The Secret Sauce of Success

What is the secret to great success in having a home business? Why are some people successful while others fail? What secrets are those who are successfully working from home keeping from you?

Let’s start at the beginning. 

Some call it MLM, others call it Network Marketing or even Relationship Marketing. It comes in the form of products and services that offer people a way to earn an income while running their own business. The idea of becoming a success and earning financial freedom from home appeals to millions of people every year from all over the globe. 

You will find everything from companies offering products for your home to health and wellness companies with everything in between. While the industry each company targets will vary greatly, the end goal for all is the same. Share your products or service with others and make money. Some people truly love the products and companies they represent, others like to focus just on the ability to make money regardless of the products their company offers. 

When you take a step back and look, every company has it’s top people, it’s middle people and the people who feel they are at the bottom. People at the bottom instantly think that those in the middle and at the top are keeping something from them, holding onto a secret sauce so to speak that makes them a success. The target becomes anyone who is doing better than they are or who is having more success. Maybe it’s some special marketing tactic or secret ad campaign they are keeping to their selves and not sharing with you. Maybe they are programming geniuses and know how to get millions of people to their sign up pages on their company websites every month. Maybe they have endless amounts of money to spend on major ad campaigns. The truth is that some people do run their businesses like that, and there is nothing wrong with it, but you don‘t need to do the same in order to be successful. 

Here is the secret sauce. The secret to becoming a great success is in you. It always has been. Without you the people who are successful would be nothing. There is no singular success in any business. The largest corporations on earth would fail without their managers, employees and customers. It takes everyone working as a whole to make success a reality, no one person can do it for you. 

Unless you invest time in yourself success will never happen. 

Everyone started somewhere. They ended up where they are because they work hard every day, they never lose focus and they learn as much as they can along the way. No one started out in this industry with skills or the ability to make lot’s of money, they pushed forward and made it happen. 

The most amazing thing about networking is that anyone can do it and be successful. You do not need a degree or any special skills. There are people who are high school drop outs that make well over 6 figures a year and house wives that make enough money from home to pay all the bills. 

Everyone can do it, the real question is will they? 

Stop focusing on what you think others are doing and focus on what you love to do, what you want to do and what you can do. Do you like gathering with others, are you a very social person? Maybe presenting your business at home is the best way for you to build. Do you like excitement and meeting new people? Maybe you would enjoy doing public events. Do you like to spend most of your time on the internet? Maybe marketing online would be your best avenue. Everyone has something that works for them. 

No matter what course you take in building your business, you have to keep pushing ahead. Never stop working it, never stop believing in yourself and never stop learning. That’s how you eventually become successful. 

Remember, people at the top are just people from the bottom who never gave up and kept working until they made it happen. 

Have An Amazing and Successful Week!

Christine Mikulski

The Comfort Zone

One of the largest obstacles people encounter when working in network marketing, direct sales, or any other industry that requires you to sell products or sponsor others in order to earn an income is the comfort zone.

Imagine the door to door vacuum cleaner salesmen of many years past. Driving from neighborhood to neighborhood, knocking on the doors of complete strangers and asking if they can step inside and give a demonstration.

I remember a Kirby salesman knocking on my aunts door in 1990. He gave a demonstration that lasted about an hour (maybe longer) and when he was done my aunt could not wait to buy this huge, overpriced vacuum. Don't get me wrong, it was amazing...it did everything from yard work to cleaning the house top to bottom. But that on it's own would have never been enough to make the sale, it was the salesman himself that made this vacuum seem so amazing. He was flawless in his presentation and completely comfortable given the fact he was standing in a strangers house.

I can only imagine how uncomfortable he must have been when he knocked on that first door, or the first 100 doors or the first 1000.

Why was he so successful when so many others were unable to get even one sale?

He kept knocking on doors, he kept doing his presentation and eventually he was able to step completely out of his comfort zone and achieve perfection in his business. I can guarantee if there was a new feature, he was the first to learn about it, if there was a guarantee offered, he could recite it word for word, if the company held a meeting, he was the first one there.

It's not very often we come across-door to door salesmen these days, but we still have to face the fact that in order to succeed in this industry, we all need to be able to step out of our comfort zones.

I lost my comfort zone years ago but I remember how hard it was to pick up the phone and call that first prospect, or to do my first 3 way call with one of my team members. I remember what it felt like to do my first presentation in person for a group of people and how nervous I was when I did my first team call.

What is your comfort zone? What do you plan to do today to try and step outside of your comfort zone? If You no longer have a comfort zone, how do you help others step outside of theirs?


Have an Amazing & Successful Day!

- Christine Mikulski