Friday, September 19, 2014

In Business for the Long Haul



It takes time and effort to build a successful Network Marketing organization. There is no getting around that. You start out by jumping into a self-paced training program with the intent of learning as much as possible about the business in the shortest time possible. You first priority should be to educate yourself before you are ready to begin sharing the concept with others.

Your second priority should be to start buying through yourself. Your business generally will have an online product catalog. You should look for things you normally buy anyway, and if you can buy them through yourself cheaper or more efficiently than you can elsewhere, you start becoming your own best customer. This generates some basic business volume and possibly some savings, but your personal volume is usually relatively small, but at least it is a start. This is also a part of the education process, and it normally takes a while to convert your purchasing to your own business. This is a critical element to pass on down line as your organization grows.

As you get familiar with the catalog, there is also the possibility of you becoming a supplier to that catalog, either through selling miscellaneous things from around your house or garage, or by marketing additional products or product groups you are interested in. As you get familiar with marketing through the catalog, the possibility opens up for you to enroll existing businesses in marketing their products through the catalog as well, all of which creates additional volume through your business.

As you gain familiarity with the marketing system and the catalog, you can start effectively sharing the system with others. One group you want to address would be neighbors, friends, colleagues, and family, or your warm circle. The second group is everyone else, people you chance to meet or total strangers. These days you can introduce the business through emails, through mass media advertising, through your personal website, through a wide variety of ways. You can introduce the business to people on the other side of the planet just as easily as you can share it with your next door neighbor.

You build your organization as people enroll, and profits grow as your organization expands. Each person does a little bit, but the little bits accumulate to become a large volume. You are paid primarily based on business volume through your organization. As the business volume rises, so do the corresponding profits and payouts.

The primary characteristic of this type of business is that it takes time to develop. Those people expecting instant gratification will be sadly disappointed, but if they are willing to consistently and persistently work on building the business, over time they will be amply rewarded. You must remember that you are in business for the long haul.


It takes time and effort to build a successful Network Marketing organization. There is no getting around that. You start out by jumping into a self-paced training program with the intent of learning as much as possible about the business in the shortest time possible. You first priority should be to educate yourself before you are ready to begin sharing the concept with others.

Your second priority should be to start buying through yourself. Your business generally will have an online product catalog. You should look for things you normally buy anyway, and if you can buy them through yourself cheaper or more efficiently than you can elsewhere, you start becoming your own best customer. This generates some basic business volume and possibly some savings, but your personal volume is usually relatively small, but at least it is a start. This is also a part of the education process, and it normally takes a while to convert your purchasing to your own business. This is a critical element to pass on down line as your organization grows.

As you get familiar with the catalog, there is also the possibility of you becoming a supplier to that catalog, either through selling miscellaneous things from around your house or garage, or by marketing additional products or product groups you are interested in. As you get familiar with marketing through the catalog, the possibility opens up for you to enroll existing businesses in marketing their products through the catalog as well, all of which creates additional volume through your business.

As you gain familiarity with the marketing system and the catalog, you can start effectively sharing the system with others. One group you want to address would be neighbors, friends, colleagues, and family, or your warm circle. The second group is everyone else, people you chance to meet or total strangers. These days you can introduce the business through emails, through mass media advertising, through your personal website, through a wide variety of ways. You can introduce the business to people on the other side of the planet just as easily as you can share it with your next door neighbor.

You build your organization as people enroll, and profits grow as your organization expands. Each person does a little bit, but the little bits accumulate to become a large volume. You are paid primarily based on business volume through your organization. As the business volume rises, so do the corresponding profits and payouts.

The primary characteristic of this type of business is that it takes time to develop. Those people expecting instant gratification will be sadly disappointed, but if they are willing to consistently and persistently work on building the business, over time they will be amply rewarded. You must remember that you are in business for the long haul.


Realistic Expectations Within Multi-Level Marketing

So hopefully you have been looking around and making strong decisive decisions in regards to which Multi-level marketing company you are going to join and have realistic expectations for your new venture.

Too many people come into the business with unrealistic expectations and this is quite detrimental to your success and your longevity within the business model. If you are going to succeed you need to set realistic expectations from the start.

Let's take a look at a few major expectations you need to put into perspective from the start

1. You need to know it usually takes 90 days of consistent activity to see a result

2. Have you been pitched into the business or is this something you really think you can commit to?

3. How much money are you going to make in your first year?

4. Do you have the skill set to match your income goals?

5. Do you have the time to commit to the business?

As you can see there are an abundance of questions you need to ask yourself from the start to make sure you have realistic expectations. These will not only help with you sticking to your business and not feeling dejected or a failure but you will start off on the right foot and know what it is you are trying to achieve and accomplish in a realistic time frame.

There is far too much hype in the industry and I truly believe this is a contributing factor to a substantial number of new recruits failing. They will see a testimonial of someone successful who is making substantial amounts of money and who achieved their success rather quickly. This literally goes back to my previous article on the 80/20 rule. Don't get me wrong there is always the potential to make large sums of money quickly but unfortunately this will only apply to 20% of people who are recruited. So if you think you are the exception and not the rule this may happen for you, but I put my money on having realistic expectations because the majority of the population are not the exception to the rule.

Starting off on your new career deserves the time for you to make rational sensible decisions. It will save you and your new mentor a whole bunch of time if you are placed on the right page from the start. So keep a cool head and take the time to answer the questions above, you will see the benefit..