These well know lines by Rudyard Kipling offer sound advice for many situations in life. They can be usefully applied if you're thinking of getting involved in network marketing or any other type of work at home business.

WHAT can I do to make a profit? Simply put, you provide a product or service in return for money. Don't worry if you don't "have" a product - just get one from somebody else and then sell it on, or get involved in an affiliate marketing scheme. Successful merchants have been doing this for thousands of years.

You don't have to make product yourself. You don't even have to own it. You can simply sell it on someone else's behalf and then take a percentage of profit.

If possible, try to market a product or service that is provided on a monthly subscription basis. That way you will get your percentage every month - residual income.

Do not get involved with any business that doesn't have a genuine product and which pays you for recruiting others into business. This type of arrangement is characteristic of a pyramid scheme.

WHY choose network marketing? Network marketing, coupled with power of internet, is ideal for a start-up business. No premises are required and there are no employees, so both start-up and running costs are very low compared to a traditional business.

The internet can be used for both selling and recruiting and many of tasks associated with these activities can be automated using websites, autoresponders, email etc. You also have ability to reach a world wide market - possibilities are endless.

Unlike many traditional small businesses, you can work your network marketing opportunity part-time to begin with. You don't need to give up your day job until you're good and ready, so risk is very low for you.

WHEN is best time to start? The sooner better. Start-up costs are low and much of your initial outlay will be covered by money back guarantees. Your risk exposure is minimal.

However, even if you already have some business experience, you should expect to be on a learning curve to begin with. So do your research, pick a company with good training and support, find a good mentor and get going. The sooner you learn tricks of trade, sooner you can start to build your business and make a profit.

What do you do? Subscribe to them all and read them for a year, and then decide yourself? (You’ve got to be kidding!)

You don’t have to. We have already done that. We subscribed to over 100 MLM training ezines, (whew!) and found some really good ones, and others that are ones we cannot recommend. (There were 14 total people that read newsletters regularly, and top 17 list is consensus of 14 people.)

What were criteria that we used to look at these network marketing newsletters?

1)Constant fresh and unique training content.

We looked for a consistency in content, and fresh content. Many newsletters we found ran some of same articles in their ezine. Others changed titles, and kept content same.

We simply asked this question: Is content unique and fresh and trains folks, not just motivates them. Many ezines were a lot of motivation, but little training. There is nothing wrong with that, but if you are looking for a training newsletter, it can be a little frustrating. What we found is that many were highly motivational, but not educational. We support motivation by all means! But we could not include them in our top 17 MLM training ezine list.

2)Delivery of newsletter regularly.

We found that many ezines were emailed out every once so often, and not on any kind of a schedule. We felt that if you are going to be depending on a training letter as a way to learn this business, then you need to know that delivery of content will be consistent, and dependable.

Either once a week, or twice a month was average delivery time of most read newsletters, and that seems to be what people are looking for.

3)Topics focused on for what distributor needs to learn to succeed.

The best newsletters we found had a focus of topics that would be what average networker would need to know to create a successful business. These topics include recruiting, prospecting, approaching people, handling objections, doing presentations, following up, closing, training, building a downline, motivating your group, leadership, personal development, doing events, new distributor training, and advanced training in MLM and Network Marketing.

Many of newsletters were too focused on one or two topics, and never varied for a more complete training program. There is nothing wrong with that, but a total training focus is what we were looking for.

4 The Look and Feel of MLM training newsletter.