Gano Excel's Journal of Enriched Living: Official Corporate Blog

Triple 7 Promotion Extended!

As was announced on Wednesdays’ Company Cup, we are very excited to tell you that we are extending the Triple 7 promotion through July 24th.  The Triple 7 has been a huge success for the Gano Excel family in a number or ways.  We’ve seen a tremendous amount of rank advancement in conjunction with the promotion.  The Triple 7 has also served as a spark of renewal, as we’ve seen Affiliates who had basically slipped into “inactive” status become energized through the promotion and make great gains in their Gano Excel businesses. Above all, since the Triple 7 was designed to reward activities that go hand in hand with instilling a strong culture of teambuilding, what we are actually seeing with the Triple 7, is a foundation being built before our eyes.  When all of the cash and prizes of the Triple 7 have faded into memory, the residual benefits of the teams either created or strengthened during the promotion will live on, and on.

Speaking of prizes, there are some clarifying points to discuss with this extension of the Triple 7 Promotion.  In fairness to those who may have set out a strategy that considered the original timeframe of the promotion, the Grand Prize Trip to Las Vegas, will still be awarded at the end of the day on Sunday, June 26^th.  Whoever has the top spot at the end of the day on the 26^th will be our Vegas Trip winner.  But check this out; we want to continue to make things interesting for those of you who have already maxed out on your 7 Hits in any category.  So at the 14, 21, and 28 “hit” thresholds, we will be awarding compensation commensurate with that hit total.  In other words, you don’t get anything extra for hits 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, or 13, but if you push all the way to 14 – BAM! You get compensated for all 7 of those “hits.”  The same principle holds true for reaching 21 and 28 hits.  So if you’ve taken your foot off of the pedal after reaching 7 hits, it’s time to get back in the game and start pushing again!

How close are you to winning an Ipad2 or hitting a big "hit" threshold?   Log into the Back Office at http://www.myganocafe.com, click “Member Info,” and use the Triple 7 Promotion Menu to view your personal stats and the overall leaderboard. The detailed information you will find on these pages will help move you closer to that Ipad2, or the newly important "hit" numbers of 14, 21 and 28!

Triple 7 Update

After a relatively quiet Triple 7 update last week, we’ve got a lot of excitement to report as we head into week eight of the Promotion.  We’ve handed out two more Ipad2s, and we’ve also seen quite a shakeup on the on the Triple 7 Leaderboard.  Congratulations to Alma Zaragoza and Ruben Cardenas, our two most recent Ipad2 winners.  Alma earned her Ipad2 with 7 MVP points, 7 Apprentice Elite Creation points, and 7 ESP1 points.  Alma also moved into the “top ten” with 39.4 Triple 7 points overall.  You may remember that Ruben Cardenas was the first Ipad2 winner with his Café Milagroso business.  Well, Ruben has claimed yet another Ipad2 by triggering a Triple 7 in his individual business with 13 Apprentice Elite Creation points, 7 ESP3 points, and 7 ESP1 points.  Ruben sits in the #5 position on the leaderboard with 66.2 points.  There are a number of other individuals on the leaderboard who are tantalizingly close to winning an Ipad2 – who will be the next winner?

Springing to the top of the leaderboard this week is Café Milagroso, with 113.8 Triple 7 points.  Café Milagroso has built a commanding lead of 32 points, but as we’ve seen in the past, a lot can happen in one week – no lead is safe.  Dropping to second place this week is Rosio Sanchez, with 81.8 points.  Can Rosio make another huge surge like she did a few weeks ago, and reclaim the #1 spot?  Finally, holding on to his #3 spot from last week is Louis Hogarth, with 75.6 points.  Louis is the top ESP1 seller in the Triple 7 with 19 points.  Can he kick into overdrive and move up the leaderboard?  Only time will tell.

The kind of movement we're seeing this week just reinforces what we told you last week;  It’s still not too late to leap into action and win an IPad2, cash prizes, or that coveted trip to Vegas. Log into the Back Office at http://www.myganocafe.com, click “Member Info,” and use the Triple 7 Promotion Menu to view your personal stats and the overall leaderboard. The detailed information you will find on these pages will help move you closer to that Ipad2.

