So many network marketing companies are here one day and gone the next. These opportunities, especially online, are a dime a dozen these days and as quickly as they come onto the scene they vanish.
I know the allure of such companies. I have joined several “ground floor” online network marketing opportunities in the past, only to be let down time and time again. I was either too late to cash in or the company fell apart in a matter of months. I finally decided enough was enough. Time to stop messing around with the small-timers. I would only sign up with one of the big boys, one of the top four or five network marketing companies in terms of profits and longevity.
I quickly learned that there was no such thing as “market saturation” and that even a 50 year old opportunity could still be profitable for anyone. Once I learned some basic Internet marketing skills and applied them to my network marketing company’s opportunity I was well on my way and Pro Network Marketing was born. It is now one of the fastest growing opportunities on the Internet, and we’re doing it with a multi level marketing company that was supposed to be old, stale, had a poor reputation and had reached “market saturation.”
The lesson here is that you don’t need to find a “start-up” to make money in network marketing. It’s actually preferable that you don’t. Do some thorough research on the bigger, longer-lasting companies and see if any of them offer a compensation plan, product line and overall potential for profit that meets your needs. You likely won’t be disappointed.
It’s no wonder the network marketing industry has such a piss-poor reputation. Almost everyone in this business is out to screw you, and it’s not just limited to the scumbags in the traditional offline network marketing world.
The online “gurus” are almost as bad, with tactics and bad business practices that closely resemble their partners in crime at seminars around the world, with the only difference being that they spew their garbage in electronic form, from Web sites, blogs, forums and e-mail newsletters.
Make no mistake about it, the heads of the motivational organizations around the world, along with all of their cronies, who run seminars and conferences and sell useless CD’s, DVD’s and motivational books in the form of a business tool pyramid, are some of the lowest scum on Earth and are just a step above serial killers and pedophiles in my book.
These cult leaders don’t care who they hurt mentally, emotionally and financially as long as they can make more money. They are some of the greediest, blood-sucking parasites in the world.
But as bad as they are, their online counterparts are almost as corrupt. Millions of people first deal with network marketing the old-fashioned way, by being recuited at a gas station or book store and then going to a home or hotel meeting. Most people will quickly lose interest or belief in these ridiculous business practices, but some will have their interest piqued enough to continue their network marketing pursuits on the Internet.
In pursuit of building a true network marketing home business, many potential distributors will turn to online “gurus” or Internet marketing experts, as they often refer to themselves, in order to build a successful home business. What they don’t realize is that most of the big-time online network marketers are using the same greedy “business-building” tactics, selling useless e-books, expensive Internet marketing kits and instructional DVD’s, monthly Web site and membership fees and shockingly, the same motivational b.s. products that are still being pushed by the old-timers.
You just don’t notice because it’s online and seemingly “automated,” and they’ve effectively created the illusion that their systems are much evolved from the way things were done in the 1970′s and 1980′s. Well, we’re here to tell you that they’re not, but they are out to steal your money and leave you no closer to your goal of financial independence than before.
Here at Pro Network Marketing, we caution you to be very careful of any network marketing advice given on the Internet, especially if it costs money to get it. One obvious exception would be our own company site, which is a completely free source of network marketing information and advice.
One of the few other network marketing online experts that we recommend is Ann Sieg. Ann generally provides good tips for building a network marketing home business on the Internet, and she does offer some quality information for free. While we don’t agree with everything Ann says, such as you can’t build a completely automated business where someone builds a down-line for you, as we do here at Pro Network Marketing, she does offer some worthwhile insights on the network marketing industry.
So be careful of who you trust online, and don’t assume that just because it’s online network marketing, it’s automatically better that traditional offline network marketing.
There are only two ways to make passive income and create massive wealth through residual income in the world today, yet most people spend their whole life in the active income bracket. More than 90% of people work a job as an employee or they own their own traditional business. It is very difficult to create wealth doing either of these two activities, especially in today’s economy, where most people are living paycheck to paycheck and are not able to save any money at the end of the month.
Besides that, saving your way to wealth is almost impossible, and if you are actually disciplined enough to do it, you’ll probably be in your 60′s or 70′s and ready to retire anyway. When you stop working these two methods actively, the money stops coming in. That’s why you need to look to passive income in the future. The two ways to create passive income are through investing in the stock market and through network marketing.
All indicators point to the stock market going up in early 2009 when Barack Obama takes office, so it’s a good idea to save some extra money to invest in order to take advantage of this situation. Big corporations are getting handouts from the government left and right, and their stocks are sure to rise once Obama takes over in January. Although I may not agree personally with some of Obama’s policies, it does look like a pretty sure thing that his economic plan is going to put the stock market on the road to a fast recovery.
