How I Succeeded in Network Marketing in 18 Months - Part 1

By Ellen Franzoso

I built a 6 figure income in Network Marketing in an 18 month period, all while I was still working a full time job as a first grade teacher. Let me back up a little.

I've lived in the majestic suburbs of New York most of my life but have for the past few years gotten really tired not only of my teaching career with its grueling hours that never seemed to quit even when I was on vacation or just trying to relax on the weekends with family or friends (I always had papers to grade or a new curriculum to prepare) but also the freezing cold winters were really starting to get me down.

My husband said to me three years ago while I was once again complaining about my plight, and I believe it was tongue in check, that if I replaced the income from my teaching job with a six figure income in network marketing, I could retire from teaching and we could move to a warmer climate during the winter months.

Needless to say I took him on and set out to lean exactly what I had to do in order to make this come true and ended up doing just that. In fact just recently shocked both my friends and peers by turning in my irrevocable resignation, thus giving up a seventeen year, six figure income career, and the full pension that would have gone with it!

How I did this with a full time job in only 18 months is why you are here so let's get to it...number one:

You Must Have A Big Why - What Drives You?

You already know what mine was and obviously it is what kept me going even through the times (and there were many) that I really wanted to throw in the towel, so what's yours? If you think its money, think again! You must have an emotionally charged why in order to keep your mindset in the proper perspective, which brings us to number two:

You Must Be Willing To Do Whatever It Takes

What are you made of? When you get involved in a home based business you get to really test your mettle on this one. What I mean is you are going to have some startling revelations about yourself and not all of them are going to be pretty, not that that's a bad thing.

The personal growth you'll get when your doing all the things you should be doing in order to build your network marketing business into a successful and powerful six figure entity will laterally knock your socks off! You'll find yourself doing things you never dreamed possible, but you must be willing to take the lumps of failures along with the glory of successes and accept them as part of the deal. You will not succeed in network marketing until you are willing to fail not just once or twice but over and over again. And this leads us to number three:

You Must Be Teachable

I'm not kidding here, without this one you may as well pack it up and quit right now. You see at this point you don't know what you don't know, so if you are not willing to keep an open mind and ears coupled with a mouth shut off from excuses as to why this or that method wont work for you but at the same time open to even what you might perceive as the dumbest of questions, you will not make it in this business...Period!

In Closing...

One of my mentors told me, in business you can do only one of 2 things, you can either make excuses or you can make money, you cannot do both...

The next installment (Part Two) of this article will deal with the details and the trench-work of how to succeed in MLM.

About the Author:
Ellen Franzoso is a home based business consultant living in New York who is currantly helping hundreds of people to achieve their business dreams.Contact Info: 914-980-1089http://addnewrepsnow.com/