Observations of a home business newbie....

Quite often whilst browsing through the comments on promotional blogs about various online biz opps / programs I see people asking questions like - are there programs like this available outside XYZ countries, are there any opportunities around which genuinely don't require any sort of start up fee, do you know of anything which doesn't require a credit card, can you really make a profit in your first week without spending a cent and so on ........  Invariably the blog owner assures the 'commenter' that 'no, there aren't any that s/he knows of.' Now I don't know if the authors of these blogs, who obviously have a vested interest in ensuring that as many people as possible who read their blogs and the associated comments sign up with their opportunity, genuinely think that there are no programs out there with those features people are asking about??  Or perhaps (way more likely) they're just taking the easy, and most beneficial for them, way out.  F

One of Zig Zigler's most famous quotes goes thus - "You can get everything you want if you help enough others get what they want". When it comes to internet marketing, never a truer word was spoken.  Many people though make the mistake of thinking that internet marketing or MLM is about selling 'stuff' to people.  It isn't and here's a truth I bet a LOT of people don't know - network marketing is ALL ABOUT TEACHING AND MENTORING. Yup, believe it or not but the most fundamental product of network marketing is in fact 'people'.  It's people you should be studying - what do they want, how can they be helped to achieve THEIR dreams (not YOUR dreams)....   Build your business around people and you'll keep most of them.  People join people.  People aren't interested in joining companies where they're just treated as yet another number, another figure in the recruitment list. Every successful marketing company that has survi

What is it about multi level and network marketing that makes people automatically think 'SCAM'? The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place . ~Guy Kawasaki Multi Level Marketing Or Pyramid Scheme If you think multi level marketing and pyramid scheme are one and the same thing, you're not alone.  Unfortunately the terms 'MLM' (multi level marketing and also referred to as network marketing , direct selling, referral marketing etc) and 'down line' conjure up a negative image with many people because they associate them with illegal pyramid schemes and scams.  Nothing could be further from the truth and if you know what to look for you can easily tell which is which.   A Pyramid Scheme requires you to pay a fee to 'start earning'.  Unfortunately though that is about all a PS consists of - the ' income' is solely derived from those 'join up fees &#