I also question the “You are your own boss” idea. Try avoiding the mandatory meetings, buying and selling products outside of the network, or using your own set of books, seminars, and functions without telling your upline. They WILL go around you.

If you decide to approach it as a sales job and you’re successful, more power to you. But like you said, not all people are cut out for sales jobs. My statistics indicate only about 10% of the population even remotely has the personality type to succeed in a sales position. But, like I said in another post, “I’ll cheer you on if you make a fortune because the economy needs more fortunes.”

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Most people quit because they originally fall into the hype of the marketing “See how I made $100,000 in one day without getting out of my pajamas!” The truth is, that is possible. BUT what they don’t say in that ad is “It took 12 long hard years of blood sweat, tears and failure and eating Raman Noodles to get here.” Thats the reality.

It takes a person of immense conviction to succeed at network marketing. Like most other last man standing professions. For instance, I’m in entertainment. I was broke for years with no where to go for work. But I loved Film Editing. Thousands of resumes sent out. The few gigs I did get, I was over worked and on a lot of cases, never paid. Backstabbers everywhere. But, I knew I could do it. I stuck to it. Parents told me get a real job. I doubted myself. Nonetheless, I had a vision. After almost a decade of being in the business seeing nothing but failure I’m just now reaping my rewards.

That’s what it takes.

Most people don’t have that.

Hillary Swank moved to LA with her mom living in a car for years because she had vision of what was possible. Less than a decade later she won an Academy Award.

The road to success isn’t easy. If it was everyone would have it. Independent success is often unconventional. It’s living and thinking outside the box. It’s not doing what the average person would do. Because the average person has an average life. For an extraordinary life it’s about taking risks, following through, learning from mistakes, and never bowing down to fear.

Are there a lot mlm scams, YES. Just like any business, few bad apples ruin the bunch. Most people fail because they give up. Results don’t happen in the time frame the expect so they blame they opportunity instead re assessing their goals. Just like most things in life. “It didn’t work on their time.”
As Joe Budden’s said. “Sometimes you gotta give time time.”

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“You can have everything you want if you just help enough people get what they want” -Zig Ziglar-

But it’s sales.

And most people shouldn’t go near a sales job.