Derek Alvarez

Monique and Derek Alvarez

Derek and Monique Alvarez spe­cial­ize in help­ing peo­ple achieve suc­cess in their busi­ness ven­tures by pro­vid­ing the vision, train­ing, sup­port and tools nec­es­sary to accom­plish their goals.

What does Dri­veThe­Line Mean?

In Net­work Mar­ket­ing lingo, “dri­ving the line” is what hap­pens when a dis­trib­u­tor is doing so well that they force their upline to “catch up” to them, so they will be able to get paid on all the suc­cess that their down­line is having.

This is what Dri​veThe​Line​.com is all about:

Teach­ing peo­ple to be suc­cess­ful in Net­work Mar­ket­ing so that they can teach other peo­ple in the busi­ness to do the same.

More About Monique and Derek:

We are Monique and Derek Alvarez and we’ve been mar­ried for over two years now.

After we got mar­ried we both got some steady jobs – Monique became a Gen­eral Man­ager at a cou­ple of well-​​known fran­chises and Derek got a job as a Land­scape Designer.

Derek was Employee of the Month in July 2008

These were good jobs for most peo­ple, but not for us.

We have had a burn­ing desire to run our own busi­ness from the begin­ning and we didn’t like to be told what we were going to be paid before some­one even knew who we were or what we were capa­ble of.

Monique’s par­ents have been busi­ness own­ers for their entire lives and Derek didn’t want to live pay­check to pay­check like his par­ents always have — it’s a hard way to go through life.

After work­ing reg­u­lar jobs and get­ting nowhere, we soon real­ized that true wealth can never be cre­ated by work­ing for some­one else.

So we even looked into buy­ing a fran­chise at some point – only to find out that a fran­chise can cost at least a mil­lion bucks!

We didn’t have the cap­i­tal for that. So we kept searching.

Then a friend told us about a brand-​​new com­pany and how all we basi­cally had to do was sign up and we’ll be rich!

It was as if a lep­rechaun had just slid down a rain­bow and showed us the pot of gold!

(Sound famil­iar?)

Well, Monique had been involved in Net­work Mar­ket­ing in some form or another (mostly as a cus­tomer) for about 4 years — so she was famil­iar with the set-​​up.

So we signed up with a great deal of excite­ment and enthusiasm.

Enthu­si­asm that was only matched by our lack of knowl­edge about the Net­work Mar­ket­ing indus­try and what it takes to suc­ceed in the business.

We did the best with what we knew:

• We told our friends and fam­ily about our oppor­tu­nity – we even signed up a few of them.
• We went to net­work­ing events and sold some product.
• We even went out cold-​​calling peo­ple and businesses.

Our biggest prob­lem was we couldn’t get in front of enough peo­ple to make the pay­check we needed.

A few months later, the com­pany went through major changes — one of which was the pay structure.

To our dis­ap­point­ment, we found out we were going to make even less than we did before!

So we quit and jumped ship to another oppor­tu­nity, which is the one we’re with now.

Truth­fully, it really didn’t make a dif­fer­ence what com­pany we were with  — because we didn’t know what we were doing.

Don’t get me wrong — we are glad to be with the com­pany we are with now because we like the pay plan, lead­er­ship and prod­ucts better.

But the truth is that you can suc­ceed or fail with any com­pany you are with — depend­ing on your level of knowl­edge, belief, and ACTION.

This was almost us!

Although we started out a lot bet­ter with this com­pany (we even quit our jobs to do it full-​​time), we still didn’t have a mar­ket­ing plan.

And that caught up to us when we ran out of warm mar­ket to talk to.

So we were back to square one.

What can we do? What can we do?

Hmmm…maybe we should start going door to door — like a vac­uum salesman?

Then a friend told us about Mike Dillard’s Mag­netic Spon­sor­ing Course, which is def­i­nitely on our list of rec­om­mended reading.

What we found in those pages was like a breath of fresh air.

Finally, a phi­los­o­phy and a SYSTEM we could use to run our busi­ness with!

Let me just make this clear – every­body who starts out in Net­work Mar­ket­ing isn’t any good.

It takes a lot of LEARNING and APPLYING that learn­ing to make it in this business.

It can feel like a big, long learn­ing curve.

We were no excep­tion to this rule.

But we actu­ally weren’t hav­ing any trou­ble sign­ing peo­ple up in our busi­ness.

We were hav­ing trou­ble FINDING more peo­ple to talk to.

Now we have a way to do this!

(By the way, if you are hav­ing trou­ble sign­ing peo­ple up, we rec­om­mend you check out Mark Weiser and Mike Dilard’s Black­belt Recruit­ing.)

Now if you’ve ever been to your com­pany train­ing, you’ve heard the say­ing, “if we can do it, any­one can do it.”

It’s just as true for us.

While we are extremely dri­ven and deter­mined, we come with our own issues.

Derek:

Derek relax­ing in Hawaii

I used to strug­gle with self-​​confidence and social interaction.

Only now am I get­ting to the point where I don’t care what peo­ple think of me.

I used to be pretty shy and never enjoyed being in crowds or talk­ing in front of a group of peo­ple. Net­work­ing in a room full of suit wear­ing pro­fes­sion­als was never my favorite activ­ity, if you know what I mean ;)

But I have done a lot of per­sonal devel­op­ment, which has done won­ders for me.

