Most Multilevel Marketers fail miserably in their business ventures, but continue on, jumping from program to program, believing that one day... they would get it right. But there is some bad news: that 'day', for many of them, will never come. Why? Well let's look at some statistics which clearly indicates that MLM is not an effective way for the average person to get rich.
MLM Distributors are part of a group that has an estimated 20,000,000 members worldwide. That's 20,000,000 people chasing an impossible dream. Here's why: Out of the estimated 20,000,000 MLM distributors around the world, there are LESS than 1,000 of them earning exceptional amounts of money each month...in excess of $100,000 per month. Only another 5,000 earn real money...$25,000-99,000 per month. Only another 25,000 earn some money...$2,000-25,000 per month. Only another 100,000 earn enough to cover expenses...$500-2,000 per month. The other 19,869,000 dreamers earn virtually NOTHING each month.
So each individual has a statistical chance of 0.5 percent of breaking even, and a lot LESS of getting rich.To put it another way. ONLY 1 out of every 20,000 MLM distributors get rich. ONLY 1 out of every 200 MLM distributors break even. The idea that one could beat those odds, are totally unrealistic.
The concept of MLM is based on "relationship marketing" or "word of mouth selling." With the onset of Internet Marketing, relationship building took a "back seat". Many believe a website by itself would close the sale. By an large, it does not happen. Everyone has a website spending hard earned money in advertising that is supposed to "drive traffic". Well...think about it...if just sending traffic or doing an email blast would bring one "paid sign ups", why would the advertiser sell or rent his data base...it would make more sense for him to market to his own data base, and get rich that way...wouldn't it?
There is a concepts that worked before, is working now, and will continue to work. It is are also in the field of marketing, but it is NOT MLM; it is Network Marketing...THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE. One does indeed need to build a network whereby the concept of "leveraging" could take place. Leveraging is necessary for true wealth building to take place. Here again however, Network Marketing runs into the same roadblocks as MLM in terms of trying to build with only a website.
In today's current environment there is only one sure way for an individual to build wealth on the Internet, and that is to have someone else do the work. To do the kind of 'work' that most people don't have the time or the experience to do, but work that is indeed a necessity if one is to achieve major success on the Internet.
Yes indeed, there are many people making "insane" daily, weekly and monthly income via the Internet, but they are following the 'new' trend...they let the professionals do the ALL the selling and the talking. Network Marketing companies are realizing they need to create systems whereby "every single distributor has an equal opportunity to succeed" And guess what... it is working! Companies that have taken this initiative are experiencing massive growth and their distributors are making incredible sums of money every single day.
So that's the answer for anyone who genuinely wants to change his or her life...who wants to generate an incredible on going income, in an incredibly short period of time, without all the headaches, and via the Internet. Simple: find a Network Marketing company that offers professionals who do all the work and leave you alone to happily run all the way to the bank.
It must be a full proof system designed to eliminate failure; yes a system designed to eliminate all the headaches and drawbacks...a system no doubt designed to create millionaires
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Hoarding - Poor Bookseller Etiquette
Over the past few years, attending the pre-sale event at library book sales has become increasingly unpleasant owing to the behavior of a few online booksellers. It seems they think they have the right to walk in, gather up anything and everything they suspect of having a value, piling it all in a corner, and then taking their time to go through their pile and sort out what is really worthwhile.
I have been to some pre-sale events where I have seen several booksellers do this with thousands of books in their piles and I think it is time to end this obnoxious behavior by having more book sale events ban hoarding and expel the booksellers that do it. If it is going to be allowed, what is to stop a single bookseller from walking in and saying, "The pre-sale event is now over, I am purchasing the entire lot, or at least anything that is worth buying." Then he/she can spend the entire evening going through the books and deciding what he/she wants while leaving the rest for the book sale when it opens to the public.
It is really rude when a bookseller walks into a pre-sale event and hoards thousands of books as though they have some sort of exclusive right to sort through them. To help the event sponsors, I think the rest of us attending these events should get one of the volunteers to accompany us when we walk over to another bookseller's hoard and start going through it. Then when the hoarder says the books in the pile are theirs, the volunteer can start boxing them up and invoicing the hoarder for all the books in their pile. Hey, if they want to grab a thousand books and help the fundraiser, great, but when they remove a book from the table/shelf and put it in their pile, they should have to buy it. I am not opposed to people scanning or looking up prices before buying, but they should not be allowed to cordon off a thousand books from other booksellers while they exercise some sort of privileged sorting of their own. What then would stop me from paying the admission for ten bodybuilding friends to get into the pre-sale event and stand guard over all the tables and shelves with the best books to allow me to scan them before any other booksellers are allowed to look at them.
Business is business, but this rude and obnoxious behavior at book sales has to end. No matter how competitive the sale is, I will never sacrifice my integrity or my manners by participating in hoarding. If I put a book in my box, I am going to buy it and I expect any other bookseller that attends to buy the books they remove from the available inventory to do the same.
If you are a bookseller attending an event that I go to, and you slink off to a corner with a hoard of books that you think you have some sort of exclusive right to sort through, think again. I will be right over to go through the books you have hoarded and I will assert my right to go through them as well. The rest of us attending these pre-sale events are paying the same admission as you, and we all have the rights to go through all the books. If you opt to hoard large piles, it is okay as long as you intend to buy them, but it is not okay if you just intend to sort through them exclusively. Expect more of us to come over and sort through the piles you have hoarded when we see you are simply sorting through them yourself.
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Michael E. Mould is the author of "Online Bookselling: A Practical Guide with Detailed Explanations and Insightful Tips," [Paperback ISBN 1427600708, CD-ROM ISBN 1599714876] and the developer of "Bookkeeping for Booksellers" [CD ISBN 1427600694], you can learn more about online bookselling at: http://www.online-bookselling.com , or by emailing mike@online-bookselling.com .
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