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Legitimate home-based business opportunities are not quick and easy, no work money-making opportunities.
I frequently receive emails from people who are offering various sorts of quick money making opportunities. On average, it takes 3 to 5 years to build a solid buiness…. it doesn’t generally happen overnight.
To be successful in any home-based business, network marketing or otherwise, you must expect to work a legitimate business with a residual income opportunity for some time before achieving real success. Businesses of every sort require time and effort.
What makes a network marketing business different from a traditional home-based business?
Having a network marketing home-based business provides several benefits over the traditional business operation.

1) No employee expenses (social security, worker’s compensation, etc.)
2) No employees missing work due to illness
3) Fewer capital expenses (buildings, lawn care, heat & air, electric bills)
4) Fewer Advertising expenditures

Do you still have to expect that there will be expenses in any business venture? Yes. You will have some advertising expenses, computer purchase, telephone expenses, and product expenditures.
Most MLM Companies will expect an auto ship in order for the business owner to receive checks from their business efforts. This is quite common for this business model. Without effort from you, no one will pay you, and if they do pay, please make sure that you are working with a legitimate home-based business opportunity and not a scam.
It will take effort and time on your part no matter what you choose!
Brenda Bunney
bdbunney@gmail.com

Did you “join a network marketing company” or “start your own business”? No one who starts a business will ever say they “joined a company“. They will tell you that they have worked very hard to build their business. Network marketers should view owning their businesses in exactly the same way.

As I coach people in the network marketing industry, I notice there are two types of people. There are people who see themselves as having “joined a MLM business opportunity” and then there are people who “start their own business”.

I recently found some information on Entraprenuer.com that I think gives credence to what I’ve known for years…….. multi-level marketing is just as much a viable business opportunity as if you were to start from scratch with the first bud of an idea.

The network marketing information I found not only validated multi-level marketing works with an “excellent” company, but was also one of the suggestions for a home-based business.
Entraprener.com backs up what we are teaching in network marketing……building relationships rather than attacking anyone and everyone in sight !! Everyone may “need” what you have, but do they “want” what you are offering?

It doesn’t matter what business you own, building relationships with people is the only way to experience success. The art of relationship building in your network marketing opportunity may come easily or take some time, but either way will be necessary in order for you to succeed.

Are you still looking for a way to earn an extra income that can give you the financial and time freedoms you are looking for? Click here for a Free Shopping Membership. You can just shop or start your own business.

Brenda Bunney
bdbunney@gmail.com

Notice who is successful in a home-based business, and you will see they are all leaders. The only way you can become a leader is to find someone who will follow your lead.
Everybody wants a leader who truly believes. If you can mine your own bedrock core level of inner belief, you will be astonished at how many people YOU can inspire. Network marketers will see you as a leader, because true motivational leaders are few and far between.
Now maybe you being a leader sounds pretty unlikely to you. I understand. When you can’t find the way by yourself, how can you show it to others? But let me tell you, you are very, very close to being able to show the network marketing path of success to others … even if you aren’t all that confident yet yourself.
You just need a few skills (and, of course, total belief). If you are coachable (willing to look at someone else’s way of doing things), and if you are willing to learn the skills, then YOU can be the star in your chosen home-based business niche. YOU can be the hero or heroine, the one people turn to when they can’t do it themselves. YOU can be The Wizard of Oz for some group of people whose future depends on finding a model they can trust and follow. If your goal is to achieve success in network marketing, then you MUST become that strong leader.
What steps will take you to that strong leader level? You talk to people now, you look around you, and there just is no one who would follow you. And even if they would, you’re not really sure where you would lead them.
Maybe you have some possibilities, but there’s just no certainty that’s strong enough to inspire very many people. Worse, you have your own moments of self-doubt when you think it’s all hopeless, that you will never get the level of network marketing success you want in your own life.
I understand that success seems so distant, it’s almost like a dream. But the fact is, with the right training and some dedicated effort on your part, YOU as an inspirational leader could be just a few weeks away … not months or years. Are you willing to make a commitment to your future? Do you want your own successful home-based business?

I am involved in my own home based-business opportunity. I now know a little more about doing “due diligence” whether analyzing a MLM Company offering a home-based business opportunity or a fortune 500 company offering a CEO position in their firm.

The marketing tools I have learned not only teach you how to do the research, but also to analyze the information for accuracy and evaluate its appropriateness for your personal career goals.

There are people out there who will bash MLM Companies and Network Marketing in general, so just realize part of your responsibility to yourself as you research home based-business opportunities is to determine fact from fiction. Once you’ve determined fact from fiction, the rest is based on doing what is right for you.

