Network Marketing Gaining Attention

To all you nay-sayers, disbelievers, or pointers of fingers at what you still call the "Pyramid Scheme", it's time to wake up.  Network Marketing is becoming an ever increasing, popular, and admirable option as a business model and money-making tool.  


Don't believe me?  Read the Wall Street Journal?  Recently, the Wall Street Journal posted this article, calling Network Marketing the "ULTIMATE Social Business Model".  Rather impressive.  It also listed the 7 most successful, publicly traded companies currently running under this model, and I do believe many of them also have an extensive global market or world-wide reach, part of which I'm sure adds to their placement in the top 7.  


Still don't believe me?  Do you know who Warren Buffet is?  The long and the short of it is that he's basically the most ingenious investor in the market right now and people look to him for investment, financial, and business advice since he is a true expert in the area.  He's also the owner of Berkshire Hatahway, a parent, financial company to a number of smaller companies including GEICO, Borsheim, and Berkshire Hathaway Life Insurance Company of Nebraska.  He is also the proud owner of a Network Marketing company.  Yes, that's right, Pampered Chef, that wonderful cooking company selling the latest and greatest in cookware.  Clearly he sees value in what the company not only has to offer but in the way it offers it to their clients and what they offer as a career options to their employees.


If you are part of a network marketing company reading this, then you are already well aware of what it has done for you or what it could do, and also where it proposes challenges.  Do not ever let anyone tell you that it's easy, because it's not, and if someone suggests otherwise, be weary.  When you are involved in network marketing you must remember one thing: you own your own business.  I'll say it again:  you own your own business.  There is no one to report to, no one to make sure you're staying focused and on track, and therefore no one else to split the profits with, more or less.  But that also means you have to be willing to actually put in the legwork.  You have to go out and build your clientele.  You have to be willing to work when others won't and you have to be an encouraging leader for those you bring into your business and help them prosper just like you would hope new storefronts would prosper.  That is the difference and that is ultimately what sets a lot of people apart in this business.  There is a certain form of discipline and attitude required to succeed and some people have it and others don't.  And that's just fine.  Just like some people will be lawyers and doctors and others will be welders and craftsmen.  Some people will be entrepreneurs and network marketers.  Just saying, though, it's no longer an industry to look down upon.  It is making its mark in today's society.