Well to continue my story . This new person, I will call Bob, Seemed to have a lot of answers and help for me . I really needed a mentor . So I started to work with him as often as I could
One of the first things he did was introduce me to another company
He told me ( well "us" there, by now, was quite a crew of us following him ) that he had just found a great company and should leave everything we were doing and join this new one so this meant another start up package. It was a single product company . I liked that ..but I now know that is not the best idea. Some times things happen like the government wants to check the ingredients so while they do that your business goes on hold if that is the only product
This company had a binary comp plan . I never did really understand it . But my friend Bob jumped to the top of a pay level very quickly as we all joined ( it should have been a clue) for me but I really needed a mentor and I thought I have found one
I did read the policies and procedures because I live in Canada and was had some restrictions on how we did business here . I took my concerns ( actually now I would have different concerns knowing what I know now but for the time it was pretty amazing I did that much ) o my friend and my friend said ." Oh don't pay any attention to them they are all written by the same lawyer ( which is partially true) and really don't mean any thing (WRONG!!) I will address this later in detail
I really like the product . I have health issues and it made a great difference but I was not
doing very well sponsoring people
Remember I was introduced to a trainer and by now I had her script book . I found out our Convention for the year would be in Las Vegas and She would be a guest speaker and then be holding a training the following day near by '
I was really excited . I was about to embark on the training that would save me and teach me how to sponsor .
The convention had a familiar ring to it !1 I had seen this somewhere before . Come to find out the owner of the company had been raised with parents that built a huge business in one of the companies Doug and I tried and failed at The people making the BIG money parading across the stage
It was very impressive but really just a lot of raw raw stuff
At the trainer's meeting the next day I learn I had just touched the surface.. if I was to succeed I would need to attend one of her weekend conferences and probably if I REALLY wanted success two of them AND since I might not get it all there I should plan on attending them regularly
Do you see a pattern developing here?
To Be Continued ......
Monday, June 30, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Starting Out is Daunting
My re-entry into networking came in through the side door , I was actually shopping for an upright freezer !! On a side bar I read "Earn money doing Paid surveys . I had been doing surveys for a while just for fun, so I clicked on the link . then it said make serious money on line through this company . I talked to Doug and said I know I can make this work ( we had dabbled in Network Marketing off and on over the years )
I was familiar with networking , or so I thought. I knew the promise . I knew I could build a business and eventually walk away from it and still have my paychecks come in, I was promised that from the start
What I hadn't counted on was networking had moved to the internet and I did not know how to copy and paste!
I was determined... so I logged out a copy of Computers For Dummies at the library . I didn't help they talked about browsers and URLs and I was lost.
Thankfully had join a company that had a training all be it for $40 a month but it did teach me some basics.
This particular company also strongly suggested joining at least three of the businesses they said they had carefully chosen for the high pay outs . I wanted success so I did just that . One cost a mere $10/month , the next , was about $56, the last was about $150. Then of course you need people to talk to so they sold us leads .
I was told out of 100 leads you will usually sponsor 10 so I bought the package of 85 lead for $350
Figuring if 10 people joined me and did what I did they I would come out ahead
About this time I called a lead who was really ( now I understand what he was doing) reverse marketing me . He told me about another system to advertise in that was just getting started ( Be ware the start up !) It sounded cool so I joined that. It was supposed to cycle and pay us back
He also introduced me to a trainer who did free calls once a week and had a script book that he promised would solve all my recruiting problems ( more on that later )
In the mean time I was finding keeping up with three companies was more that I could handle. I couldn't figure out how the pay plans worked . So I ended up just promoting one. I still had to do the monthly fees of the others however
Around this time I was introduced to a chap who seemed to understand marketing and was astounded at the charge for leads. He said he could show us how to generate our own leads
Well that was pretty neat!
He started teaching us how to use Traffic exchanges. Now I was learning about browsers( I finally found out what they were LOL) I needed Mozilla Firefox or Crazy browser so i could do several at one time. That was kind of fun But not very effective for me
This is getting a bit long I will continue my learning curve next entry
I was familiar with networking , or so I thought. I knew the promise . I knew I could build a business and eventually walk away from it and still have my paychecks come in, I was promised that from the start
What I hadn't counted on was networking had moved to the internet and I did not know how to copy and paste!
I was determined... so I logged out a copy of Computers For Dummies at the library . I didn't help they talked about browsers and URLs and I was lost.
Thankfully had join a company that had a training all be it for $40 a month but it did teach me some basics.
This particular company also strongly suggested joining at least three of the businesses they said they had carefully chosen for the high pay outs . I wanted success so I did just that . One cost a mere $10/month , the next , was about $56, the last was about $150. Then of course you need people to talk to so they sold us leads .
I was told out of 100 leads you will usually sponsor 10 so I bought the package of 85 lead for $350
Figuring if 10 people joined me and did what I did they I would come out ahead
About this time I called a lead who was really ( now I understand what he was doing) reverse marketing me . He told me about another system to advertise in that was just getting started ( Be ware the start up !) It sounded cool so I joined that. It was supposed to cycle and pay us back
He also introduced me to a trainer who did free calls once a week and had a script book that he promised would solve all my recruiting problems ( more on that later )
In the mean time I was finding keeping up with three companies was more that I could handle. I couldn't figure out how the pay plans worked . So I ended up just promoting one. I still had to do the monthly fees of the others however
Around this time I was introduced to a chap who seemed to understand marketing and was astounded at the charge for leads. He said he could show us how to generate our own leads
Well that was pretty neat!
He started teaching us how to use Traffic exchanges. Now I was learning about browsers( I finally found out what they were LOL) I needed Mozilla Firefox or Crazy browser so i could do several at one time. That was kind of fun But not very effective for me
This is getting a bit long I will continue my learning curve next entry
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