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The Three Booby-Traps of Network Marketing

firstclassmlmtools — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:53 +0000

Let’s start out with defining the word booby-trap: a situation that catches one off guard; a pitfall; a hidden hazard.

The reason I chose “booby trap” is because the subjects I’m going to explain to you can in fact catch you off guard and be a hazard if you’re not knowledgeable about their existence.

There are three phases that one goes through as they advance (if they do) in network marketing - each can be a booby trap to the individual.

Introverting

The first phase is what I call Introverting. Introverting is defined as: To concentrate upon oneself or what one is doing. So how can we use this definition in network marketing? Normally introversion occurs in the very beginning of one’s career in network marketing. The indicators of someone introverting are when one is greatly concerned with what he or she LOOKS or SOUNDS like to others. When they’re studying or practicing scripts they’re so focused on the actual words that they don’t communicate the meaning or concept to the prospect. What they say sounds stupid - like they’re scared or uncomfortable. Their voice shakes and they sound very unsure of themselves - which communicates, “I don’t believe in what I’m doing” to the prospect. See, they’re not focused on the prospect - they’re focused on SAYING the right thing. Therefore the concept of what they’re saying doesn’t REACH the prospect.

So if you’re a new person and you are constantly thinking about what other people think about you, you must get past it. Here’s how to get past it:

1. Drill - which means repeat something over and over, what you’re going to say BEFORE you get in front of a live person.

2. Focus all your attention on the prospect and

3. Get into such a high activity that you don’t have time to focus on your fears.

When you confront what you fear enough times, you fear it no more. As you CONTINUE to do this, you will start focusing on DOING IT instead of worrying whether you CAN do it or not. Then something bizarre will happen. You’ll sponsor someone in the business. And on that day you’ll realize you really CAN do it.

Distributors who do not get out of introversion end up trapped by it and either quit or don’t succeed. They are also the ones who say, “The business just isn’t for me.” Or they will claim the WHOLE industry doesn’t work. Every time I see or hear this I think, ” Wow, should I send my bonus check back to the company EVERY MONTH because somebody says the industry doesn’t work?” Of course it works. But the first barrier you have to get past is what other people think of you.

Okay, so for this discussion, pretend that you actually get past yourself (introversion) and into activity. You start bringing people into the business and you feel wonderful. You get real confident and it almost seems effortless to bring people into the business. The people that are still in introversion are almost mesmerized by your abilities and want to know your “secret.” When they hear the secret they’re shocked that it’s the same old stuff. There is no secret. The primary difference is one is out-of-introversion and DOING IT and the other is still worried about what people might think and are “TRYING” to do it right.

Doing It All

The next trap I’ve called DOING IT ALL. The success of being able to sponsor people eventually becomes a booby trap as well - and it is very well concealed. The person has sponsored several people and has been praised so much by his or her peers for the ability to sponsor people that they identify themselves as “the person who can sponsor a lot of people.” Meaning their identity gets stuck to that one activity. I’ve seen people sponsor 30, 50, 100 people and just keep on doing it - waiting for someone to be as effective as they are. Occasionally one might sponsor someone who has gotten past introversion in another field, but normally not. The symptoms of DOING IT ALL are statements like,

- “None of my people are doing anything!”

- “How do I motivate my downline?”

- “I keep sponsoring duds.”

If this is you - you’ve watched very valuable, very capable people fall through the cracks. You’re adding people as fast as they’re dropping off the other end. You are delusional to think you’re going to find someone who will get past introversion without your help! Stop it. You’re doing the industry a disservice because it generates a higher failure rate in the industry. You’re doing yourself a disservice because it can be very disheartening to sponsor all these people thinking you’re going to be making a ton of money on them only to see them quit within a month or two.

You must train the people you sponsor. If you’re unwilling to make a leader out of the person you’re sponsoring, don’t sponsor them! It takes great patience to train people. You have to sit through the pain of listening to them present. WARNING - don’t do this on an empty stomach. You want so badly to save them… you can’t - if you ever want to make a lot of money in network marketing. Doing it for them only handicaps them. You cannot do it for them - you must train, train, train, and when you think they will never get it, you train some more. They will get it when YOU get enough patience. By the way, don’t stop your MLM training until you see that your distributors can properly train THEIR distributors. If you don’t do this step your organization will not move past the 3rd level. You won’t build a Christmas tree (better than saying pyramid), you’ll build a diamond. All your volume will be up in your first 2-3 levels.

Velvet Rut

The final trap is what I call the VELVET RUT. You’re making 3- 7 thousand dollars a month and the thought of going back to recruiting again is daunting. The reason I call it the velvet rut is because you’re making just enough money to keep you in the game - so it’s kind of comfortable, but because you’re not making the money you’ve dreamed of it’s still a rut, therefore a trap. Go back to work and sponsor 3 or 4 more and build them into leaders. GET YOUR DREAM.

I hope this is of some value to you.

Tim Sales

Tim helps people gain the skills needed to be a success in their own business. Discover what you must know to become a true MLM professional. Find over 120 articles and sign up for Tim's 'Success Tips' at www.FirstClassMLMTools.com.

