When a person plays, the chances of winning are always more in favor of the ranger. The ranger’s business is to make a profit. Take a look at Las Vegas and how much it has grown in the last 50 years. It was not like that by giving away more money than he received. If you roll a die, you only win on one side, so your chances are only one-sixth. The owner of the die has five sixth chances to win. That doesn’t seem fair!
The same theory holds true for Network Marketing. Their parent company is the big casino and it’s in their best interest to keep growing, no matter who stays or who goes. If you keep betting money based on the way they want you to do things, you are betting like you would in Vegas. The longer you sit waiting for something big to happen, the more you’ll see your savings account shrink to nothing and beyond.
Neither casinos nor network marketing companies are out to ruin your finances. Both simply give you the chance to increase your odds by playing a numbers game. Very few win at the expense of the thousands of others who lose. It would take a lot of money and time to train each individual distributor on how to successfully run their business, so they focus on teaching the basics to gain some loyal customers who will continue to order long after you’re gone.
Have you ever noticed that, year after year, your company’s sales constantly increase while your bank account remains the same or constantly decreases? Have you ever noticed that the same people on stage year after year get the high bonuses while you’re still sitting in the nosebleed section wondering what you’re doing wrong? If this is the case for you, maybe it’s time to make some changes to your business. And I’m not talking about giving up!
Good luck awaits that person who accepts the opportunity. Opportunity does not mean looking for a “better” company. If things don’t work out in your business, things won’t work out in the next company you join just because you think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. You’ll still be using the same old techniques as before, only now you’re helping another company increase their sales.
To attract good luck, it is necessary to take advantage of opportunities. When you follow the example of your parent company and attend their training, there is no guarantee that you will be successful. You are playing with your education. Spending money on something that you hope will make you more money. Have you ever been told that if you attend a company-sponsored training, you will get all your money back if the techniques they teach you don’t work after a year? Probably not.
The good news is that there are opportunities that offer guarantees without risk. You must first be willing to understand that the world does not revolve around the way your company does things. Just because you signed up as a dealer doesn’t mean you have to follow suit. When you look elsewhere for education, it doesn’t mean you’re not dedicated to your product line or company. It simply means that you recognize that their way of doing things is not working for you.
Regardless of how much advertising there is behind the scenes, most companies only offer ways to promote their products instead of teaching you the basics of marketing. But what happens when you wake up one day and your company has gone under? You will find it quite difficult to start over learning how to promote a new company’s product line. That will also set you up for failure the next time it happens.
With a proper marketing education, you can begin to understand the basic structure behind finding a demand and filling it with supply. That is what makes the difference between simply selling a product or marketing it. You don’t have to waste your time and effort talking to every person you meet on the street because marketing is all about knowing how to get people to find you. This is just one of those important techniques that your parent company will probably never teach you.
Action leads to the luck of success better than the hope of meeting luck. The problem with this is that it only works when your action reflects your education. You don’t want to spend time and energy on something that will get you nowhere, like putting flyers on car windshields or hosting house parties for small groups of friends. When your action is based on proven techniques that get people calling you on the phone with their credit card in hand, it will lead to success.
Although there is not much difference between a casino and a network marketing company, you have the power to beat the odds for success. Shift your focus from gambling with outdated techniques to a solid marketing education. Leave luck to distributors who aren’t willing to look for proven and guaranteed alternatives to growing a home-based business outside of your company-sponsored trainings.
The only numbers game you should be playing is watching your bank account multiply.