Are You Barking Up The Wrong Tree?

How do you feel about network marketing?  Is it all a scam or just a delusion?  Maybe it could be a figment of your imagination  since most folks that earnestly give it a try never succeed.  Why is that?  Could it be that they are barking up the wrong tree?  For the seasoned marketer, they have all barked up many wrong trees and suffered the consequences of their barking.  They may have barked because someone told them to or ask them to, but they can’t always blame others for their misfortunes, can they?

By barking up the wrong tree means that you have not found the niche that truly suits you and your personality.  We all have our strong and weak qualities and in order to be successful in network marketing, you MUST find the niche that suits you best, then give it your all and all.  People will be able to tell if you really believe in the product you are selling or the program you are promoting.  They want to follow confident leaders, not those who are wishy washy.

What you must learn to do is determine first what it is you want to do, then search the net for that niche.  Google makes it very easy to find anything on the world-wide web so you really have no excuse for not trying.  Just type in a word or phrase, then watch the internet work its magic right before your very eyes.  Expect to be overwhelmed with the responses that will show up, then weed out the ones you know are not for you.  If it is a program you are interested in promoting then do your due diligence to find out all you can before you invest your valuable time, energies and possibly your hard earned funds.  Remember, you can’t blame anyone but yourself if you bark up the wrong tree!  Do the same for any product you wish to promote and sell.

Barking up the wrong trees can produce many heartaches, but if you join a team like TGRP, then you will be able to eliminate the majority of those heartaches because we are hear to help you make the right decision.  We have expertise in many of the programs on the web and know which ones are legit and which ones are not.  We tell it like it is so you won’t have to make the same mistakes many of us made in trying to find our niches.  By the way, TGRP stands for The Grand Retirement Plan and that’s probably what you are looking to do (retire) if you are seriously searching the internet.  Try your best to bark up the right trees, not the wrong ones!  Hope this has helped you somewhat in the direction you need to go for success, not failure on the world-wide web.

Respectfully Submitted,
Eddie Garcia

Happy Birthday TGRP!

This is where it all started! A little over a year ago, we started The Grand Retirement Plan to help new marketers get on the right track to earning an income on the internet. We are excited with the success that our teammates are achieving with our mentor-ship and tools! Congrats to those who are learning and applying their new found knowledge to building their professional, online presence!

With our Birthday celebrations, there comes some change. We are here to help YOU!

Over the year we have added additional information and videos in the back office.
 - The 2 fan page videos that were placed in the back office and available to everyone have been replaced with updated ones.
 - We have held many live training sessions.
 - The home page has been revised.
 - Splash pages and banners have been added.
 - We have added the one on one mentoring for our diamond members and
many of you have taken advantage of it.

Over the coming year, many more videos will be added.
 - The ebooks will be replaced with new ones.
 - Information & pdf’s will also be added and updated.
 - You will also be seeing some changes to the home page over the next couple of weeks.

The Grand Retirement Plan was formed out of a desire to help those who
were struggling online and failing to produce an income from home.
It is our desire, to help each and everyone of you, to build a lifetime of residual income.

After spending the first year building and improving the site, we have decided, that for the quality of training we are providing it is necessary at this time to implement a slight increase in the subscription price, but no fear for you.
All of you are being grandfathered in at the current price and your subscription will never increase.
For those of you that have not upgraded, the current price will remain in effect until Sept. 1 so be sure to log in and upgrade before the price increase.

The current price for the Ruby upgrade is 17.95.
The upgrade for the Diamond membership is $29.95.
Remember this is a yearly price, not a monthly price and the Diamond membership comes with one-on-one mentoring as well.
Can you find any other service that will give you one-on-one mentoring plus referral commissions?

The new pricing will be 14.95 for the Ruby OTO and $23.95 for the ruby upgrade.

The Diamond OTO offer will be 29.95 and the upgrade will be 43.95.

The referral commissions will remain the same:
15% for free members that refer upgraded members.
20% for Ruby members that refer upgraded members.
40% for Diamond member that refer upgraded members.

So the price increase will give you added benefits as well, since the referral commissions will remain the same.

Log in now to secure your spot at the lower subscription price and be grandfathered in to never have a price increase.

The referral contest is still on as well.
The first member to bring in 50 Diamond members will win $100.

The first member to bring in 50 Ruby members will win $50.

The referral contest was put in place on Nov 3, 2010.

A lot of exciting things are happening and will continue to happen, again we thank all of you for your support thru this first year.

In appreciation we would like to offer you, our valued members,  a free autoresponder.  http://bit.ly/afreeautoresponder

Dan Shows Where We Can Get Some Extra Cash!

