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Networkers, the ultimate podcast for networkers and direct sales, network marketing, MLM or NXL side platform skills or the how to and the mindset to make it work from the author of over 20 best-selling books and over 25 years in the business.
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Here's your host, Ryder.
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If you could take business advice from anybody in the world, who would it be?
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Most of the time, when I ask this question, I get a lot of blank stares because it's kind of a giant open-ended question.
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And when I mean business advice, it doesn't have to be from someone that's super successful.
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It just has to be someone that's successful in their mind.
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They are happy, they are content, they feel satisfied, that are living their dream.
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Most of the time we think successful, we think millions or billions of dollars.
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But at the same time, yes, it's good to take advice from people that are super successful.
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That doesn't mean we have to follow all their advice.
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That doesn't that definitely means we don't have to agree with them 100%.
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But I was recently listening to a podcast interview from the founder and CEO, or one of the founders, and he is the CEO of NVIDIA.
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Now, if you don't know what NVIDIA is, they make graphic chips and cards, and they've been around for a long time, but they've just recently blown up in the last two years.
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They're actually the largest publicly traded company in the US stock markets, worth over 4 trillion.
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They're actually larger than Apple right now.
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I don't know how long that's going to last, but I thought, you know, if I could listen to this podcast interview, now he's done a lot of podcast interviews, he's done a lot of clips, and I don't want to recommend one or the other because most of them they're they're long form, they take a couple hours.
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I don't really recommend listening to the whole thing, but there's some really good clips with Jensen on there on all the social media platforms.
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The podcast interview that I was listening to, there were so many takeaways from the largest publicly traded company and network marketing.
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It's it's all the same.
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It's so many different lessons learned from NVIDIA.
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And it doesn't matter what your thoughts are on AI, whether it's good, bad, like social media, good, bad, somewhere in between.
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There's good parts, there's bad parts, uh, ethical stuff, etc.
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But you always want to take advice from people that are successful in the current times.
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And I'll give you an extremely short version of the interview with the takeaways within, and it starts with when he arrived in America.
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His parents weren't in America just yet.
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He spent two years sending cassette tapes back and forth with his parents.
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Because if you're young, you probably don't realize that international phone calls weren't a thing, or they weren't uh a free thing.
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It was very expensive.
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Even long distance within America was expensive, but let alone international.
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And even with international, the quality wasn't that good, and of course, it's a lot of money.
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So, in order for him to communicate with his parents, they bought him a cassette recorder and they would mail cassette tapes back and forth to communicate, kind of give them the updates and so forth.
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So, of course, my takeaway, and this really isn't a business takeaway, this is more of a life takeaway.
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But my takeaway there was yeah, we just need to communicate with our loved ones, people that we do love, with people that we do like.
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Doesn't even have to be business or it doesn't have to be relatives, it could be people in our business.
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Keep up that communication, it's very important.
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Not much of a takeaway, not much, definitely not much of a business takeaway.
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Well, a little bit, but remember, keep communication open.
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But the big one, again, again, NVIDIA has been around for so long.
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The big takeaway that I got was how many times NVIDIA almost went out of business, how many times they almost closed their doors, how many times that they were so close to just throwing in the towel, because it's never a smooth ride.
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Most of the time we only hear about the smooth rides of the people on stage, but the big ones that I always like were the people that say it wasn't always this smooth.
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So when it happens to us, we're going, okay, this is normal.
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He mentioned there were so many times that he thought their customers would be excited about this new product and they would launch the product in crickets.
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People weren't even excited at the meeting, and their stock plummeted, almost went out of business.
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And how many times have we thought about something in our business?
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We say, oh, if I could just do this expo, or if I could just be part of this networking group, or if I could just have this event, or if I could just do this, it's gonna make a huge difference in our business and it doesn't pan out.
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Yeah, it's happened to me, it's happened to every single successful person in this industry, and whether it's network marketing or in the stock market, is that sometimes we get so excited, think it's gonna be a great idea, and it doesn't work out.
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But again, the takeaway is just hey, pivot, edit, do something else.
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It's okay.
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Life will go on.
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It's happened to everybody.
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And even mentioned a couple times that he had to take money ahead of time to fulfill an order, and he wasn't able to fulfill the order.
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And he mentioned how he talked to the company and said, I can't fulfill this order and I gotta keep the money.
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Is that okay?
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I'll give you some stock, I'll do anything because I cannot pay you back.
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Yes, it's going to happen.
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We're going to hopefully not lose a lot of money, but sometimes we have ideas and they don't pan out.