Everyone knows the market fluctuates, and that it won’t stay down forever. When many of the major stocks are rapidly rising back to their previous levels and beyond, you want to be in a perfect position to invest money into them and ride the wave. The problem for most people is not that they don’t know where to invest, because there’s enough information on the Internet these days that can help you out in that area. The real problem is a lack of money to invest.
Rather than taking on a part-time job to build up this extra money, or struggling for years in a traditional business, where you have to risk thousands of dollars that you may not even have just to get it going, why not look to a low-risk network marketing opportunity instead?
I encourage people to research several network marketing opportunities and pick the one that suits them best, even if it’s not the Pro Network Marketing business opportunity. Like in any endeavor, it may take some time to create wealth through online network marketing, but a strategy that we certainly endorse at our company is creating multiple streams of income.
This could mean owning several network marketing businesses at once or perhaps doing an online affiliate program with your network marketing business. But the most lucrative method might be making some extra money with a network marketing business and than re-investing that money into the stock market. These are the two best methods I have seen to create long-term, passive, residual income, so why not take advantage of both of them?
Of course, if you find the right network marketing company to align with, this can definitely be a strong source of monthly passive income for the rest of your life, one that can actually make you wealthy in a relatively short period of time. So it’s not a matter of network marketing not being able to pay you enough to live on or even become wealthy, but we encourage multiple streams of income so that if one were to dissipate, you’d have another one or two streams to rely on.
Therefore, take our advice and invest a small amount of money in a network marketing business today, build up a good chunk of cash over the next few months and then invest some of it into wall street to maximize your earnings and have your money truly work for you.
We don’t plan on doing too many posts on this blog promoting the Pro Network Marketing business opportunity, which can be found in the pages section, but we would like to clarify some things and answer some frequently asked questions about our opportunity in this post.
First off, the question we probably receive the most often is “What’s the catch? It can’t be that simple.” Well, quite frankly, it is that simple. Shop online for products you need, we’ll build your down-line for you, you make money, we make money, everyone makes money. It’s a win-win for everyone involved.
If there is a catch, it’s that you do actually have to spend some money, first to register and then to buy products each month, but you have 6 full months to get a refund on not only your registration fee, but also on any product purchases. This should be looked at as an investment, but at the same time you will be getting some quality products, which you can use yourself, give away, or sell. We encourage that you sell products if possible, but it’s certainly not mandatory. This brings us to our next point.
People often tell us this opportunity looks great and all, but isn’t it a buying club, or investment scheme, or (gasp) pyramid? Our answer to those three questions is yes, sort of, and yeah pretty much. Let us explain why this is not a bad thing. First of all, this is not a buying club in the sense that you join to save money on products, because to be honest, our products are competitively priced in some cases and high-priced in others. But 95% of the people we talk to love the products and think they are much better than comparable items you’d find in stores.
This is a buying club in the sense that you are buying products and sponsoring other people to buy products so that you can earn a percentage of the point volume that they generate from their purchases. The more people under you buying products, the more money you make.
Secondly, this is not an investment “scheme,” because that implies that it’s a shady scam to take money from people, like a chain letter, and it’s most definitely not. But you are investing money into signing up with the company and into monthly product purchases, and you are gaining a return on that investment when other people that do the same are placed underneath you in your down-line. So it is an investment “plan,” not a scheme.
Thirdly, many might wonder how a so-called pyramid could be profitable for everyone involved, and more importantly, how it could even be legal. We are protected by the company’s rules and 50 years of business tradition that says you really don’t have to sell, and it’s okay to build continuous depth rather than width in a down-line. But how can this be a good money-making system for distributors?
Well, it’s wildly profitable for anyone who signs up as long as the down-line never stops growing, meaning, as long as new people never stop coming into the program. The more people we sponsor for you who are buying products and therefore generating points, the more money you make, because you get credit for the points they do. There is no reason this should ever stop. New people come to our site everyday, more and more people use the Internet and shop online every day, more people turn 18 every day (the legal age to register in this opportunity) and the world’s population continues to grow. There will never be a lack of people to join this opportunity, and we will never reach that mythical “market-saturation” because of the reasons stated above.
What if it were to stop though? As realists, we know that anything can happen and maybe 5 or 10 or maybe even 15 years from now, everything could dry up and people stop signing up in droves, or at all. If this were to happen, which is not very likely, the bottom few levels of the organization would not make any profits and would be stuck buying products for a few months without getting any return on investment (ROI).
Of course, they would realize this and before the end of six months they’d get a full refund on their registration fee and any products they didn’t want. If they were not aware of what was happening, we would tell them, rather than try to make a few more hundred dollars off the backs of innocent people while our company went down the tubes. But we don’t see it ever getting to that point anyway.
So we hope this has answered some questions and clarified the Pro Network Marketing opportunity for you. There’s a reason this is not your average network marketing opportunity. Make a small investment, leave the work to us, and benefit financially for the rest of your life. Contact us here if you wish to do so.