Financially Free with Network Marketing?

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Dec 202020
 

Are you also curious, but skeptical, about becoming financially free with network marketing? Do you think financial freedom is only a dream? Why would network marketing be the answer? How should you use it to achieve financial freedom? Let’s begin…

Let’s assume you’ve got a job or you’re self-employed. That means you have to show up for work to get paid. You can say you exchange your time for money. As we tend to spend our money on food, our home, car and other stuff, we have to keep exchanging our time for money.

Although most of us have accepted this, that doesn’t mean it has to be this way. When you feel yourself resisting your 9 to 5 routine or the limited amount of income you’ll be making, you’re ready to look beyond these limits.

The solution to the “exchange your time for money”-problem is to create passive income. As the word suggests this is income that you don’t have to work for. How can that be?

There are two ways by which you can achieve this:
1. Invest in Real Estate to get rental income
2. Own businesses that don’t require your presence

You can still create passive income in real estate today, even without having money, but knowledge of buying houses in preforeclosure is a must. So, if this is your thing, go for it!

If you want to own a business, here are four ways you can get one:
1. Buy a business
2. Buy the rights for a franchise
3. Start your own business
4. Network marketing

The first two options generally require a large investment. If you have the money and the ability to tell a good opportunity from a bad one, be my guest.

The third option is the most difficult. Remember, you want it to be the kind of business that doesn’t require your presence, so you’ll have to have the knowledge to set up all kinds of business systems, hire people, get finance for the start-up period. Also, you have to have a product.

However, once you’ve managed to build a successful business, it can be very satisfying and it can make you very rich. Just read on to find out how you can learn the right skills while growing the capital for your start-up.

And then finally, network marketing. You don’t need capital, there is already a product and all systems (production, communication, distribution, payments) are in place. This means you have no risk and you can start right away.

But can this be a business that doesn’t require your presence? Well, not immediately, but you’ve got a great chance that it will be in a few years! How’s that? Two reasons:

1. If you focus your marketing efforts on the internet, you can use tools like a website and an autoresponder. Once you’ve set-up these tools properly with your “unable to resist” marketing campaign and you’ve got traffic coming to your website, income is automatically generated for you for a long time after your initial efforts.

2. People can join the program under you. As you build your “downline” and teach them well, they start generating sales, from which you get your share. So for that part of your income your presence is no longer required either.

Then, when your presence isn’t required anymore, you can set up another stream of passive income. With this strategy you are well on your way to financial freedom.

Network marketing doesn’t necessarily have to be your end goal. Use network marketing to learn! Learn what it means to run a business. Then you can either excel in network marketing or prepare yourself to start and run your own business.

Hopefully, this article helped you make a choice if and how you want to become financially free. Making a choice you feel confident about helps you to keep going when things don’t go as smooth as you would like them to go.

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There is a Time to Sell, And a Time to Educate

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Dec 192020
 

It has often been said that the true nature of marketing is four-fold, what is referred to as the four p’s of marketing:

* Product
* Place (distribution)
* Price
* Promotion

Most people who do business online look at the sole element of Promotion and believe that is the full range of what encompasses the marketing experience. These promoters tell their world audience that they are successful marketers, and the world believes them, because the general world audience fails to recognize the differences between marketing and promotion.

THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF PROMOTION

Promotion actually entails several activities. All promotional activities actually fall under the guise of communicating your sales message to your potential clients, a.k.a. your target market.

All communication between first contact and your after-the-sale customer service is included in your actual promotion. Some people lose sight of the message at this point. They lose site of the message because they feel that promotion ends when the cash register rings.

After-the-sale is as important, if not more important, than every communication leading up to the sale. Many professional marketers have pointed out that it costs six times more money to bring a customer to a purchase, than it costs to keep an existing customer buying your goods and services. Over the long haul, it is much more economic to protect your current customer base than it is to generate a new customer base.

Other factors that fall under promotional activities include:

* determining your promotional strategy
* determining whether you will use direct selling or indirect selling
* determining whether you will do the selling or employ a team of sales people
* public relations and publicity
* advertising
* sales promotions
* educating your target market as to why they will need what you offer
* closing the sale
* after-the-sale customer service
* generating repeat business

DETERMINING THE HOW

First you must decide how you will reach potential customers. Once you understand who will most likely buy your products and services, then you must determine the most cost effective way of reaching those prospective customers.