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Some people, yes, I met a lot of successful people that have gone bankrupt before, have had credit cards, uh send them lawsuits and things like that.
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Yeah, it happens.
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Hopefully it doesn't happen now that there's a little bit more education out there about debt and things like that, but stuff happens, move on.
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Again, don't quit.
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And another giant takeaway that I heard from the interview is they are almost failing for the umpteenth time.
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They had to lay off a bunch of people, and they had to kind of start from the basics on how to build the best chip, the best computer chip.
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Again, I don't really know the details uh and I don't really understand their business in a whole, but they bought a book for$200, and him and some of the leaders on his team read the$200 book to learn how to make the best chip out there.
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Going back to the basics, buying a$200 book.
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Can you imagine being a publicly traded company having to lay off a bunch of people, kind of start from scratch from a$200 book, from a$200 lesson?
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And I don't have the details in front of me, but it was just mind-blowing how a CEO says, I just want to start over.
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Let's learn from a$200 book.
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And how many times in our business have we said, Oh, I don't want to spend$20 on a book, or I don't want to go and to the regional meeting for$50, or I don't want to watch a Zoom, or I don't want to do this and that, because life gets in the way, excuses get in the way, or we just haven't been plugged in for a while.
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But sometimes we just have to, whether it's a$20 book, a$200 book, a$200 course, a$200 event, uh$10 event, a free Zoom.
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There's always something that we can just start from scratch and say, it doesn't matter what happened in the past, I want to start today is a restart.
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And it's 100% okay to just buy something.
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And most of the time you probably have a book within arm's reach in your house where you haven't opened up the book.
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That's 100% okay.
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We've all done it.
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That's okay.
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Whether buy a book or find a book in your library or in your desk, wherever you keep your books and restart.
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It's 100% okay.
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It's happened to, again, the largest publicly traded company as of right now.
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But he always kept a level head.
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Or I should say, now that they're successful, of course he says he works all the time, he's he's a little bit stressed out.
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But if you ever listen to any of his interviews, he kept a level head.
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Now, I probably was a little bit stressed, I'd imagine, when they go almost go out of business.
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But no, in our business, yeah, there's gonna be ups and downs, don't quit, and then it's gonna be smooth sailing.
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Again, the big thing was they learn from the mistakes, they edit, and they just kept going.
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They just stayed active.
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They didn't quit.
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They didn't stop, they didn't close their doors, they didn't give up.
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But the big question is, of course, well, what is that?
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That's great, but what can we do in our business besides learn, edit, and don't quit?
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Well, the activities that I've always found in our business, and we've we've done this in the Three Easy Habits book.
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You can get the book, you can listen to Three Easy Habits episodes, which I talk a lot about.
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So you could you get this information for free.
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But when you have the three easy habits almost on autopilot, which is kind of the definition of a habit, you never really have to worry about motivation.
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You never really have to worry about having people to talk to.
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You never have to worry about having to motivate your team if those habits are true habits.
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So let's kind of go through them really quick.
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Is number one is personal development.
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You're doing it right now, that's great.
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But at the same time, what are you going to do in between the episodes?
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Do you have other books?
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Do you have other things you can uh do you have a library?
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I'd much rather have people listen to a book five times than read five books, or listen to a book five times than have five audiobooks.
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That's just my opinion.
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Probably not the best for my business saying this, but at the same time, you get something new every single time you read or listen to a book, or a podcast episode, or an event replay, things like that.
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Of course, habit number two is making new contact every single day.
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No, that's online, that's offline.
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And if we have new contacts, we always have new people to talk to.
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That doesn't mean we have to set an appointment.
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That doesn't mean we have to close them, that doesn't mean we have to even bring up our icebreaker, but the amount of contacts that you have, and if you have no agenda conversations, the business naturally comes up.
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Or what problem we solve naturally comes up.
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People are naturally curious about us if we're curious about them.
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And I don't want to go through all the cliches, but at the same time, if we mastered habit number two, we never have to worry about people to talk to about our business.
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It just naturally comes up when you have no agenda conversations and we're constantly just trying to make human connection online, offline, and so forth.
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And of course, habit number three is promoting events.
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Now that's promoting events to your team, but most importantly, promoting events to yourself.
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How many times do we miss an event because, well, it's the same event or it's the same information or it's nothing new or insert excuse here.
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We've all done it.
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I've skipped events.
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Nobody's perfect, absolutely not.
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But imagine if we set an intention going to an event.
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Like, I want to go to this event because I want to meet XYZ type of person, whether it's someone that's retelled a lot, whether it's somebody that has the same background as us, whether it's somebody that's overcome certain things.
