I just wrote this to letter to the people on my team.  I wanted to encourage them to do whatever they can do to get to our company convention.  I thought you guys might benefit from this information as well. (the idea of 10 extra people for example.)

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Hi Team,

I want to encourage you to do whatever you can possibly do to attend convention in Salt Lake next week.

I have a feeling there are going to be some really exciting announcements from SOC.

Sure you can wait and get the announcements later, but the energy you will receive from being there and being around THOUSANDS of other SOC people who share the same passions as you… That’s HUGE!

Jordan Adler says that someone once told him for every person in his downline who attends convention it’s like having 10 extra people in your downline next year.

Why?

Because the people who come to events like this get super excited and motivated.  They are unstoppable.

I know the economy is down and gas prices and inflation are up.  But if you can come, even for a day, I encourage you to come.  Heck just come hang out with us in the hotel… Whatever you can do I want to encourage you to come.

I am looking forward to meeting all of you!

- See you soon,
Ben Fitts

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I got this comment on my blog post yesterday about the daily activities I use in my business. I didn’t post it to get this kind of attention, I posted it for people from my company that read my blog. However I guess I should take some time to address this.

Please keep in mind these answers will be specifically about my company. If that doesn’t interest you just skip this post.

Bob Walton Says: February 5th, 2008 at 9:14 pmHey Ben,

I hope you don’t mind, but what are the real costs involved in starting up this business, not to mention the time costs as well?

It would be helpful to know as every start-up requires upfront costs to kick start any business.

It helps to go into any venture fully armed and eyes wide open to help weather the initial storms of adversity that most new business owners encounter.

I look forward to you response; it could be a full future blog post of its own. Thanks.

Hi Bob, I’m with Send Out Cards.

Our startup costs are on par with many network marketing companies. Our costs are $398. You’ll probably want to spend about $500 in total because you’re going to want to purchase some additional things to get your business going (like business cards.) I don’t recommend people go out and buy advertising and such right away. I want them to learn the basics first and make a little money before going out and doing more aggressive advertising or spending more money.
As far as a time commitment. What I like about the “Daily 8” is that it gives you a clear guide of what activities to do on a daily basis. These don’t need to take you 8 hours a day. If you can do them in 2 hours a day for example then you could theoretically do only 10 hours a week in your business. If you were able to do this consistently you’d grow a very nice business. Perhaps it takes someone else 4 hours a day to get them all done.

The interesting thing is that this helps focus on the important daily activities you need to do build a business in our company. It’s so often to get stuck doing busy work that doesn’t actually help grow your business. This helps focus your attention on the activities that are going to lead to building a strong business.

Bob, I’m not sure if this answers your questions appropriately or not?

- Ben Fitts

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One thing that is needed in network marketing with ANY company are simple steps you can use to grow your business. New distributors need something simple like a one sheet step by step action guide.

This has honestly been something our team has been lacking in Send Out Cards. Recently however this has all changed with the new focus on the “Daily 8“. 8 Daily actions that you can do to grow your Send Out Cards business. This could take as little as 30 minutes a day or maybe a couple of hours. However if you can consistently complete your 8 daily actions you’ll see your business increase ten fold.

The Daily 8 is a new way of looking at the Send Out Cards business. There are 8 daily activities that can help you grow your business.

1. Sending a heart felt card every day
2. Sending 1 gift a week
3. Doing a gift account walk through
4. Helping someone get started as a customer/distributor
5. Adding Contacts to your contact manager
6. Training a new person
7. Following up with someone that has looked at SOC
8. Personal Development

This is a simplified way of looking at SOC. If you aren’t doing these actions then you aren’t really building a business. You might be “working”… you know doing “busy work”. But these are the things you need to focus on daily to build your business. There is even a scoresheet to help you keep track and you earn points. Your goal is to get 8 points every day 5 days a week. I put mine up on the bulletin board in my office and from the photo you can see how I’m tracking my contacts and my points. So far today I’ve earned 7 points. (I added sending a gift as a one point item to my list.) So now I’ve got to train a new person or do some additional follow up and I’ll be done with my 8 points for today.

We can even add accountability holding people accountable for whether or not they complete their 8 points every day.

What do you think? Simple right?

Does your business have a straightforward step by step system like this?

- Ben Fitts

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Hi team,

I want to encourage anyone in the northeast to come to the Connecticut
Treat Em Right this weekend!

Saturday January 26

Location:
Southbury, Connecticut
Address:
Crowne Plaza Southbury
1284 Strongtown Road
Southbury, CT 06488
Venue Phone Number:
(203) 598-7600
Scheduled Trainer:
Kody Bateman

You can meet a ton of the top people in Send Out Cards!

