No doubt, the expression mlm, multi-level marketing, has

become a household expression, since the advent of the

internet, and its use as a marketing medium.

In fact, this was an off-the-beaten path expression,

very much, within the perception of the general

economic practices, in its infancy.

Since the early 1990s however, when conference calls,

and later webcasts replaced the more localized family

meetings, neighborhood meetings, the idea of

a home-based MLM business opportunity has gathered storm

on the internet, and brought people thousands of miles

apart,from various cultures, religions, races, economic

levels together.

Today, mlm is an in-your-face thing, taking various forms-

physical products, services such as mentoring, distributive

"how to" literature,anything goes into today's multi-level

marketing.

Do people make the millions promised by these multi-level

opportunities? I know for a fact that, yes, it used to

happen, right into the early 2000. In those days, getting

in on the ground floor with huge personal lists of ready

participants, was the trick.

Unfortunately, not all good things last. People got greedy,

joining every conceivable opportunity under the sun, hoping to

maximise from simulaneous blitzkrieg on many fronts, spreading

their resources too thin, that they ended up by not meeting

their purchase quotas, that missed one critical point.

No downline would work with breakages and holes in membership,

and this happened on a large scale. When the high yield investment

business came on stream, mlmers started to have impossible dreams

of making a kill.Every garbage became a horse of opportunity.

WHat is the horse of opportunity?

A ride on the horse of opportunity is a giddy and

exhilarating one. That horse, usually snow white in color,

with the most beautiful mane, and wide spread wings,

has made history for humans since time began.

If you grab that mane when the horse passes you by, if

you happen to be in the right place at the right time, you are

in for napoleonic glory like the Bill Gates, and Oprah Winfreys

of this world.

With mlm, the horses were golden, with High yield investment

leading the way. Heads started to burst with dreams of

billions. MLM programs resorted to quantum mathematics, multiplying

and multipying ad nauseam, what a mere dollar profit would become

with so many downline over so many months or years.

People failed to realize that the horse of opportunity comes to

workers not dreamers. Only those who owned these businesses made

the money, not the star gazers who came for a meal at their table.

Slowly, and today, I would say, most rapidly, the term multi-level

became an anathema, a cursed expression. It brings one to ask:

Is the idea of a home-based MLM business opportunity feasible

and profitable, any longer?

What can one do to succeed in this type of business?

The simple answer is that, yes, there is a horse of opportunity called

mlm, multi-level marketing, pick your choice.

However, you have to learn how to succeed, not just expect to succeed.

You have to learn the steps, the procedures, and apply them before

you can succeed.

And even then, it all depends, first and foremost, on the

type of opportunity you are involved in.

What are their products?

Do they force garbage on members? Or, do members really. really ask

enthusiastically for their products?

What is their sales figures to non-members?

What is their track record over time?

What is their compensation plan? In many cases, the upline weighs too heavily

on the downline, choking the very air they breathe.

How much is hype?

how much is value?

I cannot know all the questions or even get anywhere near the answer,

but with due diligence, you should know.

I can only tell you to be wary of so-called new opportunities, with all the

bells and whistles and talk of joining on the ground floor, of testimonials,

of fantastic lists that is responsive.

Trust me in 95% of cases, that opportunity would either disappear in 12 months,

or be a ghost of itself. I am not making numbers up. That is the industry

average rate of failure.

After you have done your due diligence and now ready to roll, the real learning

curve begins, and for you, there is only one major function.

Start building your downline.

You need to be a recruiter of those who will consume and sell

products of the company on yourbehalf, the same way you, too, would do

for whoever brings you into the business.

You are your recruiter's downline while those you recruit, constitute your downline,

after giving allowance to the characteristics of the compensation plan, adopted

by the company.

Your downline makes money for themselves and for you, the same way you do for your upline.

it is this magic of people making passive income for you that consitutes, for you, the basic of

this type of business.

simply put, Home-based MLM business opportunity is a passive income commission-based joint effort of

uplines and downlines.

That is the main reason why both uplines and downlines must work together. Without the

other, the whole business force will be paralyzed. It will not function.

What does this mean?

It means that both uplines and downlines need one another for this type of business to

thrive.

If you do not recruit people who would work independently and effectively, there

will be no passive income, no consumption of products and services, no one to market the

products and services and no one to cater the customers, no business.

In many cases this is what happens to many of these opportunities. So, while ground

floor opportunity sounds like a financial messiah, many people get their hopes killed

when they are informed that the business can no longer sustain the expenses needed to

maintain the business and is therefore folding up.

It is folding up because, without the company maintaining a certain level of sales

compared with expenses, the center cannot hold.

That is why, apart from good management, as a factor of survival. training your downlines

regularly, or getting them to attend training, is a must.Study shows that a well-instructed

downline creates a big difference than the downline with stagnant information in mind.

Constant study really pays at the end, as it does help to expose downline to everything that

is needed to help them as well as your home-based MLM business.

If you have already taken into account all the procedures needed to have a successful

home-based MLM business opportunity, you are now ready towards establishing that career path.

The formulas are already in your hands. All that is needed now is to get it into effect. The

only thing missing to complete the home-based MLM business opportunity is you.