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I discovered MLM (Network Marketing) while in a Mental Hospital.
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Danvers State Hospital
Business ownership, minimal financial risk, unlimited income potential, time freedom, financial security and residual income all made sense to me while I was employed from 1968-1971 at Danvers State Hospital.
Those years were some of the most satisfying and inspiring years of my life. Despite what many have said, Danvers was not a “snake pit” or “hell-hole” insane asylum but a healing hospital staffed by compassionate and dedicated employees. There, I put my educational background to use in therapeutic dialog and honed my listening and communication skills that have served my well throughout my life.
Unfortunately, to further my career in the mental health field, it required advanced degrees in a low paying profession, a commitment I was unwilling to make.
My entrepreneurial spirit told me that good people with money to fund charitable endeavors also could make a significant difference. That was the path in life I chose. When one of my fellow employees presented the compensation plan of Amway handwritten on a napkin in the hospital cafeteria, I immediately saw the potential of financial success and the freedom of time and jumped right in. Imagine starting a business that had unlimited potential for only a $15 sales kit?
Becoming an Independent network marketing distributor revealed some positive challenges.
Without a boss to tell you what to do and when to do it, self-motivation and personal discipline to build a business part-time is important. Many new people think “part-time” actual means “some-time” and that attitude will never get you off the ground. It’s like opening a “brick and mortar” store in the mall and having occasional hours. It simply doesn’t work.
Another positive challenge of Network Marketing is Personal Development.
To be honest with you, I HATED public speaking. The absolutely WORST experience at Beverly High School was Mr. Cooper’s English class where we were required to make a 10 minute speech. My palms were sweaty as I watched the schoolroom clock tick the moments away hoping the bell would ring so I would have to do it that day. Networking required me to develop my own self-improvement program. Speaking to just a few friends was easy but incrementally as my group got larger it was a gradual progression in my comfort zone of public speaking.
However, as I began to build my downline in the “Old School” marketing approach, I found it tedious and frustrating.
There were only so many people I could talk to in one day. The Internet and “Attraction Marketing” weren’t even around. Many successful distributors in my upline admitted that for the most part they just “got lucky.” However, with patience and determination, in that pioneering time era, MLM worked with limited success. My real “Ah Ha!” was the time I put on a business presentation with the chart and circles and afterwards I was introduced to a group of people who were in my downline that I didn’t even know. WOW, this really can happen!
Despite the fact that I was half way to becoming a Direct Distributor and making some really nice income part time, the really big money wasn’t there from me.
I used my conversational skills from Danvers and the presentation and recruiting skills from MLM to develop a 26 year career as an executive search agency partner in a multi-million dollar agency that I co-founded and then lost. Donald Trump said “If I had to start over, I would get involved in Network Marketing.”
With the development of the “New School” of MLM/Network Marketing and “Attraction Marketing” I am now able to offer my mentorship and opportunity to literally thousands of people right from my laptop any where in the world. Even on the beach!
Those future business partners who see my vision will get my undivided attention. I know many other “Baby Boomers” who have lost their jobs, have experienced the financial and personal disaster of divorce, have seen their 401Ks disappear. Attraction Marketing is my path and I invite you to explore the benefits of this option for your own life too!
Be Well,
My New Years resolution is to take ACTION on the implementation of my Social Networking/Attraction Marketing skills and plan for the launch of a brand new company at the end of this month..
This is the nature of this brief post today. More coming very soon. As you may have noticed from the date of my first post six months ago, I took a “time-out” from the whole network marketing field. I have re-established myself and upgraded my “Attraction Marketing” Internet skills for a big blast in 2010. I have “sharpened the axe” and am set to go!
Many of friends and family were full of negative discussions during the holidays. Seems small business owners are not planning to expand. Others, whom I really though were secure in their profession, were facing a new year of employment instability and real concern. Since they know about my involvement with Internet Marketing and have shown no interest, I simply mentioned that big things were about to happen for me and dropped the subject. It is so comfortable to be totally out of the “Old School”-In your face MLM marketing and to be confident in the “New School” approach of Attraction marketing.
The really great news is that a group of people I have been associated with over the last several years have invited me to be a Founding Distributor of a new company that is scheduled to launch at the end of this month. I have inside information on both the company and their exclusive new product. I am so excited to be able to share both the concept and training of an Attraction Marketing based marketing campaign for the launch of the exciting new organization. I am looking forward to sharing this information with new friends and business partners that I haven’t met yet.
I wish all of us out there a Happy, Health and Prosperous New Year!
Rich Kania
