“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Joseph Addison

With all of the hype surrounding network marketing, some positive, some negative, some downright unbelievable, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that networking marketing is a profession much like any other.

Success as a network marketer requires passion, hard work, and knowledge. Here are my Top Five, Must-Read Books for the network marketer and small business owner. (You’ll notice that only the first book in this list applies directly to network marketing.)

Your First Year in Network Marketing

Network marketing is one of the most fun and rewarding businesses in the world . . .

According to Amazon, I’ve owned Your First Year in Network Marketing since June of 2005. It’s been an invaluable resource as a reference and a training tool, both for myself and the people on my team. If you only purchase one book on network marketing, this is the one to buy.

Think & Grow Rich

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. –Napoleon Hill

Think & Grow Rich was first published in 1937, the result of more than 20 years of research into what makes hugely wealthy people so successful. When I first heard about Think & Grow Rich, I was skeptical it would contain anything other than pop-psychology drivel aimed at the get rich quick market. I couldn’t have been more wrong.

There are many avenues to great wealth, and the wildly successful all have their own stories, but there’s not a single one of them that will tell you they’ve achieved their success without a definite purpose, big goals, and a burning desire to be successful. If you’d like to follow in their footsteps, I would recommend studying this book.

As A Man Thinketh

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. –James Allen

As A Man Thinketh is the one book on this list that I would recommend to anyone and everyone, regardless of their aspirations for success in small business. I have learned more from this little book about the power of thought and its impact on my life than any other book I have read. If you study this short essay closely, you’ll find that it’s source material for many of the most popular positive thinking books that follow, including Think & Grow Rich and the recent, wildly popular book and movie The Secret. While I’ve enjoyed reading other books on this same topic, I’ve not found a single book I value more highly.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. –Dale Carnegie

How to Win Friends and Influence People is another book that I avoided for many years, assuming that it would teach me how to manipulate people into liking me just long enough for me to profit financially from the relationship. Boy was I wrong! Reading this book has been influential in my development as a person, as a friend, and as a successful marketer.

One of the most important lessons to learn in network marketing is that people aren’t interested in buying into your business, they’re interested in buying into you! Practical application of the principles learned in this book will help you become the kind of person that people want to invest in.

Lower Your Taxes Big Time

Tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is the American way of life. –Claiborne Ferguson

One of the very best reasons to start a small business, any small business, is the ability to save on your taxes every year. One of the biggest hurdles to making sure you’re reaping all of the tax benefits that you’re due are the incredibly difficult to understand tax rules and regulations. Lower Your Taxes Big Time breaks down the confusing tax code into small, easy to understand sections that make doing your taxes at the end of the year much easier and highly profitable. I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of these books over the years (they’re updated each year), and I’d recommend them highly to any small business owner who’s interested in learning more about the tax advantages of owning their own business.

What books would you add to your Top 5 List?

Your friend,

Brian

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God Bless . . .

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Blu Frog Motorsports kicked off its 2009 season throughout Speed Week with a bang at Daytona International Speedway, introducing our new brand in America’s biggest week of NASCAR racing!

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Look for even more Blu Frog Motorsports news in the coming weeks … because racin’ is in our blood big time!

The Five Roads to Financial Success choose Your Own:

There are basically five ways that you can become wealthy starting with nothing in America based on over 25 years of research into American millionaires.

Number one,  you can inherit it.  Less than 10 percent of wealthy Americans inherited any of their money, and it’s less and less every single year.

The Second Way
The second way that you can become wealth is you can achieve it professionally.  You can become a doctor or a lawyer or an architect or an accountant.  You can become extremely good at what you do, be paid very well, and hold on to the money.

The Third Way
The third way you can achieve it is you can become a senior executive of large corporation.  You can be highly paid; you can have stock options and bonuses.  And if you stay with the company long enough, for enough years you can be paid enough to become wealthy.

The Forth way
You can win it.  But only a tiny fraction of one percent of wealthy Americans got that way by winning their money some way or another.  As a matter of fact, the odds against you winning the lottery are the equivalent of lighting striking twice in the same place.  They’re millions and millions to one.