Triple 7 Update

Well, it’s only been a week since our last update, but we’ve DOUBLED the amount of Triple 7 IPad2 winners!  Congratulations to Josephine Huang of Chino, CA and Francisco Torres of La Puente, CA.  Josephine triggered her Triple 7 with 11 Apprentice Elite Creation Points, 7 ESP-2 Points, and 7 ESP-1 Points.  She now sits at 4^th place overall in the Triple 7 standings with 62.8 points.  Francisco earned his Triple 7 with 7 MVP points, 7 Apprentice Elite Creation points, and 7 ESP-1 points.  He has also climbed into the 10 with 42.6 points.  Congratulations to our IPad2 winners!

Our top three Affiliates on the leader board remain unchanged from last week.  In first place, we have Rosio Sanchez from Los Angeles, CA, just barely holding on to her lead with 74.8 points.  Fast on her heels is Café Milagroso with 74.4 points.  Rounding out the top 3 is Louis Hogarth with 66.8 points.  Will these three hold onto their spots for a third consecutive week, or will some new faces leap into the race for an all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas?

There’s less than 2 weeks left in the Triple 7 promotion, but as we saw in last week’s update, a lot can happen in even one week, let alone two. It’s not too late to leap into action and win an IPad2, cash prizes, or that coveted trip to Vegas.  Log into the Back Office at http://www.myganocafe.com, click “Member Info,” and use the Triple 7 Promotion Menu to view your personal stats and the overall leaderboard. The detailed information you will find on these pages will help move you closer to that Ipad2.

New "Fast Start" Team Reports Give You Maximum Access!

At Gano Excel, we are dedicated to constantly refining and updating tools to help our Affiliates build robust, profit-yielding, record-breaking businesses. From highly visible stuff like new marketing materials at MyGanoInfo and MyGanoTools to "invisible" tweaks to our MyGanoCafe Back Office software and Commissions Reporting systems, your Gano Excel Tech and Creative Teams are dedicated to keeping you on the "cutting edge" of network marketing technology and presentation. And now we are proud to announce Gano Excel's latest leap forward: the new "Fast Start" Team Reports!

The keys to Gano Excel's lucrative Fast Start bonuses are the Success Team and the Power Team. Our new "Fast Start" Team Report allows Affiliates to track the activity of both these teams in an easy-to-understand format. In network marketing, knowledge truly is power: and the "Fast Start" Team Report puts the knowledge you need to build your Gano Excel business right at your fingertips!

To view this incredibly useful new tool, log into the Back Office and navigate to the "Member Info" Tab >> Downline Reports >> Fast Start Teams. Just like that - you have an up-to-date report at your fingertips that allows you to monitor your teams!

The "Fast Start" Team Report is just one of many useful tools Gano Excel Tech has developed to put vital information at our Affiliates' fingertips. We are constantly expanding and refining our online services to offer the most powerful set of management tools available in network marketing today -- and they're all available for FREE to every single Gano Excel Affiliate! That's the Gano Excel difference: sign up today and experience it for yourself!

 

 

Gano Goes Hollywood!

 Lights, camera, sales – it's the gala premier of Gano Excel's “5 Network Marketing Lessons from the Movies”! Hollywood magic-makers are also master salespeople, using their special storytelling skills to convince the audience to “buy” their entertainment. So what can Hollywood movies teach us about building strong Gano Excel organizations?

1.  GET EMOTIONAL! Movies tap into people's fears, hopes, and dreams. Saw freaks us out; Notting Hill makes us swoon; The Hangover makes us laugh and forget about our troubles for a while. Ask yourself, when prospecting, “How can I appeal to my future team member's emotions? What scares her: losing her job, not getting the big promotion, her kids' future? What inspires him: the idea of self-empowerment, the potential for riches and fame, paying off his mortgage?” The more you connect emotions to our opportunity, the more likely you'll be to win team members!

2.  BE DETAILED! Stanley Kubrick, director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and many other classic films, was notorious for his attention to detail. Rumor has it that he individually combed every inch of carpet on his sets before shooting began! If a famous Hollywood film director can get into the “nitty gritty” like that, shouldn't you? Be detailed when you share this opportunity: give people concrete examples of what our product does, where she or he will fit in the organization, and what their futures could look like with Gano Excel. Be like Stanley: comb every inch of carpet to create the most realistic world possible for your prospect!

