Becoming a Network Marketing Professional

When people ask me “what do I do”, I say I am a Network Marketing Professional

When you say to someone you are a Network Marketing Professional (NMP) you are telling them something that they were probably not expecting. I am a NMP is telling them you are proud of your business. The other guy has been thrown already because in his mind NM equates to Pyramid selling and here is somebody who is upfront about it. And when you say professional, it is telling them that you are serious and are probably in it for the long run.

Note here, please check out blog 4 which explains the difference between Network Marketing and pyramid selling.

Wow! We have put a lot of insecurities to bed by telling people we are a NMP. I am now proud to call myself a NMP. And remember when you say Network Marketing you are mentioning that word that keeps coming up in the press. And then they may ask you “what’s it all about”.

I believe by calling yourself a NMP changes your mindset to a business professional. As the name infers Network Marketing Professional, everything is in the name. We are fundamentally Networking to gain business, that is what we are creating here is our network. We are engaging and communicating with people, through as many means as necessary. Once we have a network we can then do the Marketing bit. The marketing bit is giving people information about you and your services, the business opportunity and what sets you apart from the competition. The Professional bit is that people can rely on you, they can trust you and that you are there to help them anytime they need you.

Network Marketing is the future, it will boom, I guarantee this, so you need to understand this business. The reason I am so sure about this is because once you have grasped how residual income works and the “light bulb” goes on, you will see it as the only way to build yourself a retirement income. With the Utility Warehouse you get paid every single month on your customers utility bills. You do the job once, you get paid forever (as long as the customers stays with the company), how good is that? Songwriters get paid a royalty every time their record gets played on radio, songs that were written 30 years ago, same principle.

I believe this business is about financial independence and time freedom. To create a lifestyle for you and your family. So when I talk to people about NM I talk to them about lifestyle. I ask them what do you want to achieve in your life? What were your dreams when you started out? It is never too late to start.

Don’t listen to the dream stealers; take control of your life.

Network Marketing is about a lot of people each doing a little bit. If the time is now right for you to join this business I need you to phone me to discuss you joining my team and in time you to will also become a Network Marketing Professional.

My question to you therefore is, “Are you ready to become a Network Marketing Professional”?

Telephone now on: 0800 458 3940

Network Marketing, what are you waiting for?

Can I come back to pensions again, because it quite frankly does my head in. As I have mentioned before pensions in this country are a complete scandal, (beyond belief, staggering, shocking), why do we put up with it?

Is the government going to look after you in your retirement, what do you think?

There is a better question here and that is what will the government retirement age be in a few years time 67, 68, 70, 75, 80. ?

You are not concerned that the government is going to scrap the retirement age because they do not have the resources to pay pensions in the future or if they can it will be an utterly derisory amount, because you have made an adequate pension provision for yourself and your family. I hope you truly are OK but I can tell you I have hardly met a single person who has made adequate pension provision and for those who thought they had, it had been screwed in the stock market downturn.

I believe people want freedom, they want to enjoy life, they want safety, they want to protect their families and want to feel like they are contributing. How are they going to do that when people are being treated with utter contempt by governments and employers?

The world of work has changed forever and we need to get use to the idea. People in future will have frequent job changes, their salaries will max out when they are between 35 – 40 years old depending on how well they do. From then on their income will fall as they try to hold on to employment, remember there will be no age limit on retirement you will end up in B&Q aged 85 sweeping the floors, also in this scenario it will be impossible to save up for any significant pension pot.

So here is the killer guys, start a NM business, work it for 10 years and have an income of £10K (depending on your efforts) per month, yes guys per month, (even if it was £5K per month after 10 years that would be fine for most people), which keeps on going up for the rest of your life, Job done.

Your NM business is your pension. When you look at it like that it is so simple. I predict NM is going to boom from now on in. Hundreds of thousands of people are going to join this industry over the next five years and you probably only need 4 or 5 superstars in your downlines for you to be very successful in this type of business. That is all, how brilliant is that?

I also predict that many more professional people will be joining network marketing businesses in the future. They will see the business model and will run with it. They will invest in making themselves successful, you want these people in your business. This essence of this business as you are aware is that you have a lot of people, each doing a little bit.

This is your pension.

Network Marketing is a business

Can I be frank, if you know me that is what I do most of the time.

Network Marketing is not for the faint hearted is requires you to work the business hard, just like any other business. The problem (and brilliant opportunity) with this business is that the entry fee or start up is very low with some companies charging as little as a £100 to join.

