Exciting times as MLSP supports and promotes top leaders within their Executive Mastermind Team (EMT) and Master Marketers Team (MMT) to host nationwide regional events. This weekend kicks off the Home Business Mastermind hosted by MLSP L5 Global Leader Ray Higdon with his wife and business partner, Jessica Higdon, in Ft. Myers, Florida.

Ray Higdon, Jessica Higdon, MLSP’s L5 Global Leader Michelle and Bill Pescosolido; Daegan Smith, Jerry Clark and MLSP’s CCO Roxana Hannah will speak on topics of prospecting, mindset, traffic generation, building network marketing teams, social media, internet marketing, and home business mastery.

The Home Business Mastermind Event is held as a two day seminar closing with a speaker and VIP guest party.

The regional set-up of Home Business Masterminds are designed to allow local teams and guests to come together and learn strategies ranging the entire play field of network marketing. The difference between a home business mastermind held at a hotel vs. a home business opportunity meeting held at a hotel is that the mastermind covers a broad range of topics and it’s focus is not on recruiting new networkers.

The majority of attendees at the Ft.Myers, Florida event are existing networkers in different MLM companies. Their main reason to attend this event is to be in an intimate setting where they can directly ask the speakers questions open forum style.

What this means to you and what you have to look forward to: Ray Higdon’s Home Business Mastermind event kicks off the first of many regional events for MLSP. The advantage of being a member is the opportunity for you to rise through the ranks and hold your own regional event that MLSP will promote to it’s entire database to assist with your ticket sales. MLSP’s focus is on developing leaders and supporting them along their journey to take their business as far as they can imagine.

All the best to your continued success!

To start, I never intended to be in this industry, in fact, I was adamantly against anything related to network marketing for a long time, partially due to being brought up in a home where education, careers, financial stability, professional duties and responsibility are paramount. Network Marketing was NOT in the plan.

In May of 2006 I married my wife, we had 2 beautiful girls and I had built a thriving career in the financial services business in Toronto by the age of 27. We had a life most could only dream of. Shortly after our peak, an unfortunate event occurred in my business which eventually lead to my income completely stopping, our house being lost, and being in a place of complete financial devastation.

As a person who never quits, soon after, we rebuilt our finances, rebuilt our family, and pushed forward. I vowed this would never happen again, and I meant it.

After a few years of rebuilding, in April of 2011 I was invited to a home party at my friend’s house, which I declined, however after coercing me, I attended as a “skeptic seat filler”. I was NOT going to join any business, I wanted nothing to do with the opportunity, and had a bad taste for network marketing in general. I guess this came from my parents, who are professionals, yet had been introduced to many of these opportunities over their lifetimes.

What happened at that home party was quite interesting. As someone with a finance background, I started to see how the concept of leverage in this business was a reality, and this intrigued me so much I became sort of obsessed with figuring out the loopholes and understanding why success was so elusive for most who try.

The month following, I was at a conference for my industry association and I was intent on researching the network marketing industry. What happened was almost the perfect storm. The last day of the event, our key note speaker was a man named Mitch Joel, who is a marketing, branding, and communication wizard, who had a book about connecting your business online using Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms. I went to Google to learn how people are connecting on the internet around network marketing, and found a number of videos, trainings and resources from people like Jordan Schultz, Jamie Soriano, David Wood, and others who I now know of through the MLSP community.

The stories I heard were exactly like mine. People who understood the power of network marketing, yet wanted to leverage the internet to generate targeted and interested relationships, rather than chase down my ex-girlfriend from grade 8.
I had no idea what I was in for, as I had now completely shifted my thoughts about the network marketing / direct sales industry, and had built a belief so strong, I unknowingly started practicing “repulsion marketing” for around the next 9 months.

The person who invited me to the home party was frustrated, I had resorted to figuring out the online marketing jungle, in the meantime, had joined 3 other companies, bought a truckload of internet marketing tools, trainings, plugins, eBooks, boot camps, in what I call a “Guru Chase”, I took ingredients from everyone, mostly half-baked ideas, tried to bake a perfect marketing pie, yet I was missing the directions!

I had absolutely no success, in fact, my friends did not want to hear about my new ventures anymore, they could care less if I was learning “attraction marketing”, and my wife was becoming extremely impatient with me saying “it’s starting to work… really babe, it is!”

Fast forward to February 2012… I’m proud to say it’s not like that anymore
I started to actually pay close attention, not just “listen”, but REALLY LISTEN to the leaders in this industry who were getting results in ways I wanted to as well. People like Michelle Pescosolido, Brian Cole, Tanya Aliza, Daegan Smith, and countless others.
I got laser-focused on building a lead generation machine on the internet, knew it was possible, and was focused on attracting the right people into my life, to learn from, and guide me in the right direction.

Through watching, modeling and risking complete failure, I accepted and learned a truth, which if acted on daily, will without fail, completely alter your life and business…

And it’s so simple, I feel embarrassed I needed a year to figure it out…

Whether online or offline, especially online, if you want a loyal following of people who know you, trust you, and take action with your lead, you must be raw, uncut, completely real, and speak your truth. See my “repulsion marketing career” was filled with me trying to be someone I wasn’t, trying to impress the wrong people, and going against what I knew to be true for myself.
Sounds so simple…

So instead of spending time trying to be someone I hadn’t become yet by trying to ”teach” people, I started spending my time “connecting” and “sharing” with people, just like me… just like you.

All the times I “failed”, in actuality, have provided me with my story. See, every MLSP webinar I attended, course or book I bought, and techy tool I used… all gave me skills I could channel into my marketing and online presence. By channeling these skills into the most effective areas, results were inevitable. So what is my actual marketing strategy today? The only thing I know… Pure Leverage!

I believe whole heartedly in the principles taught in the “4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss. In fact, I even refer to my “brand” as the “4-Hour Marketer”… I believe in only spending time on things you get the most consistent, predictable, and high yield results from… which you enjoy, and “lose time” with…and pay someone else to do the rest. I outsource all the technical stuff I don’t want to do, but it useful to the business (SEO, Blogging, Article Marketing…) and focus on what I’m good at, which is paid traffic strategies like Solo Ads, Pay per Click and some other lead generation as well.

I use the power of the internet to help people find me, and I spend my time connecting with those people! And now reaching out to other leaders like Tanya Aliza, who has become a true friend and mentor (what a blessing), has propelled my marketing knowledge and personal relationship skills to new heights, and I can only imagine what the remainder of 2012 and beyond will hold for me and my family.

What is very clear to me is how I would not have met ANY of these fantastic people, had it not been for the community of MLSP.

I now have structured my business and am offering my lead generation skills to some personal connections I have made in the MLSP community, and have now been generating personally over 200 leads each weak, on a sustainable and automated basis.

Thank you for the opportunity to be selected as the MLSP Featured Member.
Remember… the most important step to take, is the NEXT one.
~ Darren Hanser

May 2012 Home Business Mastermind Event

Custom Cake From Last Home Biz Mastermind

Ray Higdon ROCKED it in January and now it’s time to ROCK it again! This is the official announcement of the May 2012 Home Business Mastermind and this intimate event is going to SUPERCHARGE your business!

What is the Home Business Mastermind?

The Home Business Mastermind is an event MLSP’s L5 Global Leader Ray Higdon created to provide you with high level, accomplished leaders with specialized skills. In order to maximize on your learning ability the setting of the event is very intimate. Most events in the Network Marketing industry are large events with many speakers where one doesn’t get the opportunity to spend as much time with each speaker as they would like to. The mastermind is designed to be a smaller, more intimate crowd with plenty of time for each speaker to really dive into what is working for them in their business and to show you how to implement their ideas. Questions are encouraged and each speaker is held to having a lot of interaction from the crowd, enhancing the learning and energy.

Introducing Your Home Business Mastermind Speakers!

Michelle Pescosolido (MLSP L5 Global Leader) is arguably the fastest rising star in the home business industry. Famed for going from zero to 6 figures in 6 months by using Facebook, we are most excited to have her as as speaker at the Home Business Mastermind. Michelle is someone Ray has personally worked with the last 6 months or so and she is not just a powerful leader but one of the best teachers he has ever met. In her presentation she is going to go in depth into how she develops her Facebook PPC that generates her massive leads and money. To get this much intimate time with such a highly sought after trainer is worth the price of admission alone! Michelle graced the stage as a speaker at MLSP’s 2011 Live the Dream Event.

Jerry Clark is Ray’s personal mentor and coach and has helped coach the biggest names in network marketing and MLM training. Anyone that has ever seen Jerry speak knows this gentleman is powerful and brings together some of the best home business ideas of any trainer in the industry. Jerry Clark was a guest speaker at MLSP’s Live the Dream 2010 event.

Jerry Clark became a self-made millionaire while still in his 20’s. Today, through his company Club Rhino, Inc., he conducts personal and professional development seminars around the World. Jerry’s training products are currently being used by dozens of Direct Sales and Networking companies in over 35 countries worldwide. Jerry recognizes that change occurs at the individual level, and he’s committed to training others how to improve themselves by teaching peak performance strategies that get results.

Daegan Smith is one of the best copywriters, email masters and advertising geniuses in the home business niche. Daegan is the UNDISPUTED king of traffic and getting leads and has been teaching home business entrepreneurs how to get massive traffic for years. Daegan just got back from teaching in Singapore and it is such a treat and honor to have him speak at the mastermind. Daegan has held the audiences attention at both MLSP’s Live the Dream events in 2010 and 2011.

Ray will also be a speaker and is am going to talk about how to build your online brand and empire; how he went from zero traffic to averaging 40,000 unique monthly visitors and almost 2 million hits per month on his blog. As you can see this mastermind is going to be pretty heavy duty when it comes to learning how to get leads and traffic for your home business.

How to Grab Your Ticket at the Early Bird Price

An interesting thing happened with his last home business mastermind…they sold out of tickets! Usually in any industry when you have more intimacy, you pay a higher price. Ray recently attended an event in Washington DC that was $2,000 for 2 and a half days and did NOT have any breakouts or intimacy. What Ray envisioned for his masterminds are two things, intimacy and affordability.

Right now, there is a block of tickets being sold at the early bird price of $89 and $137 for standard and VIP tickets. There is a REAL limit on how many tickets are sold: they will NOT sell more than 150 tickets TOTAL which will keep the room size down to help facilitate ease getting your questions answered and enjoying the event. They are also offering a half price discount on your second ticket in case you want to bring a spouse or partner.

One Standard Ticket

Two Standard Tickets

 

Standard includes admission to both all day sessions on Saturday and Sunday.

One VIP Ticket

Two VIP Tickets

 

VIP includes admission to both all day sessions on Saturday and Sunday as well as VIP access to the party at Ray’s house on Saturday (the last one was AWESOME) and a Home Business Mastermind T-Shirt.