Brenda Bunney
bdbunney@gmail.com
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I started my own MLM home-based business for the same reason most people are attracted to network marketing.
I was working in corporate America, making just enough to make it VERY difficult to consider leaving. Why leave? I wanted to leave the corporate world because I wanted to find an opportunity that would afford me FREEDOM.
Ultimately I wanted TIME AND FINANCIAL FREEDOM !! I made good money, but I was required to be away from my husband and two young children daily and then about 15 weeks out of the year.
I was going to miss my daughter’s dance recital, her softball game, the play they were doing at school. My son needed me to read to him, help him with his numbers and letters. He wanted to see me at his tee ball games and basketball games.

My husband was trying to be both mother and father and run a business. We could have made that work, but ultimately….. I WAS MISSING WHAT I WANTED MOST. I wanted to be there for my family.

I wanted my daughter, who was going to be faced with moral issues soon, way sooner than I had hoped, to have me around to talk to about ANYTHING. I didn’t want her to have to make a decision and then tell me much later. I wanted to be the one who helped her make the “right” decision now.
I wanted to pick my children up from school, talk to them about their day, and generally experience being with them. They were going to grow up very fast, and I wanted to be there for as much of it as possible.

The home-based business model affords many people a viable means of providing for their family and achieving both time and financial freedom.

What are you looking for in your life? Can owning your own MLM home-based business help you achieve your goals? Is a MLM home-based business right for you? I wanted a home based business, but I did not want to work a MLM business. I chose a little different path with a consumer’s club. I am giving away Free Shopping Memberships. Use one to shop for yourself, purchase your business needs, or look at the business for yourself.

Network Marketing Prayers
I bet that from the start, you were thinking about your family. Time was going by, and it seemed like you were spending less and less quality time together. The bills got bigger; you had to work a lot harder to make ends meet. When you first found network marketing, it seemed like the answer to a prayer. Believe me, a lot of people know that feeling.
Network Marketing Nightmare
What happened next sure wasn’t pretty. Have you ever seen one of those “Discovery Channel” features where some animal crossing the Amazon gets devoured by a school of piranhas? The sad truth is, most of the network marketing “Big Hitters” make their money not by building people in their network marketing organization, but by picking the bones of the newcomers.
It was the freedom you really wanted, not the money. Unfortunately, the people who were leading you on really wanted the money…. Yours, actually, and you trusted them because they were so successful. You thought they’d guide you to financial freedom, because that would benefit them. The problem was, these guys have always gotten the good things in life by fleecing people, not by building them.
Network Marketing Wounds
My bet is, after licking your wounds, you have already decided to forget this bad dream, get to work, and really achieve those goals you want so much. I’ve been through the same wringer myself. I can help you. That’s what this blog is all about. Once you find a company that offers what you need to be successful, it will work for you.

Achieving your Internet Marketing goals (or any other goals!) requires a patient, long-term commitment to a very good plan. Network Marketers must strive for their dreams without frantic or haphazard actions.
They must have an unwavering, uncompromising urgency to succeed in their Network Marketing business, which they drill into their team right from the start.
Losing Internet Marketing Focus
We all lose focus at times. When your Network Marketing team loses its focus, they generally get pretty unproductive. You need to understand the mental picture that spurs them to urgency, and refer them to that picture.
Most employees are used to working for a living and building someone else’s business. They still have a boss, and they do what they’re told. Nothing wrong with that, but that isn’t the way network marketing works.
In network marketing, YOU are the boss, and you get up in the morning and decide whether to work your business or to watch the 42nd re-run of Gilligan’s Island. Guess which choice most people make?
Most people grab the remote control because there is no sense of urgency to build their network marketing business. If they had a wildly burning desire to achieve their goals right NOW, they wouldn’t even think about the TV. They’d just go to work. THAT is the urgency people must have.
Bringing Internet Marketing Goals Full Circle
Let’s bring this all together. First, the home-based business leader has to walk the talk. People need to see them as the role model for “patient urgency.” We all have many years of bad habits to overcome. The greatest urgency for your business future is to change these habits. Identify the worst of the lot, and map out a plan to replace them. Start NOW!
Maybe the most helpful tool you’ll find is the book “The Slight Edge“, by Jeff Olson. You learn to make little changes that combine to make a big difference. You can spend just 2 or 3 minutes a day, if you do it consistently every day, and over time, it will change your life
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The biggest change you can focus on is to find a way to have more urgency while pursuing your home-based business opportunity. That’s where you’ll get the biggest, fastest payback! Isn’t that the goal of business?
Owning your own business of ANY kind is HARD work! You have to really want it ! Residual income does happen, but not BEFORE the work!
Brenda Bunney
bdbunney@gmail.com