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Christensen, Mary, 1951
Be a network marketing leader : build a community to build your empire / Mary Christensen.
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Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-8144-3682-0 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-8144-3683-7 (ebook) 1. Multilevel marketing. 2. Direct marketing. I. Title.
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2016 Mary Christensen
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This book is dedicated to the people I love the most. Thank you Nikki, David, Wayne, Samantha, Brayden, Paige, Trinity, and Jett for being in my life. I feel as though I have the best family in the world.
Contents
Grateful thanks to these highly respected network marketing leaders for their generous contributions to this book: Cindy and Scott Monroe, founders, Thirty-One Gifts, LLC; Rene Hornbaker, CFO, Stream Energy; Bob Hipple, CEO, Damsel in Defense; Dr. Traci Lynn, founder, Traci Lynn Jewelry; Tom and Kelly Gaines, founders, Pink Zebra Home; Jessica Kim, president, Barefoot Books; Jim Lupkin and Brian Carter, authors, Network Marketing for Facebook; and Karen Clark, owner, My Business Presence.
And, as always, thank you to Ellen Kadin, executive editor, and Therese Mausser, director of International Rights and Sales, at AMACOM Books, for your continuing support and encouragement.
BE A NETWORK MARKETING LEADER
INTRODUCTION
Its All in Your Hands
One of the greatest achievements you can realize is to live a life without financial constraints. Financial freedom gives you choices. You can choose where you live and how you live, how youll raise your children and spend your leisure time. You can make a difference by supporting a global charity or giving back to your local community. When your horizons open, the world becomes your oyster.
Most people sacrifice financial freedom for security. They play it safe, settling for a forty-forty existence, working forty hours a week to earn $40,000 a year. Because they shy away from risk, they never discover what their lives could have been.
If youre playing it safe because you are willing to let your fears limit you, or others dictate how you live, this book is not for you. You must be willing to extend the walls of your comfort zone before you can grow to fill the space.
If you want the lifestyle financial freedom brings, and youre willing to work for it, I can show you how to achieve financial freedom by building your own network marketing empire.
Network marketing is the ideal business for anyone with big dreams and the courage to pursue them. From the moment you sign an independent contractor agreement with the company you choose to partner with, you become CEO of your own start-up. You hold the key to your destiny in your own hands.
When you love what you do its not a job, its a lifestyle.
Network marketing can be summed up in one word: opportunity. There are no guarantees of financial freedom. It takes determination, discipline, and drive to reach the highest incomes. Those traits are written into your DNA. Most of us are descended from pioneers who crossed oceans and continents seeking a better life.
Every person who blazes a trail opens a new path for others to follow, and millions have traveled the network marketing route to financial and lifestyle freedom. Each of them has smoothed the way for you to pursue your dreams. But no one gets an express pass. Everyone has to travel the same route. As is true with any endeavor, the more you put into it, the more youll get out of it.
If you are ambitious, hardworking, and determined, youll succeed at almost any path you choose in life. What attracts entrepreneurs to network marketing is that you wont be competing against others to reach the highest incomes. Youll be competing for yourself. Its your race and youll set the pace.
Youll decide when you work, where you work, and how you work. If youre not getting the results you want, you wont have to consult with a committee or gain approval from a supervisor before trying something new. You will call the shots on the direction your business takes and the strategies you employ.
By the time I discovered network marketing Id already been through a dysfunctional childhood and a failed marriage. It wasnt an auspicious start, but a voice inside me always said: