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If you’re not making any real money in MLM

it’s not your fault

I’ve got some amazing news that will blow you away go to

Fact there is a 97% FAILURE rate in the MLM Industry why on Gods green earth would any one want to join. Because they got caught up in the all the hype, the money, the training and support that was promised to them.

Also you can’t tell me all those people who failed were complete idiots, lazy, beer drinking couch potato bums. The truth is most of these people wanted to better their lifestyles. Most worked their butts off, spent all their hard earned money they’ve been saving, followed the training, took money off the kitchen table to try and get leads each month and you know they still failed. Why? It’s all explained in this letter

Listen folks I’ve been there done it. Was as high as the number 3 recruiter in a large MLM company. But I quit because I was sick and tired of earning peanuts and selling a hope and a dream to people knowing that the odds are they will fail. That’s not what I’m about.

It’s sick, I remember when I first started my network marketing career. I joined like so many others do because I wanted to make some extra money. I could get started without costing me an arm and a leg, I was promised by my upline how great they are and how great the training and support is. Heck they built me up so much I was going to own the world if I just followed them. HA! what a joke. You know what happened to me that pissed me off enough to decide I was going to make it in this industry regardless.

After I joined and started to get on the training calls I found out you need to spend $29.95 here, 49.95 there, a couple hundred bucks here for leads etc. etc. all monthly ongoing expenses. I didn’t have that kind of money laying around.

So I’m on these training calls right, I’m actually doing what I can, sure not everything others were doing who had extra money to blow, but I was honestly working the business 8000 to 10,000 minutes a month on my phone bill back then all while I had my regular job, I’m telling you I worked the business and tried my best, and still not making any real money. several hundred bucks a month, but with all my charge backs each month it worked out I was giving the MLM Company all my free time away from my family in reality just for the right to try and sell their service.

I was LOSING money every month. DUH I wonder why so many people quit. Days, weeks, and months go by struggling, I don’t get the help from the upline anymore because I know I’ve been tagged as not a leader, I’m not committed, I’m not out there doing whatever it takes, maxing out my credit cards for leads, selling the second vehicle, have garage sales etc. etc. My family is looking at me like “I told you so” my confidence level is shot I found myself in a big vacuum sucking all the extra money I would get trying to make this work. I hated my job, I had not other skills so this was the only option I thought I had.

You know what saved me? First being a former Marine. We truly mean it when we say “Failure is not an option” so I kept on keeping on if you will. I kept searching for a way to make money from home. Joined a few more MLM’s only to find the same thing.

Hey stop and think about this folks just for a second if the MLM industry and the companies are so great then why in the heck do they have such a high attrition rate. Please, please wake up, don’t get sucked into all the hype.

So what changed for me? Running across the content of thisletter Once I read this letter everything fell in place. I finally got it and got out of MLM.

What is the Best Way To Make Money Online?

Best Way to Make Money Online

People are always asking can I really make any money online? I have no experience and little money if any to invest yet I like the idea of being able to work from home, set my own hours and make a decent living. Now folks I’m not going to insult your intelligence making money online is not as easy as it was say in the early days. Now, there is so much competition, almost all niches have been tapped and the competition online is getting tougher every year. But with the proper knowledge or skill set you can compete and make money online. Even without a website, or a product or service of you own.

I’m going to give you a live example of me putting what I’ve learned into action and how just in about a 30 minute setting I produce a video, got top page ranking on google and to this day I receive some residual income month in and month out. That’s one of the beauties of what I’m going to share with you. Once you do the work one time you can get paid on your effort for years and years to come even while your sleeping.

I want to show you how a guy without any Internet Skills was able to get a top 4 position on Google when you type in the google search bar How To Build A Website. Go ahead and check it out. Type in “How To Build A Website” in google and scroll down a bit and on the 4th place, sometimes it moves from 4th position to 8th position but it’s on the first page you will see a Video on How to Build A Website. If you click on it you will hear me talking about how to build a website. Now the big thing I’d like you to notice is look up at the top of page in the search results and at the time I updated this site it had 88,800,000 results. Top 10 out of all that competition. This stuff I’m sharing with you folks works. Like I’ve mentioned. I’m a total geek when it comes to computers. I don’t hire this stuff out. Everything I’ve done and learned is through what I’m sharing with you folks.

One of the biggest keys to making any money online is to be able to get 1st page ranking on google with your product or service. Stop and think about this for a second. You’ve gone to google before and typed in some subject and you have always found what your looking for on the first page second page at the most right? That’s what has made google the number one search engine in the world. It’s all about relevance. I don’t care how great of a product, service or website you have, if no one can find it it just sits there like it’s sitting in a closet. So the real key is learning how to get the top page listing on google for whatever your trying to market or promote.

So what is the Best way to make money online?

Many experts believe that affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make big money online and rightfully so. No other method of making money online offers the flexibility and the earning potential that affiliate marketing does. If you are not familiar with how affiliate marketing works then let me give a general description of the process.