The F5M-MC Millionaires Club and the learning center The Grandretirementplan for Online Business is helping  People that are unfamiliar with online marketing and networking,  including Senior Citizens make a suitable contribution to their bank account and shows them the key ways to work online.
Some people are just looking for a small amount of money to help pay bills or a useful supplemental income with have to spend 40 hours a week working a full time job.
By contributing $5.00 to join the F5M-MC Millionaires Club, you are on your way with a business that can grow on your own time table.
F5M-MC Millionaires Club  will not promise you instant riches as others falsely lead you into scams to take your money, never to be heard from again.
By Joining The Grand Retirement Plan as a Diamond Member, You are given the same business with F5M-MC Millionaires Club Membership when you join and with the Diamond Membership you also receive top training from some of the top members, plus a Slew of educational e-books that help you prosper in this business.
This is not a get-rich-fast scheme, but it has been paying out for 17 years non-stop.

Click Here and Take the the tour and see if this business is for you.

Eddie Was Gullible, But NOT Anymore!

A very special THANK YOU to Eddie for writing this for our blog!

I remember when I first began my adventure on this expansive world-wide web. It was truly a scary one to begin with and I was very intimidated to say the least. Everyone seemed to be so knowledgeable and so sure of themselves. This made me very vulnerable to all their evil deeds in which I found out later on were very misleading. You see, in general, I am a very trusting person until I find out that you have deceived me somehow. That is when the trusting factor STOPS. I can't stand liars, cheaters, thieves, etc. I do not participate in such activities, therefore I do not condone them in any fashion, nor do I believe others should be practicing them. Of course I am old enough to know that this world is full of evil people just waiting to take advantage of someone, somehow.

Yes, I have fallen prey to many scams since my beginnings but not anymore. I have learned the hard way but I am now focused and on a mission to help others so they will not have the same misfortunes as me. This comes in the way of getting involved with programs like The Grand Retirement Program, also known as TGRP. Here I have met GOOD people who have the same mindset as me and are willing to help, not hinder, those that are looking for ways to earn an honest living from network marketing. I could name some of these outstanding folks that have now become my good friends, but for fear of leaving someone off the list, I will just tell you that they exist within this group.

If you find yourself falling prey to each and every pre-launch that rears it's ugly head, then you need to change your way of thinking RIGT NOW and realize there are NO “get rich” programs out there. You need to discover your niche, then concentrate on finding a legit opportunity that offers what you are interested in pursuing. Once you find it, focus on building it and it only until it is strong and producing income on its own. Once this is accomplished, then you are ready to move on to your next opportunity. Just remember, too many irons in the fire can oftentimes take your attention off what needs to be handled immediately. When this happens you realize days have flown by and you have not accomplished one thing.

I have come a long way in my networking adventure and I have been very discouraged at times. Now I am on the road to success and I owe to all the good folks that have shown me ways to improve my strategies and point me in the right direction. For these I will forever be grateful. Gullible? Not anymore! I pray this has given you a ray of hope that you can still make an outstanding living on the internet if you use caution and listen to the right people. Much to your success my friend!

Respectfully submitted,

Eddie Garcia

Malok Has an Appology...

Meet Malok Mading Recently, he had an issue with Face Book and he wrote this article over at APSense to warn and apologize for not catching it sooner.

Recently this week,I login in to my Facebook account and the shocking thing was; I saw a message from one of my best friends.She was telling me how much she like a photo which I was tagged in with her.She did not know that I didn't tagged her in any of my photos and that I didn't sent it out to her or any of my friends.The claim was saying this message:
{Friend's name} I really love my new iPad2! playing angry birds on it is so fun haha! I received it today from fedex and I paid nothing which is pretty exciting :) They are only giving a limited supply in each area so I dont think this will last long. This is where I got it from, hopefully you can get one to http://tcrohngj.tcrohngj.a​cgb.info/?tcrohngj"
There was also a tagged photo of an Ipad 2 in which I have tagged all my friends including the recipient friend telling the named friend of mine to take actions and get it free.
Well,what I worry most is the trust my beloved friends who might think that I did such a thing to them but I am totally speechless over this.
The way it is so complicated that it even got my names, friends' names as well as accessing my Facebook profile left me with more questions than answers.Currently,I have more than 4 hundreds friends who have receive this same "Photo Tagging thing"
To make it short,if you as my friend on Facebook has received this "Photo Tag" saying that Malok has tagged you in his photo,kindly please help me by reporting this to Facebook or delete it completely.
I have my principles and morals which define how I interact,contact and share with people around me including my friends.
Otherwise,I would like to caution others too to be careful lest such things might happen to them.
Facebook in recent years has been trying to fight spam and hacking but still this crook guys are still destroying people's name and image with such things.
So please,to any annoyed friend/contact believe me that I never intended to do you anything as this.

