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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

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