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[Gary A. Mitchell Contribution Level: 2]

Hey Welcome aboard Colleen!

This the Home of Attraction Marketing and you'll find a lot of good people here, and a lot of excellent content. I've been doing this for awhile but I wish I had started with this forum a long time ago. It's one of the best forums I have seen, (if not the best).

As a "newbie" you couldn't be in a better place to learn and grow your biz. This business and this forum is all about bringing content, inspiration and encouragement to other people.

best of luck to you, stay with it;

Gary

[Peter Grimes Company: SendOutCards Contribution Level: 3]

Mark,

Awesome post & picture too!

Thanks for the inspiring view (both of them)

[Simon Sonneland Contribution Level: 2]

Anyone making 6 figures a month? In my business, yes they definitely are! Am I? No not yet but I will be soon. My goal is $200K in a month before the end of 2010. June 2009 the top individual profit was $256K by a couple in Sydney Australia after 18 months in business. I just posted a question here aswell viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17913#p54047

[Adam Taha Contribution Level: 8]

I couldn't agree more with your comment. I just finished listening (again) to the Black Belt Recruiting series you and Mike put together and it occurs to me that the reason for so many people not making money in network marketing is partly because of overaggressive recruiting.

Gary

That was one of my biggest mistake 8 years ago.

They said sponsor everyone, lol, so I did. 50 a month, sometimes 30 a week. And like a bucket with a hole, in, out, in and out they go.

The only good that came out of that was frendship, and most of all my confidence, and as I grew I started meeting high proffesional income earners but I do look back, sometimes.

I wonder on how I could have helped the people who were already in. That is in a way, I think about sometimes at night, not because of money but because, I could have given more value, trained the team better, focused in developing the serious ones, gave more. Enriched their lives more, listened more, see what help they need more of.

I forgot totally why I was in business, the dream to help people, change their lives. The precious things because I was so aggressive in sponsoring, recruiting, going for it like crazy and not thinking about quality, about the team and their needs, and structure and a lot of things.

Biggest mistake I made in those early months and year but I learnt. The hard way.

Now, well, I'm other way, aggressive in not letting anyone in but not in a bad way, but I ask questions, and I until I'm satisified I am not wasting my time from my family and my life.

It took me one year, to call all of the ones I still had contact not to get them back in but to apologise. And see if they ok.

Still, even then, I sometimes wonder. Went wide too damn fast and uplines were just not ready either cause they were new too. And I didn't know anything back then, was new as well.

Anyway, it is a lesson that stayed with me and a good one for me to learn from.

Adam

[Laura Aridgides Company: SendOutCards Contribution Level: 2]

Great insights so far. Agree with several points:
1) Pick one company, and unless something is seriously wrong with the company, stick with it. Do not jump from company to company. It won't allow you to build anything.
2) Don't be overwhelmed by the online "buffet" as there is a TON of information out there. Focus on one or two things that you can do to generate leads (primary goal). Then take the rest of your time and focus on WORKING your business - the phone calls, lead follow up, appointment setting, and presentations. The core money makers. If you spend too much time looking at the next best internet marketing thing that will generate a gazillion leads in 2 hours, you will waste your time. You need to work your business.
Good luck to everyone! Great post.
Mark - love the pic

To your success,
Laura Aridgides, Ph.D.

[Mark Fuller Contribution Level: 3]

JoAnn & Felix...
I'm not at 6 figures YET... but that was killer insight!

You can see it in the conversations that take place here. There are so many trivial conversations about how to tweak this or tweak that, or which system is best or yada, yada, yada.

HI Rich,

I completely agree. That is why I avoid trivial talk. The bottom line is that both old school and new school work. Many people are failing at both because they have mastered neither.

[Adam Taha Contribution Level: 8]

The bottom line, was never about whether old school or new school work. The bottom line is, effective marketing.

Adam

[Dave Kotecki Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 5]

In one of Mike Dillard's audio programs, (black belt recruiting?) he says something like this:

"Have you ever been to an event where they recognize someone who has only been with the company a few months, but is already a top producer and making more money than you do after working the program for a lot longer and wondered how they did it? It's because they spent the last 5 or 6 years gaining the knowledge and experience and making the connections that make that kind of "overnight success" possible."

I had to go back and make sure I heard it right, because I knew it was true.

Anyway, why is 6 figures such a magical milestone?

I like 7 better.

[JoAnn and Felix Dueno Company: Herbalife International of America, Inc. Contribution Level: 2]

In one of Mike Dillard's audio programs, (black belt recruiting?) he says something like this:

"Have you ever been to an event where they recognize someone who has only been with the company a few months, but is already a top producer and making more money than you do after working the program for a lot longer and wondered how they did it? It's because they spent the last 5 or 6 years gaining the knowledge and experience and making the connections that make that kind of "overnight success" possible."

I had to go back and make sure I heard it right, because I knew it was true.

In many cases that is true however, we basically spent a ton of money (which I don't recommend) in advertising because that is what our up-line "was doing", (finding out later that they were teaching on theory using "OPM" Other peoples money!)

We were in the wine business before we joined the MLM world. We had one family member and a friend/colleague who joined us in the beginning and the rest were all off of our ad campaigns. We reached our 6 figures but the reality is, most people will not or can not advertise like we did and therefore it caused us to find additional venues.

I am with you on believing 7 figures and even 8 are more exciting than 6, but most people would be thrilled to even make 5 figures in NWM and never do because they either quit, or jump around.
We are here to stay and grateful that we have an incredible team to grow with.

P.S. If you are in the service, THANK YOU!

[Verniel Cutar Company: Global Domains International, Inc Contribution Level: 3]

Is something wrong with me? I'm not making six figures yet..lol

However, I'm delighted by the fact that if I calculate the earnings I gained from this industry during the past 12 months, I'm in the five figure arena and earning more than some of my peers who are employees.