NWM requires 3 main ingredients....time, effort, and yes - money. Time is just a matter of redirecting your habits. Not easy but doable. Time directly impacts your efficiency. Effort is entirely controllable by individual....and directly impacts your effectiveness. Money is self limiting and directly affects both efficiency and effectiveness. An individual must find best combination of three that works for them. Someone else can't tell you what that combination is....but can help you find it (for example a good sponsor).

The new mlmer faces a daunting task...and competition...when it comes to "advertising". Finding that "best combination" of time, effort, and money is a growth experience. Rarely will it just appear....education (self and provided) plus mentoring (if available) are important factors and hopefully a fact of life. However, "advertising" is not impossible.

In my mind advertising is just whatever method you choose to "reach" people. It might be traditional newspaper or ezine ad or simple greeting and sharing with a friend. How you "advertise" or "share" can take many forms.

There are free and inexpensive methods that do work. It's a matter of finding those that work for you.

For example:

1. Writing and submitting ezine articles is an excellent method. It requires time & effort...but no money. The benefits include increased link popularity for url used in your sig box (important for search engine ranking), branding, and reach (you can "reach" more with an article than an ezine ad). Plus it's viral. Often your article is archived by publishers and directories.....available well after it was originally offered. Plus publishers and web masters will often "pick up" your article...again well after you originally submitted it.

2. Business cards are always a good method...and more inexpensive than one realizes. You can even make your own. Just pass them out like candy....stores, church, ball games, local events, restaurants (leave 1 with your bill), businesses you frequent, networking meetings, local Chamber Of Commerce. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination.

Do you understand what it could mean for you, financially, if you just consistently gathered one new agent and one new customer every week?

Do you understand what products and services you have to offer?

Do you understand your business opportunity well enough to be able to explain it to a friend or neighbor that might be interested in making some extra money, "if right business opportunity came along"?

Do you understand what it can mean for you, financially, to recruit new agents and help them become successful?

Do you understand benefits of working your business to get promoted to first promotional level, and helping your downline agents to understand it too?

If your answer to any of above is "no", and you're not taking steps to correct it, then let me ask another question, compliments of Dr Phil:

So how's that workin' for ya?

In other words, if what you're doing now is not getting you to where you want to be, uh, is it time to do things differently? If you keep doing what you've been doing, are you going to be where you want to be in 2, 3, or even 5 years?

Ok, didn't mean to throw a guilt trip on you, but it's something that we all need to be aware of, myself readily included. One of things we all need to remember is that no money is made if we don't sell products and services. I hope this is obvious to you, but I actually got an email a few months back from one of my downline agents asking why he hadn't gotten a commission check yet. Looking into it, he had ZERO customers. Uh....