Have you noticed that one of the pitches used often in the multi-level marketing industry is that you can “be your own boss” or that you can “control your own destiny”? Both are true of course…but only to an extent. If you’re like me, one of the reasons you got into network marketing in the first place was the opportunity to “do your own thing”, right? For a lot of reasons, that makes good sense, especially in case something happens to your regular employer and you’re left out in the cold (plant shutdown, downsizing, corporate merger, etc) and realize that all of your eggs were in one basket.
But the only problem is that once you’re doing your network business for awhile, you suddenly wake up one day and realize that all you’ve done is gone from having all your eggs in one basket to having them in another basket–your network marketing company. Instead of “building your own business”, it dawns on you that really, you’ve become a glorified sales rep and you’re actually building somebody else’s business. Not good. That business can go away just as fast as the corner office...