network marketing: global trends

NETWORK MARKETING AS WELFARE

We have reached the number 10 pet peeve I believe most people have with network marketing. I began this rant more than 10 weeks ago with my first post, People Don’t Dislike Network Marketing, They Dislike Network Marketers.

In that post I outlined 10 behaviours I believe need to be changed for network marketing to undergo the revolution I know will occur when we discover the potential this economic model has to lead business into the future. For the ten weeks following that initial post, I have expanded on each of those 10 behaviors. (click for a complete listing to all posts on this subject).

IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A BUSINESS THAT PAYS YOU FOR NOT DOING ANY WORK?

Does it sound tempting? “Wow, I just sign up and buy this guy’s kit of goods and tell him/her the names and phone numbers of my friends and relatives and sit back and wait for the postman to arrive.”

You may laugh and think “how foolish, surely that doesn’t happen” and if it did, “well, who would fall for such a line”?

Well, get rich quick schemes are the one industry currently undergoing a huge growth in this turbulent economy.

When you are desperate, afraid, low in self-esteem because you have lost your job, or are at risk of losing it, or you are just finding there is more month than money… it can be very tempting.

There are also some network marketing pay plans, like the binary plan, designed to pay out bonuses only when each of the legs produce the same volume. In a plan like this, it  rewards lazy people or non-workers and is tempting for the person who is highly motivated to make such statements as he/she juggles to place people down each leg and balance the volume so they can receive their bonuses.

There are also occasions in organizations where the pay plan does not require such juggling, but overly ambitious distributors make this offer to help them reach quotas or incentive levels. “If you just sign up and buy some products I will be able to move on to the next pay level and you don’t have to do a thing.”

I believe these methods are rampant in network marketing businesses as a culture of fear, of loss, and of competition takes hold. It loses touch with ethics and, most importantly with SUSTAINABLILTY.

There are many incredibly ethical companies in the industry and there are hundreds of thousands ethical distributors who have built a business based on excellence in customer service and relationships with their team and downline. If you are just looking into the industry, and I do believe you should be, as now is when you should be  thinking about a Plan B…now, more than ever. This industry affords an opportunity for you to earn whatever amount of money you are prepared to work to earn.

But you must do your research, choose your company wisely, and choose your sponsor wisely. That will make all the difference.

Good luck – and good success!

BLESS BLESS
JUDY BERG
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Organizational Behaviour Consultant
network marketing consultant and trainer
author: Imagine Your Soul Abundant: Attracting Success, Fulfillment and True Happiness
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network marketing: marketing solutions

WHAT IS NETWORK MARKETING?

Our Thursday posting is dedicated to Network Marketing, so what better time than the Christmas season to talk about what it means to “network market.”

Probably the greatest networker of them all was Jesus Christ. He had a message he believed in, and knew it had to be shared with others. He gathered 12 others who believed in him and also wanted to spread the message.

Now, more than 2000 years later, there are still people committed to “paying it forward.” Isn’t it amazing what an impact only 12 people can have, as they each share the message with others-who share it with others-continually passing it on.

Whatever the message you believe in-why not pay it forward? Pass it on. Perhaps you have a product or service you are passionate about and believe others you know and care about would benefit from it. Or perhaps, it is just a daily passing forward of the way you think life should be lived…doing kind things for other people.

LIKE THE VICTIM WHO TREATED HIS MUGGER RIGHT…

Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.

But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn.

He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.

“He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you go,’” Diaz says.

As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”

The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, “like what’s going on here?” Diaz says. “He asked me, ‘Why are you doing this?’”

Diaz replied: “If you’re willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me … hey, you’re more than welcome.

“You know, I just felt maybe he really needs help,” Diaz says.

Diaz says he and the teen went into the diner and sat in a booth.

“The manager comes by, the dishwashers come by, the waiters come by to say hi,” Diaz says. “The kid was like, ‘You know everybody here. Do you own this place?’”

“No, I just eat here a lot,” Diaz says he told the teen. “He says, ‘But you’re even nice to the dishwasher.’”

Diaz replied, “Well, haven’t you been taught you should be nice to everybody?”

“Yea, but I didn’t think people actually behaved that way,” the teen said.

Diaz asked him what he wanted out of life. “He just had almost a sad face,” Diaz says.

The teen couldn’t answer Diaz or he didn’t want to.

When the bill arrived, Diaz told the teen, “Look, I guess you’re going to have to pay for this bill ’cause you have my money and I can’t pay for this. So if you give me my wallet back, I’ll gladly treat you.”

The teen “didn’t even think about it” and returned the wallet, Diaz says. “I gave him $20 … I figure maybe it’ll help him. I don’t know.”

Diaz says he asked for something in return the teen’s knife “and he gave it to me.”

Afterward, when Diaz told his mother what happened, she said, “You’re the type of kid that if someone asked you for the time, you gave them your watch.”

“I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It’s as simple as it gets in this complicated world.”

Produced for Morning Edition by Michael Garofalo.

Story originally reported on NPR at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=891647

CIRCLE OF LOVE

There are some brilliant ideas already out there that you may want to become involved with as your expression of networking or paying it forward - or you might want to develop your own.  Here is a link to the Circle of Love. A concept being “payed forward” by someone who just wants to make a difference in the world by encouraging like-minded people to band together and create a synergy of love.

