The MLM Story of 2 Rocket Scientists

The frustration in the MLM/Network Marketing industry has been mounting and you are probably in the thick of it.

No, we are NOT talking about the awkward home meetings, the fights with negative friends and family, or even exposing yourself to ridicule from your so called “loved ones”. But that definitely sucks too.

What I’m talking about is a little beyond that…

You see, before the internet, network marketers operated in our little worlds, isolated from the existence of “other multi-level deals” – the competition, the BS company wars and distractions now plaguing the industry.

We ignorantly followed our upline leaders, doing whatever they told us – they were the ones who “made it”. Who were we to argue?

Even then, few of us made it doing it the “traditional” way, while most of us drowned in debt and watched our life savings get sucked up by our new business venture. We were told that our dream wasn’t big enough and to go prospect more people.

Then the internet phenomenon happened and new companies emerged, while old ones redefined themselves (even changing their names), in hopes of shedding their tainted past and taking this industry into the modern era…

What a Stinkin’ Pile of *#(@!

It was the same old BS with a new look and spin.

Instead of using the internet to find prospects to expose our business to, we were told to download the phone numbers from our cell phone onto our computers. That was our list of “hot prospects”.

And when we exhausted that list, we could either buy crappy leads or camp out at Starbucks or Malls to replenish our list.

Instead of having online videos and presentations, we were told to use email, MySpace and cryptic text messages to lure people into a hotel meetings or home meetings so they can see the plan – never mind that they had no idea what they were walking into.

The only difference was that the circles on the notepad, were replaced by the circles on your laptop and flashy powerpoint presentation, which caused your computer to crash.

Instead of teaching our newly sponsored team members how to market and grow a real business online, we perpetuated the same crap that had been taught in this industry for the past 50 years.

The fact of the matter is that the rich dinosaurs we cheered at functions and conventions, were scared like never before – they had no idea how to use the internet and their downlines were shrinking rapidly, as their organization was being depleted by the hyped-up launches of a new “miracle juice” competitors every month.

Even though they called your opportunity an “internet business”, they were threatened by the “Wild Wild Web” and forbade you from marketing and promoting it on the internet.

They cloaked their ancient ways by saying it was a “High Tech, High Touch” approach.

From Extraordinary Beginnings to…

What we’ve described above is our story as Average Frustrated Networkers. But before we were networkers, we were considered by many to be among the world’s elite – poster children for the American Dream.

Our names are Raymond Fong and Ferny Ceballos. Only 4 years ago, we were Aerospace Engineers, highly educated, working on projects we are forbidden to speak about until the day we die. (Sounds cool, but not really.)

Ferny was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the world’s Mecca of science & technology, in the field of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, had a graduate degree from USC and was working as an engineer on high classified government programs. Considering that Ferny is a 2nd generation Mexican-American, born right in East Los Angeles and son of poor Mexican immigrants… well, you can’t write a better story.

Unless of course, you meet his business partner: Raymond Fong. Ray was born in Taiwan and was dirt poor as a child and moved to the United States when he was only 9 years old. His dream of becoming successful as an engineer, earning a cushy salary and retire his hardworking parents had just about become a reality – well almost.

Like Ferny, Ray had also graduated from a prestigious technical institute, Harvey Mudd College and had also earned a graduate degree from USC. He too worked on high classified programs for the government, but we both fell well short of being able to retire our parents.

With the cost of living in Los Angeles and the 40+% income taxes as a young single guy, we barely had enough to send a couple hundred bucks to our parents and pay the bills.

We felt so deceived by the promise of the American Dream. We worked hard, got good grades, went to a good school, and got a safe secure job to justify the sacrifice of our parents. We followed that formula to the extreme and we were miserable.

Whether you are living on a $20,000 per year job or a $80,000 per year job, the ‘rat race’ is still the ‘rat race’ – the only difference is the size of the cheese.

There had to be more to life than herding ourselves like cattle down the freeway for 3 hours every day, and spending another 8+ hours stuck in the Dilbert-Cube, feeding the governments hunger for the meaningless paper work, while working on bloated billion dollar defense programs (few of which are ever finished… Maybe cause of the flippin’ paper work!) Our over-educated brains were rotting and we needed a way out.

… Becoming Average Frustrated Networkers

We got started in this industry like many others - at a time when we were desperate, lost and frustrated with the routine of our daily lives and with the promise of the dream lifestyle, being lived by our new upline diamonds.

Here we are, 2 highly educated engineers with $80,000+ salaries, inviting our friends and family to meetings at our homes to sample energy drinks, cleaning products, vitamins and protein bars – while we transform their lives with the “greatest internet business opportunity in the world”… ::barf!::

The truth is, we hated every minute of it, but we were willing to get over our over-educated egos and do what we had to do to ‘live the dream’.

Well, needless to say, the home meetings, hotel meetings and hype-laced functions got old fast and we went searching for answers.

“How Do I Get My Opportunity Exposed to Millions on the Internet?”

We were tired of pretending to run an internet business (remember ‘High Tech, High Touch’) and started seeking real answers to our questions.

“How do a I generate my own free leads with the internet, without going broke in the process?”

And with those words began our journey into internet marketing & SEO…

The rest of the story, includes:

• How we blew $1000 in Google Adwords
• What finally allowed us to quit our jobs
• How we went from MLM failures to being the lead instructors for the only LIVE event Mike Dillard & Magnetic Sponsoring has ever hosted.
• And our story as SEO consults for RichDad.com and Robert Kiyosaki

To learn how we finally made it at http://seonetwoker.com