Network Marketing - A New Permutation

I was invited to sit through a business presentation with a dear friend recently.  Much to our dismay, it was a network marketing sales pitch.

It was the usual opening gambit. A rundown of the current economic scenario, a re-jigged slide on Robert Kiyosaki's Cashflow Quadrant, the benefits of working for yourself...blah, blah, blah.

We just stopped the poor guy mid-sentence and told him that network marketing was not for us. To his credit, he persisted in trying to convince us of the errors of our ways (which were for naught, as we remained unconvinced).

Why Network Marketing is not for me.

My very first post talked about (among other things) of my intention to get into network marketing.

Here’s an update on that. Tough work, folks. Not for the faint-hearted. I’ve also invested quite a bit of moolah to acquire some knowledge on how best to operate this business.

There is no easy way out.

There is no easy way out to making money. We all know that a 9-to-5 job is hard work.

But what about other alternatives? There’s plenty of other opportunities of making money. But what it all boils down to is that in order to get money, somebody else has to give money.

Are you asking the right questions about business?

Today, a 9-to-5 job is no longer a secure position to be in. I don’t even want to get started on that.

So, I started something else. A business of my own. Several, actually.