Get A Mentor - How important is it to have a mentor in business? It's critical! It's not just a nice to have it's a MUST HAVE. There's a reason why all the most successful business people have mentors. It's because you need people who've been where you have been to help guide you through the twists and turns of success.

Before I found my currant mentors, I'd spent a fortune failing and far too much time (years I'll never get back) trying to implement methods that just didn't work and never would. I was like a wind up toy that kept trying and trying to walk though the same brick wall over and over again.

But in only 18 months from the time I decided to shut up, listen and learn from people who had done what I wanted to do many times over, I went from being an MLM failure to making over $100K working part time all the while still holding down a full time teaching job; and I owe it all not only to getting the proper mentoring and guidance from the right mentors, but also to the fact that I was willing to listen to them and put their knowledge into massive action every day.

Lead With The Product - Using the income from your regular job can be a bit of a sticky wicket at first so you'll need to budget for it. This is why getting your MLM to fund your MLM as quickly as possible is so important. But how you ask? Well... (Drum roll please) by selling your product of course...but not the way you've been taught by your upline and Network Marketing Company.

You wont be buying any more brochures, DVDs, CDs or flyers...in fact the only thing you will be paying for when you first get started are leads, but not those expensive opportunity leads that your company is pushing on you...those are worthless. You also won't be calling your friends and family to harass into joining your new business opportunity nor will you be employing the three foot belly to belly rule; your acquaintances are off limits from now on!

You see those methods only work in the company's favor. In fact only 3% of all MLM reps ever make it anywhere near the big league; a stat that neither the companies nor their reps readily divulge. So where does this leave you as a budding Network Marketer if you don't have people to chase around and pester anymore? You will need people to share your wares with, but if your warm market is off limits as well as anyone within arms length, whose left?

Hmm, well how about people who have already expressed a want need or desire for what you have? There are a lot of potential customers and business builders out there searching for what you have, learn how to tap into that niche market and have customers and prospects coming to you for a change...what a concept.

And leading with the product instead of the business opportunity is the quickest way to build a clientele of people who truly love your product and continue to buy it on a monthly basis. Not only have that, but those who truly love the product or service make the absolute best business builders!

Make A Schedule And Stick To It - Network Marketing is a great way to take care of your monetary future as well of your families' future by building a powerful residual income, but how to do this with a full time job? Scheduling is the key.

This is the hardest thing for most folks to master, and believe me it wasn't my strongest suite in the beginning either, but I can't stress enough how important this is even if you don't have a full time job, but if you do have a full time job it is non negotiable.

Perhaps one of the reasons sticking to a business schedule of your own making is because it not only takes a lot of discipline but more importantly it takes a far different mind set than most people who have been employed by others are used to.

Sure you may have no problem with a work schedule that your employer has put together for you but budget your own business schedule takes a business owner attitude. In other words when scheduling for yourself you need to wear two hats, one being the business owner and the other one being the employer.

If you think nepotism is a problem in other businesses imagine what can happen if you're your own boss...talk about favoritism and getting away with murder on the job. But the fact is, if you can't be honest with yourself as to what kind of an employee you are for yourself, murdering your business is may be a sad inevitability.

In closing - Treat your network marketing business like the real business that you want it to be. If you play with it like a hobby it will always be a hobby and it will always cost you more than it makes you.

I wish you great success in your Home Based MLM Business.

Ellen Franzoso is a home based business consultant living in New York who is currently helping hundreds of people to achieve their business dreams.

Email: ellenfranzoso@gmail.com and website: http://www.addnewrepsnow.com/
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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/

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