Get list of LUNs size in Solaris

Ahmad — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:02:59 +0000

Someone asked me today how to get the size of all the assigend LUNs in Solaris, the method is very simple you just need to run the following script and this will display each LUN name and the disk size after it.

it's very important to understand that this will work if your LUNs are configured as a SUN type disk (Slice 2 contain all disk) if not then you have to modify the script

[sourcecode language='vb']
echo 'p'>/tmp/cmd
echo 'p'>>/tmp/cmd
for lun in `luxadm probe|grep Path| awk -F/ '{print $NF}'`
do
echo -n "$lun "
format -f /tmp/cmd $lun | grep backup | tail -1 | awk '{print $7}';
done
[/sourcecode]

The output will be like this:

c4t5006048452A5C208d216s2 33.72GB
c4t5006048452A5C208d230s2 603.72GB
c4t5006048452A5C208d231s2 603.72GB
c4t5006048452A5C208d232s2 603.72GB
c4t5006048452A5C208d233s2 603.72GB
c4t5006048452A5C208d234s2 603.72GB
c4t5006048452A5C208d235s2 603.72GB
c4t5006048452A5C208d236s2 603.72GB
c4t5006048452A5C208d237s2 603.72GB
c4t5006048452A5C208d240s2 0.94MB
c4t5006048452A5C208d241s2 0.94MB

Exploración de datos con Epi Info 6.04

mescobal — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:59:51 +0000

Siguiendo con la serie Epi Info, les paso un "pique" para explorar cómodamente los datos almacenados.

En primer lugar, ejecuto el archivo de comandos donde tengo definidas las variables con sus etiquetas correspondientes. En le caso de la investigación que estamos haciendo en el momento (sobre Intentos de AutoEliminación) se llama IAES.PGM.

Eso hace que queden definidas variables que después voy a usar para cruzar.

En segundo lugar, ejecuto el comando: ROUTE tablas.txt <ENTER>

Con eso lo que hago es que se guarde todo lo que voy a hacer a partir de ahora en el archivo llamado tablas.txt. Creo un acceso directo a ese archivo (que va a estar dentro del directorio de Epiinfo, generalmente C:\EPI6) en algún lugar que me quede cómodo (en Win: dentro de "Mis Documentos" o similar).

En tercer lugar, comienzo a jugar con las variables haciendo cruzamientos con el comando TABLES.

Para eso escribo TABLES <ESPACIO> y oprimo la tecla F3, con lo cual se me despliega una lista de variables. Uso preferentemente las que están al final ya que son las que tienen definidas etiquetas en lugar de códigos numéricos (para eso fue que ejecuté antes el IAES.PGM).

Entonces, en comandos queda:
run iaes.pgm route tablas.txt tables sexo metodo
Con eso se generan acumulativamente los resultados en tablas.txt, con lo cual puedo explorar lo que se me ocurra y mirar después tranquilo los resultados.

Eventualmente, aquellos cruzamientos que me interesan, los incluyo como una línea más dentro del programa (IAES.PGM).

Pure-ftp on CentOS 5 Pt 2

geekstar — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:15:08 +0000

Well now that you have installed a basic server install of CentOS we are going to setup the environment we need in order to use our server. What you haven't installed CentOS 5 yet? You might want to check out part one of this then. For those of you who have already installed it lets move on.

This section covers the configuration of the firewall, ssh, and creating user accounts. The final part will cover the install of MySQL, PHP, and Pure-ftp.

Now this part is all command line baby!!! So I'm not going to provide any screen shots since you shouldn't need them. If you think you need screen shots for this section just stop reading now. Seriously leave! Okay so first I'm going to setup ssh. It should already be installed so all we need to do is configure it.

I'm kind of a security freak so I'm going to walk you through how to do public-key authentication, and how to change the port of the ssh server so you aren't logging in on the standard port 22. But before we do that I'm going to show you how to setup the firewall. This is a basic setup but should be pretty secure. If you want to know more about configuring the firewall check out this tutorial.

cd ~ mkdir scripts vim ./myfirewall

Just paste in this script (make modifications where you see fit):
#!/bin/bash # # iptables firewall configuration script

# flush all current rules from iptables iptables -F

# allow ssh connections on tcp port 8768 <-- this is just random pick anything over 6000 iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8768 -j ACCEPT # allow ftp connections on tcp port 21 <-- for more security you can change this iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT

# set default policies for INPUT, FORWARD and OUTPUT chains iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT

# set access for localhost iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

# accept packets belonging to esablished and related connections iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

# save settings /sbin/service iptables save

# list the rules iptables -L -v

Finally make this file executable and you have a script:
chmod +x myfirewall

To run it you just type (you must be logged in as root):
~/scripts/myfirewall

This will make it easier when you want to add rules. It flushes all the rules, rebuilds the rules, saves them, and lists all the rules at the end. Once this is done we should reboot to let the firewall settings take effect.
shutdown -r now

Another thing we want to do before we configure ssh is to create a user. We aren't going to allow root access to ssh so we need someone to login as. Once it's restarted we are going to login as root and create a user. (just replace username and password with your desired username and password)
useradd username passwd username password

Now when you login to that username you can always switch to the root user by typing:
su -
Then it will prompt you for the root password. To switch back:
logout

Rule of thumb is to never login to root unless you absolutely have to in order to change something. It can be really dangerous to login as root all the time because if you make a mistake there is most likely no way of going back. Now that I gave you that warning we are going to login as root because we need to setup the ssh server.

First let's create a backup of the sshd_config file so we can go back if we make a mistake.
mv /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.bak

Now let's edit the original file.
vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

And just copy this configuration and paste it into the window. Or you can type it in manually, just make sure to double check everything at the end.

After you have done that all you need to do is to create the .ssh folder with the authorized keys file. Make sure you are logged in as a user other than root and do this.

mkdir ~/.ssh chmod 700 ~/.ssh

Now all you have to do is to upload your public key to the server. If you do not have one it's pretty easy to make.

Okay so I didn't plan on having a part 3 to this tutorial, but there is a lot more than I thought there would be. So now that we have ssh setup properly and have the firewall configured then we are good to move on to the next part.