Don't Bite Off Your Tongue to Spite Your Face.

Written by Debra George


A while back I posted an introduction of myself to a forum. To my surprise I was hit from every direction with a lot of feedback that left a bad taste in my mouth. This leads me to ask for opinions onrepparttar subject of people criticizing other MLM's in order to advertise your own.

In my opinion, it would be inrepparttar 106858 best interest for all network marketers to not ridicule another company. Offering themrepparttar 106859 opportunity to explorerepparttar 106860 opportunity of company is one thing; RIDICULE and CRITICIZE is another. You just might be throwing a good prospect away. Also, in my opinion, a true business person will always have an eye open for new promising ventures.

I'm sure everyone would agree that MOST, not all, companies offer every individualrepparttar 106861 same thing - AN OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD WEALTH.

A few Statistics to prove that this industry is big enough for us all:

According to statistics produced byrepparttar 106862 U.S. Census Bureau for 1997 (the most recent year in whichrepparttar 106863 data is available): - Direct sales isrepparttar 106864 second largest "one-person business" industry inrepparttar 106865 nation

- Among all one-person business types, Direct Sales ranks higher in total sales than selling used-cars or insurance, or practicing law and even medicine!

- There are 15.4 MILLION one-person businesses inrepparttar 106866 U.S.

- These businesses generated almost $600 BILLION a year

- This is 3.3% of ALL U.S. business sales

I did a lot of research before choosingrepparttar 106867 type of company I would affiliate with. It is working for me. You chose your company, I hope it is working for you. We must remember that each person's level of success is factored in when they look at Network Marketing as a whole. So when thousands of people fail to succeed, that makesrepparttar 106868 entire industry seem distorted.

The Four Biggest Reasons why Businesses Fail... And How to Avoid Them Simply, Easily, And Without Fuss

Written by Nancy Bornes


Everyone's trying to make a buck - or two - on and offrepparttar Internet, these days. Yet, fromrepparttar 106857 smallest home-based enterprise to multi-million dollar dotcom empires, businesses are failing, too, like never before.

How can you make sure that YOUR business doesn't end up inrepparttar 106858 scrap-heap, after all your hard work? The majority of businesses - including network marketing opportunities - fail because of four problems:

1) People have never been taught how to manage their business or their personal finances.

Most people would never even consider submitting their resume forrepparttar 106859 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) position of a company, yet they hire themselves asrepparttar 106860 CEO of their own business without a second thought! Atrepparttar 106861 same time, we hear those stories of folks who, with minimal business background, make a killing in their first year in business. How did it happen?

In a word, training. Training means learning anything and everything you can about doing business, about marketing, about customer service, about number-crunching. And there is training available - on and offline, much of it free or very inexpensive. Those who are open to learning, and take advantage of as many training opportunities as they can, stand a much greater chance of succeeding.

2) People cannot effectively sell, recruit or train.

Many people fail in all types of businesses because they cannot effectively sell their product or services, and they are not effective at training their team.

The most obvious solution to this problem is to make sure, inrepparttar 106862 first place, that you are selling a product that you know and understand, and that you absolutely believe in. Then it will sell itself, with much less effort from you! So give careful thought torepparttar 106863 opportunities that present themselves to you - do you believe inrepparttar 106864 product or service YOURSELF, enough that all you'll really need to do is hone your presentation ofrepparttar 106865 facts?

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