Most people never achieve any success in network marketing (MLM), let alone long term success, no matter how many hours they put in, how much effort they apply, how much they promote, or how much money they spend in building their business. Unfortunately, after trying several opportunities, they quit, reaching the conclusion that network marketing doesn’t work when the outcome might have been entirely different had they known “The 6Parameters to Profits and Prosperity in Network Marketing-How to Put the Odds of Success in Your Favor” and made one critical decision differently based on those Parameters!
Others jump from one new program to the next, thinking that being in at the beginning of the latest “hot, new deal” is the answer to achieving the success that has always eluded them, only to meet with disappointment time after time when those “hot” new deals fizzle out and/or go out of business, which 98% do within their first 2 years! After wasting a year or more of time in several start ups, not to mention wasting a few hundred to a few thousand dollars in each of them, several years later, after making little to no money, they either quit out of frustration and disappointment, or they are forced to quit network marketing by their now less than supportive spouse.
Once again, had they known “The 6 Parameters to Profits” and made one critical decision differently based on those Parameters, the outcome could have been much different!
Then there are those who, either because they don’t want to work that hard due to a lottery ticket mentality, or because they don’t know any better, choose programs disguised as a network marketing opportunity, when, in reality, they are really nothing more than a glorified “money game.” You know the type. Low cost of entry with a one time purchase typically of $10-$20-$30, up to $100, sometimes more, with claims that you can build a business in 200 countries and you don’t have to sponsor anyone, don’t have to sell anything, don’t have to purchase anything on a monthly basis, don’t have to do anything, and yet, you can still make a fortune, usually thanks to their “amazing, newfangled, patented, reverse, super duper, 3-4-or 5 by something, forced and expandable matrix pay plan” and their claims of massive “spillover.”
First, matrix plans have never worked! Out of the 30,000-50,000 opportunities that have launched over the past 50 years, only one with a matrix plan has experienced any significant, long term success-One! Even that company has modified their plan on numerous occasions in order to retain their leaders. This lone exception was launched in 1985 when there were far fewer opportunities available than there are today. If this same company were launching today, they probably wouldn’t survive long term. Nobody in their right mind would ever bet their success on something that has only worked once! That’s called a fluke!
More importantly, you earn far less in a matrix plan than you do in the other, more well known compensation models, regardless of what wrinkle they throw in, be it a forced matrix, one with compression, expandable, or any other unique twist they put in.
Finally, regulators consider them gimmicky and they’re usually but not always associated with programs that are nothing more than “money games” disguised as a network marketing opportunity!
Nobody who is a serious student of the history of our industry and a knowledgeable and experienced network marketer, would ever get involved with an opportunity that has a matrix pay plan! (You can learn a lot from history!) Unfortunately, many average people fall prey to claims they’ll benefit from “spillover,” evidently unaware that each level you go down in a matrix, the less spillover for any one individual, not more!
The bottom line: There hasn’t been a new company launched in the past 10-15 years with a matrix pay plan that has had any significant, long term success, that is 5-10 years old and generating several hundred million dollars a year in sales with a consumable product. Want to guarantee your failure? Join a program with a matrix pay plan. Want to double your chances for failure? Join a groundfloor program with a matrix pay plan! If someone is attempting to recruit you into a new, start up program with a matrix pay plan-RUN!
Second, programs which promote that “you don’t have to sell anything, sponsor anyone, or do anything” and you can still make money are considered “illegal money games” in virtually every country in the world ! Regulators like to see distributors acquiring a few customers, meeting minimal monthly performance requirements, and performing some type of supervisory function (doing 3 way calls, trainings, etc.) as a justification for receiving income and bonus checks from the company, especially on people they don’t know. If you are receiving income for doing nothing more than signing up in a program and paying for a distributorship, that is no different than buying a lottery ticket! In fact, regulators use lottery statutes frequently in prosecuting programs deemed to be illegal “money games.”
