Network Marketing can produce outstanding results if you know a few simple concepts, understanding of which is critical to your success.

Network Marketing, MLM, and Multilevel Marketing are unlike franchises or conventional businesses in that they take advantage of all three of important, yet misunderstood principles of:

1) Leverage (of Time and Money) 2) Residual Income 3) Geometric Growth Through Duplication

Unfortunately these principles are not well understood by many of people that undertake network marketing. And that's just one of many reasons why so many fail at network marketing. There are lots of other reasons, and it would take volumes to cover them all. But this is one of more common ones. Because if you don't comprehend and believe in these principles, it's impossible to help others fully understand and appreciate them.

First, lets look at LEVERAGE:

Every successful person or business takes advantage of leverage. There are only 24 hours in a day and no matter how talented you are or how much you get paid per hour, if you don't take advantage of leverage you're limited by number of hours in a day. As a side note, I have heard of cases where an occasional lawyer was billing more than 24 hours per day...but, I guess that's another story. By learning to leverage your time, you can also benefit from a percentage of other people's efforts, and dramatically increase your income while creating more free time for yourself.

The unique and wonderful thing about Network Marketing business model is that everyone has same opportunity to become 'owner' of his or her own business - with a fraction of investment of time and money of a franchise or traditional business.

In network marketing people at top definitely have a vested interest in helping others on their team succeed.

Would you rather receive 100% of one person's efforts, or 5% of efforts of 100 people?

Obviously 100% of one is always only ONE. But 5% of 100 is FIVE. Not only will total result with leverage almost always be amplified, but your income is not dependent on only one person. If your income is produced by activities of many, it is much more dependable. Even if something unexpected or negative happens to one or more of those people, it only has a minor effect on TOTAL production.

Copyright 2001 by Perry Jones Revised 2005

A million jobs and more are being lost each year overseas. Thousands of people each month are giving up hope of ever finding a job. This is a huge tragedy effects of which have not yet even begun.

A million jobs lost are a million people out of work. It's a million people depending on an unemployment check to pay bills and feed their families. A million people out of work is a million children whose parents wonder how they are going to feed their children. A million jobs lost.

That's a lot of people wondering what to do next. That's a lot of people wondering if their next job is going to pay as well as their last job. A million jobs lost is a million people bewildered.

We are faced with a great challenge. But challenge we face in lost jobs is opposite viewpoint of what is really happening. No matter how politicians may rant about their opponents causing millions of jobs to go overseas, no matter how politicians may promise they will stem outflow of jobs to Mexico, China and India, no matter how many promises are made; outflow of jobs cannot be stopped. Nor should it be.

Jobs are flowing toward those areas where economics prove most effective for that job keeping cost of goods and services affordable for most people. Productivity gains in areas of job loss keeps inflation from rising. But these things are meaningless if you're one who has lost your job.

A great restructuring is upon us. It is painful and it is arduous. It is challenging. But it is also necessary. For those whose jobs have been lost things could hardly get any worse. But loss of jobs is a good thing. The loss of jobs to China and Vietnam, Mexico and Korea means increase of opportunity where those jobs were lost. It may not look like it if you're one holding that final paycheck and your heart begins to flutter in panic.

I know. I've been there.

Instead of looking at what we've lost, we must do hard thing and look at opportunity that has been presented to us. With some support from government in form of unemployment compensation, tuition loans and vouchers for adults and medical, life, vision and dental insurance for those thrown out of work, we can make it.

With these necessities provided, we can now set about ensuring that never again will we be at mercy of some corporation that doesn't really care about us anyway. By starting over again at 30, 40 or even 50 at some big corporation, we'd only be first to go at next economic downturn. There has to be a better way. And there is.

It will be hardest for adults. But I also know that as adults, we do whatever is necessary to get by - to put food on table for our children and families, to keep a roof over their heads and clothes on their backs. It will be hard. But it is doable. It is also necessary.