by Scott Lucas
It's interesting to hear people's opinions about Network
Marketing. There are some people that think it's a pyramid
scheme, a scam, not a profession, or that it does not work.
SHAME ON THEM! If only these same people got educated about
the industry, they would think differently.
The people I'm referring to are the people who have been
exposed to our industry either directly, they've been
approached in the past or indirectly, they know of someone
who was in Network Marketing, or was also exposed.
This is sickening! Uncle Harry tells you it's illegal and
that you've been brainwashed into thinking you can be
successful in Network Marketing. Your landlord thinks it's
one of those "pyramid things" and that Network Marketing
doesn't work, and your friend Marty says, "Your doing one
of those things AGAIN?!"
Two of the above situations happened to me. No, I don't have
a Uncle Harry. First of all, my landlord is closed-minded
and doesn't care to know the truth. Now don't get me wrong,
I don't say that to poke fun but to illustrate how there are
other people like my landlord. I once heard that the truth
shall set you free. Lets just hope they accept the truth.
As for Marty, that was a legitimate question. I've been in
the marketing industry off and on for 5 years. My first
experience was direct marketing traveling the East Coast,
business to business, selling an all natural degreaser. I
spent 3 months BROKE, living and mooching off the company,
and only sold 1 case of 12 bottles the entire time. It was
a very interesting experience and one I will never forget.
I did direct marketing again selling vacuums for about two
months and sold NOTHING, then I tried once more selling a
pendant and ID card that was used to retrieve personal and
medical information electronically. I sold NOTHING.
So I tried Network Marketing. The first company I was with
is over 30 years old and is on the NYSE. First I was a
customer then I became a distributor, and I still use the
service today. I have saved money using this service and
will continue to do so.
For about 7 months, I only sold one plan to my mother-in-
law and that was that. It was with this company that I was
introduced to self-development or self-help. The training,
support and resources were ALL there but one thing was
missing- my REASONS!
So I ended up QUITTING.
During my next venture in Network Marketing, I was going to
college to earn an Associates Degree in Computer Networking.
I was learning to become a MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems
Engineer). I was doing great, fantastic and on my way until
I let myself get DISTRACTED. Four months before the end date
of college, I came across another company. The pay plan was
awesome... the people were great and supportive... I paid a
total of $600 to attend three seminars and I felt great.
But something happened. I had a lot of products in my
basement and was using the products, but I lost BELIEF.
I was off the path! Oh my God! I also had thousands worth of
products that were just sitting there collecting dust! What
the hell was I going to do? Well, I did NOTHING.
In between companies, I dabbled with Internet Marketing.
Buying courses, ebooks, programs, websites, audios, videos,
reports and almost anything learning how to have a
profitable home based business. There were so many "gurus"
and self-proclaimed "who doners" (those who said they've
done it, but really haven't).
Within a 5 year period I had invested $15,000 and felt lost,
confused, aggravated, frustrated but more importantly shame.
I was ashamed of myself because I was a FAILURE. I felt as
if I failed myself, and others were there NOT to boost me up
but to say, "I told you so" (in a nutshell). Though very few
of my family and friends knew about my experiences, the few
who knew was enough.
I was wrong!! I should not have felt ashamed even though I
was confused, aggravated, lost and frustrated. With so many
Network Marketing companies and Internet Marketing courses,
how could ANYONE make an educated decision to learn ONE
system and stick with it? Multiple streams of income? Which
ones do I choose? The ad copy looks great and is compelling
me to buy but should I buy ANOTHER ebook, program or course
when I haven't even APPLIED what I've learned from all the
others? That's if I took the time to read it.
I was blaming everything and everyone for MY failure! I fell
VICTIM to the myth that all I had to do is position myself
in front of a trend and the money would come to me. That all
I had to do was sit in my underwear, on the couch, send some
postcards every now and then and watch the money roll in.
My victim mentality was getting me, my family, my
dreams, my hope and future in Network Marketing NO WHERE!
Do not make the same mistakes I have made. If you are still
reading this, thank you and god bless you. That tells me
one of three things:
If you're still confused, aggravated, lost and frustrated
then I know how you feel. If you've been there and done that
and have found the path, you're a good student! If you have
the victim mentality but are looking for a way out but have
not found the path, this is what I've found out.
I used to feel that the more I knew, the more money I would
make. What I found is that it's NOT TRUE. The more you know
about marketing from more than ONE PERSON, the more likely
you are to be confused, aggravated, frustrated and lost.
Why? Because you're learning from more than person about the
same subject when both of them give you completely different
answers. How else would you explain buying all those ebooks,
courses and programs about Internet Marketing? Have you read
all of them? I was guilty of doing this to.
To be a good student, one must find a teacher or mentor and
MODEL what they did to reach their GOALS. Notice I said "a"
teacher or mentor. This means ONE person, not two or more.
Very few people understand the concept of modeling and goal
setting when it comes to a profitable business, whether it
be Network Marketing or Internet Marketing. I know I did
because I just wanted to know how to make money.
The SECRET to making money in Network Marketing, Internet
Marketing or any business is a mandatory law that very few
marketers know, or will share with the masses because this
law will break their business or will change your victim
mentality into a success mentality.