A Good Explanation of the One Percenters

Explanation  of how the U.S. economy is self destructing....all the way down the food chain. The fat get fatter, and the poor get desperate!

"The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation's income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent.
"Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent."


So I discover in a piece by Joseph E. Stiglitz in the new issue of Vanity Fair. These facts confirm my impression that greed is now seen as a virtue in America. I'm not surprised by the greed of the One-Percenters. I'm mystified by the lack of indignation from so many of the rest of us.
Day after day I read stories that make me angry. Wanton consumption is glorified. Corruption is rewarded. Ordinary people see their real income dropping, their houses sold out from under them, their pensions plundered, their unions legislated against, their health care still under attack. Yes, people in Wisconsin and Ohio have risen up to protest these realities, but why has there not been more outrage?
The most visible centers of these crimes against the population are Wall Street and the financial industry in general. Although there are still many honest bankers, some seem to regard banking and trading as a license to steal. Outrageous acts are committed and go unpunished. Consider this case of money laundering by Wachovia Bank, now part of Wells Fargo. This Guardian article reports: "The authorities uncovered billions of dollars in wire transfers, traveler's checks and cash shipments through Mexican exchanges into Wachovia accounts."
The bank paid fines of less than 2% of its $12.2 billion profit in 2009. No individual was ever charged with a crime. We need not doubt that Wachovia executives received bonuses over the period of time when they were overseeing these illegal activities. Permit me to quote one more paragraph:
"More shocking, and more important, the bank was sanctioned for failing to apply the proper anti-laundering strictures to the transfer of $378.4 billion -- a sum equivalent to one-third of Mexico's gross national product -- into dollar accounts from so-called casas de cambio (CDCs) in Mexico, currency exchange houses with which the bank did business."
If a third of the Mexican GNP passes through your bank and you don't ask the questions required by law, you are either (1) a criminal, or (2) incompetent. I can't think of another possibility.
Stories like this have become commonplace. Two of the most common types of news stories about banks recently have involved their losses, and the size of their executive bonuses. Bloomberg News reports: "JPMorgan Chase & Co. gave Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon a 51 percent raise in 2010 as the bank resumed paying cash bonuses following two years of pressure from regulators and lawmakers to curb compensation."
And here's more, from the Wall Street journal: "$57,031. That's about what the average U.S. archaeologist made last year. It's also what J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon made every day of last year -- $20.8 million total, according to the firm's proxy filing this week. Anyone who has doubts about the resiliency of Wall Street banks and brokerages should ponder that figure for awhile. The J.P. Morgan board also spent about $421,500 to sell Dimon's Chicago home. And they brought back the big cash bonus, doling out $30.2 million in greenbacks to Dimon and his top six lieutenants."
The CEOs of the venerable trading firms that were forced into bankruptcy were all paid bonuses. In a small recent case, executives of Borders intended to pay themselves $8 million in bonuses until a U. S. Trustee objected. A company spokesperson said, "The proposed programs were designed to retain key executives at Borders as we proceed through the Chapter 11 reorganization process." In short, retain those whose management bankrupted the corporation.

Read the rest here... 

Philippe's latest activity for the GRP

Philippe is a very active member of APSense, and  we hope he will continue to be active with us as well. He writes and works from the heart with the passion of a champion.

If you haven't yet read anything he has posted, stop by and let him know what you think.

When Jack Nicklaus got too old to win tournaments in the PGA, what did he do ?

Buy a beach house and sip drinks for the rest of his life ?

NO WAY !

He had enough money to live many lives. He didn't need to work.

Well his passion was golf. he continued to play in tournaments, got into that other league for older players, and ...

He designed golf courses !!!

Read the rest of his post here. (click)

How to Build a List of Prospects to Market to

A couple of months ago after promoting my websites with mixed results
using safelists and traffic exchanges I decided to concentrate on
building traffic first. After all, it's no secret that traffic equals
prospects which equals sales.

I joined Traffic Hoopla, which is a free traffic builder, not a traffic
exchange. There is an upgrade which I do suggest but it's not neccesary
to reap the benefits of this program.

Traffic Hoopla exists to build traffic. Traffic building is important,
no essential, to a successful online business. The goalis to build
ongoing daily traffic and I strongly reccomend building traffic first,
then your business.

There's no such thing as overnight success, but after 2 months of daily
promoting my Traffic Hoopla site I'm getting 6-8 signups per week.
I'm also getting signups with the safelists and traffic exchanges I've
joined that generate more hits to my Traffic Hoopla site. This now
gives me a list of prospects that I can market my primary business to.

Each week Traffic Hoopla independently tests and lists the current
best advertising resources and ranks them based on stats.

You can also earn referral awards. Although it's not required, you
are rewarded for referring others mostly by a percentage of traffic
they earn, and often, commissions,and if they refer others you get
more traffic.

