Businesses | Brian Gosur

Direct Sales – Multilevel Marketing. Are These Legit Businesses?

March 5, 2010 bgosur 2 comments

Direct Sales and Multilevel marketing. Are these legitimate businesses to be involved in? Have you ever heard of Avon or Amway. These are billion dollar companies. Avon has been around since 1886.

Why do so many people look down at anyone who works an MLM business or is involved in direct sales? I am so tired of having people look down their noses at me because they think that my business is a scam or I am involved in some under ground illegal pyramid scheme.

People who are in physiology or finances are the ones who give me the worst rap. I guess it might be that they had to go to school for eight to ten years and run up 100,000 dollars in student loans, and now they are stuck in a job that occupies seventy to eighty hours a week of their time.

My job is around my schedule. I make my own hours and appointments. I don’t have thousands of dollars in student loans. I don’t put in seventy hours a week on my job, unless I want too. I don’t have to answer to a boss, who tells me when I take a lunch or if I am going to take a lunch. My vacations are whenever I want to take them.

The way I see it, having a JOB is being in prison. You had to pay all that money to finance an education, so that you could get a job, that takes all of your time. It might take you ten years or more to pay off your student loans.

I am not against education. No way. We all should get an education and learn. I love to learn and I am always learning. I wish I knew back when I was younger, what I know now, about how money works. How the wealthy exchange their money for time, and the rest of the population exchange their time for money. My friends are putting in seventy to eighty hours a week for a paycheck. The wealthy have learned how to use their money to work for them in exchange for time.

Time is the most valued commodity there is. It’s what we all want more of. You can work for someone else and use all your time to get money or you can learn how to use your money to work for you and in exchange you get more time. Time that you can use as you wish.

Multilevel marketing and direct sales offers you a chance to start a business of your own at a minimum investment. It does take work and time to build your business, but you can do this at the pace you set to adjust for your family and their needs. Full or part time. You decide.

With our economy still struggling, more and more people are looking to the MLM industry to fulfill a dream to work for themselves or to bring in another stream of income.

It won’t cost you $100,000 dollars and it won’t take seventy or eighty hours a week of your time. But there are people in this industry that are making $100,000 dollars a year or $100,000 dollars a month. You just might find a very rewarding and lucrative business that will give you a comfortable lifestyle and more of your time back to you, to do as you please.

Through direct sales and multilevel marketing businesses, people are learning how to get more of their money working for them. Don’t let anyone look down their nose at what you do. They might just be jealous.

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Leadership Development

February 26, 2010 bgosur No comments

One of my favorite movies is “Band of Brothers”. It’s the true story of the 101st Airborne Division, Easy Company, who fought back in World War II. I don’t know why they called them Easy Company, because there was nothing that these guys did that was easy. They were lead by Major Richard Winters, who came up through the ranks to lead this group of men through some of the most hard fought battles in WWII.

Major Winters was just not handed this role of leader. He earned it, and the respect of everyone of his men. He brought the value of a true leader out into the open for all his men to see. He never asked his men to go through something that he was not willing to go first. One of his soldiers said, ” We would have followed him anywhere.” Can people say that about you or me?

As you are following this series, we talked about becoming a student of your craft, in attraction marketing Rule #3. As you grow and your marketing and prospecting abilities are being refined, you are becoming a leader. You know more then 90% of all the other network marketers that are out there. You are starting to stand out from the rest of the other peddlers in the ocean of network marketing. You are leading with value like Gold. You have information that others want to know and learn so they can become successful in their network marketing businesses.

Have you ever heard the statement, “You are what you think”. You are a product of your thoughts. Focus on what you are becoming, not what you were. Remember, Michael Jordan didn’t become one of the best scorers to ever play the game by sitting and dreaming about it all day. He worked very hard at being the best basketball player he could be. Michael Jordan pulled away from the rest of the players by becoming a student of the game, working hard at learning and refining his skills. Even though he is not playing anymore, he is still one of the most respected and sought after people in the world.

This is exactly how you should approach your business. You must focus your thought energies on what you want to become. The greatest book ever written, The Bible, says ” As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” You are a product of your thought process.

Study your craft and lead with value. People will follow a leader that will lead them to victory and the bank, not someone who is going to lead them down the wrong path and to the death of their businesses.

Another saying that you may recall. (Sorry, they are popping in my head like crazy right now) Talk is cheap. Seeing is believing. Perception is reality. How people see you is what you really are. There is a lot of empty words on the Internet today. Don’t let your words be empty too. Let them be full of value to help others. When you do, you will earn the respect of others and be marked out as a true leader. Your following will grow and so will your business.