Not only are these “you don’t have to do anything, sell anything, or sponsor anyone and you can still make money” type programs illegal, but, more importantly, they create the illusion that people can make money without having to do anything, learn any new skills, or apply themselves on a consistent basis, that all they have to do is sign up and throw a few dollars at something, or, let someone else do all the work and they’ll make a fortune, all of which ultimately sets the individual up for failure as they never learn and excel at any of the skills necessary to build a long term business and really succeed, and which, at the same time, reinforces the public’s perception that network marketing is nothing but a “money game,” a scam.
More importantly, these types of programs foster a self defeating outcome! If people don’t have to do anything, guess what? They don’t! People, with the exception of leaders who always do more than what is required, will generally do whatever minimum bar you have set and if that bar is zero, that’s exactly what most people do! Zero! Furthermore, this is not building a business!
Classic examples of these types of so-called opportunities which are nothing more than “money games” include ILLEGAL cash gifting programs (it’s amazing the number of people who actually believe cash gifting is legal!) and many programs that involve an internet oriented concept, usually promoting some overpriced software, a traffic generating scheme, or a new e-commerce or social networking type related program.
Not only are most of them nothing more than illegal money games based on the way they are designed and/or promoted, but they’ve been done before and have never worked long term! When will people learn? It’s amazing that people actually fall for these types of programs, but they do! Just make sure you’re not one of them!
Unfortunately, “The 6 Parameters to Profits” are of no value to people who are looking for an “easy, no work required” way to make money. By the way, a common retort from people involved in programs that are actually “money games,” especially cash gifting programs, is “Well, they haven’t been shut down, so the program must be legal.” Using that logic, a person selling illegal drugs must not be doing anything wrong because they’re not in jail! No, it merely means they haven’t popped up on a regulator’s radar screen and been caught yet!
In addition, anytime you see a new company about to launch, or one that has recently launched, or is only a year or so old, and they claim they are going to open in or have opened in 60-70-80-90 countries or in every country around the world, I can guarantee you they are illegally operating in almost all of them!
They haven’t taken the time (at least a year or two) or spent the tremendous amount of money (hundreds of thousands to $1 million or more) it requires to research the laws in each of those 60-70-80-90 countries, file the necessary paperwork, register, post any required bonds, open up required bank accounts, make any necessary adjustments to the program to ensure compliance, and other criteria that countries have mandated you must comply with in order for a network marketing company to legally promote their products and their network marketing opportunity within their particular country!
More importantly, companies that fail to do the necessary work to comply with such requirements are subject to being shut down for being an ILLEGAL program, and distributors are subject to prosecution, fines, and jail terms for being involved in such programs! New and young companies will frequently “fly under the radar,” meaning they’ll go ahead and recruit people in a particular country, take their money, and send them commission checks, hoping they can generate enough business that merits then taking the time and spending the money in order to be compliant in that country.
They’re not only risking the future of their company, but your future as well as, not to mention subjecting you to possible legal action by various authorities and regulators! Why take that risk when there are established companies operating properly that are just as lucrative? (We’ve recently seen a lot of hype touting 2 such programs claiming to be “launching globally,” one with a health related product, the other a phone/cellular related program.Run from these programs as fast as you can!)
Finally, there are those who seem to have the “golden touch,” and are able to build large organizations and earn incredible incomes consistently over a long period of time in network marketing (MLM), in large part because they are knowledgeable about the history of our industry, have their pulse on trends both in and out of our industry, and make smart business decisions based on that knowledge as well as their experience.
Why is it that one person succeeds while another fails? Is it luck? Skill? Experience? Knowledge? Timing? Determination? Is there a science or an art to achieving success, a “system?” Actually, it’s a combination of all of those factors, but there’s one decision you’ll make that really determines your eventual outcome.
Make the right decision on this “critical issue” and you put the odds of success in your favor. Make the wrong decision and you’re virtually guaranteed to fail, regardless of when you get in, how great the products are, how lucrative the pay plan claims to be, how great the company is, who the owner is and how much experience and money they have, how knowledgeable you are, how much experience you have, how lucky you are, how hard you work, how much determination you have, how many leads you can generate, how many people you can attract, or how great your system is!