If you are targeting the consumer market, you can generally go the direct sales method of advertising and letting customers order directly from your company. Or, you can go after the buyers of the major retail chains, to have your product placed in their stores.

Both methods of delivery to the consumer have different requirements from your marketing team and sales departments.

If you go directly to the consumer, you will need to set up an order fulfillment system, and a means to take the customer’s payments for your goods or services. You will need to decide on a 800 calling system or to put up a store front.

If you go through the retailers, you will need to set up a sales team that will go out into the field and talk to all of the relevant buyers to get your products into their store. You might even be able to go through the wholesaler system to get your goods placed at the wholesaler level, and to utilize their field representatives to sell your products to the stores that will be able to reach the consumer.

DETERMINING HOW YOU WILL COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR BUYERS

Publicity is often a function of capturing the attention of news agencies such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television, and giving them the incentive to create news stories that will tell the message of your business activities.

Public Relations is generally the function of putting a human face on your business in the eyes of the consumer.

Advertising is paying the above mentioned news agencies to tell your story to their own customers — readers, listeners and viewers.

Educating your target market generally falls under the helm of all of the above listed methods of communciation.

THERE IS A TIME TO SELL AND A TIME TO EDUCATE

A common mistake made by promoters everywhere is to fail to see a difference between selling and educating.

In the back of their minds, they are thinking that the point of their activities is to “sell” their stuff. So, when they sit down to sell their stuff, they write to “sell”. In many media’s, this is a catastrophic mistake.

A press release should never be written to “sell”. You are trying to capture the attention of news agencies and encourage them to tell people about your business. Press releases should be written and sent ONLY when there is something “newsworthy” about your business to share with the public. Remember, you are targeting the press, a.k.a. the news media, with your press release.

Look at this matter through their eyes.

They are looking to tell their readers, listeners and viewers about items that are newsworthy, because their users are interested in getting the news from them. They do this so that they can sell advertising to others. Their bottom line is measured in the amount that they can charge for advertising and the amount of advertising they can sell.

Why then would they want to communicate your sales message to their users if there was no news value in your message? They wouldn’t, would they? If you send them a press release that holds no newsworthy information, what is the chance that they will read your next press release? Your chances are definately greatly diminished if you waste their time now. If you want to sell your goods to their customers (readers, listeners and viewers), then you can buy advertising just like everyone else.

This same concept applies online.

EDUCATE ONLINE CUSTOMERS FOR PROFIT

Online publishers and webmasters need to share valuable information with their customers, so that they can sell more advertising to the people who are paying their bills. If you want to sell their users your stuff, then you should buy advertising like everyone else.

But, if you are willing to take the time to develop stories/articles that they can share with their customers, then you might just find that they will be more than happy to print your story/article in their online ezine or website, at no cost to you.

Whole industries online are driven by people who have learned the value of Education in the promotion process.

Just like the press release can generate news stories in print newspapers and magazines, radio and television, the free reprint article can generate significant traffic from publishers and webmasters on the internet.

The trick for reprint articles is the same trick that works for press releases. Press releases encourage offline media companies to generate a story based on news coming from a company. Reprint articles also educate and entertain the users of online properties.

If you want to sell in the ezines and websites, then buy advertising.

But, if you are willing to “educate your target market as to why they will need what you offer” by educating them about the uses of what you offer, then you are one step closer to being able to utilize the reprint article to generate sales for your online business.

The trick is that publishers and webmasters won’t print your article if you employ sales copy in your article. You MUST educate their readers about something of value to their readers. It may be how the reader can utilize a generic product that looks a lot like yours. It may be how to do things that would be important to the people who will buy what you are offering.

What is important is that you must keep the “sales pitch” out of your article. You must educate your reader about what is important to the reader. And when your reader finally reaches the end of your article, you should then provide a resource box about yourself. The resource box is the “about the author” information that follows an article and tells the reader why he or she should visit your website and why he or she should buy what you are offering for sale. And, do keep your resource box short. At most, your resource box should be no more than nine lines in length.

Your resource box should be constructed much like this:

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The Importance of Performing Background Checks

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Dec 182020
 

A middle-class family in suburban Atlanta recently woke to discover thieves had ransacked their home and taken nearly everything.