3.  KEEP YOUR AUDIENCE IN MIND! Did the guy who directed Tangled try to do the same thing as the guys behind The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? We certainly hope not! One movie was for kids, the other for adults (we don't need to tell you which, do we?). These filmmakers kept their audiences in mind when creating their films: and so should you when you perfect those pitches! Different people require different kinds of sales approaches; don't try to show The Fast and the Furious to someone who wants to see The Madness of King George!

4.  EDIT, PERFECT – THEN EDIT AGAIN! As Alfred Hitchcock once said, “Drama is life with the dull parts cut out.” Hollywood moviemakers spend most of their time editing films. They even preview them to “test audiences” who offer suggestions as to what an audience wants to see out of their movies. Always remember: your sales approach can always be edited, perfect, and trim to meet your audience's expectations. Even if something seems to work, look for ways to tighten it and make it even more effective!

5.  TELL A GREAT STORY! As any filmmaker – heck, as any salesperson, artist, teacher, or just about anyone else – will tell, you story matters. The movies we love and remember tell compelling stories that are rich in detail, structured intelligently, and lead us from an engaging introduction to a compelling conclusion. Your pitch should do the same! Add humor; open with an exciting anecdote; appeal to your prospect's emotions; introduce a sense of adventure, drama, or intrigue; whatever you do, make your pitch like a story you'd want to hear!entertains (well, some of the time).

Do you have any tips for making your Gano Excel pitch “more like the movies”? What are some of the movie clips that inspire you to do your best with Gano Excel? Tell us all about it in the comments!

Expand Your Network Marketing Business The Gano Excel Way!

Let's be real: there's no one, sure-fire way to get more people into your Gano Excel organization. Anyone selling '100%-guaranteed pitch tips' or other bunkum methods are taking you for a ride. However, there are some time-tested tips that have led to great success for our highest-ranking Affiliates... and we want to share them with you now!

We reached out to the top Gano Excel Field Leadership recently to ask for some “recruiting tips” for our newer Affiliates, and they gave us some great, great ideas. We've narrowed them down to 5 easy-to-remember “Gano Excel Recruitment Hints.” They are:

1. TIME IS MONEY! The shorter, punchier, and more direct your presentation, the better! People just don't have time to talk out every little aspect of a Product or Opportunity with you – all of that nuance will come later. Get in, make your point quickly but concisely, and get to the “point of sale.” The longer you go on, the less likely that prospect is to turn into a Team Member!
2. GET THE PRODUCT IN THEIR HANDS AND CUPS! Gano Excel is unique amongst business opportunities in that our product is easy to carry, simple to prepare, and instantly recognizable. (Who doesn't drink coffee, tea, or cocoa?!) Use this to your advantage! The first thing you should do is get our product into your prospect's hands. Sample, sample, sample, people!
3. FACE YOUR FUTURE TEAM MEMBER! Don't sit next to your prospect, and don't stand behind him or her. Sit right across the table from them and always maintain eye contact. This way, you will be able to read the changes in their mood and receptiveness, and you can adjust your presentation properly. One of the big advantages of bellybutton-to-bellybutton marketing – via cold calls, coffee parties, etc. – is that you can craft your pitch to your current audience. Utilize that fact and get the Gano Excel brand out there!
4. GIVE AWAY SOMETHING FOR NOTHING! Put together a report on the state of the health and wellness industries, the coffee trade, the power of Gano Excel and its products, or network marketing in general, and offer it for free on your Web site or blog. Do an informative video about something general, and include a plug for your business at the end. Remember: people love free things, and if you can offer them something useful alongside your pitch, they will be more likely to go from 'cold prospect' to Gano Excel Diamond-in-Training!
5. GET INTO YOUR COMMUNITY! We can't stress this enough – Gano Excel is a community-based opportunity, and community-based recruiting is one of the key ways to make your business a success. Make your business's presence known in your town (or just your apartment building! By being a public face of Gano Excel, you will be able to reach out to more and more people. There's just no substitute for person-to-person marketing!

Do you have any "special tips" for getting more recruits into your Gano Excel organizations? What's worked for you? Share your hints in the comments below!

Peru and Colombia Join Gano Excel's "One-Tree" Family!

Gano Excel North America continues to boom with both the Peruvian and Colombian markets slated to merge into the growing "One-Tree System"!