Sem­i­nars, books, audios — I con­tinue to work on myself, and it has paid off.

Art has always been my pas­sion and I see Net­work Mar­ket­ing as my oppor­tu­nity to make enough resid­ual income to be able to do it on a full-​​time basis with­out wor­ry­ing about pay­ing the bills or going into debt.

I like cre­at­ing things and I always have.

There is noth­ing like the sat­is­fac­tion of com­plet­ing a work of art and hav­ing some­thing tan­gi­ble to be proud of.

My dad is the same way. He works in con­struc­tion and I have always noticed how sat­is­fied he is with his hand­i­work at the end of the day.

But I real­ize that it is a hard way to go through life — to always be reliant on your own pro­duc­tion to pay the bills.

I want to be like  Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad” and have my money work for me.

As opposed to his “Poor Dad,” who worked for his money.

Every day, I can feel the excite­ment, the cre­ative energy, the pas­sion surg­ing through me as I pic­ture myself cre­at­ing art on a full-​​time basis – with out wor­ry­ing how to pay the bills.

And every day I get a step closer to my dream.

I look for­ward to hav­ing friends over to my stu­dio, where we will dis­cuss art and drink a glass of wine with Bob Mar­ley or Willie Nel­son play­ing in the background.

Monique:

My biggest strug­gle has always been an unwill­ing­ness to con­form to some­thing I don’t believe in.

Monique in Tirana, Alba­nia with the orphans she cared for

Going to a job every­day that I have no pas­sion for.

Going through the week know­ing that this is not the life I want.

Com­pletely under­stand­ing that I’m the odd­ball and that’s not going to change.

I made the totally crazy deci­sion at age 22 to move to Tirana, Alba­nia to vol­un­teer at an orphanage.

I was happy as can be and you know why? — I had always wanted to do that!

A few years and 16 coun­tries later, I made the deci­sion to return to the States.

I felt this pres­sure to be like my peers.

Going to col­lege, get­ting a good job, buy­ing a house and hav­ing two kids and a dog may be the Amer­i­can dream, but it’s not my dream.

Shouldn’t the Amer­i­can dream be doing what you were born to do?

I know what I was born to do.

Every­one knows — some have just buried it, tuned it out, or denied it.

If you know in your heart that you weren’t made for the “9 to 5.”  If you know you must do what you were born to do, all you have to do is find a way to finance it.

That’s exactly what we are doing.

We are not going to lie to you and tell you that you can make mil­lions of dol­lars just 2 weeks after you start using the inter­net to mar­ket your opportunity.

But we have found an auto­mated way to gen­er­ate leads to us, 24/​7, and we have found a way to follow-​​up with those leads that is auto­mated and effective.

We can even auto­mate our train­ing and we con­tinue to mar­ket our oppor­tu­nity with­out break­ing the budget.

In fact, we have even found a way to make a lit­tle money while prospecting!

So now I’m sure you’re won­der­ing, “OK, so how do you do those things and could you please tell me?”

And the answer is we’d be glad to!

Be sure to con­tact us if you have any ques­tions or ever need any­thing and we’ll do our best to get back to you as soon as possible.

Our Spe­cial Purpose:

Our jour­ney started with us search­ing for a way to make a liv­ing for our­selves, to “cre­ate our own econ­omy,” and to achieve finan­cial free­dom for our lit­tle family.

Derek and Monique Alvarez in Maui

But it has become so much more than that.

We would like to help as many peo­ple achieve their dreams as we can!

That’s why we work so hard to cre­ate and pro­mote use­ful info products.

This is our why.

You see, we are NOT meant to work mean­ing­less jobs for cor­po­ra­tions who only see us as numbers.

We are NOT meant to strug­gle and live pay­check to paycheck.

We are NOT meant to spend so much time away from our families.

How­ever, we ARE meant to live our true pur­pose and be able to make a dif­fer­ence in the world.

We ARE meant to be able to live in a state of abun­dance and love our fel­low man.

We ARE meant to be able to share our lives with our loved ones and be there for all the impor­tant moments.

This is what we are work­ing for.

This is what we want for you.

All it takes is some busi­ness skills and some work to get things going.

We’re here to teach you the skills, the rest is up to you.

“Our deep­est fear is not that we are inad­e­quate. Our deep­est fear is that we are pow­er­ful beyond mea­sure. It is our light, not our dark­ness, that most fright­ens us. Your play­ing small does not serve the world. There is noth­ing enlight­ened about shrink­ing so that other peo­ple won’t feel inse­cure around you. We are all meant to shine as chil­dren do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in every­one. And as we let our own lights shine, we uncon­sciously give other peo­ple per­mis­sion to do the same. As we are lib­er­ated from our own fear, our pres­ence auto­mat­i­cally lib­er­ates oth­ers.”
 – Mar­i­anne Williamson

Derek:

Phone:                 520−245−0293

email:                  derek@​drivetheline.​com

face­book:            http://​www​.face​book​.com/​d​e​r​e​k​.​a​l​v​a​rez

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Monique:

Phone:                 520−425−2858

email:                  monique@​drivetheline.​com

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