Thursday, September 25, 2008

GBG Virtual Presentation

Check out the GBG virtual presentation @

http://web.me.com/teamsp/Site/GBG_Virtual_Presentation.html



Dwight and Pamela Jones
Independent Reps
GBG Health and Wellness
10-in-One / enRgy
404.462.6062
www.stayhealthygetwealthy.com
www.shopgbg.com/dapjones
www.healthyandwealthy.veretekk.com
http://stayhealthygetwealthy.blogspot.com

Friday, June 20, 2008

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The Best Legal Tax Shelter

The Best Legal Tax Shelter
By Christina Silva

Welcome to the best legal tax shelter in the world – your home-based business! As long as you keep good records and can prove that you are trying to earn a reasonable profit, you can begin legally deducting all types of things that were previously non-deductible items!

Do you sell on E-Bay or Amazon? Do you troll garage sales or Goodwill for items that you can resell? Do you collect Beanie Babies, comic books, or baseball cards and resell them? Are you an artist or a writer? Do you post your articles online? Even if you are not yet earning a profit, keep records! Keep your e-mails and copies of your receipts and introduce yourself to a new world of spectacular tax deductions that can legally reduce your taxable income and help you start your new, home-based business. Here’s how to get started!

1. Keep your receipts.
Keep your receipts even if you just throw them in a big shoebox. Write a little note on top of the receipt that shows what the item was for, and keep it until tax time. Even little things add up. Printer cartridges, paper, postage, thank-you notes, Internet access, Web site costs — anything you buy to help promote your business is deductible. Do you sell on E-Bay or use Paypal? Print out those receipts.

2. Keep track of your mileage.
Mileage is a huge deduction that is often overlooked. Now, if you just have a regular job, you cannot deduct your commuter miles. If you have a home-based business, however, you can deduct all your miles related to your new business. Did you run to IKEA to buy a new desk for your home office? That mileage is deductible. Just keep track with a piece of notepaper or a cheap mileage log in your car. Even if you only travel 500 miles for your business, that still equals a $250 deduction!

3. Deduct your home office.
Do you have a spare room that you use as an office? You can deduct that, too. The formula is easy, and most tax software will do it for you. Here’s how it works! Let’s say that your house has a total square footage of 1,000 square feet. Your home office is 250 square feet. If you divide 1,000 by 250, you end up with .25, or 25 percent. That means that 25 percent of all your home utilities, mortgage interest, rent, repairs, and improvements are deductible. The home office deduction is available for renters and homeowners. According to the IRS, your “home office” can be in a condo, house, apartment, or even a mobile home or a boat, as long as it is your actual residence.

4. Provide proof you intend to profit.
You must be able to prove that you are trying to make a profit, so the IRS does not disallow your deductions as a “hobby loss.” A “hobby loss” is an IRS determination that you are basically just playing around, and not actually trying to have a legitimate business. This does a lot of Americans a disservice, because many small business owners do not show actual profits for many years, but they are still trying to run their businesses legitimately. The IRS likes taxpayers to show a profit within five years, but this is a loose guideline. I always use Amazon as an example; Amazon didn’t post their first profitable quarter until seven years after being in business! Also, many writers, artists, and other creative folks do not post any profits until many years later. If you have the re- cords, you can prove that you were trying to make money. Just stick to your guns and keep your bookkeeping paperwork for at least six years.

5. Remember special home-business deductions.
Don’t forget, if you are self-employed (have your own business), you can write off a lot of items that you can’t write off if you are just working for your regular employer. For example, if you are a part-time writer, you can write off magazine subscriptions (related to your business), professional fees (such as Web design and bookkeeping), business books, entertaining potential clients, travel, writing forums, conferences, etc. Almost everything related to your business can be a legitimate expense, as long as you can prove it helps you run your business, be more profitable, or promote what you do or sell. So, follow your dreams. Become your own boss and start a part-time, home-based business. You’ll save a lot of money on your taxes, do something you really enjoy, and maybe make some profit along the way.

Silva, BA, CRTP, who lives in California, is the founder of the Sacramento Volunteer Tax Preparation Clinic, a free service offering tax assistance to low-income and Spanish-speaking taxpayers. She earned her undergraduate degree from San Jose State University and her advanced accounting certificate and California tax registration from Cosumnes River College.


Dwight and Pamela Jones
Independent Reps
GBG Health and Wellness
10-in-One / enRgy
404.462.6062
http://www.stayhealthygetwealthy.com/
www.shopgbg.com/healthynwealthy
http://www.healthyandwealthy.veretekk.com/
http://stayhealthygetwealthy.blogspot.com/

Monday, May 5, 2008

Lessons From Geese

Lessons From Geese
Editor's Note: "Lessons from Geese" was transcribed from a speech given by Angeles Arrien at the 1991 Organizational Development Network and was based on the work of Milton Olson. It circulated to Outward Bound staff throughout the United States. We share it here with the alumni community hoping that we can all learn these lessons.

FACT 1:

As each goose flaps its wings it creates an "uplift" for the birds that follow. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew alone.

LESSON:

People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.

