Prospect Memory Jogger
Don't Forget About Even One Person You Know!
Did you know that based on studies, the average person knows just under 1000 people, acquaintance level and up? These are your contacts or "warm market." We are in the midst of a Home Based Business Boom? In fact, it is so significant that analysts, who are documented in many of the most popular financial magazines you see every day, are referring to this boom as the "#1 Professional Trend"; The progression to the "Home Based Business." This is happening for a couple of reasons...
1) We are seeing things happen in the corporate world, to a degree we have never seen before, that are absolutely and totally devastating families financially. These things are stripping good people of their income and retirements that they have been pouring their lives into for many, many years. Unfortunately, these stories are no longer rare, they are now common place... things like down sizing, corporate corruption, cut-backs, layoffs, out sourcing, etc. Home Based Businesses are the solution for either taking full control of one's financial future or at least creating a "back up" plan in preparation for the day they go to work and find that it "all changed" over night.
2) The other reason for this boom is that people are finally starting to realize the significance of some fairly recent tax laws that have been put in place to encourage the development and growth of small business. Many think that our economy is predominately driven by companies like Microsoft, Coca Cola, Wal-Mart, etc. Not so. In fact, 70% of the economy is driven by small business and as small business grows and prospers, so does our economy. Therefore, the government has instituted laws that allow for phenomenal financial benefits through tax advantages/deductions to encourage the initiation and growth of small businesses. By re-classifying many of our normal expenses as "business expenses", through incorporating our business into our normal activities with the honest "pursuit of profit" and treating your business "as a business", Home Based Business Owners can gain access to literally thousands of dollars annually with a very small time commitment. The average American over-pays their taxes every year by $3,000 to $9,000, this according to the former lead tax attorney for the IRS, Sandy Botkin. Mr. Botkin was the one responsible for training the other attorney's on the IRS payroll. As a living, he now shows tax payers how to keep this money through training programs and seminars. One huge advantage we have as RTAs with YTB is that we are in one of the very, very few businesses that can LEGITIMATELY write off our travel expenses as a "business expense", while at the same time keeping our vacation "a vacation." As "Travel Professionals", we don't continuously "interrupt" our vacation to due things that "emulate" business activities to "justify" the "business purpose/effort." Our travel is our business and everything we do familiarizes and teaches us more about what we are selling. You should always consult and rely upon your tax advisor for your guidance. The most valuable investment, aside from your business itself, is to get a good tax advisor that knows these laws so you don't have to... many just know how to complete the tax returns. Understanding this aspect of your business alone will make it where regardless of anything you do or do not do with YTB, you and your family will never be able to afford to be without YTB.
Every 8 seconds...
Another Person Joins A Home Based Business!
Are they going to be in your business?... Only if they know about it!
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If your list is not "written down", it is not a "list"
If it is not a "list", you will never remember everyone that is on it!
Your Prospect Memory Jogger
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The members of your own family ! Father and Mother ! Father-In-Law / Mother-In-Law ! Grandparents ! Children ! Brothers & Sisters ! Aunts and Uncles ! Nieces and Nephews ! Cousins
Those you meet in organizations or clubs ! Civic groups, Rotary, exchange, Jaycees ! Political clubs ! Lodge, Elks, Moose, Etc. ! Missionary societies, brotherhood groups ! Merchants or farm organizations ! School groups, boosters, alumni, PTA, etc.
