Building a network marketing business is tough. Nobody said it was going to be easy.  Well, if someone did, they were not telling you the truth. It’s an uphill battle at first, but then it gets to the fun part…the part where “you can sleep when the wind blows.”

During that first part you are often tempted to quit. Don’t give in to temptation. Nothing worth having comes easy. In the beginning of building your network marketing business you do a lot of work and get only paid a little. But if you don’t quit if you keep your eye on the price and work hard then eventually you will reach a stage when you work very little in your business and get paid a lot.

Let me share a little story with you that will paint a picture in your mind you can pull up when things get tough, when you get frustrated, when doubt sets in and you are tempted to just “throw the towel.” Trust me, I’ve been there, plenty of times….

Are you catering to the needy ?

When I first started out in the network marketing industry that’s exactly what I did. When my sponsor asked me to make a list of a hundred people I made sure I included everyone that I could think of who “needed the money” that a network marketing business can provide.

Boy was that ever the wrong way to go about building my business.

You feel it without even looking at the chart. You’ve hit an “off day.” So what do you do? Go back to bed? Not an option. There are things to do, places to go, people to meet.

You can’t just take the day off just because your biorythm chart says…

“Intellectual: The period of creativity is over. Your brain is in standby mode.”

Stand-by mode???? What in blazes do you mean? My brain can’t be in “stand-by mode.” Today is blog writing day. I NEED my brain!

That’s what I was faced with this morning.

Ha, stand-by mode, I’ll show you. I work right through this flippin’ stand-by mode.

Why is it that people who belong to a great MLM team do so much better than those who don’t?

Let’s face it, humans are social animals. We like to belong to something, be it a club, a tribe a community, family, team, whatever. We just do better. Yes we even thrive, when we are in a group together with other like-minded people.

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

Most of you who are my regulars know how much I love quotes. I leave quotes everywhere. Here on my blog, in the comments I leave at my blogging friends’ blogs, on my Facebook Wall. Just everywhere I go I seem to leave a trail of quotes.

Let’s face it, we all have made our fair share of mistakes when it comes to marketing our network marketing business. But in the following story you will discover 3 marketing mistakes that will be absolutely fatal for your business.

Imagine for a moment…

You are a Grammy Award winning musician who has played for royalty and sold-out audiences around the world. You normally get paid over $1,000 dollars per minute, but because of a few marketing mistakes you only earn $32 for a 45 minute performance.

My friend Mavis Nong from “Attraction Marketing Online” not only is an expert in her field and a shining example for Attraction Marketing, but in my opinion, she will most likely also be the most kind and selfless person you will ever meet.

I have known Mavis for about a year now and have learned a great deal from her about blogging and marketing online. Giving must be her middle name, because she always provides great value without asking for anything in return. A true Go-Giver!

If you are out there in the corporate world holding down a job you may never have thought about the difference between earning residual versus linear income.

So what’s the difference?

Let me ask the same question a different way. Would you rather get paid for your own time and efforts or receive a share of other people’s time and efforts?

How Big is Your WHY?

When you started in your mlm home based business, one of the first things your sponsor probably told you was to establish “Your WHY,” the reason you are doing whatever it is you are doing. You’ve got to have the desire. You’ve got to have passion. You’ve got to dream and you’ve got to believe you can do it.

It is very important to find out what your “WHY” is, because there will be times when things get tough, when you get frustrated and discouraged. And if your “WHY” isn’t strong enough you might not have the drive to go through when things get rough.

What is a Pyramid Scheme?

According to Wikipedia… A “pyramid scheme” is a non-sustainable business model that involves promising participants payment, services or ideals, primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme or training them to take part, rather than supplying any real investment or sale of products or services to the public.

People often label MLM or Network Marketing, which is absolutely legal, as nothing but a pyramid scheme. However, a pyramid scheme is based solely on recruiting new people and no product or service is involved. That is illegal.

If you have ever thought, that the average person can’t achieve success and realize their dreams then I recommend you read “Beach Money”. A book about “Creating Your Dream Life Through Network Marketing,” written by one of the most inspiring and most humble people I know, Jordan Adler.

Show me any network marketing leader who hasn’t struggled in his or her career. Most of them had to overcome tremendous obstacles on their way to the top.  There’s no such thing as overnight success. They usually have been years in the making.

Could Your MLM Home Based Business Be In Danger?

Think the MLM Home Based Business you are building is really yours? Think again?

Imagine this scenario…

You have been building your MLM Home Based Business for the past 10+ years and all of a sudden the company decides to make some radical changes one of which is changing the compensation plan.  You are scrambling to keep your organization but can’t prevent max exodus. The bottom is falling out of what you have been building for years. To top it all off, the company doesn’t like your comments of discontent, sees you as a threat and decides to put a hold on your commission check.  Worse yet, decides to terminate you.