Sylvan Noel

Guys what do you do this for?

The constant failure, the jeers from friends who say “it will never work,” the credit card debt. What inspires you to keep going?

My story, call me lazy but I never liked working. My first job at 17 was at Toys R Us, I loved working with people, making connections, but $6.41 an hour just made everything worse. I got fired, re-hired, and then quit. My next job, the call center (you can here the spooky music start at this point.

By the time I was at the call center, I already got caught up in my first mlm, Mannatech. Two people from my church were doing very well, including my Pastor, whose son lost his asthma thanks to mannatech. I thought it was the greatest thing in the world. Enroll 600 people and you’re making $10,000 a month, who doesn’t want this wonder vitamin. Guess what? Teenagers don’t want it. My first experience in direct sales was to my high school classmates. 30 cd’s and a few testimonials later, nothing.

Well guess what I did at the call center, sell health insurance, so what does this brainiac do. Market my mlm to my co-workers, turns out my boss would not like it much. It’s a good thing I didn’t start marketing to the people I called. Well it turns out working for commission only when you hate the hone isn’t the best idea, so I soon left the call center and my first shot at network marketing.

I bummed it for a while, God bless my parents, but I couldn’t live like them. They went to work early, came home late, worked weekends, and always looked tired. I knew it wasn’t for me, 40 years in a repetitive would kill me before it retired me. I tried data entry, $100 in ppc and 1 $14.95 clickbank commission check (which I never got). Turns out a lot of people search about mp3’s but don’t want to pay for them.

Surveys, paid to click, and paid to joins came next. Gotta love testing for those $75 surveys then finding out you don’t qualify and end up spending half an hour on a $2 survey. Paid to click and join offers were great, until you forget to cancel that offer in fine print and get stuck with a $49.95 monthly charge.

I then tried another vitamin company, “The Greatest Vitamin In The World.” I must be extra gullible in the morning because that infomercial had me. I quickly shelled out almost all the money in my account to purchase the website, starter pack, and some sign-ups. Come on enroll 20 people, make $1000, its the greatest vitamin in the world, how hard could that be. For those who can’t see me, namely all of you, I just slapped myself in retrospect. The company seems to have disappeared now, along with the commission they still owe me. What did I do wrong? I sent traffic there like mad, all those traffic exchanges and buying traffic but no results.

Next I tried out GDI. I could finally build my own website, even with the WYSIWYG editor, my website looked like crap. My traffic source, more traffic exchanges, I just never learn. On top of that this time I was on the other side of the ptc offers, I used it to advertise. I learned one of the harshest most costly lessons ever, nothing comes cheap.

I used whats called guaranteed sign-ups, pretty much paid to join where people give fake e-mails and youre happy for 7 days until they don’t upgrade in GDI and you waste over $100. I got 1 paid sign-up, who actually stayed longer than I did, it just wasn’t going anywhere for me. So what next, more surveys and paid to joins, made a $50 check and paid off some debt. Finally my stupidest point hit.

Ever heard of More Than Traffic, this was before my SEO days, I thought these guys were kings. Based in the UK (immediate red flag), they promised $100,000 in any program in 4 months or you don’t pay anything. If they get it, you pay 15%. What $15,000 when you’re making $100,000 so I invested my over $400 for them to build mirror sites to collect sign-ups. Even after reading all the complaints, hearing the accusations of people who knew better, my greed got the best of me. Even when they were “hacked” and taken offline to reboot their system, I still stupidly held to the belief I that they would follow through on their promise.

So I thought I just got in at the wrong time for these companies so next I jumped in a couple pre-launches, hoping for a lot of spillover, one company I am not even sure if they launched yet, it’s been like a year. I almost joined xango, with a great sponsor who was based near where I live and was making $50k a month. She was featured in home business magazine and was incredibly nice but I never followed thorugh. I still had the “Oh it’s too late mentality.”

I tried an hourly call center this time.  I quickly got good enough at the job I didn’t have to go to the company site to answer questions, unfortunately my days of $9 an hour were quickly ending.  They demanded full time but my parents demanded school, guess who won.

I just worked at Dunkin Donuts for a while at that point while attending college.  I met some really nice customers, including a venture capitalist who was in his twenties, and an owner of an insurance companies who was also in his twenties. Success so young, why not me. I also met a few Monavie reps, some people who were so excited because of how much their friends made. Even a guy who was making $15k a month in the business, but my mind was just elsewhere.

At this point I thought, “let me go a safer route, what about stocks.” You know the saying “it takes money to make money,” it is truest when applied to the stock market. I thought I was learning quickly, unfortunately I was only learning the hard way. Penny stocks were volatile and sometimes dropped off the board. Yet I still thought “maybe if I buy when it goes back down, it will go back up.” I was wrong, ended up losing hundreds again.  I even met a millionaire who began with stocks, its a lot easier during the dot com bubble though, especially when you have 50k to invest.

I found a great job at the end of last year moving office furniture with a guy whose wife goes to my church. I have known his family a few years and they were great people. I worked with him, his son who was my age, and one of my best friends. Best of all, I was making $14 an hour at age 19, I was loving it. I figured I could save more and try stocks again, then my awakening happened.

A day before New Year’s I sprained my ankle, so badly that it still hurts today. I was forced to leave my job, my income, and struggle to maintain my debt from my failed stocks with the money I had left. I know what you’re thinking, I made $14 an hour with no bills, I had plenty left. Remember this was right after Christmas, and I splurged because I “knew” I would make it back soon.

So I just kind of hung around my house thinking “what can I do, who knows when I can get back to work.”  So I checked all my spam mail searching for something.  Strangely enough I checked an e-mail address I don’t use anymore.  I got this letter from someone I never heard about concerning this great company.  I checked out the company, it was only $30 to join so I thought, “why not, I have wasted more before.”  The same day I set up an adwords campaign and enrolled my first person.  Pretty much my first real sponsored member ever.  I thought this was pretty good, 1 person, 1 day, maybe this is a sign.  My first good news ever, it was a sign, I sponsored another person my 4th day, then had 11 in my downline by the end of my first week.  The week after I enrolled 3 in one day,  I was ecstatic, I went from $50 my first week, to $200 the next month, and my check has been increasing every month since.

Then came the biggest turning point in my life, the introduction of Magnetic Sponsoring.  As I read it, it contradicted every little thing I ever learned (literally little, I didn’t know much), and guess what, it worked.  Ever since then I have began modeling my recruiting methods, traffic generation methods, and business relationship building techniques around the magnetic principles.  I

Mike Dillard has been the biggest influence on my career as  a network marketer, and I continue to learn from him with every worthwhile course.  Magnetic Recruiting has been built around many of his teachings as well as studies I have conducted and the tutilige of other Internet Marketing experts.

I knew there were people making it online, I just had to be one of them, that was my motivation.  I didn’t want to be wrapped up in work and miss seeing my kids grow up.  The last thing I want is to see my parents grow old by having stressful jobs whither away at their life.  Everyone take up arms and conquer financial oppression.  You have no excuse to keep living the way you are.  Success can be made, the main factor is you.