FACT 2:

When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of flying alone. It quickly moves back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front of it.

LESSON:

If we have as much sense as a goose we stay in formation with those headed where we want to go. We are willing to accept their help and give our help to others.

FACT 3:

When the lead goose tires, it rotates back into formation and another goose flies to the point position.

LESSON:

It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks and sharing leadership. As with geese, people are interdependent on each other's skills, capabilities and unique arrangements of gifts, talents or resources.

FACT 4:

The geese flying in formation honk to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.

LESSON:

We need to make sure our honking is encouraging. In groups where there is encouragement, the production is much greater. The power of encouragement (to stand by one's heart or core values and encourage the heart and core of others) is the quality of honking we seek.

FACT 5:

When a goose gets sick, wounded or shot down, two geese drop out of formation and follow it to help and protect it. They stay with it until it dies or is able to fly again. Then, they launch out with another formation or catch up with the flock.

LESSON:

If we have as much sense as geese, we will stand by each other in difficult times as well as when we are strong.


Dwight and Pamela Jones
Independent Reps
GBG Health and Wellness
10-in-One / enRgy
404.462.6062
www.stayhealthygetwealthy.com
www.shopgbg.com/healthynwealthy
www.healthyandwealthy.veretekk.com
www.shopgbg.com/lcp/healthynwealthy

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Leads and The Spider Web Marketing Lead Machine

Leads and The Spider Web Marketing Lead Machine
Member: Dwight Jones
Years in Industry: 10
Location: Atlanta, GA

In any business, the money has to come from somewhere. Whether it's from sales revenue or service charges or other transactions, the bitter business truth is that every dime in your pocket used to be in someone else's. It's not a bad thing. Just because you have money that used to be in someone else's possession doesn't mean that the former owner is now busting out the food stamps. Through however many transactions between however many parties, you received money, and they received either goods or services. And that's how an economy works.

On a less Macro scale, in the world of network and multi-level marketing this principle remains especially true and obvious. At the very core of your business, you make money through the sale of goods or services to someone. You yourself may never sell a thing and be living in a huge mansion, but odds are you're benefiting from the sale of something to someone. This system of making sales work for you is part of the appeal of MLM. Downlines. You benefit from the work of others. The more people you have in your downlines, the more profit you are making. Downlines make sales. You make money. End of story. But what's the name of the game?

Leads. The hottest commodity of MLM. If you've got 'em, you've got it. If not, you're going to be working really, really hard to pay for that huge mansion on door-to-door sales and Tupperware parties. If you can get downlines, you can get money. In order to have downlines, you need leads. In short, leads equal money.

And that's the MLM secret, which you already know, of course. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that you can't make a fortune by yourself in this business. But just because you know that you need leads doesn't mean you can find them. And that's where so many MLM ventures fail. It is a commonly reported statistic that well over 90% of those involved in MLM never make a profit. But you can bet that a healthy supply of leads will keep in you in the successful ten percent.

There's a couple different ways to go about it. You can do what most MLMers do (and fail): make a list of your friends and family (sound familiar?), pass out 'business op' fliers, spend lots of money and have social functions, beg, plead, scream, pass out, wake up, continue. Eventually, the strenuous effort takes its toll on your health and you leave the industry to do something a little more docile and less stressful on your health, like substitute teaching in an alternative high school.

Personally, I I made a list of my 100 closest friends and family membersI pitched my new life changing product to everyone I knew and everyone I ever metI gave away hundreds of dollars worth of Samples and promotional materialsI went to the local mall and practiced "The 3 Foot Rule" (Attacked every person that came within 3 feet of me and pitched them on my business)I cold called people from the local phone bookI contacted old high school friends who I had not seen or talked to in years and told them I wanted to "re-connect" over lunchI passed out FlyersI placed "Sizzle Cards" on gas station pumps and windshieldsI went to weekly Hype-filled "Rah!-Rah!" Opportunity Meetings or conference callsI attended boring company training events, with limited success.

There is a better way. A way to channel leads to your business who come looking for it. The Spider Web Marketing System is a system designed to do one thing: generate leads. And it does so with the greatest effectiveness and efficiency in the industry. It's based on what is called the funded proposal system, a system that utilizes highly developed Internet marketing strategies to bring interested, real leads. The best part of funded proposal, and the great appeal of The Spider Web Marketing System, is that it perpetuates itself, so that it keeps itself going and continues to generate income for you, while continually sending quality leads your way.

There are other ways to get leads. You can put down some serious cash for "lead lists" who will give you pages and pages of innocent people who have been called a hundred times, and you can work off of that. But with Spider Web Marketing, these are leads that come to you. They are "fresh leads," meaning that they have not been called before or come from any list. These are people, who using the Internet, seek out a business opportunity and come straight to you.

The SpiderWeb Marketing System has been great for me because It has been wonderful so farIt is a brilliant business model that makes perfect senseI am excited to gain solid leads. Its helped me get more leads, grow my business, and make more money, and helped me on my goal to Gain financial freedomGain time freedomObtain economic independenceBe a leader in my businessShare my success with othersQuit my J.O.B. and be FREEBecome a MillionaireBecome a TrillionaireBuy my dream houseGo on my Dream VacationBuy a second home.

