CORPORATE INTEGRITY ISSUES STILL LOOM LARGE

First it was Enron. Then it was Arthur Anderson. Reeling from the implications of corporate mishandlings, cover-ups, and fraud, we were ill-prepared to hear that World Com had perpetrated a multi-billion dollar fraud. Where does this now leave the relationship between business and the working sector? Is it a negative for the network marketing industry ---- or is there a positive note here somewhere? If my twenty-three years in the business as an active distributor have taught me anything, it is that when you worry about your retirement funding, the security of your pension, whether or not social security will be there when you hit the magic age, etc. you begin to realize that “a penny saved is a penny earned.” You begin to see that if you could INCREASE your cash flow with another income stream, especially if you could save hundreds to thousands of dollars legally on tax breaks for the self-employed, then you see how our industry can offer some measure of relief against financial panic. I decided right after I made my first $3,000+ a month supplementally in my MLM part-time business, that I no longer had to worry about that precarious teacher-retirement fund, which had been the subject of many gloom and doom discussions.

If you will build your part-time income for the purpose of providing an enticing nest egg and some lifestyle enhancements, then you can largely ignore the catastrophes that the rest of the population frets over. You have a larger measure of control over your own integrity when you do home-based business. If you ever see that management of your primary career company is asking you to push the envelope, then the security of having your sideline business will give you the freedom to leave, rather than to compromise your integrity. I feel it is the perfect time for MLM companies to aggressively seek professionals from all areas of endeavor. We can also offer an opportunity for dissatisfied MLMers to utilize their skills and contacts with us, if their MLM company can’t pass the “sniff test.” Here are some things for you to think about when you are “sniffing” your current company: 1. Has your company always paid all checks on time? 2. Have they ever bounced checks? 3. Have they kept promises “within reason?” 4. Have they moved downline? 5. Have they wrongfully terminated leaders? 6. Have their business practices withstood scrutiny? 7. Do they edify their leaders? 8. Would your mom check them out thoroughly, knowing what you know, and recommend them highly?If, for some reason, your company fails to bear up under this scrutiny, then it is time to explore other options. Now is the BEST time to be a networker, whether you are young or old, male or female, bright or dull, well-educated or a high school dropout, able-bodied or handicapped. You CAN make it in our industry if you want to badly enough, and are willing to focus with integrity until you succeed. MLM will give you an opportunity to weather the storms of controversy that are swirling about Wall Street and the corporate world with a peaceful mind. While others freeze with tension over the security of their nest eggs, you will be relaxed knowing that your secondary income stream can more than offset any potential loss. Anyone who sets his or her mind to it and doesn’t quit, can make over a thousand dollars a month in a good company like mine, if he or she mentors with a successful person. Use today’s negatives to create a real positive for yourself. Join me in never having to worry excessively about the things we cannot change. Our industry is poised to show you the way to financial freedom, defining “financial freedom” as lack of concern over money shortage and obligations. If you, like hundreds of my monthly readers, are still sitting on the fence trying to decide whether to join the industry, RUN! --- don’t walk --- to the phone and call me or someone like me today. Isn’t it time to feel good again?