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If we set that intention and we put it out there, chances are we're going to find that person, take their advice, and it's going to make a huge difference in our organization.
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The amount of events that I've gone to and the amount of events that have actually made an impact, it's not one-to-one ratio.
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But I don't know which event's going to pay off.
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And that doesn't mean go to an event and not do anything.
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That just means go to an event with an intention and put something into action.
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You're not going to put every single thing you learn at an event into action.
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Similar to if you if you read a book, or let's take the retail sales book for an example.
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If you read the retail sales book, you are not going to put in all of the options on retailing.
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My goal for that book is to find one thing and put into action.
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You don't want to do all, you know, dozens of different options on how to retail or how to get people the option of your product, service, or opportunity.
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It's all about you're going to learn a lot.
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Find something that works for you and put it to action.
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You don't have to put everything in action.
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It's it's 100%, it's it's impossible.
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And I always go back to NVIDIA saying they purchased a$200 book, it made a huge difference, and they've grown into four or five trillion.
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I'm not really sure how big they are right now.
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Again, things can change.
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I don't know if they're going to be around for a long time.
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I think people are more susceptible to change their computer processor than they are to change their phone, whether it's to an iPhone or out of an iPhone or staying away from the iPhone.
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But you gotta admit taking advice from the most successful company right now as I record this episode in July of 2026, and the parallels to network marketing are just amazing.
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And there's parallels to small companies.
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There's parallels to companies that uh people that do plumbing, that do housework, that do remodeling, that do retail.
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There's so many retail like at a mall and so forth.
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There's so many different parallels.
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Always look at companies and say, why are they successful?
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And is there something that I can implement in my business?
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And if you've mastered the three easy habits or on your way to mastering the three easy habits, and you want to just kick it up a notch, make sure you have the core skills audio pack or the core skills books.
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Because when prospects ask about our business, it's always good to know what to say.
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It's always good to build rapport, it's always good to have an icebreaker that actually engages them in conversation.
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It's always good to pre-close them so you don't have to do a presentation.
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If you do a presentation, make it super quick and easy.
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The core skills, I always talk about it a lot because it's made the biggest difference in my career.
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Of course, we'll put a link to all the different resources on this podcast episode.
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But more importantly, looking to share another episode with another successful networker next week.
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Networkers, the ultimate podcast for networkers and direct sales, network marketing, MLM or NXL side platform skills or the how to and the mindset to make it work from the author of over 20 best-selling books and over 25 years in the business.
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Here's your host, Ryder.
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If you could take business advice from anybody in the world, who would it be?
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Most of the time, when I ask this question, I get a lot of blank stares because it's kind of a giant open-ended question.
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And when I mean business advice, it doesn't have to be from someone that's super successful.
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It just has to be someone that's successful in their mind.
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They are happy, they are content, they feel satisfied, that are living their dream.
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Most of the time we think successful, we think millions or billions of dollars.
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But at the same time, yes, it's good to take advice from people that are super successful.
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That doesn't mean we have to follow all their advice.
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That doesn't that definitely means we don't have to agree with them 100%.
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But I was recently listening to a podcast interview from the founder and CEO, or one of the founders, and he is the CEO of NVIDIA.
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Now, if you don't know what NVIDIA is, they make graphic chips and cards, and they've been around for a long time, but they've just recently blown up in the last two years.
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They're actually the largest publicly traded company in the US stock markets, worth over 4 trillion.
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They're actually larger than Apple right now.
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I don't know how long that's going to last, but I thought, you know, if I could listen to this podcast interview, now he's done a lot of podcast interviews, he's done a lot of clips, and I don't want to recommend one or the other because most of them they're they're long form, they take a couple hours.
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I don't really recommend listening to the whole thing, but there's some really good clips with Jensen on there on all the social media platforms.
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The podcast interview that I was listening to, there were so many takeaways from the largest publicly traded company and network marketing.
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It's it's all the same.
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It's so many different lessons learned from NVIDIA.
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And it doesn't matter what your thoughts are on AI, whether it's good, bad, like social media, good, bad, somewhere in between.
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There's good parts, there's bad parts, uh, ethical stuff, etc.
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But you always want to take advice from people that are successful in the current times.
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And I'll give you an extremely short version of the interview with the takeaways within, and it starts with when he arrived in America.
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His parents weren't in America just yet.
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He spent two years sending cassette tapes back and forth with his parents.
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Because if you're young, you probably don't realize that international phone calls weren't a thing, or they weren't uh a free thing.
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It was very expensive.
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Even long distance within America was expensive, but let alone international.
