I was talking with The Great Holly Powell (NON-Stop Social Media) Holly was sharing with me how she was cleaning out here in-box of ALL the “GURUS” list she subscribed.

She was telling me how there was a handful that she is keeping and the rest just were taking up space in here “in-box” and more importantly her TIME & FOCUS.

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As I prepared the crowd

pleasing chocolate cookie I make for the

holidays this blog post came to me ..

That’s right this fun loving, “HOT” Grandma from NJ

Makes Cookies and writes Blog Post’s..

Can you see me now?

I have my apron on, my glasses of course

Can’t see a damn thing with-out them!

Checking my recipe to make sure I follow

Each step correctly.

I told you this is an EZ recipe and I’m gonna share.

Hold on just one more minute I promise..

Call me wacky if you like, but I have been sitting

At the feet of two legends in this industry and I’ve

Been soaking it all up. Learning TRUTH!

And so my mind has shifted from thinking aimlessly

To thinking matter of fact like..I’m a business

Woman and I think like one.. Sue Me…

Here is the recipe I promised

For those of you who don’t want to hang around

Ready?

JoAnn Donahue’s & Paula Deans Chocolate

Gooey Butter Cookies… Yeah I would like

to take all the credit but I can’t..

1 8 oz. brick cream cheese, room temp.

1 stick butter, room temp

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 18 oz box moist chocolate cake mix

* confectioner’s sugar, for dusting

Directions Preheat oven 350 degrees F.

In large. bowl w/ electric mixer,

Cream the cream cheese & butter until smooth.

Beat in egg. Then beat in vanilla.

Beat in cake mix. Cover and refrigerate

For 2 hours to firm up so you can roll into balls.

Tablespoon size balls works best, Then roll in

Sugar. Place on un-greased cookie sheet 2 inches

Apart. ( I like to use Parchment Paper) hint hint

Bake 12 minutes. The cookies will remain

“Gooey”. Cool completely sprinkle with more sugar

If desired.

ENJOY…. Happy, Holy Holiday’s People

Lesson up.. I got a doozy for ya!

What happens when you follow any recipe exactly?

What happens when you forget an ingredient?

What happens once you master the recipe

And are SURE if you added this and took away that

your outcome would be perfect with an added touch?

OKAY ….Lets take one at a time.. If you follow a recipe exactly you will end

Up with something of perfection and a new

Creation for YOU

If YOU forget an ingredient chances are your

End result will be all wrong. Can’t skip an ingredient

And what if you took away the chocolate and

Replaced it with another flavor?

Right, Your result will be one of perfection

And the creation will be ALL YOUR OWN!

Oh, what a feeling!!

It’s the same for your business.

If you get your hands on a working

Business model and you follow it to the exact measure

Your end result will be a “Working Business Model”

If you forget a step. Do I have to explain?

And once mastered…..

YOU start to add to it……..

Now we are talking!

Let me give some examples

Of working business models

Verizon, Walmart, BJ’S, Sam’s Club

Madonna, Kid Rock, and many more..

What’s so very cool is I

Learned that they ALL follow the

Same model..

Bruce Sprinsteen & Rachel Ray follow it too.

Diane Hochman, Kim Shahan, Joe Schroeder, Mike Dillard

And me.. Yep we follow it as well

just to name a few.

A recipe for success is to find a master

(Having the proper tools is key)

In the field you are desiring and then

Study them and study WITH them

Listen to them, watch how they move,

How they talk, And MOST of all

How THEY THINK! Ask them to teach you

YOU how to think.

It’s one thing to make $5k, $7k, $20K

A month.. It’s a whole different story

When YOU BEcome the kind of person

Who makes that kind of money every month!

I’ll be honest it’s hard to find out here… A master

Who is transparent, who will be held accountable

Good Luck!

Everyone is self made ONLY millionaire’s

admit it.

What are you making Yourself to BE?

Peace, JoAnn Donahue 609-517-5306

This is a letter written by my friend and

colleague Ray Tamayo. I asked if I could

pass this along and he gave ME his blessing!

Thanks Ray. This is great stuff for the people

to hear. I couldn’t have said it any better!

I want to let you know why my business is so thriving

in such a time where the world faces an onslaught

of fear and intimidation.

While the struggling and weak business owner

continues on a treadmill of angst and anguish

I have learned to thrive and live lifestyle

without a ripple in this sea of constant change.

I, along with my companions enthusiasm

and determination have found bliss while others seem to ask………

“Why, Why Me?

Well, I have come to feel I owe my

fellow merchants an explanation.

