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Welcome!

This e-zine is for all members of the homepartynetwork
Yahoogroup. Every issue will have some helpful content
for all of us in the home party business! There may be an
occasional good recipe for home party snacks and other
snippets that we think will make this newsletter worth
reading.

For all those who advertise in the Direct Sales and Wholesale
Opportunities section of our site, you are entitled to a free ad in
this Newsletter. Just send a 4 line ad with website link and your
contact information:
mailto:dstjames@homepartynetwork.com?subject=Ad for ezine

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In This Issue:

Section I *Article * Eight Ways To Build Persistence*
Section II *What's NEW at HomePartyNetwork.com?
Section III *Tip or Tidbit

Section IV *Ways We Are Promoting HomePartyNetwork.com

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Section I

Eight ways to Build Persistence
by Heather Robson

It doesn't take long in an entrepreneurial trade to discover
that persistence is like gold. It's rare and extremely valuable.
Without it, unless you're unbelievably lucky, you'll be dead
in the water. Some of us come with a natural-born persistence
already in place, but for the rest of us the good news is,
persistence can be cultivated.

1. Create habits
Even if your tendency is to try something once and then
give it up, you can overcome that by creating habits. Tackle
positive habits by creating a new one each month. For one
month focus on doing something every day that you have
a hard time doing and that will be positive for your business.

2. Do one more
When you find yourself getting frustrated with something
on your task list, first make sure it is something that is
important for you to be doing. If it is, put a smile on your
face, and do it once more if it's a repetitive task or spend
fifteen more minutes if it's a singular task. Then move on,
and come back to it the next day.

3. Start each day fresh
To stick with a new or growing business, you must start
each day fresh. Don't wake up convinced that things will
go badly. Begin your work day confident that things are
going to go well.

4. Small Actions
A new business has a lot of goals. Many of them huge. So
big, that they can be overwhelming. To persistently achieve
your goals, you need to break them into small manageable
actions and then move forward with those actions.

5. Keep calling, emailing, following up, following through
Where persistence fails most often is in our interactions with
new people. A new business can't survive without sales. To
make sales, you must build relationships. And relationships
require contact. So call people back, follow up on emails,
send out newsletters, make new appointments, go to new
events. Be persistent in both finding new contacts and
following up with your existing leads. Also, follow through
with your current clients, it'll keep them coming back. If
you drop the ball in once case, find a way to pick it up and
make things right. It can be uncomfortable, but building solid,
healthy relationships will be the lifeblood of your business.

6. Affirmations
While altering your behavior is the real key to developing
persistence, focusing on your attitude will also help. Develop
a phrase to say to yourself when you find you are frustrated
or worried. It can be as simple as 'All will be well,' or it can
be something more complex that will help you get in the
mindset to be persistent.

7. Accountability
Probably the best thing you can do if you find you are
struggling with moving forward on a project or carrying out
an ongoing task is to find someone you trust to hold you
accountable. Give them a copy of your timeline for a project
or you goals for an ongoing task, and ask if they would mind
checking in with you weekly on your progress.

8. Reflect, Reassess, Replenish, Regroup.
Persistence is your best friend when it comes to building a
new business, but you don't want to be persistent to the point
of folly. Regularly reflect on your successes and failures.
Regularly reassess your goals and make sure they continue to
make sense. Regularly do something for yourself that replenishes
your energy so you are better able to focus and enjoy your work.
And when nothing else is working, regroup and try something
entirely new.
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Heather Robson is a founding partner of DragonFly Creative Media,
a company that helps businesses that are overwhelmed or struggling
move forward with their marketing. For a free estimate and proposal
on a copywriting or web project, contact her at
mailto:heather@dragonflypro.com.

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Section II

What's NEW at HomePartyNetwork.com?

We have added several new articles to help your businesses
They can all be viewed here:
http://www.homepartynetwork.com/articles.htm

3 Order-Generating Secrets - by Larry Dotson
Your Ideal Customer - by Leva Duell

Understanding the Buying Process Can Increase Your Sales -
By Karen Thackston

How to Turn the Biggest Skeptics Into Eager Buyers - by Kris Mills

3 Hypnotic Salesletter Closings! - by Larry Dotson

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P.S. I Love You

Greeting Cards, Personalized Note cards,
11 x 14 Perfect Expressins, Greeting Card
Organizers, Gift bags, Holiday Cards and more!
Interested in joining my team?
email me offlist diane@abcmortgage.net
http://psiloveyou.iact1.com/Deescards

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Section III

Tip or Tidbit

If you are a creative, adventurous person, you may have
more than one business that you are participating in. I know
it may be fun to promote more than one line of products or
services. I do that myself!

But is your signature line getting to be a half a page long??
It starts to look like whole advertising page and no longer
a signature LINE doesn't it?

I know that some groups have seen such long signature lines
that some group owners have a LIMIT to the number of lines a person
can have, and rightly so.

Here is an alternative to use that you may not know about.
This is a tool that I use myself.

First I created a web page listing all the businesses I am in.
Then I went to www.tinyurl.com and got a new name for
my page to add to my signature line. This is what is after
my name and abcmortgage information (which I choose to
keep on my signature line). http://tinyurl.com/dpk0

Makes it a lot shorter and folks will be curious enough to click
on it!

If you have a tip or tidbit you'd like published here,
mailto:dstjames@homepartynetwork.com?subject=TiporTidbit
with your tip/tidbit and include your byline

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Section IV

WAYS WE ARE PROMOTING HomePartyNetwork.com
~ ~ ~ Advertising/Listings/Events ~ ~ ~

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the resources you need as a parent. We hope you will visit each of our
partners, sign up for their ezines, and let them know what a wonderful
job they do - that's all the payment they ask!

Had promotional flyers at the Baltimore My Woman Expo
which Diane attended in person on May 31st.
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Had a 'table' at the Back to School Shopping Expo from Aug. 21st - Aug 24th

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Hope you have enjoyed this first issue!
Many more to come! Planning on publishing
bi-weekly depending on work schedules

Thank you for reading!