It's Thursday Again!

I got laid off from my best paying job six months ago.  After 2 months of being unemployed I found another job that was the next worst/best job I ever had.  It is a nationally well known company.  It boiled down to working 14 hours/day, 60 hours/week for $30K.  That's $10/hr and absolutely no personal life!!!  The wonderful thing about my experience is that it reminded me how much I love helping people. I was also missing the freedom and flexibility of being self-employed/independent contractor.  Pain isn't always bad.  Pain causes us to change.  Pain helps us focus on what is really important.

There's no accounting equation for our business!

Ten years ago I was a Controller for a construction company. In accounting there is the "matching" principle where it is the accountants job to match the costs that generated revenue and that principle necessites using accrual accounting. The problem with the accrual system is accountants only accrue expenses and revenue for 1 year. So how does an accountant match a onetime expense that generates a lifetime income?

We need to stop doing the accounting on our efforts. We can't do it for our money, so why torture ourselves? Our business can not be accounted for. It can only be shared!

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We ask people the wrong question.

In our business we say that 'professionals' sort and 'amateurs' convince. We ask people the "sorting" question, 'Do you want to make extra money from home?' Yes or no. But that question really doesn't get at the heart of what our business is all about and we come across as a "salesperson".

Most People Have Great Sales Resistance Skills

Have you ever heard the expression, "It's a battle field I don't want to die on."?

Well, for me - selling something is a battle field that I would certainly die on.

If I'm going to build a business how do you not "die on that battlefield"?  Don't be a salesman!  Don't make it into a battlefield!


3 things to think about:

"Just let the tools do the selling."

Boy, if there ever was a sales pitch it is this;

Prospective new Distributor: "I'm not interested because I don't like sales and I don't want to do any selling."

Recruiter: "I know exactly how you feel, I've felt the same way, but I found that in our company you don't have to be a sales person. All you have to do is pass out "tools". Just let the tools do the selling. You can do that, right?"

Prospective new Distributor: "I guess I can. I was really impressed with the DVD I watched. It hope it really works that way. I need to find a way to get more time and money freedom. OK. I'll sign-up."

Telling new Distributors that all they have to do hand out "tools" is like ordering an Infantry charge against a machine gun position. It is going to get really bloody - really fast! 98% will not survive.

What a journey!

Trying to start (re-start) a home-based business is probably harder than actually doing the business. Over the past few months I've found different pieces that I wanted but finding them all in the same place has been difficult.

I'll not get preachy tonight. There are three things you need, like a three-legged stool.

First, you need a reputable company that has been around awhile and they have a clear vision of what they want to do - like help their distributors succeed.

Second, you need products that people really want and need.

Third, you need a marketing system that works.

The tragedy of MLM is that often you don't know you're missing one of the legs until you have many months and many dollars invested.

I've learned to cut my losses quickly - get out - do something else.

I've finally found an opportunity that has everything I'm looking for. More about that later.

The purpose of having a blog is to blog. I'm going to blog more. I promise.

The Dream

If you had a choice between taking $1 million dollars or penny and having it doubled everyday for 30 days which one would you choose?

Value of a Penny Doubled Everyday For 30 Days

Day 5 = $0.32
Day 10 = $10.24
Day 15 = $327.68
Day 20 = $10,485.76
Day 25 = $335,544.32

Day 27 = $1,342,177.28
(Exceeds $1 million!)

Day 30 = $10,737,418.24

Did you notice that in the last 3 days the value of the penny grew from more than $1 million to ten times that amount?

In MLM it takes time before you can see anything happening. But given enough time there will be wealth. A very successful friend of mine recently told me that in MLM you get rich by doing the business badly and never quitting.

Isn't that just the opposite of what most of us do? We focus on being perfect, but then we'll listen to someone and get discouraged and then we quit. I know I've quit MLM at least 10 times.

Hello world!

This blog is a journey. But at the heart of this journey is a dream. It is a real dream and there are those who have achieved this dream. The dream is building a MLM business. There are 100 people who will tell you it is impossible for every 1 person who will never give up on their dream.

The secret - don't listen to the 100 dream thieves! Be the 1 who never quits.

I hope your journey will be "A Moveable Feast" and that you will never quit. Ironically, Ernest Hemmingway, did the ultimate quit - he blew his brains out. He cared too much about what the world might think of him. Ernest Hemmingway was a coward. Cowardice will always cost you your life.