You attend a meeting at a local Hotel and people wearing trendy clothes and have great presentation skills come to the front of the room. A hush forms and the speaker welcomes everyone to the Network Marketing / MLM Home Based Business meeting and compliments them for taking time out of their busy week to attend a meeting when they could be at home with their family. The speaker promises to be brief. He cracks a joke and everyone begins to enter the “MLM Trance”



The speakers starts drawing circles and lines and tells you that with you signing up one person and only one person each month and teach your team to do the same thing and you will have thousands of people in your organization and live on “Happy Ever After Lane”. Here is the reality – It is not going to happen. Oh yes there will always be point 0001 % that will say in 12 months how they now drive an Audi TT and they have more money than they can spend but it is more likely that you will find gold in your shower than create a 7 figure income from most MLMs in under 5 years.



This is not to say that there is a problem with the company or it’s products and services but it takes influence and time to build momentum, and skill to create serious income in a short period of time. When some guy says he fell off a banana truck and without getting a high school education he joined this Network Marketing / MLM Home Based Business and is making 6 figures a year after 12 months run from him. Let’s get real, MLM is one of the best ways for the average guy in America to create true wealth but it is not going to happen on its’ own. MLM is simply a distribution method or approach but someone has to distribute.



More people fail in MLM because they are unrealistic in their expectations. Having goals that make you nervous is great and I agree with that, but if you want more in life you have got to become more and you may need to give up some things to get there. You will need to invest in an education. I heard Brian Finale a top leader in MLM say tonight that if you get nervous about spending 50 dollars on a Mike Dillard course go get a job because you don’t have what it takes to be an entrepreneur and I totally agree. If you want more become more. You want people to join your business but ask yourself this, would you join under you. You want success but what are you prepared to offer to the market place for the income you want.


Some companies market services that have high commissions and some that range in the hundreds to the thousands with products that are in high demand. A new person marketing higher ticketed items has a much higher probability to achieve a significant income in a relatively brief period of time than one that pays out 5.00 Residuals. When you are new to the industry with little personal influence or marketing skills expecting to replace a full time income could take significantly longer. This is of course especially true when your commissions are under 50.00 and you are relying on your residual income to accumulate. I believe that if people were given a realistic understanding of what it really takes to succeed in MLM then attrition would be lower and less people would feel they were fleeced out of their money on a get rich quick scheme.


It is not possible for the average person to select 3 people to join their Network Marketing / MLM Home Based Business and then go retire on a beach and collect checks. It is also unlikely that signing up 12 people in 12 months will get you a team of thousands – it could happen and then again you could buy a winning Lotto ticket. People that enter into MLM need to commit to working their business hard for 5 to 7 years and then have some expectation of “living the life”. If all anyone had to do was join an MLM and sign up a few people and then plan for retirement everyone in the world would drive a Lamborghini, live in a Mansion, and have a Villa on the coast of Spain.


Success is possible for those that are willing to do the 4 letter word…… WORK…. And as A.L. Williams said Do It and DO It and DO It and DO it and DO it and DO it until they arrive. Most people fail because of a Lotto mentality. If you want success learn what successful people learned, do successful people do, and think like they do and you will attract what they attract. Above all get rid of the notion that when you see the money you will invest yours. The only reason a farmer gets a harvest is he plants his crop first!



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