I have to start out by telling you that I am a HUGE believer in Network Marketing, and I have been my entire adult life.

However, I can't condone the outdated and failure-proven approaches of the past in this industry.

Many "Gurus" in the industry are still spouting off about the same old techniques that only work 5 of entrepreneurs that are struggling to apply what your sponsor may have told you...This is directed at you.

I worked VERY hard to implement the strategies suggested by some people in various Network Marketing companies. I even created a couple of great teams of people and a good supplemental income. I just grew tired of passing along the same old useless information that I had been fed. I am not blaming any sponsors or leadership here. I had every choice in the world about who I listened to, and I chose to take their word that their methods would work for me.

Eventually I just got FED UP with the minimal results and the mandatory Auto-Ships, and the phone-calls and the webcasts, and the purchased leads, and the whining distributors, and the penniless prospects that couldn't start a lemonade stand...

Get the point? I just became fed up and decided that there had to be a better way to go about this business.

Frustration Catapulted Me To Do Two Things

First, I made a decision to find a better way to work my business.

Second, I took full responsibility for my business and the results it produces.

Once I made the decision to find a better way, things got interesting very quickly...

I found out that there are hundreds of "Gurus" online professing to have found "THE ANSWER" to all of my marketing problems.

There are affiliate programs - Mostly Garbage

There are a million E-books - Mostly Garbage

There are a ton of hyped-up, over-promising and under-delivering programs and systems.

I began to get extremely OVERWHELMED. Fortunately one of the first programs I bought was a 16-minute speed reading course. (It actually did help) Because for the next two months I immersed myself into the vast amount of information available on the internet to help me grow a huge downline...All the while my downlines were actually shrinking due to my lack of focus!

There are literally millions of ways to grow your business using the internet

For the sake of time, I will not cover ALL of them here.

I discovered a few good resources and decided that I needed to put something into ACTION.

One of the greatest tools I discovered is what I am doing right here...Writing articles and submitting them is a great source of advertising and branding.

Start out by reading a lot of other people's articles. See what gets your attention, what interests you, what strikes you as pertinent or relevant...

Once you have discovered your "Niche", begin seeking out reliable and straight-forward people within that niche.

I will tell you who a few of my favorites are...

Jimmy Brown - He has a tremendous amount of expertise in article and ad writing. As a matter of fact I am using an article creation program of his to write this.

Jonathan Budd - I chose Jonathan Budd as my "Virtual Sponsor" to help guide me through the process of getting started online. His direct and to-the-point writing and videos resonated with me.

Mike Dillard - Mike Dillard's Magnetic Sponsoring and Building on a Budget books should be required reading for anyone that is even remotely interested in using the attraction-based marketing model.

Ann Sieg - Her infamous Renegade Network Marketer book is the complete package. Along with their free and professional training and resources, this is the most comprehensive and thorough way that I have found to learn how to do network marketing online.

Tapping Into The Unlimited Potential Of Web 2.0 Applications

204,000,000 people are estimated to be on MySpace. That makes it the 8th largest nation in the world. This is only one of several LARGE Social-Networking sites out there.

By learning how to tap into this type of site, you will be able to generate an ENDLESS stream of interested prospects, who want to do business exclusively with you.

Using technology to develop relationships and build your own list of hungry prospects is so much easier to do than I imagined.

Today my primary focus is in helping other struggling network marketers make the transition to online marketing techniques. The biggest tip that I can give to anyone who is new to online network marketing is to find a system that will not only give you the tools you need, but the training and instruction to help get things up and running. This is definitely not something you want to attempt to do completely on your own. Believe me, I slowed down my own business by months because I tried to "figure it all out first". You don't have to figure it all out. Learn something and apply it…Learn something else and apply it. Taking a step by step, action-oriented approach will help you transition into internet marketing both quickly and with much less pain and frustration than I did.

Together, through professional and real-world marketing techniques and strategies, we can make a positive impact on the appalling failure rates within the network marketing industry.

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