Annotated List of My Personal Articles

Here's a hot-linked list of articles that I've personally authored that are aimed to provide guidance for new business opportunity seekers. Simply click on any article that you would like to read.

Choosing An Outstanding Network Marketing Company--Ten Key Guidelines
Summary
Many people get started in network marketing with little or no awareness of the huge number of potential options available. Moreover, many of them lack a clear set of guidelines for choosing an outstanding company from the plethora of possibilities. This article offers 10 objective guidelines for evaluating network marketing companies.
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Considering A Home Business, Part I--Is Your Job An Asset Or A Liability?
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Jobs are becoming increasingly stressful and insecure; moreover, they entail a number of long-term costs that are often not recognized. Very importantly, they are not a path to financial freedom. This article outlines some of their main shortcomings as an introduction to considering a carefully-chosen home business.
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How To Fail In Network Marketing - Confessions Of A Recovered Leads Junkie, Part I

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Buying and calling leads is a common way that traditional network marketers use in trying to build their business. Through a personal story, this first article in a two-part series points out how this approach can become addictive and how it commonly contributes to failure in the network marketing industry. Part II will introduce a revolutionary and highly constructive alternative.
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How To Fail In Network Marketing - Confessions Of A Recovered Leads Junkie, Part II

Summary

In this second part of a two-part series, the author documents his failure in trying to build his network marketing business by buying and calling vast numbers of leads. On a happier note, he describes how he, fortunately, realized the folly of this approach and replaced it with one that's markedly easier and more successful.

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Key To Home Business Success-Getting On The Right Track with Right Network Marketing Company

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Every week, about 50,000 people join a network marketing company. Although large numbers achieve high level success and financial freedom, far more end up disillusioned and fail. You can greatly increase your degree of success by carefully choosing an outstanding network marketing company with excellent products. Of equal or even greater importance is to choose the Right Track-i.e., a business building strategy that fits for you. You now have a choice.
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Network Marketing For Work At Home Moms And Pops--An Introductory Primer, Part I

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Increasing numbers of single parents are interested in starting a home business. One of their major options is to join a network marketing company. Although large numbers of people have been amazingly successful in this field, the vast majority have failed or have had very modest success. This is Part I in a two-part series that presents an introductory primer on network marketing with an emphasis on its advantages and pitfalls. Part II will also present a new alternative to the traditional network marketing model that promises a much higher degree of success for average people entering this industry.
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Network Marketing For Work At Home Moms and Pops--Its Advantages And Pitfalls, Part II

Summary
Increasing numbers of single parents are interested in starting a home business. One of their major options is to join a network marketing company. Although large numbers of people have been amazingly successful in this field, the vast majority have failed or have had very modest success. This is Part II in a two-part series, which presents the advantages and pitfalls of traditional network marketing and also describes a new alternative to the traditional model that promises a much higher degree of success for average people entering this industry.
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Network Marketing--Its Major Pitfalls And A New Effective Way To Avoid Them

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Traditional network marketing has at least three major pitfalls. Funded Sponsoring Franchise systems offer a new and effective alternative way to avoid all of them. It also provides some powerful additional advantages for all network marketers.
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Network Marketing-Its Three Deadly Sins And How To Find Salvation From Them

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An unfortunate fact about network marketing is that approximately 95% of people who get involved never achieve significant success. This article summarizes the three main reasons for this and also introduces a new network marketing paradigm that can lead to a much higher degree of success and satisfaction.
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Network Marketing Outside The Box--Funded Sponsoring Franchises

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Network marketing has proven to be one of the most effective ways for ordinary people to generate extraordinary wealth. Along with its multiple benefits, however, the failure rate in this industry remains dismally very high--up to 95%. With the advent of a new paradigm in this industry, however--the Funded Sponsoring Franchise--a much higher proportion of ordinary motivated people with internet access and the willingness/ability to follow a detailed business plan can enjoy outstanding success.
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Network Marketing Residual Income--How To Predict When You'll Achieve Financial Freedom
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The single most important goal for most network marketers is to achieve a high level, stable residual income that will enable them to have the lifestyle they want without having to trade hours for dollars. Amazingly, however, even seasoned veterans in this industry can get so caught up in their dreams of success that they never realistically assess how long it will take them to achieve their goal. This article provides a simple and easy to fill in this common blind spot.
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Network Marketing - 11 Ways To Be An Effective Leader

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The importance of skillful leadership and close working relationships often gets left out in network marketing systems that are built mainly online. For long-term success, these are essential. Here are 11 important ways to incorporate "high touch" in these "hi-tech" systems.
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Pay It Forward--The High Road To Success In A Network Marketing Business

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Although some may regard the movie, "Pay It Forward," as idealistic sentimentalism, it actually embodies a key principle for success in all network and internet marketing: The more you devote yourself one-pointedly to helping others, the more successful you're likely to be.
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Starting A New Network Marketing Home Business--Some Key Ingredients For Success
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Network marketing offers unprecedented opportunities for wealth-development. At the same time, its failure rate is appallingly high. Much of this is due to inadequate education and preparation for those who enter this industry. This article offers some important guidelines for people considering network marketing as a new career.
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The Zen Of Success In A Network Marketing Home Business

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In this article, the author describes one particular way that his 30-year experience in meditation has helped him to cope effectively with the many challenges and adversities of building a network marketing business.
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An Introduction From Your Host

This blog has been created to provide free, helpful information to anyone who is interested in having a successful home business in network and/or internet marketing. It will include mainly informative articles and links to legitimate websites that are primarily designed to assist business opportunity seekers.

An untutored beginner who goes online in search of a good way to earn money from home these days is much like a neophyte sailor setting out on an ocean voyage without adequate maps and navigational instruments--and very often--also lacking a clearcut destination.

The vast ocean of home business possiblilities includes many highly fulfilling destinations. But in order to reach them successfully, the aspiring entrepreneur has to learn how to avoid, figuratively speaking, many whirlpools, icebergs, and sirens singing from the rocks that can lure the unwary off course and--even worse--to some very unfortunate end results.

So without having some basic guidelines to follow, the risks of becoming "lost at sea" are very great indeed. Hopefully, this blog will help to provide these guidelines.

I hope that the guidance offered here will help you to make a successful journey to a highly fulfilling home business of your dreams.