Basically, The Spider Web Marketing System is a lead generating machine. And in a business where leads are the name of the game, that's a piece of equipment you can't afford to be without.

For more information visit http://www.TheSpiderWebSystem.com/mixmand.


Dwight and Pamela Jones
Independent Reps
GBG Health and Wellness
10-in-One / enRgy
404.462.6062
www.stayhealthygetwealthy.com
www.shopgbg.com/lcp/healthynwealthy
www.shopgbg.com/healthynwealthy
www.healthyandwealthy.veretekk.com
http://stayhealthygetwealthy.blogspot.com

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

100 Marketing Weapons

Guerrilla Marketing Articles
100 Marketing Weapons
by Jay Conrad Levinson



These guerrilla marketing weapons should all be considered for promoting your product, service or website offline. Notice how more than half of them are free.



1. Marketing plan
2. Marketing calendar
3. Niche/positioning
4. Name of company
5. Identity
6. Logo
7. Theme
8. Stationery
9. Business card
10. Signs inside
11. Signs outside
12. Hours of operation
13. Days of operation
14. Window display
15. Flexibility
16. Word-of-mouth
17. Community involvement
18. Barter
19. Club/Association memberships
20. Partial payment plans
21. Cause-related marketing
22. Telephone demeanor
23. Toll free phone number
24. Free consultations
25. Free seminars and clinics
26. Free demonstrations
27. Free samples
28. Giver vs taker stance
29. Fusion marketing
30. Marketing on telephone hold
31. Success stories
32. Employee attire
33. Service
34. Follow-up
35. Yourself and your employees
36. Gifts and ad specialities
37. Catalog
38. Yellow Pages ads
39. Column in a publication
40. Article in a publication
41. Speaker at any club
42. Newsletter
43. All your audiences
44. Benefits list
45. Computer
46. Selection
47. Contact time with customer
48. How you say hello/goodbye
49. Public relations
50. Media contacts 51. Neatness
52. Referral program
53. Sharing with peers
54. Guarantee
55. Telemarketing
56. Gift certificates
57. Brochures
58. Electronic brochures
59. Location
60. Advertising
61. Sales training
62. Networking
63. Quality
64. Reprints and blow-ups
65. Flipcharts
66. Opportunities to upgrade
67. Contests/sweepstakes
68. Online marketing
69. Classified advertising
70. Newspaper ads
71. Magazine ads
72. Radio spots
73. TV spots
74. Infomercials
75. Movie ads
76. Direct mail letters
77. Direct mail postcards
78. Postcard decks
79. Posters
80. Fax-on-demand
81. Special events
82.Show display
83. Audio-visual aids
84. Spare time
85. Prospect mailing lists
86. Research studies
87. Competitive advantages
88. Marketing insight
89. Speed
90. Testimonials
91. Reputation
92. Enthusiasm & passion
93. Credibility
94. Spying on yourself and others
95. Being easy to do business with
96. Brand name awareness
97. Designated guerrilla
98. Customer mailing list
99. Competitiveness
100. Satisfied customers





Dwight and Pamela Jones
Independent Reps
GBG Health and Wellness
10-in-One / enRgy
404.462.6062
www.stayhealthygetwealthy.com
www.shopgbg.com/healthynwealthy
www.healthyandwealthy.veretekk.com
http://stayhealthygetwealthy.blogspot.com

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Why GBG?

Why GBG?

Essential in the success of my business.

The 6 Success Elements to Long Term Wealth in Health and wellness Business

1. Unique Products: Products must serve multiple different Market Categories and people would buy even if there wasnt a compensation plan attached to it, Products must be unique enough to get Patents, and be the brand name of its market,(like Microsoft, Fed Ex or Apple with is I Pod) and be affordable to the Masses.

GBG is that

2. Company Stability: The ability to give you long-term business and financial security, based on their company and business history must solid like a rock.

GBG Does it again

3. Marketing System: Must have a System in place to market that everyone can follow and must have Simple and Duplicative.

Yep GBG

4. Company Management: Must be led by already Successful Leaders in Business with a Vision for the Future Growth that they already have been there and done that.

GBG is The Company to be Involved with.

5. Compensation & Incentives: Maximize your income based on your efforts. Must payout at least 50% of Sales with out any breakage,(99% of the companies out there utilize the dirty little trick call breakage) must offer other Rewards and Recognition,

GBG

6. Must help the people in need and save lives: Does the company Pay-back to the people in needs. They must give back what they are taking out. The companys vision is to make a good Impact on the World in a Positive Way.

GBG Health and wellness

Isnt it time to learn and understand the complete facts and not just part of the story?


Dwight and Pamela Jones
Independent Reps
GBG Health and Wellness
10-in-One / enRgy
404.462.6062
www.stayhealthygetwealthy.com
www.shopgbg.com/healthynwealthy
www.healthyandwealthy.veretekk.com
http://stayhealthygetwealthy.blogspot.com