My one year old son’s favorite movie is Kung Fu Panda.  In fact, it is one of only two movies that we can get him to sit still through. Needless to say, it has been played hundreds of times in our house… often times more than once a day.  Honestly, I don’t know how he doesn’t get sick of it.

Anyway, I wanted to share an insight that I think is portrayed very well in the movie.  After a chain of very unlikely and comedic events, Po – a big fat panda – works his butt off to finally get the Dragon Scroll, which is said to hold the secret to limitless power.

Many of us in the network marketing industry spend a lot of time in search of our very own Dragon Scrolls.  We jump from company to company, technique to technique, fad to fad, all in search of the secret that is going to finally make us the network marketing powerhouse that we always dream of…

Problem is, as Po all too soon finds out, there is no secret to limitless power.  The Dragon Scroll is empty.

Most people react the same way that Po does initially when they find out that the Dragon Scroll they were searching for was all a big facade – that their search for the end of the rainbow is over and there is nothing there but an empty pot.

It all comes down to perception.  Thanks to Po’s fathers words of wisdom, he learns that there is no secret ingredient in his famous secret ingredient soup – that the only thing that matters for something to be special is for you to believe that it is.

Many times struggling networkers feel that they will never make it out of the hole they are in because they don’t have any clout.  They have yet to be successful in network marketing – and use it as an easy cop-out for quitting when their efforts don’t yield the fruits they expected.  They feel like they are in a vicious, never-ending cycle that keeps them from attaining their dreams.  Each small failure confirms the negative thoughts that are lurking in the dark corners of their mind.

So how do you break the cycle?

I think that Po (THE Big Fat Panda) provides the best answer to that question.

He started out as a very unlikely candidate to receive the Dragon Scroll.  The movie starts out with him dreaming about the Furious Five bowing down to him because he was a legendary warrior whose skills were the stuff of legend.  When he finally finds himself in the unlikely position of being chosen as the dragon warrior, in spite of the fact that he is obese and a complete novice at martial arts, he starts to doubt himself.

But that’s not all…

The five warriors that he looks up to the most, and even the Kung Fu master with the task of training him are  all… well, against him.

Not until he believes in himself and has a mentor that is willing to teach him does he finally have the recipe for success.

So instead of daydreaming about what you may one day become if you ever find the secret to limitless MLM power, get your feet back on the ground and find a mentor that can teach you the things you need to know, and then consistently practice what it is that you have been taught.

If you don’t already have a mentor that knows exactly how to use the internet to generate lots and lots of glowing leads for your business and how to transform and position yourself as the leader you want to be, please allow me to share with you what my mentors so generously shared with me.

You already are a Dragon Warrior.  You just need to discover it for yourself and believe it.

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Network Marketing has come a long way. It used to be that people would run from anybody that professed to be associated with a company that marketed their products through direct sales like it was the bubonic plague. If you ever were one of these flee-ers, chances are you are still running, because Network Marketing has grown, and continues to grow in popularity as a method of product distribution. Unfortunately, some have taken advantage of the great business model that network marketing offers to try and turn a quick profit without offering anything of real value. This is where the term “Pyramid Scheme” comes from.

One of the biggest differences between a good network marketing company and a pyramid scheme is the product. A good company will always have a product that brings real value to the marketplace while a pyramid scheme may not have a real product at all. If you can honestly tell yourself that if somebody found the product in WalMart and would buy it for a similar price that is being asked, that is an indication that the company you are dealing with is legitimate.

One reason companies choose the network marketing model, both good and bad, is because they don’t have to spend a dime on advertising, which would generally cost them millions. Instead, they pay commissions to distributors for sharing their products with the people they know. The problem with this, is that sometimes the compensation plans to pay the distributors are written in a way to keep as much of the profits in the company’s hands as possible. Frequently distributors end up working for free because they don’t meet every requirement of the comp plan which often makes them ineligible to be paid and causes some or all of their sales volume to dry up. This is one of the main reasons that 97% of network marketers quit. (I say quit instead of fail, because nobody really “fails” at network marketing. Almost every time they quit before they get trained properly and really try to be successful.)

A good network marketing company is not going to have little gimmicks in the compensation plan to take money out of the hands of the distributors. There will undoubtedly still be requirements that the distributors will need to satisfy in order to get paid on certain sales volumes, but if there are any unfair policies that make commissions impossible to earn after a certain time frame has passed, you may be dealing with a “Pyramid Scheme”.

Some other reasons that people avoid network marketing are that they don’t like sales, they hate pestering all their friends and family to buy their products, and quite possibly themselves have in the past or have known somebody that has been swindled by a sub-par network marketing company or pyramid scheme. There is something that leaves a bad taste in your mouth when you get someone dear to you into a business and then things turn south for whatever reason.

They end up feeling cheated, and tend to blame you because you are the only person that they know – you are their closest contact with the company, in fact, the very reason they believed in the possibility of something that was apparently too good to be true. This is how network marketing has unfortunately become a derogatory word in some peoples’ vocabularies.

It is very important to make sure you have a solid company that is going to be around for a long time and not do anything to tarnish your name as a leader. The corporate leaders need to have the experience necessary and even more importantly, the heart and integrity to make the right decisions for the company. There needs to be sufficient funding behind the company to be able to handle the growth that is necessary for network marketing companies to succeed.

These are only a few of the important things you need to find out before uniting yourself with any network marketing venture.

Independent of what company you choose to work with, you will need a SYSTEM to save yourself time, energy and money.

With the advent of technology the opportunity has arisen for anybody with a pulse and a desire to learn the MLM SECRETS to become an expert inter-networker, seemingly overnight. These secret strategies are the things that will allow an average person to become the top sponsoring distributor in their respective company and to stay there on auto pilot! These secrets are so powerful that I dare say they can even make someone in a bad network marketing company a lot of money.

There is no way to stop the success that will flow with the combination of a solid company, an online system for generating leads, and a networker with a real desire to succeed through consistent action.

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