When I say problem what I mean is that at £100 or £200 people do not give the opportunity the justice it deserves and will “play with it” as I call it. They test it out on friends and family, get a bit of rejection and “park it”, it’s not for them, the company products were not good enough, (some companies will even give them their money back if they do not like it). Little do they realise it was not the company but their attitude towards the opportunity in the first place. This scenario is very common indeed and this gives our industry the poor reputation in that it has high failure rates.

Perhaps the NM companies should charge say £10,000 for the “franchise” that way you would get serious people who would treat it like a business. I could discuss this all day, however it would not get us anywhere as that is not the case.

So the answer here is that we pay £200 for the franchise, but treat it as if we paid £20,000 and therefore have a £20,000 mentality to it. And then put a business plan in place to work the business part time for the next five years. If you do that you will be successful in my opinion.

So in four short lines I have told you how you need to operate to be successful, this is not a complicated business. What you also need to do is to have an upline mentor who will work with you to ensure you are on the right track. I work closely with my team ensuring they get the best advice and help.

The brilliant opportunity is that for as little as £100 you become a business owner and if you treat it like a business as I say many times, you will over a five year time frame will have built up a significant residual income, and here is the best bit, which will continue to grow and is totally yours. So you can tell your day job boss that you no longer need to work for them, because you are now earning far more from your part time than you do from your day job.

If you join my team I will help you become a Network Marketing professional.

Are you re-visiting Network Marketing?

The scenario goes something like this.

You have had your fingers burnt in the past, company went bust, your upline gave you no support, the products did not sell and everybody you spoke to was not interested, including your partner.

But fundamentally you had brought into the concept of residual income being a great way of earning money and that possibly it was a way of giving you a level of financial income that would pay off the mortgage, maybe.

The reason then you may be reading this blog is that you are checking it out again and maybe if you could find the right company and an upline that would help you, you might again be interested. Please read on.

Network Marketing has evolved rapidly in the UK over the last ten years, however it has never had a high profile unlike some other parts of the world. This is partly due to the conservative (negative) attitude to this business in the UK.

In Network Marketing you are buying into a lifestyle opportunity, which takes some people a long time to realise that they could actually break out of their routine existence and take control of their lives. The British have been conditioned for routine and mediocrity and to look disdainfully at successful people. (If you don’t agree with that, comment on my blog please.)

As I have said in my previous blogs “the times they are a changing” and it is the responsibility of people like me to promote the very positive side of this industry and to attract a new generation of people who want to take control of their lives and create a lifestyle for themselves and their families where they do not have to worry about the stock market and the size of their pension pot.

What you are looking for is two things; one is the right company and secondly to be a successful team and upline.

The industry has now got its act together, gone are the days when it was a numbers game, recruit enough people and some would be OK, that is not the way to do it. Training is now the priority; it is all about 100% confidence giving everybody the chance to be successful. Your upline is responsible for you being successful.

What determines whether you are successful however is not necessarily the company and its products, it is fundamentally about your inner belief / drive / commitment / passion. If you have this then I will work with you to provide you with the necessary skill sets and mentoring to be successful in this business. If I can give you that then you will be successful. There are now a large number of very successful Network Marketing professionals in this country and it is my aim is to work with you to give you the best opportunity possible to be successful and for you to become a Network Marketing Professional in your own right.

Those skill sets will also include embracing all the various technologies including maximising your presence on the internet and being able to attract people to your sites.

How much is your pension worth?

Have you watched the Panorama program entitled “Who will save the savers” yet? You can still check it out on bbc iplayer.

Comments made include:

Average pension pot is £25,000 paying £1800 per year, (that is astonishing and frightening at the same time)
Government has let us down, people feel aggrieved and betrayed
Government does not know what it is doing on pensions
People having to work until they are 70 -75
We are heading for a disaster if we do not get a grip, what are we going to live on?
Share prices down 30%, could take decades for the markets to recover, (if they do)
Spain property prices down 40%
UK property prices down 20%
91% of final salary pensions in the private sector are now showing a deficit.
Public disorder could happen

Observations
I hadn’t realised that the pension situation was a bad as it obviously is. We all want to live to a ripe old age, but it is looking like the majority of people are going to live in poverty.

People need to review their pension pots urgently in light of the recent stock market and banking turmoil and ask themselves four questions.
What sort of lifestyle do I want (deserve) when I retire?
What date am I going to retire?
Will my pension give me that lifestyle?
And if not what am I going to do about it?