This week, Gano Excel, North America was proud to host Latin America Regional Director Christopher Tidwell to our offices in Irwindale, California to discuss the expansion of the One-Tree Enrollment System to South America!

The One-Tree System seamlessly integrates all three North American markets -- Mexico, Canada, and the US -- into one Gano famiy, ensuring ease of enrollment across borders and simple multi-national distribution of our groundbreaking products. The announced inclusion of our Peruvian and Colombian markets into the One-Tree System is an exciting move forward for a company that never seems to stop progressing: now, affiliates across two continents can join forces to build the best, most energized, and most profitable groups in network marketing!

Since its official launch in October 2008, Gano Excel Peru has proven to be one of our strongest international markets, with skyrocketing sale and mass momentum on a truly epic scale.

"Peru has proven itself to be a very strong market," Mr. Tidwell said at today's meeting with North American Executives, "and the opportunity to extend this success into other regions of North America is truly unprecedented."

Unprecedented is right: with all this growth and expansion, Gano Excel's One-Tree System is quickly becoming one of the most powerful trans-national agreements in network marketing!

Gano's South American markets are slated to join the One-Tree System by late-March 2010. Further details about building businesses in these thriving markets will become available as the roll-out approaches!

Leveraging Twitter For Your Business (1 of 5): Find More Followers!

In the last 6 or so months, just about everybody and their grandmother has started up a Twitter account. They've used those precious 140-characters to tell the world all about their opinions, likes and dislikes, and views on everything from politics to movies, great restaurants to that one time they stubbed their big toe. Sure, a lot of Twitter posts are what Web folk would call "egocasting" -- just telling the world about yourself for the sake of telling the world...well, all about yourself. But more and more businesses are tapping in to the marketing power of this cool new medium, some with amazingly profitable results!

Fact: one tee-shirt company was able to ramp up sales by 6 figures! Fact: a real estate marketing firm out of New York generates hundreds of new leads a month! Fact: regular people like you and me have gained millions of followers just by sharing their views with the world! And all this with tiny, 140-character updates -- "tweets" -- that are taking the market by storm!

Twitter's not just a fly-by-night trend anymore: it's a sizable marketing venue, a kind of open-air market where people with a distinctive voice and a great opportunity to share can make a massive impact...provided they know the secrets to success on the site. Lots of Gano Excel affiliates are already leveraging this Web site for their own businesses -- now, we want to share 5 ways that you can take your budding Twitter account from fun hobby to a lead-generating, revenue-boosting machine!

Twitter Hint #1: FInd More Followers!

You can update your Twitter account 200 times a day, but it won't mean much if you don't have people reading what you post! Followers are the cash of Twitter: everybody wants more of them, only nobody seems to know the "secret formula" for finding them!

Well, here are some hints that can help you attract more followers on Twitter and share the news about Cafe 2.0 with even more people!

1.  Get Your People "Retweeting!" This is so important! Encourage everyone who follows you already -- your friends, family, co-workers, and online buddies -- to retweet some of your best Tweets on their own page. By getting your followers to re-post the cool things you've written, you'll attract attention from their followers, who will re-post the cool thing they saw on their friend's page, which will attract their followers! (This ought to be pretty familiar for all you network marketers out there!)

The formula for a "retweet" goes like this:

RT @ganoexcelcoffee: New contest up on the blog! Check it out!

Now, notice that the "RT @username" part takes up a little bit of your 140-characters...so if you want your posts retweeted, then keep them short and to-the-point!

2.  Use "Hash" Tags! "Hash" tags -- like #coffee, #networking, #marketing, #health, etc. -- help other Twitter users to find posts that interest them. When you're Tweeting about Gano Excel's amazing products and opportunities, make sure to include "hash" tags that are relevant to the topic you're posting about. For instance:

just had the best coffee of #coffee ever! it's called gano cafe!

or

#coffee that's good for your #health? it's true!

The power of the "hash" tag is that when people click on #'d word, they'll be taken to more tweets about the same topic. So that means that by crafting interesting tweets around popular tags, you can expose literally millions of people to Gano Excel!

3.  Be Twitter-Aware "Offline!" Whenever you have a chance, tell people in real life about where they can find you on Twitter, Facebook, etc. There's still no marketing like bellybutton-to-bellybutton marketing!

