Why You Should Consider Network Marketing
by Randy Gage
In any group of people, a few will retire young, rich and worry-free. A few more will work hard and long, but finally retire in comfort. Most, however, will slog through 45 years of life in the rat race, only to eke out their "golden years" on a meager pension.
What separates these groups...and what are the secrets possessed by those in the first one? How do they get so wealthy, so fast? And what can someone do to ensure they end up in this group? It's an intriguing question...
One I feel eminently qualified to answer. For not only do I belong to this first group, but I've helped thousands more join it.
Make no mistake, however. I'm not referring to captains of industry, market traders, or the real estate tycoons. For while these people have amassed great monetary wealth, they don't retire early, and they certainly do not appear to be worry-free. They're winning the rat race, but they're living like rats.
The group I'm referring to is a new breed of entrepreneur--the individual who has built walk-away residual income. What I call "drink out of a coconut" money. These people have built a multi-level money machine ... one that showers them with rewards whether they remain working or choose to spend their days on a tropical beach, with their toes in the sand, sipping from that coconut.
The parallels of how these people reached this success are intriguing indeed.
You might think they attained their status through higher education, but this is not the case. Many members of this group are high school dropouts (like myself), while we know that there are many people with multiple diplomas out looking for work.
And while the people in my group worked hard to attain their considerable prosperity, that alone was not the deciding factor. In fact, although I'm slightly embarrassed to admit this, most people work harder than my group members and me, but they certainly don't receive the rewards we do.
The mechanic who tunes up my cars, the man who landscapes my lawn, my massage therapist and my usual waitress at my favorite restaurant all work much harder than I had to, yet none of them are wealthy doing what they do. Not one of them shows a chance of retiring early.
These people, and millions more like them, are prisoners in a dysfunctional economic system. They are hostages in the time-for-money trap. To receive more money, they must work harder or longer. Most are stuck in salaried positions or jobs restricting overtime, so one job doesn't even offer them the opportunity to trade more time for more money. As a result, they put their spouse or partner to work, which of course is still not enough. It's a vicious cycle
And a very foolish one...
Because as long as you play the "trading time for money" game, you can never reach true financial security. The people in my group have discovered that attaining true economic freedom requires that you employ two basic prosperity principles:
1. You must employ the concept of leverage to escape the trading-time-for-money dilemma; and
2. You need to wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and know you're talking to the boss.
Once you have an understanding of these two principles and actively apply them in your life, your prosperity is assured.
You'll find both of these principles are foundational anchors of the Network Marketing opportunity. When you take the entrepreneurial excitement of working for yourself and combine that with leveraging yourself through a network of other excited entrepreneurs, the results are exponentially spectacular. The synergistic process creates a whole that is much more powerful than its individual parts. Done properly, the end result is a self-perpetuating, multi-level money machine.
And you can drive it...
To do so, you have to do two things. First, you must commit yourself to one day escaping the modern-day slavery of a regular Friday paycheck. You must become the creator of your own destiny. And second, you must affiliate yourself with a solid Network Marketing company.
Network Marketing (sometimes called Multi-Level Marketing or MLM for short) is one of the strongest growth industries in the world. It's practiced today in all 50 United States and over 75 countries and territories around the globe. Millions of independent distributors produce an annual volume estimated at 60 to 80 billion dollars. Network Marketing perfectly utilizes J. Paul Getty's three secrets of wealth:
1. Get a product everyone needs.
2. Duplicate yourself.
3. Be self-employed.
Why should you get involved with Network Marketing? There are probably as many answers as there are distributors. Usually though, it comes down to the lifestyle networking can give you. Some of the unique benefits of this business include:
o Choosing the people you work with;
o Going into business with a very small investment;
o Working from home;
o Picking the hours you want to work;
o Discovering unique products not available elsewhere;
o Reaping the rewards of numerous tax advantages;
o Enjoying the opportunity for an unlimited income; and
o Having the chance to build your success while empowering others to succeed.
Probably the why of networking can best be summed up as "freedom from the rat race." The benefits we discussed are not available anywhere else. While most people accept this to be true of working for someone else, they mistakenly believe that having their own traditional business will give them these benefits.
As a former Chamber of Commerce president and owner of ten small and medium-sized businesses, I can personally attest that in many ways, owning a traditional business can be more limiting than working for somebody! Because of things like employee turnover, inventories, large investments, government regulation and market competition, I was oftentimes working longer hours for less pay than my employees were!
People are tired of merger mania, leveraged buy-outs, layoffs and "dress for success." People today are looking for rewarding work situations, balance, and quality time with their loved ones.
That's where Network Marketing comes in...
In networking, unlike the corporate rat race, you never get ahead by holding others back. The road to success in networking is traveled by empowering others. You cannot be successful without helping others to be successful. In fact, the more people you help, the more successful you become.
If you're looking to get rich quick, Network Marketing is really not for you. However, if you're willing to work hard on a part-time basis for two to four years to build lifetime financial security, then this is the place for you. The flexible hours make it a perfect business to start while you keep your current job, even if you're a student or a housewife with children. If you want your own business, but only have a few hundred dollars to get it started, you're in the right place at the right time.
Network Marketing has emerged as the last real chance in the free enterprise system for the average person without large capital to become financially free. It is helping you by helping others.
Randy Gage is the author of How to Earn at Least $100,000 a Year in Network Marketing, the number-one selling audio album in Network Marketing.
