Before the plunge

It is interesting to me that many of my friends have joined and market various network companies marketing products and opportunities of their own. Before taking the plunge into joining the Trump Network I have been approached by many of these same friends trying to recruit me to their network. Even before joining the trump Network, I was actively asking around about home-based businesses that offer residual income while demanding little of my time to learn about a new product. I was happy to listen to the various schpiels about each business. How they were the best, the oldest, the easiest, the greenest, the most friendly, the most caring, etc. Many indicated that they were hoping to replace their current employment with their home-based business. They wanted to help me and others to do the same.

I don't want to give up my current occupation. I want to fund it with a side business that will give me more time and resources to conduct my current occupation better. I am wondering how many others out there just want to earn enough extra income to support what they are already doing? Many talked of what they hate about their current jobs: too many meetings, too many emails, too many deadlines, too much hype about the corporation and too little personal time. What I didn't understand was that they were willing to trade all of this for the highly demanding of Network Marketing with its meetings, rallies, emails, reading, research and reports. I know one person who is attending several evening meetings--in business casual, per week. He is reading and researching for hours before, after and during his work day to find the best business growth model for his new network. He is spending more time on the phone, in meetings, by email and on the Internet than ever, with his new business. I like him, because like me, he wants information to support his goals. He knows his weaknesses and is willing to find a way to compensate for them via technology. But let's face it. He is working hard at his new business. He is also willing to share what he has found with those of us who are better geeks than glad-handers.

Then there is the type who "just want to help you" earn more money, have better health and build your network. These people are more sensitive. They are more relational. They are more earnest. But, they take it personally when you are not interested. They can't imagine why you would turn down their offer to help you improve your health or earn some money. They are more interested in the company they represent and its merits over any other company in the same industry, than admitting there are many roads to good health and wealth. Because they care, they have personally researched the best company in the industry in which they decided to focus. They want you to come to the same conclusion as they have. It both affirms them and their need to be needed.

The two contrasting ways of marketing your network are now easy to see for me. One is the techno marketing: Get the word out to the broadest, but already interested market. The other is relational model: share with your family and friends and they with their family and friends. I find both models to be important to me. I want to help my friends and family enjoy greater health and earn some money. Ont he same token, I must be understanding when they are not interested or don't have the time or resources to put into building a network. I like the broadcast approach that reaches those who are already looking for a way to improve their health, or purchase and sell other products and have already decided to investigate network marketing to meet those needs and to earn some money.

I plan to use both approaches, but I want to avoid the Ann Sieg's 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing. I don't want to promise great health and wealth with no work. Building a network marketing company from home with few financial resources, little time and almost no business or sales experience is HARD WORK.

I have always taught my Downtown Teens that a hard job is made easier when you use the right tools. That is why, even though I have had some success at building my own businesses and those of others, in the past, I plan to check out the right tools to build my new business in a new economy with new technology. I will be reporting here how it really goes for me.