We are passing out of a long dark period of time when all too often people banded together primarily for the purpose of power, inflicting pain or distinguishing our differences.  We can counter this by banding together to touch the essence of what man is really here to do – to give and receive love.

The Circle of Love

BLESS BLESS
JUDY BERG

Organizational Behavior Consultant
author: Imagine Your Soul Abundant:Attracting Success, Fulfillment and True Happiness
more about: www.soulabundant.com,
You may not be of the Christian faith, but I hope the spirit and intention of this celebration is one you can honor.  We will never all hold the same views, beliefs or religions, but we can honor and respect our differences… and therein, will lie our ascendancy to highest consciousness. Paying forward kindness and love transcends all religious orders.

Consciousness: MIndshift

VIEWING THE CONSCIOUS BODY

I created the Body Conscious Guide(tm) to inspire a dialogue about states of Consciousness – a road map of sorts - from lowest to highest energy. I believe our lowest state of consciousness and darkest night is the state of Hopelessness, where there is hardly enough energy to even imagine going on with life. Progressively, there are increasing energy reserves at Sadness, moving up to Shame, Guilt, Grief, Fear, Doubt, and Anger.

The next step on the guide to Body Consciousness(tm)….

is a crucial turning point. It is Gratitude. This is the shift from lower consciousness states to higher consciousness states. In Gratitude, one has crossed the portal to the potentiality for ever greater energy levels of Acceptance, Empathy, Love, Joy, Wonder, Inner Peace, Bliss, and ultimately, Enlightenment.

THE POWER OF GRATITUDE

Gratitude holds huge power.  Since it is not possible to hold two states of Consciousness at the same moment -  if one is in a state of Fear, you cannot also experience Love -  we must find a way to shift from the energy levels that do not serve us, to those that will.  The turning point is Gratitude. The good news is, it is possible to choose your state of consciousness. Regardless of the state you may be in, if you can find, for even a brief moment, a single thing for which you can feel Gratitude – a shift occurs. In an instant! It may be challenging to stay in Gratitude for long before the old thoughts and fears come swirling back. But, for that moment, your body chemistry changed. The more frequently you step into Gratitude, the longer that state remains with you.

SHIFTING THROUGH ADVERSITY

In adversity there is always hope and possibility. As an example, there is much to appreciate in this global recession. In  recent decades, abundance and wealth have taken on a connotation of consumption and materialism…but now, we have a chance to return to the real meaning of abundance. I was raised by parents who lived through the last Depression. They knew how to save, rarely did they use credit. In our community there was no indoor plumbing until I was in Grade school, no television until I reached High school, and few people took annual vacations. I thought I grew up rich!…it was a state of MIND.

YOU CHOOSE

We are now in very volatile, frightening, and challenging times. Oil prices have soared and plunged, housing prices have reached astronomical levels and cascaded to all time lows, foreclosures are at a record high, food prices could bring on the worst world-wide famine ever recorded in history, and  our monetary system is collapsing. I am not an economist, so I am not about to speculate on the factors driving this scenario but what I do know, through my years of examining this complex feedback mechanism that is Consciousness, is that the mindset  we choose when looking at our situation has profound impact on just how well we will weather this turbulent storm.

WHAT WILL YOU CHOOSE?

Will the Christmas season with financial concerns become a time of fear and sadness because you cannot afford the gifts you once purchased? – or will you be Grateful for the love of self, family and community. There is no greater gift. What a wonderful time for us to learn what it means to be Soul Abundant. No recession can take that abundance away from you. When I ask participants what is their most precious asset, they rarely say TIME.  The gift of time is the greatest gift you can give.  My favorite Christmas gift was the year my parents gave me a “voucher” for a family home-cooked meal every Friday night in their home for a year.  At the time I was working, traveling and raising two teenagers.

WHAT IF I DON’T ALWAYS FEEL HAPPY?

I am often asked whether people who subscribe to the idea that we create our reality through our thoughts and feelings are just happy, happy, happy, little folks every minute of every day. Nothing bad ever comes into their lives! Of course, the statement is made with a heavy coating of sarcasm. To which I reply, “I am grateful what you describe is not true”. Bad things do happen…to everyone. It is how we choose to deal with these things that differentiate those who “seem to have all the good luck”, and those who do not. We embrace the bad times because it is in those darkest of moments we are presented with the opportunity to reach down and discover our greatest potential. Luck is not the factor. Consciousness is.

I think consciousness is a combination of our thoughts and feelings, creating a complex feedback loop and shaping our reality. The state of consciousness we are in is a like a radio station emitting a signal that is picked up by all around us, both animate and inanimate. No different than the radio signal we pick up with our radio tuners – when we link to a frequency – that is the music that is played back to us. So, if we “don’t like the music”, we need to change our consciousness channel! It is all dependent on how we CHOOSE to look at it.

Many participants from my seminars keep a laminated copy of the Body Conscious Guide(tm) on their fridge.  Instead of talking to family about what they are going to DO today – consider asking how they are going to BE today …which level will they BE on the chart.

Try it. Then let us know what happens!  You can order a laminated copy of the Body Conscious Guide by clicking here - and you may want to give the gift of abundance with a copy of my book available at the same site!

BLESS BLESS
JUDY BERG
Organizational Behaviour Consultant
author: Imagine Your Soul Abundant: Attracting Success, Fulfillment and True Happiness
more about: www,soulabundant.com

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