While an abundant life is lonely without

the fellowship of the whole, I thought this would help.

As it has me ponder, many a day and many a night…..

this my friends is the formula to success

and without it many go to an fro thinking there is another way……

But, there is no other way…

as the good book (Bible) would even say …

I AM the Way Truth and LIFE!

This is truly the formula for success… as..

if there has been any other.

Ask any billionaire or multi-millionaire

if they have discovered this … this …. this to be truth..

beyond the ages and surely it will remain as constant

as the night follows the day and the sun

rises in the east and sets in the west.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

HERE .. HERE .. LIES THE SECRET OF SECRETS

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

48% of sales people never follow up with a prospect

25% of sales people make a second contact and stop

12% of sales people only make 3 contacts and stop

ONLY 10% of sales people make more than 3 contacts

2% OF THE SALES ARE MADE ON THE FIRST CONTACT

3% OF SALES ARE MADE ON THE SECOND CONTACT

5% OF THE SALES ARE MADE ON THE THIRD CONTACT

10% OF THE SALES ARE MADE ON THE FOURTH CONTACT

80% OF THE SALES ARE MADE ON THE FIFTH TO THE TWELFTH CONTACT

Many Prosperous Days And Years To You My Friend

Here’s To Keeping It Real, JoAnn Check Me out Here Get My Free Package 609-517-5306

Man It’s a beautiful day here in NJ I’m looking out my office window the sky is blue and the birds are singing. Fall is in the air and I knownew life is being planted..

I just finished watching a video that Eric Worre did. If you don’t know him look him up.

Some of you may know I recently turned 50. Boy who would have “thunk” I would be here so soon? Surely NOT me.

Which brings me to my post today I to find that some folks are just holding on to that lucky day when their dreams will come true. They join our profession and put it on luck, crossing their fingers and wishing for the magic to happen.

Well after 50 years it’s safe to say that yes,luck does happen “some” times but most of the time and for most of the folks it never does and so while the “lucky” believers are waiting for fate to “kick in” “luck” to appear time has past them by. And worse, these fine folks with God given potential believe these desires were just a foolish idea and they walk away.

While others like myself and many others believed from the get go that instead of waiting for luck we would go learn the skills we didn’t yet processes and develop the ones we knew we had.

If you are willing to develop skills and learn the things you don’t your chances of success are a slam dunk You can’t “luck” your way to the top. You can “skill” your every move and reach the new heights you were shooting for. Luck is great Skills are important! Thanks Eric

Here’s Truth And All That Jazz, JoAnn

I bet the headline got you reading

this post, wanting to know just

how can you can CHEAT your way to success?

It’s sounds appealing doesn’t it?

This will be a short post that will hopefully

open your eyes to see that by “trying to cheat”

“wanting to cheat” your way to YOUR success

because it would be so much easier is…

SUICIDE

Here allow me to give you a visual…

One fish is swimming doing

what fish do… working

to get his/her food..

and because of it’s diligence the fish

survives and continues doing fish..

and is becoming bigger

and stronger because of…

Now we have another fish..

this fish wants to have it easy and quick

doesn’t want to work so hard

wants to just “Cheat”

Here is where my visual takes

on a whole new perspective

what looks like “LOVE”

hanging right in front of him/her

(on that hook which the fish does not see by the way)

appeals to that cheating, easy way out side of the fish

and Wham… The fish is caught, hooked, yanked and

Suicide..

There is no cheating your way to success.

There is no real easy way to success.

Our success… Man Kinds…

I’m talking here folks..

requires diligence, finding the

“RIGHT InForMatiOn”

to learn and then apply..

Beware of the so called “LOVE”

that hangs all around in our world… on line and off line..

Once you get hooked you can’t

get off with-out much pain

aka/ the lose of lots of money OR worse

dreams and potential un-realized

Here’s to Keeping It Real and To Your Success..

Go Become the Big Fish!

Sincerely,

JoAnn

Think…. No one success starts out that way.

In the beginning it’s a thought, then it’s brainstorming better known as Master Minding and at that point it’s usually not conjuring up plans of greatness. It’s just swapping ideas. Usually over diet cokes, coffee and could be while the kids are playing on the play ground!

You get the point right?

You go out and want to start a Home Based Business You sign up with any one of the reputable companies Ones I may add started with just a thought.. and you find yourself floundering around barley making a dime.. What’s the problem?

You don’t think & take in consideration that there was ground work these successful companies had to lay before they became BIG.

Which blinds you to NOT think that you too must lay some fundamental ground work yourself!

You can’t start off BIG it doesn’t work that way!

