What's on my heart this week... Network Marketing

I could have been in jail, but I’m not...

That’s what people told me. Every time someone heard I was in network marketing, their immediate reaction was, “Why would you do that? It’s illegal.” 😳🙃

When I asked them, including my own Dad, why they didn’t like it, they said, “Because it’s a pyramid scheme”. 

Hmmmmm.... What do you mean by a pyramid scheme? 

“You know when only the person at the top makes all the money and you bring people in under you who don’t make as much money as you do.”

Gosh, I scratched my head, That’s kind of what happened to me in the corporate world.

I could never make as much as the people at the top when I worked for a bank, or a publishing company or even in sales when I was the top producer. In fact the reason I left corporate was because I loved creating value by building revenues which were a measure of my success. And when they told me they couldn’t move me any faster or changed my compensation plan because I was making too much money even though they were too.... I quit... they kept the revenues I built and paid someone a lot less to run it. To me that system was unfair.

I’m sure each of us has a similar story. Because every company is a pyramid...

There’s always the CEO who makes more than the Vice Presidents, who make more then the managers, who make more than the staff. 

Our schools, government, retail, tech companies, churches all have a pyramid structure.

What I found in Network Marketing is that I was at the top of my pyramid. The person above me didn’t define my value or limit my success. If I outproduced them, I made more money and it didn’t matter to me whether they made a little more more money too because they had mentored me. 

They helped me understand the industry and guided me so that I could be successful faster and independent from them as an entrepreneur.

My purpose when anyone joins my team is that they know that they are the CEO of their pyramid and mentor them with the hope that they too will outperform me because when they do, we all still benefit. We build a better stronger company because we believe in the same future.

So that’s why I love what I do every day. I build pyramids, which for me is people, that I hope will continue to stand strong, independent, powerful and free, long after I’m gone.

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