The key to success in any business is being able to systematize it. In home based businesses it is especially important because most of us move to working at home because we want more freedom and financial independence. We can’t become free or wealthy if we have to reinvent the wheel every time we expand or recruit new people to our business.

Putting systems in place to bring in leads, follow up on leads, and convert leads saves time and money. First of all bringing in leads to produce high income can’t be done the old fashioned way of talking to friends and family and holding meetings at hotels. You must set up captures pages, give good info, create a web presence, educate your self on the skills needed to be a leader to with expansion of your own business and any new employees, recruits or distributors. Next is marketing you need a marketing system. One that can be duplicated over and over. One that can be adapted to new ways of marketing and some of the old ways. Using a system that can be bended but not broken is the best.

Becoming financially independent comes easy once you have your proper systems in place. You can add to your system and expand on marketing to create greater streams of income. But with out the proper systems in place your company will sputter in place not growth and sometimes go under because you haven’t created the proper system to create a cash flow.

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I’ve a this Tweet in my head all day, “The harder you work, the luckier you get. Well I have been on the road today selling some Life Insurance in rural Minnesota. In between appointments I have hanging up some flyers and putting out some drop cards, and a gentleman noticed what I was doing an we struck up a conversation. It turns out he is planning on buying a home in the very near future. I am also a Realtor and Mortgage consultant and we ha a great discusion about where he planning on buying, what kind of loan he was getting and so on. Well he is my newest client and we are planning on getting him approve this week for a mortgage and going out to look at homes this weekend.

So I guess I really appreciate whoever tweeted that saying this morning. If I wasn’t out working on another business I would have never met the 2nd luckiest man in world. Today I feel like the luckiest man in world but I really know good thing happen to people that work for them. Unitl next time have a great day.

Adding the right plugins will help drive traffic to your Wordpress blog.

1. All in One SEO Pack It automatically optimizes your blog for search engine optimization., but make you you activate it in your plugins section.
2. Google XML Sitemaps This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your blog which is supported by Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com.
3. MaxBlog Ping Optimizer This plugin might drive traffic per say to your blog, but it won’t get blacklisted as a ping spammer either.
4. Dagon Sitemap Generator Another sitemap generator that’s differently than the Google sitemap generator.
5. Tweet My Blog This one is a time saver that automatically tweets your blog entry and contains a link back to your blog.
6. WP Auto Tagger Tags are created based on the content provided in your post. Getting the right keywords are a key for driving traffic.

The plugins are my favorite ones for helping to drive traffic to my blog.

Dr. Mark Mincolla joins NECN news and discusses energy drinks and their nutritional value. He states that one of the healthiest energy drinks is Efusjon, an all natural energy drink containing the acai berry anti-oxidant. He state so many drinks are loaded with sugar and very unhealthy, but new all natural drinks are now coming on themarket supplying great nutrional value.