Kody Bateman - founder and CEO of SOC
David Smith - Kody’s best friend and #24 money earner
Dvorah Lansky #17 money earner
Deb Mullen (SUPER STAR) and #37 money earner
Ben Fitts (me) and #39 money earner
Plus I think Tommy and Curtis #13 money earners will be there…

and more I probably don’t know about?

Will Gail Foley (#110) be coming out all the way from Kansas again?

Will Bob Martinelli Sr. (#199) be there? Will Dave Dillon (#190) and
Bill Ryan (#185) be there?

Who else will be there?

If you’re coming I’d love to say hello to you… Let me know by replying back… and feel free to pass this along to your team.

If you can’t make it to this Treat Em Right seminar make sure you get to one in the near future. Here is the upcoming schedule:
https://www.sendoutcards.com/cgi-bin…94a523da06f3e:

See you Saturday!
- Ben Fitts

PS. If you’d like to attend as a guest and find out what Send Out Cards is all about let me know. I can get some guests tickets for you…. Use the contact link in the right hand navigation to send me an email or call me at: 877-236-3488

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Last night I had the opportunity to help host a great webinar on getting more customer referrals through relationship marketing. The call was awesome. Over 200 people registered to attend.

Did you know it’s 6x cheaper to get a customer referral or sell a second product to your existing customers? That’s what the experts say. They say it costs 6 to 10 times more to get one new customer than to keep your customers happy. This is one simple way you can keep your customers happy and get more referrals.

Watch the webinar on how to get more customer referrals.

The webinar only lasts about 14 minutes and you can learn all about how to get more customer referrals through relationship marketing. By building relationships you can keep your customers happy to sell them additional products and they will willingly give you referrals who are already ready to buy your product!

Watch our webinar on relationship marketing.

This is a tool I’ve personally used for over 3 years with my own customers.

If you have comments or questions about how this tool can benefit you, just use the contact form to your right to contact me. I’ll be glad to assist you in any way I can.

Regards,
Ben Fitts

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Send Out Cards announced an exciting new product for distributors last week!

Ever hear of GoToMeeting? GoToMeeting is a tool that allows you to watch your computer screen and see exactly what the person on the other side is doing.

What makes this great for Send Out Cards is that one of the best ways to grow your business is to do demos with people. You setup a Gift account for them and allow them to send a few cards to try the system out for free. In the past you did this by telephone and you couldn’t see what the other person was doing.

BUT now you can do it via the computer while you talk to the person on the phone. You can actually give them control, so that they can send a card and you can walk them through it while watching their computer screen. You may be in Florida and they may be in Washington but you can see their screen.

What’s even better is you can also use this as a tool to train your new distributors. You would do a 3 way where the new distributor introduces you to their prospect. You then take control and start the demo. You give the prospect control so the prospect can send their own card and try out the service.

WOW! What an awesome new promotional and training tool. AND it’s free. No extra charge!

I’m so excited to be a distributor with a company that offers free tools like this to help me grow my business.

- Benjamin Fitts

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So the past couple of weeks I’ve been doing some social networking… Like the MyBlogLog stuff you’ve seen. I’ve been working on my personal sites, and trying to share people a little bit about myself and build realtionships. I’ve also gotten caricature logos of myself done for several of my web sites. I’m trying to build my brand.

So I’m a greeting card guy, right? That’s my main business is my custom greeting cards. I’ve got a ton of custom cards I’ve made and I can make more on the fly. So I decided that what I’d do is I’d put them up on a photo sharing web site like Flickr. Then I’d join a bunch of other flickr photosharing groups and put my photos out there for people to see how great my cards are.

Here is my first photoset of 13 custom greeting cards. Most of these were done by me, but a few were samples given to my by other distributors on our team.

What do you think?

I especially like the photo ones where it’s my photo on them. One of those just helped me close an account that plans to send 3000 cards at a time!

- Ben Fitts
The Custom Card Guy

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My situation has changed.

When you hear those words you know that you are about to hear an opportunity for YOU.

You have an opportunity to join my inner circle. This is the first time I’ve ever offered this package to anyone!

You’ll get personal coaching from me.

You’ll have direct access to me. I’ll work with you to help you build your business and review your web sites for you.

I’ll also give you inside access to all of my membership web sites and trainings.

You get:

1. You get Personal coaching from me

2. Direct access to me via my toll free number which rings to my cell phone

3. Direct access to my home office telephone number

4. A special email address to contact me so your email doesn’t get caught in spa.m filters and can be forwarded to my cell phone when I’m traveling

5. Access to a inner circle web site, team web site, and forums

7. Personal invitation to join all my training calls

8. Access to recordings and transcriptions of those training calls if you can’t attend

9. Fr-e-e access to my Marketing Web Sites ($9.95 monthly value)

10. Elite access to instant buzz mastery along with rebrand rights ($67 value)

11. Elite/Platinum access to any future subscription sites I create

12. Invitation to join in joint venture partnerships

PLUS More to come!