Who were the culprits?


Two men that were employed with a cleaning company who had been in the house less than a week prior. It was later determined that these men, who worked for a prestigious and reputable cleaning company had colorful criminal backgrounds of robbery and theft. The two men were on assignment at the home and while one of them did the cleaning, the other cased the house – taking note of valuables and even ways to get around the security system. It was eventually determined that the cleaning company neglected to properly investigate the backgrounds of its employees; and the company was sued for negligence. Stories such as this do not often in without violence; however, this example illustrates the dire importance of thoroughly screening all new employees with a background check.


This is example is surely of the extreme. It is, however, important for all businesses considering hiring someone to take the critical step of performing a background check. It is estimated 30% of all resumes submitted to employers, has some falsified content. This content can vary from exaggerations to outright lies. The most common falsifications are usually located in the education portion of the resume.


Most businesses deal with sensitive information at some level. This may range from handling social security numbers, credit card information, drivers license information and other types of personal information. In order to assure clients and customers that their information is being handled properly, it is the duty of the business owner to take the necessary step in getting a thorough background check on all employees. Personal and professional references are still a good method, however, they should not be relied upon solely. It should be obvious that prospective employees will give names of those who will give a good reference; background checks pick up where references stop – they will give you accurate and in-depth information regarding the candidate.


Background checks are available to cover a wide variety of areas. Drivers license, character references, personal acquaintances, education records, criminal records, court records, credit records and much more. It is also important to note that much of this is public information. In addition, employers should understand that according to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, some information cannot be used in conjunction with a background check. Bankruptcies after 10 years and many other types of consumer information that is older than 7 years may not be reported. Criminal background, credit reporting, worker’s compensation claims and character references are just a few among a long list of types of background checks that are widely available. Employers should know the laws in their specific state regarding what information is available for their specific needs.


According to Paul Falcone, author of the book The Hiring and Firing, background checks serve many purposes: to enhance security in the workforce, to reduce turnover, to minimize the occurrence of employee theft and to leave you with the peace of mind that you have made the right decision in the hiring process. As a business owner, it is imperative to know who is working for you and what their background is. Employers should also include notice of the types of background checks performed, in their pre-employment literature. Most employers do not have the time, resources or authority to complete such thorough investigations. In order to gain this peace of mind, it is necessary to hire a background investigation firm.


Several types of firms conduct background checks. They can range from a company who verifies employment history only, to an online data broker to a private investigator. Though background check prices can vary widely depending on need, the average cost of an intermediate investigation seems to be in the $50 range. Business owners should consider this good practice and an inexpensive form of insurance for their company. Skimping on something as vitally important as a background investigation could possibly cost the company much more in the long run.


Free Background Checks


It is only human nature that the word ‘free’ catches our attention. Who doesn’t want free stuff? Employers should be extra careful when dealing with offers for free background investigations. If one searches the Internet for the query “free background checks”, he or she will certainly be bombarded with results. Upon closer examination of these “free” offers, it is apparent that the information you need is not really free at all. Yes, you can find out if a person has any outstanding warrants, any criminal charges but in order to see the details of the findings, you must pay a fee. It is very possible for employers to find the information for themselves. Various types of public records are searchable on the Internet. Another method is to contact the local police or sheriff’s department. Depending on the particular laws of a state and the employer’s needs, much of the information may be acquired for free from one of these agencies. According to privacy advocates, employers should be very cautious of those companies who advertise that they can find out anything about anybody – these companies might not be adhering to the federal laws regarding privacy. It is in the employer’s best interest to know as much about the investigating company’s practices before hiring them.

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How to plan a right budget for your successful event

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Dec 172020
 

Some events are not required to make a profit, but are expected to at least cover their own expenses.
Seminar and Conferences are intended to provide quality programs and information at an affordable cost to its members. Because of this, you must budget conservatively, estimating expenses high and attendance low, while focusing on keeping the event affordable for members.