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And even with international, the quality wasn't that good, and of course, it's a lot of money.
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So, in order for him to communicate with his parents, they bought him a cassette recorder and they would mail cassette tapes back and forth to communicate, kind of give them the updates and so forth.
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So, of course, my takeaway, and this really isn't a business takeaway, this is more of a life takeaway.
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But my takeaway there was yeah, we just need to communicate with our loved ones, people that we do love, with people that we do like.
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Doesn't even have to be business or it doesn't have to be relatives, it could be people in our business.
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Keep up that communication, it's very important.
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Not much of a takeaway, not much, definitely not much of a business takeaway.
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Well, a little bit, but remember, keep communication open.
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But the big one, again, again, NVIDIA has been around for so long.
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The big takeaway that I got was how many times NVIDIA almost went out of business, how many times they almost closed their doors, how many times that they were so close to just throwing in the towel, because it's never a smooth ride.
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Most of the time we only hear about the smooth rides of the people on stage, but the big ones that I always like were the people that say it wasn't always this smooth.
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So when it happens to us, we're going, okay, this is normal.
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He mentioned there were so many times that he thought their customers would be excited about this new product and they would launch the product in crickets.
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People weren't even excited at the meeting, and their stock plummeted, almost went out of business.
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And how many times have we thought about something in our business?
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We say, oh, if I could just do this expo, or if I could just be part of this networking group, or if I could just have this event, or if I could just do this, it's gonna make a huge difference in our business and it doesn't pan out.
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Yeah, it's happened to me, it's happened to every single successful person in this industry, and whether it's network marketing or in the stock market, is that sometimes we get so excited, think it's gonna be a great idea, and it doesn't work out.
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But again, the takeaway is just hey, pivot, edit, do something else.
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It's okay.
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Life will go on.
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It's happened to everybody.
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And even mentioned a couple times that he had to take money ahead of time to fulfill an order, and he wasn't able to fulfill the order.
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And he mentioned how he talked to the company and said, I can't fulfill this order and I gotta keep the money.
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Is that okay?
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I'll give you some stock, I'll do anything because I cannot pay you back.
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Yes, it's going to happen.
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We're going to hopefully not lose a lot of money, but sometimes we have ideas and they don't pan out.
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Some people, yes, I met a lot of successful people that have gone bankrupt before, have had credit cards, uh send them lawsuits and things like that.
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Yeah, it happens.
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Hopefully it doesn't happen now that there's a little bit more education out there about debt and things like that, but stuff happens, move on.
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Again, don't quit.
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And another giant takeaway that I heard from the interview is they are almost failing for the umpteenth time.
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They had to lay off a bunch of people, and they had to kind of start from the basics on how to build the best chip, the best computer chip.
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Again, I don't really know the details uh and I don't really understand their business in a whole, but they bought a book for$200, and him and some of the leaders on his team read the$200 book to learn how to make the best chip out there.
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Going back to the basics, buying a$200 book.
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Can you imagine being a publicly traded company having to lay off a bunch of people, kind of start from scratch from a$200 book, from a$200 lesson?
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And I don't have the details in front of me, but it was just mind-blowing how a CEO says, I just want to start over.
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Let's learn from a$200 book.
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And how many times in our business have we said, Oh, I don't want to spend$20 on a book, or I don't want to go and to the regional meeting for$50, or I don't want to watch a Zoom, or I don't want to do this and that, because life gets in the way, excuses get in the way, or we just haven't been plugged in for a while.
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But sometimes we just have to, whether it's a$20 book, a$200 book, a$200 course, a$200 event, uh$10 event, a free Zoom.
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There's always something that we can just start from scratch and say, it doesn't matter what happened in the past, I want to start today is a restart.
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And it's 100% okay to just buy something.
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And most of the time you probably have a book within arm's reach in your house where you haven't opened up the book.
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That's 100% okay.
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We've all done it.
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That's okay.
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Whether buy a book or find a book in your library or in your desk, wherever you keep your books and restart.
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It's 100% okay.
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It's happened to, again, the largest publicly traded company as of right now.
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But he always kept a level head.
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Or I should say, now that they're successful, of course he says he works all the time, he's he's a little bit stressed out.
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But if you ever listen to any of his interviews, he kept a level head.
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Now, I probably was a little bit stressed, I'd imagine, when they go almost go out of business.
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But no, in our business, yeah, there's gonna be ups and downs, don't quit, and then it's gonna be smooth sailing.
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Again, the big thing was they learn from the mistakes, they edit, and they just kept going.
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They just stayed active.
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They didn't quit.