Why am I giving all this away?

In the next 6 months I’m going to be buying a house, moving to Connecticut, and retiring from my job. I’ll only be working for myself after that!

Today I make about 75% of the income I make from my job. Twice this year I had months where I earned more in my business (working part time) than I did in my job working full time. I’m not quite to 100% yet, and my wife is a bit nervous. I’m also saving money for the down payment on the house. That’s why I’m willing to make this special offer.

You see, I don’t normally have to recruit. People seek me out to join me. However my situation has changed and I want to prove to my wife that this is going to work for us.

The cost to join my primary business is $400. If you join me, personally sponsored by me, I’ll give you all 11 bonuses above. I’ll be willing to personally coach you.

PLUS you’ll be one of the first distributors in a new company…

You see as my downline grows I can’t give personal attention to everyone. It’s hard for me to spend hours on the phone helping someone I make $1 or $2 on… That’s why I can’t offer this to Cognigen distributors. That’s why you have to join me in my main business. You can join me for only $400. My personal coaching is worth a heck of a lot more than $400! Some people I know charge $1400 a month for personal coaching!

Check out this video I just put together about the company…

http://www.benfitts.com

When you join me, you’ll get a marketing site with videos like the one above for free!

I’m also building an autoresponder series for this… and 4 more marketing videos. I’ll give you the tools to succeed and I’ll coach you on how to use them.

So what are you waiting for? Go check out the video now:
http://www.benfitts.com

Once you’ve watched the video contact me at:
877-BEN-FITTS (236-3488)
or if you are an international user just email me back.

Talk to you soon!
Ben Fitts

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This is part of my series on the dirty secrets of network marketing. The stuff they don’t want you to know about in opportunity meetings.

Income claims.

Most people’s income claims are based on bogus numbers.

You go to a meeting. They show you a diagram 3 people who got 3 people who got 3.

That is a load of crap.

The first thing is that it never works out that way. What happens in reality is 80% do NOTHING, they just give up before they ever get started. 20% do something and get a few customers and use the products themselves. About 10% actually get a distirbutor or two. About 5% are hard workers and will get several distributors and or several customers. 1% will be real leaders. They’ll be independent and won’t care what kind of stupid things you do, they’re independent and KNOW what it takes to succeed. They’re unstoppable.

You only have to find 2 leaders. The top networkers have only found 2-3 leaders each.

My own Send Out Cards organization is like that. One leader makes up the majority of my team. I’ve sponsored some of those 80% people that do nothing… and some of those 20% that do something… and a few of those 10% that get one or two distributors of their own. I’m still looking for that next big leader.

And I’ve sponsored dozens of people. Not just 3 people. It takes a lot more than 3 people to build an organization.

In my old company Cognigen I’ve sponsored approximately 90 people!

Of course if all you want to do is make an extra $300 you probably don’t need to sponsor 90 people.

However if you are one of these people that call me wanting to make $10,000 a month you better be prepared to sponsor 50 people or more. Don’t call me expecting to make that kind of money if all you want to do is sponsor 3 and then sit back and watch the money roll in. It won’t happen.

- Ben Fitts
877-BEN-FITTS

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Are you looking for a last minute Mothers Day idea? Let your mom know how much you appreciate her.

Boston, MA (PRWEB) May 8, 2006 — Mother’s day is only a few days away, have you remembered to send your mother a gift yet?

RememberMothersDay.com is excited to offer you the ability to send your mom a free mothers day card without having to deal with the hassels of driving to the store, buying a stamp, stuffing an envelope, and rushing off the post office.

“We know everyone is busy and you just don’t have time to get to the store and get a card,” said Benjamin Fitts founder of RememberMothersDay.com. “We don’t want any moms to be forgotten. The least we could do is offer a free greeting cards to people who don’t have time to get to the store to purchase a traditional card.”

RememberMothersDay.com uses an online system that prints real greeting cards, stuffs them in a real envelope, and puts them in the mail with a real stamp on it. They take all the pain out of going to a store and finding the right card. Best of all you can send your mom or grandma a card for free. They even offer a service for a small fee where they can put a gift card from major department stores inside the greeting card for you!

To send your free greeting card for Mothers Day visit http://www.RememberMothersDay.com. Contact Benjamin Fitts for further information or to request a free sample account of our innovative greeting card system.

RememberMothersDay.com:
Is a free service provided by Benjamin Fitts and other independent distributors of Send Out Cards, LLC. Their goal is to create senders of greeting cards and bring smiles to the faces of millions of people around the country.

Our first interview for our Mothers Day card giveaway.

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