What is my point here?

My point is that there is another business opportunity out there that will give you the security you are looking for. Network Marketing will pay you a residual income every single month and your income is willable in full to the next generation so that your children can carry on earning the ever-increasing income for years to come. How fantastic is that?

There are record numbers of people who are now joining this business, why?

Because they have had enough of the system, (because it clearly doesn’t work) and they more than anything want to take control of their lives.

Have you got what it takes?

Network Marketing is not a job in the strictest sense of the word, because the way it pays you is different from the normal. You get paid on your efforts and your results. So the opposite is therefore true, no effort no results, no pay. Lots of people in hourly paid work can get away with not doing a lot and still get paid. That doesn’t work with NM.

As I said in blog 3 what you are doing is “Creating a life for yourself where you take personal control and responsibility”

Can you do this business, seriously, can you?

This is the key to you being successful, because the one thing you have to have to do this business is belief in yourself. If you have this then you will achieve your goals for your life. Because when you believe you will focus on your goals. This is why so many people fail in this business. It is not the products or services necessarily it is their commitment.

Belief = Commitment + Focus

Another issue with NM is that people will do it part time, a “bolt on” to the day job and therefore it is very easy to get blown off course and also the compensation plan will not reward you in the early days, (remember it is an exponential curve). So in the early days you will not earn as much as you thought you would. This can be difficult to explain to the “other half” and is another major reason why people fall off. However having said that once the curve starts to really bend you will earn a lot more than you thought were going to earn. So what is five years in the scheme of things, if you believe in the company and you believe in its products and services?

Look at it like this, in the early years you are putting down a foundation built on rock, (we will come back to this later). You are not going to earn a life changing income for 2-3 years maybe, (some people will blitz it in 18 months but I am talking about most people here). But as long as you keep doing it you will be successful. I say to people do as many hours as you can, because the more hours you do the quicker you will achieve the goals you have set for yourself, (obviously) and I also say, never give up.

The problem for many people is that they are looking for quantum leaps, get rich quick schemes, they don't happen guys. I think five years in the course of your life is a pretty quick time period if you think about it. No plan, no success is also the reality, what is your plan B?

Network marketing is the ideal vehicle for people who seriously want to take charge of their lives and are ready to do it. If the “light goes on” you are there. There is nothing stopping you.

Network Marketing and Pyramid Selling

Did you know that NM is a 120 billion $ industry operating in 100 countries and involving 67 million people. All those people cannot be wrong.

The definition of Network Marketing

“Network Marketing is the dominant form of Direct Sales where there are two opportunities; the first is the Direct Sales income opportunity to build a customer base. The other is a business opportunity to develop a Marketing Network from which you will earn commissions on the sales of multiple levels of Networkers. This is why it used to be called Multi-Level Marketing, or MLM”.

The excitement of Network Marketing is that with a minimal investment there is the possibility to create an enormous and residual income. The flexibility of the opportunity allows for incomes from a few hundred pounds to many thousands of pounds (and even millions are possible) from the same basic Network Leadership franchise concept.

What I want to do now before we move forward is to nail the bane of our lives The Pyramid, save to say it has proven to be the most resilient structure ever to be built by man, (ironic).

People bracket NM and Pyramid selling as one and the same, questioning whether it is legal or not. We are plagued by this phantom beast called “Pyramid Selling”. It is the tool used by sceptical and uninspiring pessimists to attack less confident distributors. As I have also explained people do not know what they are talking about when they ask is it a pyramid?

The facts are:
· The term Pyramid Selling is coined when the majority of income for the company is made from the money people invest when they join, rather than from product sales. Companies that employ this Strategy are no more than recruiting schemes where for every winner there is a loser. Customers are the only people who can introduce profit into a business and make it legitimate.

· Franchising was originally called Pyramid Selling because companies made their money based on people joining rather than customer sales so many people failed, losing their investment in the process. The British Franchise Association was created primarily to try to disassociate reputable franchisors from pyramid selling operations which had proliferated in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.

So you can see that Pyramid selling came out of the franchising industry and not the direct selling industry. See you didn’t know that and neither does anybody else. So when the next person says is it a pyramid ask, “Please tell me what you understand is pyramid selling and then please tell me how that relates to Network marketing”?

A pyramid scheme is simple to detect. You do this by looking at the product and by asking yourself whether it offers real value and excitement to a set customer target market? If it does not and customer sales are unlikely then the scheme will eventually be totally focussed on recruiting people and is, therefore, a pyramid.