By way, if someone says they can guarantee your success, be leery of such offers. There might be a proven formula that you can follow, but your success still depends on your own efforts and your ability to follow proven methods.

This article uses letters of word sausage to represent fundamental things that are needed to have lasting success in network marketing. It's an effective way to remember basics.

S - System A - Attitude U - Understanding S - Solutions A - Action G - Guidance E - Enthusiasm

System - By system, I mean a way to advertise and promote your opportunity. There are 3 main parts to a good system: 1. Ads and promotions to get traffic coming to your site. 2. An interesting site that makes people want to know more. 3. Autoresponder messages to follow up with your prospects. Many opportunities have their own marketing system. Also, someone in upline can tell you what works best for that opportunity.

Attitude - It is important to have a positive attitude. A big part of that is believing in yourself and your product or service. Your positive outlook and your success-oriented mind-set can help give you energy and drive you need to accomplish whatever goal you wish to attain.

If you've been on net any length of time, you know what I'm talking about.

Many of today's time wasters, were solid marketing methods only a few years ago. It seems when something works well there is always someone, ready willing and able to abuse system and render method useless.

Abuse killed free classified sites, newsgroups, and so many other marketing methods.

Now abusers are making it harder and harder for ezine owners. Through blatant spamming they've made spam filters a growing part of email.

Some of filters are so strict, that it's almost impossible for an ezine to get through.

Many ezines have to contend with a percentage of their readers, no longer receiving their publications. Not because reader doesn't want it, but because it just won't get through filters.