Although all the TE's and Safelists are free to join I did upgrade at
EuropeanSafelist. It's only $7 a month and rewards you with credits,
500 opt-in leads a month and an autoresponder. I felt it was a real
good investment for the cost.

If you'd like to learn more, you can visit my site: Click Here...

 Author: Len Chapelle

Continuing to Grow!

Well it has been a couple weeks since we did an update on what's happening here at The Grand Retirement Plan!

We launched on August 3, 2010. Since then, we have a team of over 200!

It is wonderful to have so many join us!

We have been granted use of the F5M-MC training room for some really intense marketing  training . Currently, we are reviewing some of the social and business networking web sites that GRP endorses on our membership site.

Don't worry if you know nothing about these sites, they will all be reviewed in our Monday Trainings.

We began with AdlandPro and will end when we have gone through every program. We want our members to be able to participate in the best programs available today!(don't worry, our training won't stop there. This is just the beginning!)

Our training for next week will be some in depth classified ad posting! Brenda will be hosting this and we will all have ads to post!

In our experience, classified ads, social networking and forum posting are the best marketing techniques for targeted, interested traffic to your opportunity. We have chosen the best places that we have found, but don't be afraid to look for others. There are many good forums and classified posting sites. If you have a question about a site you are thinking of joining and posting to, please ask.

Here is a tip, most opportunities and tools you sign up for, have a forum. Check them out! Read the rules for posting  to see if you are able to use links in your signature. If you can, by all means, sign up and learn about the opportunity or tools and participate in some conversations! 

Building and joining a team

When some marketers have learned and earned a lot, they often like to share the wealth and get a group together and show them just how they achieved success.

An option for getting the word out and showing others how you became successful is to start a team of internet marketers that would like to achieve the same success.

Building a team takes dedication, determination, and a plan of action. There are many ways a team can be built. A membership site is a common tool that many online team builders use. The site will need a good script, training material, planning, and members who know how to set everything up.

Some teams start as small groups getting together to discuss advertising strategies and business goals.  This can often blossom into a full blown project.  Members are added as successes and milestones are crossed. If a new team needs to know how to work with membership site scripts and set up, the team will seek out and invite members with those skills.

As the team grows, so will membership. As more members join and begin working toward the same goal, the team will see more success. Each member of a team has a responsibility to do whatever you can to promote, support and help your team reach specific goals. Attend meetings, and trainings. Participate in groups and forums. Show team loyalty whenever possible. The more visible the team is as a unit, the better results for everyone on the team.

It takes a lot of hard work and determination to create a successful internet business. It can be easier to work as a team. Goals can be met faster with several members working together. There are so many opportunities available online to earn an income. Once you find that opportunity, are successful, share your experience, and grow your business even bigger by creating and nurturing a team to success.

Team Growth and Organization

As a team grows and develops, they begin to work as a single unit. Each supporting the other and linking together to complete a puzzle. Once all the pieces are linked, the puzzle is complete. Complete Success is what a team strives for. It can take some time to locate the right pieces to complete the puzzle.

If the team's main focus is internet based, the entire team needs to be visible. An internet team will most likely have programs and opportunities that they participate in and use. When new members join, they need to become familiar with and active in those programs and opportunities.

As new members join, the team presence will grow. Unified activity will produce good results as a team grows and becomes organized. To be successful and grow, a team should work together in a few carefully chosen social networks and forums.

Once the team organizes and begins to show a more unified presence, they will become more visible to others looking to join a successful team. In a social setting, all members of a team will have different connections.


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Grand Retirement Plan

We are putting together a skype team training group.
It is our goal to help everyone succeed and set up their
Grand Retirement Plan, hence the name of our group is
The Grand Retirement Plan.

The team group is being set up by Katrina Oakley, Stacey Whitney,
Gwen Maillet and Brenda Kruse

We invite everyone to our skype training.
In order to keep it fair for everyone we have a few terms
for you to follow to be added to the training.

You agree not to post any links unless agreed upon by one
of the leaders.
You agree to follow your sponsor with any links that are
posted in the skype chat.

We want to keep it fair for everyone, so it is important that you
agree to the terms, they are very simple.

The training will be held each Monday at 10:00 a.m Eastern time,
beginning May 3, 2010. If you are unable to attend at that time,
you will be able to have access to the skype training at any time by
joining the group and adding the group to your skype contacts. You
will also be able to chat with any of the leaders at any time when you
have questions and they are online.

We are excited and ready to get started, we hope you are too!
Let us know by sending an email to bkgroupf5m@gmail.com

In the subject line put, I’m ready to join the Retirement Plan

In the body your name, email address and sponsor
and indicate that you agree to and will follow the terms.

Warmest Regards,
The Grand Retirement Plan Team