Early in my network marketing career I was easily derailed. I spent thousands of dollars on buying so called MLM gurus’ next “Biggest Secret” that only the top 1% knew. I was looking for a magic bullet that would be my breakthrough to success.
I could feel the magic buzz of being where I wanted to be as the credit card transaction took place for that course that would give me the million dollar answer, that quantum leap.
I could see my new blog post at the top of Google search results, generating me a flood of traffic just because I has purchased an SEO training course. I could see myself being able to sponsor 10 new recruits a month into my deal just because I bought a heavy hitter’s training CD on how to do it. [click to continue…]
Do you know the reason why most people don’t own their lives? The reason why they just mindlessly go to their day jobs every morning and park themselves in front of the mind-numbing television every evening? It’s because they’ve never made a decision to own their lives.
Some people go to work because they have to. They have mortgages and bills to pay. Others just go because heaps of other people are doing it. Very few do it because they love it. Most people just don’t make the important life decisions and because of that, the most important decisions are made for them.
Rarely do people work at careers truly of their own choosing. Most people work at their jobs because it was the first place hiring! They say “Oh well, it’s not really the job I want but they’re offering me a good package with benefits, so I’ll take it until I find my ideal career” They rarely do, such is their lack of self worth. [click to continue…]
Recently I received an email from a visitor to my blog. He asked me about my opinion on his company, especially its compensation plan. I sent him some training material provided by Mentoring For Free that allowed him to do his own assessments of his company.
Here is part of his letter to me after he had gone through the training materials and saw for himself what he was in for…
Hi Wayne,
Thank you so much for your assistance. What an eye opener! Here I am wondering if the company has a good compensation plan when I should have been more concerned with how the company could discard me. Although I believe in the product, and the need for the product, I no longer believe in the company. Especially with clause X on page 2 of their “Terms and Conditions” policy, that’s about as straight forward and simple an “out clause” as you can get.
The information you are providing should be mandatory for anyone considering investing their time and money into any MLM offering. Hopefully as your word grows it will become increasingly difficult for crappy companies to con people into joining them. The public (myself definitely included) are way to trusting, or (like me) looking at the wrong thing. As you covered with your first recorded call, if the foundation is sand – my house will always be in trouble.
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iLearningGlobal is the second major MLM company to terminate it’s pay plan in 2010, and therefore all of its distributors. It follows XELR8′s painful decision to go direct sales in February. It was announced on March 17 that iLG will cease distributing it’s products via MLM and go to a more traditional retail sales model.
This decision will be hugely detrimental to the many distributors who have put their belief, faith, trust and energy into the company for their future. It will be especially so for the top distributors who will bear the responsibility of emotions from their entire downline team. It’s also bad for the entire MLM industry as many will lose confidence in it as a vehicle.
iLearningGlobal began in early 2008 with Brian Tracy, a global leader in personal development, as one of its founders. It was in pre-launch for about year before it officially launched in March 2009. Come March 2010, the company has failed its hard working distributors. [click to continue…]
In my last post, I mentioned that a friend of mine once said to me: “For you to have more, other people must have less. If you want to be rich, you HAVE TO rip other people off”. Sadly, a lot of people will carry this self limiting belief on their network marketing journey and it stops them from becoming successful, until they change their beliefs.
If that statement was true, “If you want to be rich, you HAVE TO rip other people off…”, then the world that we live in would be a whole lot different. We’d have a world where the vast majority are poor and uneducated, slaving away for the very few elite. That is clearly not the case.
Most people who are rich deserve to be rich because they have created tremendous value for others. Poor people have very little value to offer to anybody. Poor people are not just materially poor, they are mentally poor. And it’s that mentality that keeps them poor. [click to continue…]
To be highly successful in network marketing, we must develop the belief and courage that it’s possible and that we can do it. Changing our beliefs is more important than any technique or skill we can ever learn. It’s a process that requires time, dedication and persistence.
When we start our network marketing journey, we often come “programmed” with beliefs that won’t serve us. They are more likely to hinder us. We need to get rid of self limiting beliefs in order to achieve the goals that we set for ourselves. We need to develop the belief that we deserve to be rich.
Back when I was working as an engineer in Sydney, I shared flat with a young colleague who was just beginning his career. Highly opinionated, had a vast bank of useless general knowledge, but a great, kind and friendly person.
One day we were having a discussion about the differences between the rich and the poor and I’ll never forget what he said to me. He spoke with absolute certainty and said “For you to have more, other people must have less. If you want to be rich, you HAVE TO rip other people off.” [click to continue…]