4.  Get Out There and Interact! Like all of the "new Internet," Twitter is a social medium -- meaning that in order to make an impact, you've got to interact with others! If somebody contacts you via Twitter, tweet back! Likewise, if you're browing Twitter accounts and see something you like, make sure to Tweet at the user. If your whole Twitter stream is just about the product and opportunity, without any attempts to interact with the larger Twitter world, you can be guaranteed not to find the followers you want. Get out there and communicate: show your fellow Tweeters that you're more than a marketer...you're also an engaged member of the online community!

5.  Follow Other People! Don't be afraid of finding and following people who are similar to you, or say things you think are cool or interesting. Remember: to find more followers, you have to be an active member of the online community. And doing that means reaching out to people you admire, and getting them to follow you.

In our next segment, we'll discuss a couple of huge "Twitter Success Stories," and how you can do what these companies did to bring your own business to the next level! Make sure to check in!

Do you have any cool Twitter hints? Are you active on Twitter, and want to leave your username for the world to see? Tell us all about in the comments!

The Power of Belief

"If you honestly believe in your own cababilities -- your capabilities to learn, to change, to adapt, to expand, to achieve personal breakthroughs -- then your possibilities in life are literally unlimited..." --Anthony Robbins

Take a listen to this short audio presentation for world-famous inspirational speaker Anthony Robbins. It's all about the power of believing in yourself and others, and we think it has a timeless message you ought to hear!

Done? Good! Now, let's think about how it applies to you and your Gano Excel business.

Our industry is fueled by the power of belief. Unlike other workers, who cynically do as they're told to make a paycheck, you got involved in Gano Excel because you believed in the product, the compensation plan, your sponsor, and yourself. Someone cared about you enough to share the news about Cafe 2.0, and you respected yourself enough to take them up on their offer.

To make the most of your business, you need to maintain the same level of belief you had when you first signed up. Ask yourself, honestly, "Do I believe..."

• Gano Excel has a documented product that has and will continue to change lives around the globe?
• Network marketing is the best means to get our unique product into consumers' hands?
  
• My upline leadership shared Gano Excel with me because they care for my health and whole-person well-being?
• I have a duty to do the same for people I care about?

We all know the answer to those questions: YES! Of course Gano Excel provides the best, most affordable, and most documented Ganoderma-enriched products on the market; of course you should share this with people you love, care for, and respect.

But knowing something and believing it are different things. Like Anthony Robbins says in that clip we just listened to, belief is like legs on the table of ideas: it supports what we know, and puts it to work for us. 

It's as simple as this: if you believe in the Gano Excel product and opportunity, then nothing will stop you from making the most of this business. But if your belief is weak or variable, you're not going to do your best: why would anyone want to follow someone who half-believes in what they're doing?

It might be hard to believe in our competitors' visions. Who wants to pay more than $40 for a bottle of juice, or drink "enriched" coffee when you don't know where its herbal booster is grown? But our fair and friendly compensation plan, high-tech facilities, online and offline support, and the unparalleled perfection of our product make it a breeze to believe in Gano Excel! 

Official Stats: Gano Excel 5th Fastest-Moving Opportunity on the Market Today!

Big, big Gano news today, ladies and gents. According to MLMRankings.com -- a service that tracks the relative popularity of network marketing companies -- Gano Excel is the 5th fastest-performing MLM on the Internet today!

Trumping stalwart companies and newcomers alike, Gano Excel is dominating the Internet in a massive way.

What's the big deal? MLM Rankings charts how many people are searching for specific companies, and awards a point/percentage score based on that number. In the last 6 months, we've seen a 94% spike in search engine traffic -- that means more and more people are interested in finding out all they can about Gano! In terms of overall popularity, Gano Excel sits in the 85 percentile for network marketing business in general; that means we're more popular than 517 other documented network marketing companies, including all of our competitors!

If anyone asks you whether Gano Excel is on the move...well, not only are we booming, we have verifiable, third party documentation of it.

What a great time to be a part of this amazing company! Part of this is down to our increased online prescence; however, the greatest bulk of it is because of all of you. Congratulations: your work has made Gano Excel one of the network marketing industry's true up-and-comers. This was our time to shine, and we've seized it -- and now the sky is the limit!