Most people never achieve any success in network marketing (MLM), let alone long term success, no matter how many hours they put in, how much effort they apply, how much they promote, or how much money they spend in building their business. Unfortunately, after trying several opportunities, they quit, reaching the conclusion that network marketing doesn’t work when the outcome might have been entirely different had they known “The 6Parameters to Profits and Prosperity in Network Marketing-How to Put the Odds of Success in Your Favor” and made one critical decision differently based on those Parameters!
Others jump from one new program to the next, thinking that being in at the beginning of the latest “hot, new deal” is the answer to achieving the success that has always eluded them, only to meet with disappointment time after time when those “hot” new deals fizzle out and/or go out of business, which 98% do within their first 2 years! After wasting a year or more of time in several start ups, not to mention wasting a few hundred to a few thousand dollars in each of them, several years later, after making little to no money, they either quit out of frustration and disappointment, or they are forced to quit network marketing by their now less than supportive spouse.
Once again, had they known “The 6 Parameters to Profits” and made one critical decision differently based on those Parameters, the outcome could have been much different!
Then there are those who, either because they don’t want to work that hard due to a lottery ticket mentality, or because they don’t know any better, choose programs disguised as a network marketing opportunity, when, in reality, they are really nothing more than a glorified “money game.” You know the type. Low cost of entry with a one time purchase typically of $10-$20-$30, up to $100, sometimes more, with claims that you can build a business in 200 countries and you don’t have to sponsor anyone, don’t have to sell anything, don’t have to purchase anything on a monthly basis, don’t have to do anything, and yet, you can still make a fortune, usually thanks to their “amazing, newfangled, patented, reverse, super duper, 3-4-or 5 by something, forced and expandable matrix pay plan” and their claims of massive “spillover.”
First, matrix plans have never worked! Out of the 30,000-50,000 opportunities that have launched over the past 50 years, only one with a matrix plan has experienced any significant, long term success-One! Even that company has modified their plan on numerous occasions in order to retain their leaders. This lone exception was launched in 1985 when there were far fewer opportunities available than there are today. If this same company were launching today, they probably wouldn’t survive long term. Nobody in their right mind would ever bet their success on something that has only worked once! That’s called a fluke!
More importantly, you earn far less in a matrix plan than you do in the other, more well known compensation models, regardless of what wrinkle they throw in, be it a forced matrix, one with compression, expandable, or any other unique twist they put in.
Finally, regulators consider them gimmicky and they’re usually but not always associated with programs that are nothing more than “money games” disguised as a network marketing opportunity!
Nobody who is a serious student of the history of our industry and a knowledgeable and experienced network marketer, would ever get involved with an opportunity that has a matrix pay plan! (You can learn a lot from history!) Unfortunately, many average people fall prey to claims they’ll benefit from “spillover,” evidently unaware that each level you go down in a matrix, the less spillover for any one individual, not more!
The bottom line: There hasn’t been a new company launched in the past 10-15 years with a matrix pay plan that has had any significant, long term success, that is 5-10 years old and generating several hundred million dollars a year in sales with a consumable product. Want to guarantee your failure? Join a program with a matrix pay plan. Want to double your chances for failure? Join a groundfloor program with a matrix pay plan! If someone is attempting to recruit you into a new, start up program with a matrix pay plan-RUN!
Second, programs which promote that “you don’t have to sell anything, sponsor anyone, or do anything” and you can still make money are considered “illegal money games” in virtually every country in the world ! Regulators like to see distributors acquiring a few customers, meeting minimal monthly performance requirements, and performing some type of supervisory function (doing 3 way calls, trainings, etc.) as a justification for receiving income and bonus checks from the company, especially on people they don’t know. If you are receiving income for doing nothing more than signing up in a program and paying for a distributorship, that is no different than buying a lottery ticket! In fact, regulators use lottery statutes frequently in prosecuting programs deemed to be illegal “money games.”
