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Hi! I’m Renee Scattergood and I look forward to getting to know you all. I happen to be the wife of the most wonderful man in the whole world and the mother of a little girl who is the light of my life. My family means everything to me and they are the reason I work so hard to become financially independent.

I didn’t start off in Network Marketing… I discovered a love of writing when I was in my early 20’s. As a self-published author, though, I knew I would need to learn about marketing if I ever hoped to sell a book.
I started writing back in 1995 and I knew right from the start that I wanted to be self-published. I love the freedom you get… never having to answer to anyone else. I’ve always had a hard time with the whole belief that publishers and editors seem to have, where they think they know what everyone out there wants to read. Please don’t think that I don’t think they know what they are doing… I just don’t believe that any one person could possibly know what is going to interest every person out there.

Anyway… that’s my personal beef with the mainstream publishing industry and probably has more to do with the fact that I’ve got a rebellious personality more than anything else. In fact, that’s probably where my story really begins, so let’s step back a few years for a moment.

I’m an awesome worker. You give me something to do and I’ll give it 110% effort, but I’m probably the worst employee you’ll ever see. I always show up on time and call when I’ll be late. I only call in sick when I’m actually sick. I have a tendency to do the job of ten people when I’m working… and I’ll pick up the slack of those who aren’t pulling their weight. But I’m a horrible employee…

Why???

Because I absolutely hate working for other people. I hate having someone tell me what to do with my time. I hate having someone stand over my shoulder and watching every move I make… but most of all…

I HATE working my bum off to make someone else rich!!!!

Needless to say, because of this attitude, I never lasted long in jobs… and I worked everywhere from McDonald’s to Universal Studios in Florida.

I’ve wanted to work for myself for as long as I could remember. I just didn’t know how to go about doing it. When I was in my mid 20’s, though, a friend of mine invited me to this event for a company called Primerica Financial Services. The energy of the event had me hooked. I wanted to be one of those people making thousands of dollars a month just for helping people with their finances.

About Me:

So I got started… and yeah, it was the same song and dance as you get with most Network Marketing businesses. Contact your warm market and then cold call until your blue in the face. Not at all what I was expecting and I absolutely hated doing it.

Part of it was my confidence levels… I just didn’t feel right talking to people about their finances when mine were nothing to write home about. But I also don’t like talking on the phone. I’ve done telemarketing before and I’ve always hated it. So what did I do?

Of course… I quit!

Well I didn’t just quit. One of the leaders of the company said during a speech at the last event I attended that if we weren’t passionate about Primerica then we should find what we were passionate about and go after it with everything we had.

That’s when it hit me… I just wasn’t passionate about financial services!

So I went back to focusing on my writing and self-published my first book in February of 2005. That’s when it hit me that I had no idea how to get that book into people’s homes. I also knew that offline marketing would cost me a fortune that I didn’t have, so I decided to start researching ways that I could market my books online.

That’s when I started discovering the world of Internet/Network Marketing and I got completely sucked in. I started signing up for just about everything I saw… and yeah, I soon learned what a silly thing that is to do. So I backed off and chose one company I wanted to work with and just looked for some ways to market it.

Yeah… same ol’ story again… couldn’t get any signups, sales, nothing… couldn’t even get anyone to say boo! It was pathetic really…

What was even more pathetic, though, was that instead of heeding the definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over expecting different results), I thought I just wasn’t doing enough of the same thing over and over and thought if I did more I would get at least a little of something. After all… that’s what all the so-called “gurus” were spouting.

Yeah… I quit again!

Well after about 3 years of that I decided to give up on Network Marketing all together and just focus on my writing again. Then as though the universe were trying to send me some kind of sign, I got an email saying that I had been one of 2500 people chosen out of over 200,000 applicants to be a part of a team to help launch a new company.

Honestly, I forgot that I had applied for that several months earlier. When I didn’t hear from them after a couple of weeks I had given up hope. So you can imagine how much of a shock it was to get that email just when I had decided to give up on Network Marketing again.

The next part of the application process required me to email the CEO of this company and tell him who I was, what I was about, and what I could offer the company. I just wrote what was in my heart, but I honestly didn’t think I’d be chosen. Afterall… I was competing with 2499 other people.

Well a few weeks later I was shocked again. I had been accepted as a part of the team. I actually cried… not just at being accepted to be part of this company… but because this company was something I could get passionate about! I finally found something that I KNEW I could succeed at doing. There was no question in my mind about that.

Then to make things even better, I recently got turned on to Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring. Between that and my passion for my new company, I know that 2009 is going to be my year for success. And not just in the Network Marketing field… I’m also working on my first fiction novel and I hope to have it published by early 2010.

Website:

http://lionsongsden.com

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What Kind of Leader are You? A Tyrant or a Hero?

"Your focus determines your reality."

The quote above was spoken by the character, Qui-Gon Jinn, in the movie, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. I know it may seem silly to be using a quote from a science fiction movie, but truth is truth no matter the source. Not only is it a quote that is true to your whole life, but it is the foundation for the whole concept of attraction marketing as it directly relates to you and your reality, and how you are perceived in the realities of others.

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Posted on February 1, 2009 at 6:33am —

Social Networking for Network Marketers

Hi Everyone!

I found a social networking site that is just for Network Marketers. The top earners in Network Marketing are all there teaching members what they've done to make 6 & 7 figure incomes. If you're serious about succeeding in Network Marketing, then you need to get over there:

Better Networker

It's free to sign up, so click on the link above and sign up right now!

Hope to see you soon over there!

Renee

Posted on February 1, 2009 at 6:31am —

Change Your Thoughts… Change Your Action!

From the time I was fairly young, I knew I would some day be rich. I didn’t know why or how I knew it… I just knew it. The thing is... I didn’t believe it! I would even tell myself that I didn’t want to be rich, and I would make up excuses as to why becoming rich would be a bad idea. For instance, I would say I didn’t want to be rich because it would give me unwanted attention and I would have to hide all the time.

When I grew up and found myself struggling financially, suddenly being rich didn… Continue

Posted on February 1, 2009 at 6:28am — 1 Comment