In affiliate marketing, you sign up for an affiliate program usually through ClickBank wherein you will be given a link. You will put this link in your site, blog or email then encourage people to click on it. If the person who clicks the link eventually buys the product or service being sold, then you get a percentage or a commission of the total sale. Affiliate commissions go from 30% to as high as 90% of the total cost of the product or service. Affiliate marketing presents a very big opportunity for individuals who are looking of earning huge amounts of money online because of the fact that there are literally thousands of individuals and companies who are looking for people to sell their products for them.

Another great benefit of starting out in Affiliate Marketing is you can do it without a website, with limited training, very low cost, low risk, and you can see income coming in within a couple of weeks. For example anything you market through ClickBank will pay out every two weeks. So you don’t have to wait a month or 45 days like in many Network Companies. There are no big on going auto shipments or products you have to buy each month. You don’t have to deal with talking to people if you so choose not to and yet you can build an on going residual income that continues to grow despite the economy.  However the down side is since there is no big money commitment it’s easy to procrastinate and not do the things you need to do. Also as you start to see checks coming in it’s easy to use them for personal stuff, but I highly suggest at first put that money your earning back into the business in tools and training.

So What would you do? How do you Get Started on a Shoe String Budget?

Step One

Step Two

Reality about making money online…that is one of the most asked questions when people are just starting out so I thought I’d share some information and programs that helped me first get started making money online. I must say this up front to save you time and frustrations. If you are not in a position to at least invest a little bit of money $50 or so into learning a skill set to market and promote than perhaps this arena is not the right fit for you. However if you understand that in order to be successful and make some money online you have to gain the proper knowledge and you have to take YOUR TIME to learn this stuff.

Make No Mistake About it!

Online Marketing weather it is MLM/Network Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Selling Products or Information Online is an Industry about one thing and one thing only.

Market and Promotion.

Ironically since the ease of entry is so minimal everybody and their mothers are attempting to do it. Without a doubt this Industry and the Internet has brought together so many people in pursuit of making some money online and yet very few have the proper skill set to succeed. How to Market and Promote Properly.

Don’t fall for all the hype out there and all those fancy sales letters that promises you the moon. The important thing to remember is understand this one thing, and you will save a ton of money and frustrations. All those e-books and long sales letters you see that claims their program will make you rich just lay out $37 or $67 (seems to be the going rate for most of them) will not make you rich. It will make the person who put together that site rich but not you. Those sales letters are professionally done to do one thing and one thing only. GET YOUR MONEY!!! They work to because I know I’m not the only one who has shelled out $100’s-$1000’s of dollars hoping that this one will be the key to my success. Through the years I’ve learned and out of all the money I spent on those stupid e-books I’ve finally found just a few that claim to be what they say they are and are truly helpful. So I thought I’d share them with those who wish to save money, speed up their learning curve, and start making some money online.

The truth the absolute truth is simply this. The only thing that will make you money is learning the skill set to market and promote something that is truly of value. Now you don’t have to be a salesperson, you don’t even have to talk to anyone with some of the techniques your about to learn, but you do have to put in the time and learn. Some steps are easier than others, but they all can be accomplished even by a novice who has limited computer skills. I know because I’ve been there myself.

Let’s Keep It Simple!

There are only three main things you need to learn how to do at first to start making some income.

1. Pick a good quality product or service. Here is the important part of that equation. It must be something of real value. If you try and start to pitch junk your going to end up with junk for an income.

2. You must learn how generate your own personal highly targeted leads/prospects that are interested in what you have to offer. The key here is INTERESTED in what you have to offer. So many people are told just by these leads, cold call them, email them etc and I promise you if you are paying for leads your throwing money out the door. These people are being bombarded by desperate people trying to make some money online and most of the time you will get hung up on. It’s a total waste of time and energy.

3. You must have a system that will CONVERT those leads/prospects into buying what you have to offer.

That is It!!!! Every top Internet marketer and any genuine person who is making any real money on the Internet uses the three principles above.

Now of course there is some filler material you need to learn but if you pick any of my programs and decide to partner with me I’ll help you fill in the blanks. And if not that’s OK but be sure and take advantage of some of the Free training my partners and I offer.

I will close with this. There is no program out there that will make you rich overnight. Don’t believe all those proof of income claims, heck I can put up a site in minutes telling you I got proof that I’ve made $850,000 in the last 3 months. Hog wash. The only thing that will make you money online is knowledge and the proper skill sets to share that with others.

So with that being said I’m going to give you some options that can help you. Sort of a review if you will of the programs that I used and still to this day use. And by all means if you have any questions about any of them please feel free to shoot me an email with your phone number and best time to call you and I will call you on my dime. Fair enough? Go ahead an review my site and check out the things that strike your fancy. My contact email is pat@workingwithpat.com