I let go of my bias about home business as a valid business model once I realized I could advertise online and guide people to a compelling presentation. People would buy, and they may as well be buying from me.
I’ll never forget when it hit me. My wife had staggered in the door. She just had the kind of day that makes you want to throw a stapler at your boss and quit your job. In my infinite wisdom I told her I would solve her problem by consulting Google. They rarely let me down!
I searched for “work at home”!
After a few weeks of research I tossed the dice. It cost me about $800 on the credit card at the time.
What I really liked about the online MLM business I chose was you could work from home and you wouldn’t have to tell your friends until the money was already piling up.
Once I finally worked up the nerve to tell my wife, she said, “You better earn your money back and quit”. God love her. Why would I quit if I can earn my money back?
I did earn my money back. I even enjoyed 5 figure months. You should have seen the guy at the bank telling me I needed to stop bringing in $6,000.00 checks and start only accepting wire transfers. That was a totally cool day.
There was a down side. Advertising for home business that could move an $8,000.00 + product was not cheap. Eventually I was spending 1.5k in advertising into the new MLM business of every member I brought on board. I figured this would jump start them.
The advertising I was doing had made me one of the top 20 reps listed at the company with in my first 3 months in the home business industry. I figured that should really help people lift off to success since it worked so well for me.
Well, they sucked at it. I felt responsible. It turned out that I needed to provide my team with more than just responsive marketing if I was going to get them to be successful in home business.
However, I did recognize the value surrounding me – the people I was in business with. I saw how I could place an almost corporate structure around my network marketing team.
The, Occupy the City, Multi-Level Marketing Solution.
There is a multitude of tasks involved in running a home business business. There are things not everyone enjoys about the MLM industry. Different people excel at different tasks. Some of my team was stronger in areas I was less inclined to enjoy and vice versa.
When you assign tasks according to individual strengths your overall productivity increases. It had been under my nose all along.
At Occupy the City we spend our time with professionals that have a huge drive for success. This is exactly the type of MLM business owner that will make you successful. More of them come to us every day with a desire to be a part of something so timely, and forward thinking.
A sales based advertising coop + automated training + personal mentoring + strength based task assignment + a community effort = one heck of a team based, automated marketing system, Occupy the City.