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They didn't stop, they didn't close their doors, they didn't give up.
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But the big question is, of course, well, what is that?
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That's great, but what can we do in our business besides learn, edit, and don't quit?
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Well, the activities that I've always found in our business, and we've we've done this in the Three Easy Habits book.
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You can get the book, you can listen to Three Easy Habits episodes, which I talk a lot about.
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So you could you get this information for free.
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But when you have the three easy habits almost on autopilot, which is kind of the definition of a habit, you never really have to worry about motivation.
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You never really have to worry about having people to talk to.
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You never have to worry about having to motivate your team if those habits are true habits.
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So let's kind of go through them really quick.
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Is number one is personal development.
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You're doing it right now, that's great.
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But at the same time, what are you going to do in between the episodes?
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Do you have other books?
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Do you have other things you can uh do you have a library?
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I'd much rather have people listen to a book five times than read five books, or listen to a book five times than have five audiobooks.
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That's just my opinion.
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Probably not the best for my business saying this, but at the same time, you get something new every single time you read or listen to a book, or a podcast episode, or an event replay, things like that.
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Of course, habit number two is making new contact every single day.
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No, that's online, that's offline.
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And if we have new contacts, we always have new people to talk to.
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That doesn't mean we have to set an appointment.
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That doesn't mean we have to close them, that doesn't mean we have to even bring up our icebreaker, but the amount of contacts that you have, and if you have no agenda conversations, the business naturally comes up.
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Or what problem we solve naturally comes up.
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People are naturally curious about us if we're curious about them.
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And I don't want to go through all the cliches, but at the same time, if we mastered habit number two, we never have to worry about people to talk to about our business.
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It just naturally comes up when you have no agenda conversations and we're constantly just trying to make human connection online, offline, and so forth.
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And of course, habit number three is promoting events.
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Now that's promoting events to your team, but most importantly, promoting events to yourself.
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How many times do we miss an event because, well, it's the same event or it's the same information or it's nothing new or insert excuse here.
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We've all done it.
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I've skipped events.
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Nobody's perfect, absolutely not.
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But imagine if we set an intention going to an event.
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Like, I want to go to this event because I want to meet XYZ type of person, whether it's someone that's retelled a lot, whether it's somebody that has the same background as us, whether it's somebody that's overcome certain things.
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If we set that intention and we put it out there, chances are we're going to find that person, take their advice, and it's going to make a huge difference in our organization.
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The amount of events that I've gone to and the amount of events that have actually made an impact, it's not one-to-one ratio.
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But I don't know which event's going to pay off.
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And that doesn't mean go to an event and not do anything.
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That just means go to an event with an intention and put something into action.
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You're not going to put every single thing you learn at an event into action.
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Similar to if you if you read a book, or let's take the retail sales book for an example.
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If you read the retail sales book, you are not going to put in all of the options on retailing.
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My goal for that book is to find one thing and put into action.
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You don't want to do all, you know, dozens of different options on how to retail or how to get people the option of your product, service, or opportunity.
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It's all about you're going to learn a lot.
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Find something that works for you and put it to action.
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You don't have to put everything in action.
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It's it's 100%, it's it's impossible.
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And I always go back to NVIDIA saying they purchased a$200 book, it made a huge difference, and they've grown into four or five trillion.
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I'm not really sure how big they are right now.
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Again, things can change.
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I don't know if they're going to be around for a long time.
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I think people are more susceptible to change their computer processor than they are to change their phone, whether it's to an iPhone or out of an iPhone or staying away from the iPhone.
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But you gotta admit taking advice from the most successful company right now as I record this episode in July of 2026, and the parallels to network marketing are just amazing.
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And there's parallels to small companies.
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There's parallels to companies that uh people that do plumbing, that do housework, that do remodeling, that do retail.
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There's so many retail like at a mall and so forth.
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There's so many different parallels.
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Always look at companies and say, why are they successful?
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And is there something that I can implement in my business?
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And if you've mastered the three easy habits or on your way to mastering the three easy habits, and you want to just kick it up a notch, make sure you have the core skills audio pack or the core skills books.
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Because when prospects ask about our business, it's always good to know what to say.
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It's always good to build rapport, it's always good to have an icebreaker that actually engages them in conversation.
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It's always good to pre-close them so you don't have to do a presentation.
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If you do a presentation, make it super quick and easy.
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The core skills, I always talk about it a lot because it's made the biggest difference in my career.
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Of course, we'll put a link to all the different resources on this podcast episode.
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But more importantly, looking to share another episode with another successful networker next week.
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Thanks for visiting the Networker Zone.
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