The Best Way
The fifth way that you can become wealthy is you can start your own business and earn it all by yourself. Starting your own business has been and will always be the high road to becoming wealthy for most self-made millionaires. Entrepreneurship in America offers more opportunities and opens more doors than all other possibilities put together. This is why it has been said that if you have the ability to start your own business and you don’t do it, you are a fool. I’ll repeat that. If you have the ability to start your own business and you don’t do it, you’re a fool.
I don’t want you to be a fool, or feel like a fool and this is where my business opportunity comes into play.  There is no membership or initiation fee.  For $130 you can get started in your own business.  You reap the benefits of all the tax right off, where the average person gets back an extra $3,000 – $5000 their first year owning their own business.  Do you get that?  For an investment of $130 you have already helped yourself out financially.  Please read on.

Where do you start?
You start by getting your finances under control. The very first thing you do is you make a decision to get your finances under control. Some years ago, a man named George Classon wrote a book called The Richest Man In Babylon. It’s a classic on financial success and what Classon said in that book was that the key to becoming wealthy is to pay yourself first. Take ten percent off your earnings, off your gross income every month and put it aside. Learn to live on ninety percent or less of your gross income. So the very first thing that you do is you begin to save your money.

Action Exercises
Now, here are two things you can do immediately to put yourself onto the high road to personal wealth:
First, resolve today to begin saving your money a little bit at a time. Set a goal to save 10% of your earnings, to put it away and to never touch it. This will change your life.

Second, immediately register your own business or sole proprietorship. Open a bank account, get business cards and letterhead and create the corporate entity under which you can do business. Your business opportunities will appear far sooner than you think. If you build it, they will come.  Get started here, right now at http://www.blufrogenergy.com/brian

Jonathan Housel ~ California
Lisa Mondigo ~ California
Ryan Rhea ~ Tennessee
Clyde Buque ~ California
Troy and Kathy Sanders ~ Washington

These great people have seen that for no membership fee and a very low cost of $130 they can get started drinking the healthiest best tasting energy drink to ever hit the market. They also see that they’ve been drinking energy drinks and not getting paid until now! Now for every can of BluFrog they share they get a piece of!!!

I can not forget to mention that they did not have to pay a membership fee to get started and for making a decision they were given a free personalized website that you can see if you fill out the get me my BluFrog box on the home page!

I think these types of friends are great because this would be a lonely business with out them.  Who would you have to share your successes with? Plus you all are like minded people that want basically the same thing right? Either time freedom or financial freedom….most of us want both. Plus you get to inspire one another. My sweet wife is in Memphis right now as we speak inspiring others, being inspired and spending time with friends. GREAT friends!

I think network marketing could be called many things like relationship marketing because that’s what you develop, and it’s usually pretty fast! I mean if it wasn’t for Relationship marketing I would have never met Elizabeth and Donald Brown in Memphis who have become some of your closest friends and we love like a brother and sister. Now I’m making a new friend because of the Brown’s; Ryan Rhea. Who knows what kind of friendship we might have because of relationship marketing. We wouldn’t have met Blair and Lane Billings who we had the pleasure of spending a week in Italy with. Michelle is staying at their house right now!

I guess what I’m saying is this might not be your thing and that’s ok we aren’t here to pressure you. I just want you to know that I’ve never been so mentality healthy in my whole life because of the great people I’ve surrounded myself with. I mean name after name pops in my head. Through Michelle’s business I’ve met Denny Callen, Richard Cobey, Jonathan Housel who have joined my Top BluFrog Team and we are becoming very good friends. We are getting really know one another as a matter of fact we are all going to Ft. Worth Texas together for some fun!

I think that is why I fell in love with the social media realm. If it weren’t for Facebook and myspace I wouldn’t have reconnected with great childhood friends. Friends that I had some of my greatest childhood memories with. Rick Cofer, Troy Sanders and I actually have known each other for 34 years but lost track of one another. Now we are back in touch and talk all the time. It makes me feel so great that these guys are back in my life. Rick actually came down to LA and we had a blast! Troy is in a up and coming Rock Band called “So Farr” and I can’t wait to see him. (www.myspace.com/sofarrnation) to see what he’s got going on.

So to sum it all up if it weren’t for the friends and wife I have I would be nothing. Now come and let us get to know you, we love making new friends and helping change their lives.