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Network Marketing companies have many advantages going for them. They can give financial freedom to one of their distributors for a lower price to entry than any other small business out there. They can slash the advertising budget to next to nothing since that money is better spent compensating their distributors. But they collectively have a dark side. I am not talking about Darth Vader, I am talking about the fact that most people get in the business and are out in three to six months.

So one might wonder why would network marketing companies stay in business if anywhere between 60-95% of their distributors aren’t around in six months? Well, it’s a simple matter of economics. About one fifth of those that get into network marketing and leave are still using the product one to two years later. So if you are in a conventional business and you have a high rate of turnover of your sales staff, but you continue to grow your user base it makes sense to stay in business.

Why do all of these people leave? Most leave because they do not have the training and/or action plan to become successful. Take a look at my ads on Magnetic sponsoring to see a glimpse of the training available out there that is not company specific. Add that onto company specific training and you have a competitive advantage over others.

There is usually pressure to get a distributor or two within the first few days of becoming a distributor. The upline knows that nothing breeds success like success and if you start to see early on that you can make money with a company the chance of you staying goes up dramatically.

The most successful people I have met started off with signing up several people in the first month of being in the business. But those people have spent years creating their network of friends and all they needed was an opportunity. For most of us we need to learn how to create a larger network of friends. If you aren’t one of those people who are very connected, you can still succeed in network marketing. It will just take you longer.

A undesirable byproduct of network marketing tends to be the hype over how much easy money you can make and how fast. The truth of the matter is that all of the successful MLMers I heard or met at some point put significant effort into becoming successful. They all had ups and downs on the way to financial freedom. Speaking a someone who is on the way, but not yet there I can honestly say that I see the dim light at the end of the tunnel. Near universally the typical network marketer, real estate investor and several other groups of entrepeneurs initially work the hardest for the least amount of money. The more money they make the less harder they seem to work. It is like pushing a snowball down the hill. Initially it is very hard work because you have to compact the snow on the way to the steeper area. Then one day it gets easier and gravity helps until it starts rolling on its own. This is the same way network marketing works.

 Here’s to a future of abundance. Thank you for reading my blog and I hope I can help you along the way to your goals through networking.

Michael Bilicska

Is it helpful to write down your goals? Most people will quote the urban myth of the study at Yale or Havard or…. where the 3% that wrote down their goal twenty years later make more than the other 97% (see http://59seconds.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/the-myth-of-the-yale-goal-study/ for more on the urban myth).

 One of the thousand or more links to this urban myth can be found at http://goalsettingnetwork.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/goal-setting-the-power-of-writing-down-your-goal/. But the common theme in most of the references is that it is important to write down your goals. I won’t argue what percent of people will be more or less succesful if they write them down, but I encourage anyone on their journey to financial freedom to write them down.

 To that end I have another page on my blog that I have written my business goals (from later in this article) down for the entire internet to see. Research tends to say if you publicly commit to a goal you will try harder to achieve it than if no one else knows about it.

 I would encourage others to send in their business goals as comments for the following reasons. One is for greater commitment. Another is for social interaction amongst similar minded individuals with common goals. And lastly is for myself and others to give support and suggestion for achieving those goals.

 I would like to limit these to business goals since the purpose of this site is to help you to achieve financial freedom with network marketing. I hope you have that ‘burning why’ you need financial freedom and that it is driving you toward success. It does not need to be written down for the world to see because it is your internal motivation to action.

 Shoot for the stars. If you fail to make the stars you will land on the moon. If you only shoot for the moon you will burn up on reentry.

You might as well make outrageous goals and have less outrageous as where you would still be happy to be. In light of that here are my goals:

 (These were written on 18 March 2010 and will be updated on 1 November 2010 with results and new goals.)

 Goals by November 2010

 Stars — to have a monthly viewership to my blog of 2000 subscribers and 10,000 blog views per month.

Moon — 500 blog subscribers and 2500 blog views per month.

 Stars — 200 subscribers that I have enrolled into Magnetic sponsoring

         50 distributors into my primary MLM

 Moon — 50 subscribers that I have enrolled into Magnetic sponsoring

         15 distributors into my primary MLM

Stars — to have this website pay for itself and all the investments to get it up and running and be self-sufficient by April 18th.

            to be making $2000/month in alternative streams of income from this blog by August 1st.

Moon — to have this website pay for itself and all the investments to get it up and running and be self-sufficient by July 8th.

            to be making $1000/month in alternative streams of income from this blog by November 1st.

Stars — to have weekly interviews with successful entrepreneurs posted weekly to this blog starting April 18th.

Moon — to have monthly interviews with successful entrepreneurs posted weekly to this blog starting April 18th.

Feeling inspired? Go to my Your goals tab and leave your goals in a comment.

 Here’s to a future of abundance. Thank you for reading my blog and I hope I can help you along the way to your goals through networking.

Michael Bilicska

Welcome to my blog.

I named my URL Network 2 your goal because it is easier to achieve your goals with the help of others. I also realized through the school of hard knocks that it is better to learn from the mistakes of others.

 My intent is to give back to the online community that is helping me become financially independent along the way getting there. I will chronicle my exploits (both the money makers and money pits) along the way.

 There are countless gurus and blogs being written by the formerly (and often still) successful, but I am hoping that my unique perspective of not having reached it yet will help people a similar situation. I would rather be shown how to make within 60 days $500/month that is scalable to tens of thousands per month over time and hard work, than reading capture page after capture page of other people’s Pay Pal account snapshots promising you tens of thousands per month by just buying their program.

 With the advent of the internet,the pace of information on how to make money from a network has spiraled out of control. I would like to give you a map through the minefield. Hopefully, I have learned enough from others before me to not get blown up before I get to the other side.

 I will try to keep a mix of chronicles, reviews, informational and inspirational articles as the meat of my blog (Where’s the beef?). I have my own unique sense of humor that I will throw in from time to time with the occasional references from the 60s-90s that will hopefully make you smile.

 YOUR NETWORK = YOUR NET WORTH

 Surround yourself with successful people and you have to try really hard not to succeed. Surround yourself with people that view the world as a place of scarcity and you will be stuck where you are now at best. Surround yourself with people who look at the world as a place of abundance and you will be pleasantly overwhelmed with a sea of opportunity.

 And if you can’t surround yourself with successful people physically, virtually is the next best thing. The old way to do that was through books and periodicals. But the times have changed.

 Here’s to a future of abundance. Thank you for reading my blog and I hope I can help you along the way to your goals through networking.

Michael Bilicska