The Agreement Seekers Blog

We build people through enhancing their skills and knowledge acquisition.  We talk about personal branding.  We extol the establishment and nurturance of long-term business relationships and provide the tools to kick start this process.  We are not a biz-opp, sign-up-and-try-it operation.  In fact, the income platforms we use can come and go. The reality is this:  1) the more value you offer, 2) the more people you will attract, 3) the more people you attract, the more money you will make. The "moral of the story" of this post is this:  you need to build resources that build your personal brand as a professional coach and mentor.  Said differently, you need to posture yourself as someone worthy of following   This can't be done by posting links to biz op pages on Facebook, nor any other means of Social Media posting where you are being told to essentially "spam" your link. You can believe this, or fight it.  It is your choice....

Every business has to have a product or service to be legal.  Simply trading and leveraging money for the purpose of trading and leveraging money is considered a scheme, typically preceded by the adjectives of Ponzi or pyramid. That said, one does not have to be in love with the associated product or service.  This gets a bit dicey to explain philosophically.  However, let me start here.  The goal of business is profitability.  Not every trinket trader is in love with all of the trinkets he imports from China.  He trades trinkets to make money.  It is a basis for commerce.  Anyone can think of 1000 examples. I know an Electrical Engineer who sits at his computer all day in a small office at a large corporation.  He does not like what he does.  However, he is paid well for what he does.  He derives income.  That is his only goal in spending eight hours of his life a day doing what he does. Frankly, at the end of the day, t...

We build organizations.  The more people in your organization agreeing to financially participate in what we do... the more money you make.  This is your network.  You build a network, by networking... reaching out to people, exposing them to an idea and inviting them to evaluate and participate. Said differently, business size (in most cases) is directly correlated to the number of people in addition to the value each of these people represents.  Lower numbers mean lower income.  Higher numbers mean higher income.  As such, a $50 program has less yield than a $500 with the same number of people. However, our model starts people in low ticket programs ($100 and under) and then strategically "upgrade" to higher-level programs (or higher tiers within the same program). In any case, your net worth is ultimately your network of people who are fully competent and fully committed to a long-term business relationship with you.  Treat everyone like a l...

The topic of money mechanics deals with how different compensation systems are structured (and) how you get paid for your participation and effort.  I deal with this subject in other posts, however, the important point to recognize is that not all compensation systems are created equal. In the Social Commerce/Networking space, some make sense and some don't. Obviously, one of the first variables to consider is how quickly you can get your money back on your initial investment.  Said differently, how soon can you break even?  How many customers or business partners will it take to recoup your money? Second, what is/are the investment levels?  Is there just one way to get started with just one amount of money?  Or, can you choose the level of investment based on your current means and risk tolerance?  I would submit that multiple options within the same program are preferable to a "my way or the highway" approach. Third, is it (reasonably) easy to un...

In the early stages of mentorship, this is the most important question you can learn to ask: "when can we talk next?"  Initially, this should be every day.  Then, as things settle into place, you wean off of constant contact and then just check-in for support and metrics. Your job, as a sponsor/mentor, is to get the people you partner with up-and-running as quickly as possible.  Up and running with what, you ask?  There is a ton of things initially. Personal Resources (at minimum to get started) a Gmail account for your business that is used exclusively for business purposes a Gmail account that is set up as an autoresponse a personal "About Me" page Payment Processors (you need to have ways to get paid) PayPal Account Venmo Account Cashapp Account There are many others which are addressed in other places, these three are a good start. The "Getting to Know Each Other" tool we use a Google Form that is designed to bust through layers...

I have written other posts about "the money being in your list".  This post is related.  I have argued that building a large list and monetizing that list is certainly one viable strategy, however not an easy one - both in terms of the resources required to make it happen (a capture page, autoresponder, etc.) AND the entire process to make it happen. Juxtaposed to this is a small list.  A group, if you will... of About 40 People.  Or, a tight-knit community of 40 who share common values, skills, goals... an interdependent, supportive, and cohesive structure all geared to each others' financial well-being.  Allow me to slice and dice this a few different ways. So, why 40?  To be clear, I am starting here explaining the "end state".  This is the place you work toward and where you "end up" after a year's effort.  (You can't blink this into existence). We use a progressive model that builds different income platforms.  The first starts a...

First, let's talk about these words and their meaning and then apply them in terms of how they are related and work together. Aggregate means to collect, gather, or bring together.  We aggregate people and money. Leverage, in physics, involves a fulcrum and the length of a lever.   It involves creating a mechanical advantage.  Think of prying a rock out of the ground with a digging iron.  Here, the rock is a pool of money (or income).  The fulcrum is the platforms (the businesses) we utilize.  The long end of the lever is all the resources and credibility we apply working with the fulcrum in order to pry the rock (money) out of the ground. Residual Income is money that is created and recurs over time, typically monthly.  This is accomplished through various means.  Compensation models of the businesses we work with have residual income "built-in".  These vary.  The most stable is a monthly subscription, like any other subscrip...