Here is an example of a general guideline for a conference you can make some adjustment for your own specific event. Registration fee could be under $100 and the hotel accommodations are $80-100 or less. These fees may not apply if you are hosting a presentation for a client for work purposes. However, some extra needed stuff for your specific event may include the following:

– Communication between the planning committee members can be enhanced by utilizing an e-mail list which can be hosted at the Executive Office. Regular teleconferencing can also be utilized to enhance conference planning. Judicious use of money for planning meetings is highly encouraged. A great way to maintain communications is through software like Microsoft’s video conferencing on the computer which is free.
– Keynote speaker fees should not exceed $500 plus reasonable expenses (usually approximately $500 if airfare is required).
– Appropriate e-mails can be sent to all members of your region by the Executive Office, at your request. Plan ahead to use this service to save printing and mailing costs and to send information to members in your regions quickly. In addition, monthly HIGHLIGHTS are sent by the EO to all members, which can include a link to your region’s web page.
– Food costs should be balanced with overall enhancement of the program. Luncheons are less expensive than dinners, some meals can be “on your own”
– Conference materials can be donated by institutions (folders, notepads, etc.)
– AV equipment may be supplied by local institutions at reduced or no cost if you go after them.

That is not all there is to say on planning for the event budget. There are still other plans you should consider for hosting a successful event includes but not limited to:
— Plan your overall objectives
— Plan your marketing mix of the seminar
— Plan your invitations and approach
— Plan your target group
— Plan you target list of attendees
— Plan your date and location
— Plan your type of seminar- large or small
— Plan your speakers and topics
— Plan your venue and details
— Plan your staff time and resources
— Plan your budget
— Plan your handouts and questionnaires
— Plan your equipment
— Plan your talk and time
— Review all details over and over
— Plan your follow up
— Repeat and improve

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Home Study: What Life-enhancing Skill do You Learn?

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Dec 162020
 

Home Study: What Life-enhancing Skill do You Learn?



You’re already doing unofficial home study when you research a project online and write an essay. Study in class has its place, but…



Up to date I’ve done many courses in classrooms but only two were very useful. I’ve learned most of the useful stuff from books or the Internet.

What will help you most in life?

The most valuable thing you learn at school is to write an essay.
Essays help you organise your thoughts. An essay helps you convince
people. Your feedback in a home study course will mostly be essays.
This will encourage you to write a good essay.



Many years ago I read about Electronics, and took a correspondence
course on the subject, and made electronic gadgets for where I worked.



Then I decided to study Electronics at college. Unfortunately
the nearest I could get to it was Physics with Electronics as the
main subject, so I qualified in Physics.



The lecturers were shockingly out of date. One of my classmates and
I spent a lot of time instructing the lecturers. We’d learned
modern stuff from books and practical use.


It has been said Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
What this means is that lecturers sat through lectures and passed exams.
They go on to teach what they learned in these lectures – which is
already out of date. That’s the first benefit of home study.




Three advantages of classroom study

    You can get recognised certificates when you pass exams You can get a useful plan for what to study Facilities for practical work


You’ll have noticed that although I learned more from my home study
course, I still did a four-year course at college. I couldn’t get
recognised exam certificates from correspondence courses. That was
the main benefit.



If you want to study genetics and you don’t even know what a gene
is, you obviously don’t know enough to plan a syllabus for your home study.



You get a useful skeleton outline from your lectures. Using my book
about exams you will learn how to improve on the skeleton, but you need one
to improve on!



At home you don’t have a chemistry laboratory or a machine shop or
volunteers to practice dentistry.



Apprenticeships let you learn about real life from an employer.
Schools and colleges have labs and workshops for you to do your
practical work.



Lecturers don’t know as much about practical work as an employer
would. I hated doing chemical titrations because they took such a
long time.



Then I noticed that one of my classmates took about a quarter of
the time, with greater accuracy. He worked during his holidays
at a chemistry lab. He showed me the tricks and I was soon flying
through my titrations too.


Even if you do have a machine shop at home, you’ll be taught safe
working procedure in a conventional course. That could save you
from being a cripple for the rest of your life.




Instant Feedback

When I was about to hold a chunk of metal with a rag wrapped round
my hand to give me extra grip, my lecturer yelled a warning. That
probably kept me from losing my hand.



Even if you’re learning something safe like oil painting, you can
learn faster with instant feedback from a lecturer strolling around
behind the students.



Oh, you could take a digital photograph of your oil painting and shoot
it down the line to an instructor, but she could be having a meal, or
even be asleep if she is on the other side of the world. So you still
won’t have instant feedback.