What’s your ground work?

It’s training in GENERIC Marketing not so much the companies training they have their own agenda and rightfully so. You want to learn how to market anything!

Training your mind to think.. Better known as Mind-Set.. This is where alot of folks give up. Thinking is the hardest thing we do. Most are on automatic pilot and don’t even realize it.

When you take the time and learn how to think and then study how the successful think you are better equipped to take yourself BIG..

Change Your Mind, Change Your Income, Change Your Lifestyle..

This fundamental ground work takes time and most want to Get-Rich-Quick, and when they don’t they give up.

It’s those who put the time in that go on and become BIG in this industry.

How much time depends on you the individual How strong is your passion to do what you want to do. Do you have fire belly and a belief that you could become BIG. Do YOU matter enough to YOU?

Becoming BIG is NOT really hard once you decide to make it happen and once you get out of your own way! (mind-set)

Keeping It Real, JoAnn joann@iamjoann.com

Learn and Earn…

Don’t be like the rest out here

trying to pull this “craft” off with-out

the proper education!

The question I have for you is this…

If Twitter, Facebook or any other social site

were your only answer then why are you NOT

at 5,000 or more a month?

Don’t let the sharks and or wanna be’s

on-line convince you

that the internet is the holy grail

of success!

LEARN sales PSYCHOLOGY

become a WORLD CLASS SALES SURGEON

or?

Or, you will fail to attract people who use words to make BUY decisions **

YOU can use these ** ADS ** both on-line and OFF line…

As BIZ cards

AS newspaper ads

USE to create your own barrel of FRESH leads

The PROBLEM though

Is that two (2) of these ads WILL NOT BRING FRUIT

Study these three (3) ads

Classified ad #1

Taxi “dead head” mom bails out her 401K And discovers daily weekend cash biz To earn $500 to $700 from home Get free kit Before you invest $18 in Fast start up guide. 24 Hrs. Leave address 1-800-555-2134

Classified ad # 2

Earn CEO income from home, If you Don’t believe it don’t call. 1-800-555-1234

Classified Ad # 3

Already at over $10,000 every two weeks. Cool internet biz. Works automatically.

** Phone numbers and website are BOGUS and only used as an example

Alright.

Which ad uses COGNITIVE dissonance?

Which ad would create buyer anxiety and virtually FORCE the reader to call?

Tip: the goal is to get people to CALL you

Tip: Great marketing doesn’t sell

Great marketing gets people to RAISE their hands and say, “I am in your market. What do you have?”

Great marketing PREPARES people to BUY

Terrible marketing SELLS

Tip: People LOVE to BUY.

They hate to be sold

Tip: Make ads that “trigger” people to CALL you

Furthermore

Listen

If you can’t see the psychological difference between the ads, you could never WRITE your own

WHICH ad (see above) would work and which two would not?

TWO of the ads above suck

which ones suck?

can you spot them?

can you EXPLAIN why they would fail?

if not, come to my LIVE SURGERY CALL

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If you can DECODE and learn this psychology

YOU can then learn to

** Create and endless array of ads OFF line and ON

** Create a PROSPECTS ON PARADE LIST BASKET

** Have people who actually CALL you

what is cognitive dissonance and how does

Domino’s + McDonalds use this mental TRAP?

I used to be a THUMB SUCKER …MLM loser

Until I Got myself educated!

If I can do it so can YOU..

The link is my OFF line RECRUITING booklet

See Link… PRINT and PUT the booklet together / only 5 sheets

Where the advertising Goes Money Flows

Here’s To Keeping It Real,

JoAnn If you love the booklet call me I’ll tell you what to do next! 609-517-5306

In your mind see plenty everywhere.

Yes, it is hard sometimes to overcome

the thought that there is not enough,

for it is an insidious thought that has been

in consciousness for a long time. But it

can be done and is being done by others.

The prosperity law is not a theory but a

demonstrated fact, as thousands can testify.

Now is the time to open your mind and to see plenty.

Do not be fearful, regardless of how outer

appearances may affect others. Keep your head when all

about you are losing theirs. Refuse to load up

your mind with old material thoughts of economy

to the point of denial of what you really need.

Eliminate the old limiting ideas.

The above ideas come from the book…

“Prosperity” written by: Charles Fillmore

And also from the community of

The Million Mind March.

Do you want to learn more?

1-800-772-9781 x16 (24 hr recorded message)

Feel Free to join me over @

The Million Mind March

Call me directly 1-609-517-5306

I will point you in the direction.

You decide if you follow the signs!

Peace, bless & prosperity,

JoAnn