| Two months after graduating from TX A&M,
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| | * A compensation plan will not make you
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| I packed up my old '97 red Chevy truck
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| | rich.
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| with everything I owned, hitched up the
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| | * Training will not make you rich.
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| U-Haul and kissed the folks goodbye. It
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| | * Your upline sponsor will not make you
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| was a pretty exciting time in my life.
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| | rich.
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| I had been chasing the MLM dream for
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| | * A fancy website, autoresponder, and
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| about 2 years, with nothing to show for
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| | leads will not make you rich.
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| it at that point, but I had made up my
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| | One thing, and ONLY one thing, will allow
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| mind that I was going to make a living as
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| | you to use what you've learned, and turn
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| a network marketer. I wanted the money.
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| | your burning desire into action that will
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| They lifestyle. The freedom. The chance
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| | bring you the results you seek:
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| to say "I told you so" to all of the
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| | And that is marketing.
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| friends and family who had doubted so
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| | It's your ability to market and promote
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| far.
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| | yourself and your company's product and
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| And so I pulled onto the hi-way that day
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| | opportunity that will bring you results.
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| and headed for California. That's where
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| | It's your ability to plug your team into
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| my mega successful sponsor lived.
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| | a turn-key marketing system that will
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| He was awesome. He had made over $50,000
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| | explode your organization.
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| a month in his former company. He was who
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| | There isn't a day that goes by where I
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| I wanted to be and had what I wanted to
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| | don't get an email or phone call from a
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| have.
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| | reader who asks me what they think about
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| So, one day, I called him up, and said,
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| | "company xyz" and their revolutionary new
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| "Stu, I'm coming out to Cali and I'm
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| | product.
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| going to sit in your office and do
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| | And my answer is always the same: "Sounds
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| whatever I need to do to make this
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| | great John, but how are you going to
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| happen."
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| | build your business?" And that question
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| I had no idea where I was going to live.
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| | is always followed by hesitation and
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| How I was going to pay my bills, and had
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| | silence.
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| yet to recruit a single person or gather
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| | Are you going to do home meetings and try
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| a customer into our opportunity.
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| | and get your downline to do the same? Are
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| It didn't matter. I was going to learn
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| | you going to spend $500 a month on
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| from the best, and become the best.
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| | dead-beat and dead-broke leads and then
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| A year from now I'd be making 6-figures
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| | spend the next 6-12 months learning how
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| and it would be a fantastic story to tell
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| | to become a master sorter and recruiter?
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| the grand kids one day. So I went to work
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| | Are you going to make 200 dials a day to
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| with my master mentor. I sat with him
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| | genealogy lists to play the "mine is
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| daily for 1-2 weeks and just listened.
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| | better than yours game," and then try and
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| Taking in everything I could about how he
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| | get your team to do the same?
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| built his business.
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| | Are you going to set up a booth at a flea
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| Then I started calling lead lists of
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| | market to peddle your product all the way
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| opportunity seekers he had purchased for
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| | up to a $20,000/mo income?
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| me.
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| | You see, unless you learn how to use
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| Days and weeks went by with minimal
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| | attraction marketing strategies and
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| success. 4 months later, I had less than
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| | tactics those are your options. Period.
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| 10 people in my organization and I was
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| | Doesn't matter what company you are with.
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| out of money.
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| | Doesn't matter what product you sell.
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| I was faced with the fact that I was
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| | You either learn how to market and bring
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| going to have to go home and face my
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| | your customers to your doorstep
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| family and friends in defeat, and get a
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| | automatically 24/7, or you go and do
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| corporate job to pay off the credits
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| | push-and-grunt MLM just like I used to.
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| cards I had lived on. On one hand I was
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| | What kind of difference does it make?
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| embarrassed by my failure, but on the
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| | The old way = 5 Years and $15,000 down
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| other, I was proud that I had the level
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| | the drain. Waiting tables and trying to
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| of desire to take such a gutsy chance so
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| | avoid my friends that came in to eat.
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| many others would have been unwilling to
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| | Tons of debt. Tons of frustration. No
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| risk.
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| | money. No respect, and no downline.
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| But now what?
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| | The right way = Hundreds of reps and
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| If I couldn't make it working in the same
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| | $250,000 in business in 4 months. New
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| office as a one of this industry's
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| | truck. Loaded $61,000 Mercedes
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| masters, what the heck was I supposed to
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| | convertible. 1.5 acres on a golf course.
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| do now? And that's when I realized,
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| | New freedom. New life.
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| desire can only take you so far.
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| | And you know what the nuttiest part to
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| It is the most important and critical
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| | this whole thing is... The right way, is
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| ingredient that will drive you to your
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| | ten times easier than the old way. No
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| ultimate success, but it still doesn't
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| | more selling. No more cold calls. No more
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| change the fact the you must express that
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| | heavy-handed recruiting. This wasn't
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| desire through the application of correct
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| | luck and it wasn't a miracle.
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| strategies and tactics as you build your
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| | You can change the way you do business in
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| business:
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| | this industry forever right now. Stop
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| * A ground floor opportunity will not
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| | making excuses. Give your burning desire
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| make you rich.
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| | a track to run on.
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| * A product will not make you rich.
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