Is Network Marketing Difficult?
Difficult! Difficult! Is Network Marketing Difficult?
What's difficult is when you must produce a report on a Sunday afternoon and cannot attend your son's football game.
What's difficult is hearing the mobile phone ring on Christmas morning and you cannot see the excitement on your daughter's face as she feverishly tears into another box.
What's difficult is knowing the rust bucket you call a car is eating you alive in maintenance but you cannot afford a new one.
What's difficult is to go to your annual performance review, and even though you have worked hard for another year, you come away empty handed.
What's difficult is knowing that you shop by sticker rather than whether the garment looks good on you.
What's difficult is knowing that the house you are in is because prices just went up and your budget is to the bare bones.
What's difficult is knowing that you married a wonderful person, and promised them the world, and for the next 30 years you look at balancing the budget and figuring out what sacrifices must be made.
What's difficult is reciting "If we get this we cannot have that".
What's difficult is always lowering your dreams to meet your means.
What's difficult is knowing that you have spent 40 years of your life working for someone else only to realize that you will be retiring on 1/3 of what you cannot live on today.
What's difficult is when your children move out and you cannot visit them because traveling costs too much.
What's difficult is knowing that the fish are biting this week and you cannot drop what you are doing and take your Dad fishing.
What's difficult is watching the spark in your partner's eyes fade because both of you realize the house you have been wanting is just a dream because someone else is controlling your finances.
What's difficult is waking up one morning and realizing that your children, the most precious thing imaginable, no longer need bottles, diapers, have tea parties, eat things found under the sofa, are shorter than the baseball bat they are trying to swing, but are grown and starting their own families and you missed all of that because you agreed to be locked in an office for twenty years by a boss who watched his children grow up.
What's difficult is dropping your one year old at the nursery because you have to be at work by 9am to stand by the Xerox machine or handle irate phone calls and realize someone else is going to watch your daughter take her first step or have your son say "dada" to the playground teacher.
What's difficult is knowing that you have diligently worked only to be given an early retirement.
I will tell you what is difficult. It is real difficult realizing it is too late and that time frittered away can never be retrieved. It slips through our fingers one second at a time.
What are we doing with it? We have nasty habits about rationalizing, procrastinating and skirting important things rather than facing the issues. Too often we allow others who do not pay our bills, who do not share our dreams, direct our future.
We have absolutely no freedom as a child.
We rebel in our teen years and scream for freedom.
We die for the right to be free.
We fight vicious wars to have the seemingly innocent ability to choose.
We reach adulthood and we relinquish freedom because we think it is too difficult.
We do not want to take responsibility.
We do not want to make a wrong decision so we obligingly give that awesome power to someone else.
We feel it will take too much time. Then, we have the audacity to complain when the decisions made were not what we wanted.
We wake up too late. Phrases like "I wished I had only", "If I could only have that time back" etc.
I believe the majority of people want to sing, but die with the music still inside. Face the music and shoulder some responsibility. You cannot have that time back. You have chosen your direction. If you have not spent your time wisely, too bad.
You have no one but yourself to blame. You had the chance. Perhaps the opportunity was presented many times and each time you elevated the trivial to a higher priority than yourself.
Is network marketing really difficult? Is it so traumatic to show someone an exciting product or idea? Is it so difficult to understand that if you work this marketing idea for a couple of years you might not have to confront some nasty options?
Would you work real hard for a year or two so you could put your family in the home of their dreams? Would you work real hard for a year or two so you could send your children to college chosen by excellence rather than one chosen by price? The same criteria you used for clothes shopping.
Would you turn off the idiot box, the soaps, the talk shows, sporting events or X Files for a year so you could take dream vacations several times a year?
Would you apply yourself for a year or two so you would have the freedom of being able to roll over, yank the covers over your head and wake at the crack of noon because you wanted to?
Would you work really hard for a couple of years to mould a lifestyle of your choosing so your family could live a lifestyle of their dreams, rather than trying to live how someone else thinks you should live?
We really think we are important in our jobs. The company we work for cannot survive without us. We are the cog that keeps things moving. Everything would grind to a halt without our presence. Think again. Corporations are not structured like that.
A corporation does not rely on people to remain viable. A corporation needs many properly arranged little squares, functioning in a preset order to survive. After many years as a manager in the corporate environment, here is an excellent visualization of your importance. Find a bucket and fill it about 3/4 full of warm water. Make a fist and push your left arm in the bucket up to your elbow. Now, quickly remove your arm. The resulting hole is your impact. Sobering, isn't it?
Can you identify the words "next time"? How many "next times" will you have?
What will it take to get you off dead center?
Will it be knowing that people are physically deteriorating when you have a product that will help them but are afraid of someone thinking you are taking advantage of that person and are just out for the money?
Gosh, I hope not.
Will it be knowing that people are agonizing through bankruptcy, realizing they only needed a couple more hundred dollars per month, not $50,000 per month, but you procrastinated once again?
I hope not.
Realize the awesome power you have in your hands with network marketing. The business you have chosen has the ability to change lives.
IT cannot do anything. But YOU can change lives with IT.
YOU are the one with the life changing ability. What are you waiting for?
What will it take?
You will pay a price for your actions.
Which one do you choose to pay?
In five years, will you say,
"I wish I had!"
or
"I'm glad I did!"
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