Not only are these “you don’t have to do anything, sell anything, or sponsor anyone and you can still make money” type programs illegal, but, more importantly, they create the illusion that people can make money without having to do anything, learn any new skills, or apply themselves on a consistent basis, that all they have to do is sign up and throw a few dollars at something, or, let someone else do all the work and they’ll make a fortune, all of which ultimately sets the individual up for failure as they never learn and excel at any of the skills necessary to build a long term business and really succeed, and which, at the same time, reinforces the public’s perception that network marketing is nothing but a “money game,” a scam.
More importantly, these types of programs foster a self defeating outcome! If people don’t have to do anything, guess what? They don’t! People, with the exception of leaders who always do more than what is required, will generally do whatever minimum bar you have set and if that bar is zero, that’s exactly what most people do! Zero! Furthermore, this is not building a business!
Classic examples of these types of so-called opportunities which are nothing more than “money games” include ILLEGAL cash gifting programs (it’s amazing the number of people who actually believe cash gifting is legal!) and many programs that involve an internet oriented concept, usually promoting some overpriced software, a traffic generating scheme, or a new e-commerce or social networking type related program.
Not only are most of them nothing more than illegal money games based on the way they are designed and/or promoted, but they’ve been done before and have never worked long term! When will people learn? It’s amazing that people actually fall for these types of programs, but they do! Just make sure you’re not one of them!
Unfortunately, “The 6 Parameters to Profits” are of no value to people who are looking for an “easy, no work required” way to make money. By the way, a common retort from people involved in programs that are actually “money games,” especially cash gifting programs, is “Well, they haven’t been shut down, so the program must be legal.” Using that logic, a person selling illegal drugs must not be doing anything wrong because they’re not in jail! No, it merely means they haven’t popped up on a regulator’s radar screen and been caught yet!
In addition, anytime you see a new company about to launch, or one that has recently launched, or is only a year or so old, and they claim they are going to open in or have opened in 60-70-80-90 countries or in every country around the world, I can guarantee you they are illegally operating in almost all of them!
They haven’t taken the time (at least a year or two) or spent the tremendous amount of money (hundreds of thousands to $1 million or more) it requires to research the laws in each of those 60-70-80-90 countries, file the necessary paperwork, register, post any required bonds, open up required bank accounts, make any necessary adjustments to the program to ensure compliance, and other criteria that countries have mandated you must comply with in order for a network marketing company to legally promote their products and their network marketing opportunity within their particular country!
More importantly, companies that fail to do the necessary work to comply with such requirements are subject to being shut down for being an ILLEGAL program, and distributors are subject to prosecution, fines, and jail terms for being involved in such programs! New and young companies will frequently “fly under the radar,” meaning they’ll go ahead and recruit people in a particular country, take their money, and send them commission checks, hoping they can generate enough business that merits then taking the time and spending the money in order to be compliant in that country.
They’re not only risking the future of their company, but your future as well as, not to mention subjecting you to possible legal action by various authorities and regulators! Why take that risk when there are established companies operating properly that are just as lucrative? (We’ve recently seen a lot of hype touting 2 such programs claiming to be “launching globally,” one with a health related product, the other a phone/cellular related program.Run from these programs as fast as you can!)
Finally, there are those who seem to have the “golden touch,” and are able to build large organizations and earn incredible incomes consistently over a long period of time in network marketing (MLM), in large part because they are knowledgeable about the history of our industry, have their pulse on trends both in and out of our industry, and make smart business decisions based on that knowledge as well as their experience.
Why is it that one person succeeds while another fails? Is it luck? Skill? Experience? Knowledge? Timing? Determination? Is there a science or an art to achieving success, a “system?” Actually, it’s a combination of all of those factors, but there’s one decision you’ll make that really determines your eventual outcome.
Make the right decision on this “critical issue” and you put the odds of success in your favor. Make the wrong decision and you’re virtually guaranteed to fail, regardless of when you get in, how great the products are, how lucrative the pay plan claims to be, how great the company is, who the owner is and how much experience and money they have, how knowledgeable you are, how much experience you have, how lucky you are, how hard you work, how much determination you have, how many leads you can generate, how many people you can attract, or how great your system is!
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