “sign up” for whatever it is our company is marketing.


I’ve been doing this for 8 years now and 97% or greater of the folks I talk to come through the Internet. I don’t know them beforehand and may not ever meet some of them in person. In fact, I’d have to say I won’t meet the majority of them in person ever. I don’t beg anyone to work for themselves or become a customer and I’m also selective. Most people are friendly and fun to talk to. You can tell that you would enjoy working with them and be able to help them succeed. However, there ARE some people I talk to that I KNOW I don’t want to work with or mentor on a daily basis.


FourPointMoms opens accounts for an international company that manufactures its own “green” products and has been doing so for nearly a quarter of a century. We present a detailed business summary of how we train people to become independent contractors from home and ask them if they would like to get started.


Typically when someone uses the word “recruiting” it sounds like they just ate something that left a bad taste in their mouth. This is an indicator that they have a preconceived notion about “recruiting.”


I want to start by stating that one of the many definitions of recruiting is “to enroll” or “to seek to enroll.” Well, we definitely DO seek to get people started working from home with us. However, we don’t have to go out and accost people on the streets or bother our friends and family. What we have to offer is fun, fabulous and can be stress relieving, as well. So, because it is such a great concept, many of our members do tell their friends and family and people they like about us – because they are happy about what they are doing- but it is not a necessity. Most of us choose to build our business using the Internet.


FourPointMoms teaches its members how to acquire contacts using a variety of methods. Each member has three websites that can attract visitors. We also provide sample wording and ads for people who want to advertise locally. We train on how to use blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media to attract prospective customers. We’ll even show you how to make a great little bandit sign. Those work really well and we have been surprised at how fast someone can grow their paycheck using them.


One of our most popular forms of generating contacts is through established relationships with advertising companies. These companies put out an ad for FourPointMoms and our members can easily decide they want to reach 20 people who requested information on what we do. In just a matter of hours, someone can be up and running their own business.


So, are we “recruiting”? In the strictest form of the definition, yes. However, if the concern is having to “know a lot of people” or making contacts in person – the answer is “not really.” Why? Because we have options, choices, and the flexibility to work for ourselves in the way that is most comfortable for each individual.

Generating Contacts Easier with FourPointMoms

Many people just don't like the idea of bugging friends and family or doing heavy recruiting. I, personally, don't blame them. Who wants to come across as needy and desperate even if it IS business related? When I first got into opening accounts for myself, I was totally turned off with the idea of "selling" and didn't want to do anything that required me to go around accosting strangers trying to get them to sign up with some opportunity.

However, I WAS okay with sharing information with people who came to ME first. If they approached me and asked me for the information, that was fine. If they initiated first contact, I was cool with it. I could do that. That is the concept that I find most appealing about working with FourPointMoms and FourPointGroup. The Four Point Moms concept trains you how to attract prospective customers to open accounts for. There are quite a few options. They range from using websites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. to traditional methods like ads, online ads, brochures, referrals, and much more. The point is, it is a non pressuring, non "hard sell" type atmosphere. I'm likin' it now for 8 years...

You are not cold calling or picking up a phonebook and hoping you get lucky. You don’t have to accost people on the streets or talk to friends and family unless you choose to do so. You can be successful using the internet or your website as a method for getting your contacts. The people that you contact are the ones who either requested directly off your websites or whom requested information off of one of our home business ads. They are people who asked YOU FIRST to get in touch.

-Krissy Dyes

Last Day of the Month Brings Fun...and Work

At FourPointMoms, we all need to remember that the last day of the month is a busy time for all of us with getting ready for vacation or getting back from vacation. It seems like my sons just keep thinking up new things to go and try. Seeing the movie Transformers just became a priority in life for some reason:-)

Other things that help me know it is the end of the month are more business focused. New members learning the finer points of opening accounts and getting their first 8 opened because they want that $200 bonus on top of their earnings. That's fun to watch because you know that the money will arrive on their check about July 15th just in time to use for more vacation, school clothing or just plain ol bill paying.

Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, make sure you wrap up the month on a fun and positive note. It's the last time you will see June 2009 so make the most of it!