Writing essays works fine.




Conventional courses for abilities

It seems that conventional courses win out when you want to develop
an ability, unless your parents already have that ability to pass
on to you.




Knowledge courses

Of course, there are knowledge courses such as English, Philosophy,
History, Anthropology where you don’t have a practical syllabus.
These are ideal for home study, and perfect for using an essay
as a tool.



More and more Universities offer online courses. You can get
recognised certificates with home study. You just need to be good
at writing an essay (see my free report) and a few other exam
techniques to succeed.



Even technical courses have lots of theory. University extension
courses allow you to study the theory online. Then you just go to
college for your practical work.




No Distractions

A friend of mine refused to be distracted by girls or parties or
sport until he completed his degree as a dentist.



I don’t think I could have overcome these distractions. If you do
home study you don’t have any distractions.




Conclusion

I prefer home study any time that it is available.
However you can’t learn to sing, or master karate, or dentistry without
a teacher, so conventional study is often needed to supplement
home study. Essay writing is particularly useful in home study.

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3 Simple Ways To Harness Concept Of The Free Offer For Internet Marketing

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Dec 152020
 

One of the reason why the concept of free stuff online works really well has a lot to do with the nature of the internet where people go online to find free information and share music online. Many good internet marketers have learnt that offering free things to their website visitors can help make them more money online and this article highlights three simple strategies that successful internet marketers have used.

Free Ebooks

Giving away a free ebook to visitors to your website can help establish you as an expert and help you increase the number of subscribers to your newsletters. Ebook software today allows the creator of the ebook to get the email address and name of the person reading the ebook and build his mailing list.

Another way people use these free ebooks is to embed their affiliate links and product links into them so that readers of the ebooks will click on them and thus get more website traffic to their websites and make money when these get converted into sales. Other ebooks writers today allow readers to access the first three chapters free so as to whet their appetite and then make the reader pay for the rest of the information.

Free services

Most people are quite unaware of this business model online. Add lots of resources to your website and let it become an advertising portal where other advertisers pay to place ads on your website. Simple things that you can provide for your website visitors can go a long way in getting them to come back. For instance, adding rss feeds related to the content of the website also increases the chances of people returning to your website.

Another way that most people are doing today is starting online forums and allowing people to join them for free. By helping others, you get paid from contextual advertising on your website.

Free information and pre-selling

This concept amount internet marketers was first made popular in a large way when Ken Evoy started talking about pre-selling in the area of affiliate marketing. The idea behind this concept is simple. Simple focus on a keyword rich niche and just give your website visitors information on the niche without any trace of sales copy and embed your affiliate links in the webpage. You make money from visitors that purchase from your merchants from your links.

In conclusion, the concept of the free offer is here to stay on the internet and internet marketers have used it to great success. Learn from them and use these strategies to increase your online profits today!

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Internet Network Marketing Downlines That Impede Rather Than Help You

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Dec 132020
 

If you have been in the network marketing arena be it online or offline for a while you will know that there are some downlines that do not help your business grow in any way. This article identifies some downlines that you do not want working with you in your team and explains how to exclude them from your team at the start.

Freebie lookers

Internet Network marketing involves two elements, increasing your network and marketing be it online or offline. These downlines are looking for freebies and have no conception of what a business involves. Any business venture whether online or offline has the need for you to purchase a product and the need to promote the business. These downlines failing to realize this, spend lots of time in an endless search for free ways to promote their business online and like the popular adage “when you pay peanuts, you get monkeys”. To weed out such people you should always have in your welcome email something that states that you only work with people who are willing to follow your system as it will ensure their success. Tell them that you system involves costs like most other business ventures and can make them money if they work it like you do.

Get rich quick

We all know the reason why many people join internet mlm business ventures it is because of the money. However there is the concept of delayed gratification which is very hard for some people to swallow. They think that because they join online, their profits are “lightning quick”. Some even have the mistaken idea in their mind that they just need to find the “right program” online to make it big. This is patently wrong. Internet Network marketing is like all other business ventures and requires time, effort and training before you become successful. Thus in your marketing material and communications to your downlines, always teach them a system and tell them to work hard at it and not to expect profits to drop from the sky. The fastest way to get this kind of downline is to offer “free” this and “free” that stuff to them as they will not have the right mindset when they join your internet network marketing business.

