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Network Marketers: When Do You Throw In The Towel?

Written by: Andy Acciaioli

Article Overview: Most of us who join a network marketing business will usually stay in the business regardless of the cost. Unfortunately this is not how a traditional business is run. If something does not work, a traditional business will shed its unprofitable product or service. We should do the same with our unprofitable network marketing/mlm business.

Network Marketers: When Do You Throw In The Towel?

Did he just say what I think he said? Me, quit? Never. That's not an option. Fact is, if you have been working at your network marketing business for a while giving it your all and it is not producing results, maybe you should start thinking of other options.

The key words are: giving it your all.

Let me give you an example from my personal experience. My wife and I were part of a product based network marketing company. I can honestly say that we gave it 110% of our attention and efforts from the moment we "broke the kit". We wanted more than anything to make a successful business of it. The people in our group were tremendous and, as the saying goes, we wanted to travel to exotic places and walk the beaches with them.

To be considered a go-getter you had to show the business presentation 30 times a month. There were months that I showed the presentation over 60 times.

Although we achieved a few promotional successes, we were spending a tremendous amount week after week and making residual income no higher than one hundred dollars a month. Our upline kept encouraging us to hang in there and do more. Do more presentations. Buy more marketing tools. Put the pressure on our team to do the same.

We put aside our emotions and made a decision to leave that network marketing company where we could not make money regardless of what we did and joined another company as we loved the concept of network marketing. It turned out we made the right decision and were soon making a solid monthly income in our new business.

In a traditional business, especially a small business, if something is not working, you cannot afford to keep doing it and expect a different result. So, you stop doing it and retire that product or service to the "Tried It and It Did Not Work" graveyard.

In a network marketing business we have to be able to do exactly the same thing.

Both a traditional business and a network marketing business have one thing in common: the word business. You would not treat a traditional business as a hobby or social club. So why treat your network marketing business as anything but a business?

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