ALL successful people had a MENTOR and those who want to be
successful in marketing, have to have a mentor. This is a
law, a mandatory principle to your success. If you continue
breaking this law, as I once did, you will have similar
results in your marketing career as I once did.
For the sake of your confusion, frustration, aggravation and
DEBT, either change what you're doing RIGHT NOW or STOP what
you're doing all together because you will not succeed.
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Scott Lucas is an up-and-coming entrepreneur that knows the
mandatory law the Internet is trying to steal from you, but
you don't even realize it. If you feel the Internet could be
your goldmine, now is your chance to take back the 93.5%!
http://www.abnormalthinking.com
Today's Motivational Reading
The longer I live, the more I realize ...
by Charles R. Swindoll
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of
attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than
facts. It is more important than the past, than education,
than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success,
than what other people think or say or do. It is more
important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or
break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing
is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we
will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we
cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain
way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can
do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you...
we are in charge of our attitudes.
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Several Serious Problems on the Internet Causing Unnecessary Failures
by Irena Whitfield
You know I rarely write articles because I am too busy to
repeat what someone else said already. So, I give you
the Article to read and apply.
However, I decided to publish this typical situation described
in the above article and comment on the main causes.
Problem No 1: when you come new to the Net without
any entrepreneurial experience from the offline world, many
people tend to fall prey to the common hype screaming at you
all over the place that it's easy and everyone can make
money without doing anything.
It's amazing how so many people want to believe this! To
give you an easy example: Would you dare to drive or repair
a car, a TV set, operate a person without knowing anything,
ever learning anything and expect money for it, and not
only couple of pounds but thousands, millions and want
to retire within three months with full-life automatic
income for all of your family?
I can clearly hear you answer: No. And how is it that so many
people do exactly this every day and feel frustrated when
they only lose money.
Marketing is exactly the same as any other profession: you
canNOT be successful doing it (and I mean profitable) if you
don't know how to do it right and/or without doing anything.
I rarely talk about my experience and hardly ever about money.
Now I may surprise you but I dare say that marketing is one
of the most demanding professions and needs to develop special
skills if you come from a different field.
I am a computer system engineer by profession, also studied
mathematics and physics, projecting fully automatic factories
successfully, successful entrepreneur all my adult life.
I had no problems to get my website designed and ranked #1
on all the major search engines within a month after I
started, no problems to get automatic traffic because it's my natural thinking
and don't need too much training.
But when I started to actually market and sell online
it was pretty tricky. I studied this 'science' very
thoroughly and continue every day. Every day I learn
something new that improves my performance, something I can
apply. And I feel very alarmed when I don't!
And if someone wants to succeed must do the same. Don't
believe you can succeed without your own working system if you hire someone to build your
website containing someone else's products, someone else
to promote it and someone else to send emails for you
to sell, or put up a couple of someone else's minisites.
The best person to learn it and do it is you. It's you who
want to make money anyway. Why should you if you aren't able
to do the basic homework.
Problem No 2: Entrepreneurial thinking. I consider this
the most important. Most people get annoyed with me when I
tell them this, feeling hurt. Nothing bad about it. It's a
fact. Each of us is born with certain dispositions, gifts.
If we want to acquire another, we have to systematically
develop it.
Entrepreneur's and employee's ways of thinking are two
different worlds. I can give you thousands of examples.
The simple proof is that minimum offline entrepreneurial
experience can save you the thousands you lose falling prey
to the easy-to-see-through hype all around.
It's a skill as any other, and can be developed if you are
aware of the need. However, there's a catch: knowledge,
skills alone won't make you a master. Systematic practice
will. There is one more point you should realise: For
instance, I can never be a doctor and would not even dream
about to become one but if someone wants to be an entrepreneur/
a marketer without a natural disposition or training, they
must be aware of what it takes to become one and focus and
work on developing what is necessary.
And it's up to everyone to decide for themselves how much
they want it. Sometimes, the will, the desire is so strong
that it has the power to overcome this natural personality
obstacle. But it's not possible without the below crucial
point:
Problem No 3: Knowing Yourself. The most serious problems
arise from poor personal knowledge. Most people try to learn
as much as they can about many items they consider vital
ranging from ruling the world, managing country's funding,
through mentoring neighbours' kids to using their washing
machine and know next to nothing about their own character,
personality, weak and strong points, not talking about what
they actually wish, want or don't want and most importantly
what they are willing to do for what they want or don't and
what they need to achieve it.
As I remember, I always knew exactly what I did not want and
went strictly after eliminating this from my life or
preventing it to happen to me.
But first, it's essential to learn what it is and be sincere
to yourself. If you start to build on a false ground, you
will end up with false results. You don't have to say anyone
but you must know for yourself.
Summary: In the above, I mention, very briefly, only the
basics most often overlooked but I would like to say that
you should never do anything without a proper homework and
systematic study and work following your own strategy
targeting your goals.
If you need someone to help you, to mentor you, get him or
better more people but get on the right track as fast as
you can. Our time is too precious to waste it on pursuing
a false route.
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