Complaining and paralysis with analysis

Internet network marketing seems to paralyse people because of the great variety of business opportunities and ideas that are available online. Just looking though some of the internet network marketing business websites will give you an idea of the vastness of this “internet jungle”. I always have downlines asking me about the “next best thing” or complaining about what is wrong about this present business. You want to attract downlines who are serious about working rather than complaining into your internet network marketing business. To do this, some marketers have used the interruption pattern in their sales material. This uses business English which is pitched at a higher level of reader so as to weed out the casual surfer from signing up to join your internet network marketing business.

In conclusion, attracting the right type of downlines is critical to building a good network marketing business online. Spending some time tweaking your advertising copy can reap you dividends in the long term in the form of better qualify of signups and people who are actually willing to work hard online.

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Christmas Gifts For Dolphin Lovers

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Dec 122020
 

Choosing a dolphin lover gift may not be as easy as it is for a pet lover, but that is not to say it is not possible. In fact, you will find quite a range of dolphin related gifts around the internet, although in your local store it may be hit and miss as to whether you will find anything. In my case, I received the true, ultimate dolphin lover gift, some years ago, but more of that later.

The demand for dolphin gifts, though, is undoubtedly high. On a brief and unscientific survey, dolphin lover gifts are about half as popular as cat lover gifts. If you think about it, that is amazing. Most people will never see a dolphin in their lives, yet we are surrounded by cats.

What is it, then, that makes dolphins so appealing? I love birds and cats especially, but dolphins I adore. They are wonderful and appealing creatures with a mystique that helps their popularity. Dolphins are the stuff of sailors’ tales, and true stories, about dolphins and man. They have faces that are expressive in a human like way, and they seem to smile. Dolphins also seem to follow man out at sea, when men venture out in their boats or into the water.

Dolphins are also performers, not just in captivity, but in the wild. While they do travel at high speed and jump out of the water in so doing, they do come across as playful, and capable of enjoying life. So, in a way they are partly human like, and therefore easy for us to relate to. They are also very intelligent.

Dolphins engender excitement, and at times everyone becomes a dolphin lover. In my country of origin, England, dolphins off the coast have always been something of a rarity; although I have read that large numbers of dolphins have been seen off nearby Wales recently. While I still lived in England, though, the appearance of a few dolphins close to shore may even have made the television news and front pages of the newspapers. Now, that’s something cat’s cannot do!

I am one of the lucky few, though. I was fortunate to be able to live on the Dorset coastline, where a group of about 6 dolphins had become familiar passers-by just offshore. Very rarely they ventured into Swanage Bay, but mostly they were observed sometimes off Durlston. But, you needed a lot of luck and patience to see any dolphins there, even when they were known to be in the area. I had a naturalist friend who had lived in Swanage for 25 years, and was a frequent visitor to Durslton; he had never, ever seen a dolphin there.

I was a member of Dolphin Watch, spending long hours on the cliff top looking out for the dolphins to record their movements. I had no luck ever while on duty, nor had many fellow dolphin lovers on the watch. My luck suddenly changed, though, when I was out walking with my daughter one Sunday afternoon, on the cliff tops at Durlston. It was early December, and winter and Christmas were in the air.

The grass slope was a little bit slippery, and I slipped over, ending up on my back. After my daughter’s initial concern subsided, we both had a good laugh, and I hobbled over to a nearby bench to get my breath back. The bench was looking out to sea. That’s when something of a miracle happened; well, at least a major coincidence; an incredible coincidence.

As we sat down, I said: “Ok, we will sit here until we see a dolphin, even though it may mean missing Christmas.” Christmas was 3 weeks away, so it was a rash thing to say. We looked out to sea, and within a minute, I saw two dolphins. I was in disbelief, but I took another look; I had my glasses on so was not being deceived. It really was dolphins.

My daughter thought, assumed, and was sure, I was joking. Then she saw them also, plus a third dolphin. We watched them for about 45 minutes, walking along the coast with them, and then back again. It was a mesmerising and unforgettable time, even though they were so far away; those three bottle-nosed dolphins were, to me, the ultimate dolphin lover’s Christmas gift. A few weeks early, and free, but a wonderful gift nonetheless.

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