Every day I see people joining in a business opportunity in network marketing with dollar signs in their eyes.  They start out excited believing that in a week they will be making thousands and quitting their jobs without any effort on their part.  When success doesn’t come easy and over night most people quit.   Heck its supposed to be easy, people get rich in this business over night…  right?

Answer to that is NO.
What most people in network marketing don’t realize is that most people who are 6 and 7 figure earners overnight had actually a long road, years for most of them, of setbacks and disappointments before their “overnight success.“  What separates the winners from the quitters are these 8 foundation:

• A Clear purpose: most of the 6 and 7 figure earners have a clear and definite purpose.  This purpose is a strong motivational force that allows them to preserve over the many difficulties on the road to success.

• A strong desire: successful entrepreneurs have intense desire for success and achievement of their purpose.

• Defined plan: most successful entrepreneurs have a plan by which they follow without fail that eventually leads to success when its followed through with definite action.

• Self-belief: Having a belief in your abilities to follow the defined plan further enhances the ability to persevere over setbacks.

• Having Knowledge: successful people know that if they follow through their plans they will eventually  accomplish their goals.  They don’t hope they know, most people hope that their plans will work out, taking away the power form you. Knowing that your plans will work gives you the power to persevere.

• Cooperation with other big thinkers: successful people hang out with other successful people or people with the same desired and determination as them.  This harmonious cooperation with other entrepreneurs will help you persist over difficulties you may encounter.

• Will-power: we hear this one a lot especially when it comes to resisting sinful not so healthy treats.  But will power is a habit of concentrating your thoughts on building plans to attain your purpose.

• Habit of action: In order to persevere against upsets in your business you need to have a strong habit of daily action.  By creating a habit of daily action for example phone prospecting your leads will help you effectively cure your fear of prospecting your leads.  “Practice makes perfect.”

These are foundations that aid the successful people to persevere over setbacks that they encounter on the road to attaining their desires and goals.  Anything worth doing is going to take some perseverance you are going to encounter difficulties.  Whatever failures you may have encountered or will encounter look at them as lessons learned not as failures.

If you like this post share it with your friends on your favorite social networks and share your own experiences in your life in which you persevered till you got the results you desired.

Today I was thinking about my why I went in to free enterprise and became and entrepreneur.

You see many people come on the internet and join an opportunity in hopes of getting rich.  The majority thinks or perhaps they are mislead to believe that they will get rich overnight without doing nothing.  However when things don’t go as planned and they realize that it will take more effort then they thought people usually give up and quit.

Truth be told I thought building my enterprise was going to be easy to, no doubt I was going to be making five figures in two months.  Those are very big ambitions for someone who was never involved in any sort of network marketing and had no idea what Google Adwords was not to mention being a bumbling idiot on the telephone.

I had a rude awakening to reality but I had one thing going for me…

Those were my whys, my purpose, my reasons for wanting to be in free enterprise and network marketing.  That is what created my mindset for success.

Your purpose  had to be big enough to push you onward with your dreams and give you the boost to move onwards and not backwards.  It has to be bigger then monetary gain.

Whatever your purpose is, it has to create a burning passion and desire in you to do whatever you have to do stick it out for as long as you have to stick it out so that you can allow yourself that chance at success.

Close your eves and think of your purpose, of all your reasons why your are in network marketing,  feel all the emotions that your reasons evoke in you and say to yourself:

“I will play this game till my last breath, until I will give it my all, I will do what it takes to build my success and in the end I will be victorious!”

Now tell me, why are you doing this?

Do you understand the impact of FTC on internet home businesses?

Well if you didn’t before, you will now. The FTC new regulations state that you must be honest about your marketing of your home business, about the income claims and testimonials. These regulations are causing some stress, as the FTC is saying who must disclose and when, they aren’t specifically pointing out what you should be saying.

There isn’t a black and white answer for this type of situation, but to help with some of that, some are pointing out some solutions that should fit within FTC regulations.

For example, the major impact of FTC on internet home businesses are the false claims often produced by people promising you would make so much money with a particular home business or affiliate program.  Claims as to how much thousands of dollars a person would earn must be supported.

Let me just say that you should never be making of  claims thousands over night in a business as there is a large possibility that a business could make nothing at all.  There are no guaranties in business!

Why are these regulations in place?

This major impact of FTC on internet home businesses and the regulations put forth are to ensure that people are honest with what they are promoting.  Some readers may feel your article or information may be biased or even wrong if they feel you are simply writing to promote a special product or service.

By not making claims that someone could make thousands overnight and be honest that results are not typical, people may feel they are better educated about what they are getting into.   You can prevent fines and any other issues by simply marketing yourself ethically.

I always like say to anyone that is looking at joining my opportunity that “yes, you could make lots of money, then again you  might not make anything at all, in fact you could even loose money.  It is all dependent on what you do.”

Honesty makes people actually appreciate you, this builds trust and it actually filters out the get rich quick people form the diamonds that you want to include in your enterprise.

Give me your feelings and oppinions on these FTC regulations in the comments, speak your mind!

It is hard to promote an MLM business.

Many are looking to go through the Internet to make their connections. This is a wise choice but there are a few things to avoid when trying social media marketing.

1. You never want to announce your business right off. It is important to gain friendship and respect.If you go straight to the Business Opportunity you may be blacklisted on your Facebook, or Twitter site. Always send interested people to your blog or Youtube site first.
2. Don’t immerse them straight in the company you are representing. They want to know what you are bout first, not what your company is.
3. If someone shows interest in your business, then don’t discuss it in the open forum, talk about it through messages that others will not see.

Avoid these 3 pitfalls and you will be able to market effectively on social media.

This week I decided to change my hair style from what I was accustomed to for over a year in to something more fun and edgy.  I needed to make a fresh change.  Out with the old and in with the new.

This made me think of this past year where I used to be in my life to where I am now.  I decided to create a change for the better by entering into free enterprise and network marketing.

I also thought of where I was when I first started in free enterprise, being totally clueless, about marketing not knowing how to create leads and being a total spaz when prospecting my leads.  I’ve come to realize that because I made a conscious choice to change my situation I was on my way to success.

Instead of being miserable in a job and complaining about all the things that made unhappy I made a decision to go into network marketing and direct sales with a great company and change situation.

Instead of doing things that didn’t work for me in marketing my opportunity I made a decision after reading Magnetic Sponsoring to start learning and become someone with value to offer a leader that others would be drawn to.

I kept my eyes open for something that would aid me in creating that value and I found a marketing system, MLM LeadSystem Pro that thought me how to brand myself and create multiple streams of incomes without being totally dependent on people joining my enterprise.

In 9 months I went from a desperate and struggling marketer, going broke trying to advertise my business to creating multiple income streams and knowing how to powerfully market myself on social networks.

My point is that in order to create success you have to be willing to change and grow.  You have to identify what is working for you and what doesn’t.  You have to then find a way to improve on what is working and to fix what is not working.

If you truly desire financial freedom and success you have to do what is necessary, whether it is just to change your job mentality to a millionaire’s mentality or to invest in courses that will teach you how to market yourself or how to have posture on the phone.

Take the responsibility for your own success, get off your ass and make the necessary changes that will help you create that success in the long run.  Anything worth while takes effort on your part and trial and error. It’s how you learn and appreciate success when it comes.

As the saying goes, “If you keep doing what you were doing you’ll keep getting what you are getting.”