List of acquaintances already available ! Christmas card list ! Address book ! Day timer, planner ! List of fellow employees ! Church directory
People who are decision makers ! Business owners ! Human Resources Directors ! Office managers
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Those who are your closest friends with whom you associate regularly ! Friends and Neighbors ! People you work with ! Church members ! Sunday school class members
Those you have been associated with in the past ! Schoolmates ! Former co-workers ! People in your home town ! Military cohorts
Those you do business with ! Doctor, lawyer, barber, merchants, grocer ! Gas station attendant, dry cleaner, postal worker ! Beauticians, jewelers, waiters/waitresses
People you know who are in direct sales ! Business/office machine salespeople ! Insurance sales people ! Car salespeople
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Do You Know Anyone Associated With Any of the Following Areas? |
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! Accounting ! Acting ! Advertising ! Aerobics ! Air Force ! airline ! Alarm Systems ! Animal Health/Vet ! Antiques ! Apartment ! Architect ! Army ! Art ! Artificial Nails ! Asphalt ! Athletics ! Auctioneer ! Automobile ! Baby-Sitters ! Banking ! Barber ! Baseball ! Basketball ! Beauty salon ! Beepers ! Bible School ! Bicycles ! Blinds ! Boats ! Bond/Stocks ! Books ! Bookkeeping ! Boys Clubs ! Broadcasting ! Brokers ! Builders ! Buses ! Cable TV ! Cameras ! Camping ! Crafts ! Credit Union ! Day Care ! Delivery ! Dentists ! Dermatologists ! Designers ! Detectives ! Diet Industry ! Direct Mail ! Disk Jockey |
! Doctors ! Driving Range ! Dry Cleaners ! Dry Wall ! Education ! Electrician ! Engineering ! Entertainment ! Eye Care ! Fax Equipment ! Farming ! Film Industry ! Firemen ! Fishermen ! Florists ! Food Service ! Furniture ! Gardens ! Gift Shops ! Girls Clubs ! Golfing ! Government ! Graphic Arts ! Grocery Stores ! Gymnastics ! Hair Care ! Handicapped ! Handyman ! Hardware ! Health Clubs ! Health Insurance ! Hearing Aids ! Helicopters ! Hiking ! Horses ! Hospitals ! Hotels ! Hunting ! Ice Cream ! Ice Skating ! Income Tax ! Insurance ! Investments ! Janitor ! Jewelry ! Judo ! Karate ! Kindergarten ! Laundries ! Lawn Care ! Leather |
! Leasing ! Libraries ! Lighting ! Livestock ! Loans ! Luggage ! Lumber ! Management ! Manufacturing ! Mathematics ! Mechanics ! Mental Health ! Miniature Golf ! Mobile homes ! Mortgages ! Motels ! Motion Pictures ! Movie Theatres ! Museums ! Music ! Mutual funds ! Navy ! Newspapers ! Nurses ! Nutrition ! Office Machines ! Office Furniture ! Oil Changes ! Optometrists ! Orthodontist ! Painting ! Parking ! Parties ! Pediatricians ! Pedicures ! Pensions ! Perfume ! Personnel ! Pest Control ! Pets ! Pharmacies ! Phones ! Photography ! Physician ! Pianos ! Pizza ! Plastics ! Plumbing ! Podiatrist ! Police |
! Pollution ! Pools ! Preschools ! Printing ! Property Mgmt. ! Psychiatrists ! Psychologists ! Publishers ! Racing ! Radio ! Railroad ! Real Estate ! Rehabilitation ! Religion ! Rental agencies ! Reporters ! Resorts ! Rest Homes ! Restaurants ! Roller Blading ! Roofing’ ! Safety ! Sales ! Sandblasting ! Satellites ! School ! Screen Printing ! Scuba Diving ! Secretaries ! Security ! Self Defense ! Sewing Sheetrock ! Shoe repair ! Siding ! Signs ! Singing ! Skating ! Skeet Shooting ! Skiing ! Skin Care ! Soccer ! Social Services ! Softball ! Software ! Spas ! Sporting goods ! Steam cleaning ! Stereos ! Stocks ! Surgeons ! Surveyors |
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! T-Shirts ! Tailors ! Tanning ! Salons ! Taxes ! Teachers ! Telecommunications ! Telemarketing ! Television ! Tennis |
! Theatres ! Therapists ! Tile Layers ! Tires ! Title Companies ! Tools ! Towing ! Townhouses ! Training ! Transmissions |
! Trucking ! Typesetting ! Unions ! Universities ! Upholstery ! Used Cars ! Vacuum Cleaners ! Vending ! Veterans ! Video |
! Volunteers ! Wallpaper ! Waste ! Watches ! Water Skiing ! Weddings ! Wine ! Woodworking ! Writing ! Zoos |
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Do You Know Anyone That Lives in the Following States? |
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! Alabama ! Alaska ! Arizona ! Arkansas ! California ! Colorado ! Connecticut ! Delaware ! Florida ! Georgia ! Hawaii ! Idaho ! Illinois |
! Indiana ! Iowa ! Kansas ! Kentucky ! Louisiana ! Maine ! Maryland ! Massachusetts ! Michigan ! Minnesota ! Mississippi ! Missouri ! Montana |
! Nebraska ! Nevada ! New Hampshire ! New Jersey ! New Mexico ! New York ! North Carolina ! North Dakota ! Ohio ! Oklahoma ! Oregon ! Pennsylvania ! Rhode Island |
! South Carolina ! South Dakota ! Tennessee ! Texas ! Utah ! Vermont ! Virginia ! Washington ! West Virginia ! Wisconsin ! Wyoming |