MLM Then, MLM Now

My boyfriend hates multi-level/network marketing companies!  I hate to even tell him I am involved in any because of the bad taste he has from an experience years ago.  To be honest, I was not crazy about them myself. But not because I didn't think the compensation plans were good or honest.  Not because I didn't think the products that were offered were any good.

In the past, network marketing meant something to me that I simply could not see myself getting on board with. I didn't want to be the person who made friends and family tense up for fear that I would want to try to invite them to a meeting.  I didn't want to be the person who went up to complete strangers in elevators, on the subway, in the grocery store and handed them a tape, a CD, a DVD depending upon the era in which we were in, telling them to please listen or watch and then let me give them a call to see what they thought.

I was never a hard core sales person.  I couldn't see myself doing these things or being this person.  I went to a meeting once as a favor to a friend and was cornered by some people in her upline.  I didn't like that.  I couldn't see myself doing that nor could I see bringing people to something like that knowing that it would happen to them.

I was always a relationship type sales person.  I built trust with customers and because of that I succeeded in sales.  Earlier network marketers, to me anyway, needed to be more hard core than I could ever be.  

But like I said earlier, I never thought that the multi-level compensation plans were bad.  Most sales structures are multi-level.  In a car dealership you have the sales person and sales manager.  In most corporate settings there is a district or area manager.  All of these "levels" are paid on the sales made by the sales people.  This is multi-level.  

Once I started looking to earn a real living online, at first I resisted the MLM companies.  I still had that negative connotation in my head but once I really took the time to think about it and once I learned what people are now doing with these companies online, it all came together.

I can do these businesses now without involving a single person I know in my personal life.  I never have to take flyers or DVDs out with me to local events to hand to people.  The internet is my flyer, my meeting, my DVD presentation!  

I can post video, I can post links to sites with lead capture and auto response systems in place.  I can invite people to live webinars.  This is the best!  It's all the good stuff from MLM without the (in my opinion) yuck!

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