Network Marketing, How did I get started?

As a successful contractor/business owner, I had local work with new and repeat customers. Then four events came together and rattled my comfortable box.

Event 1, I suffered a sports related injury requiring surgery to my shoulder. Consequently I had to hire someone to do my job while I supervised. This was financially tough and frustrating to say the least.

Event 2, we had to evacuate for two weeks due to a massive fire. This was followed by record breaking rain and snow storms. Over a 100” in a matter of weeks. While I planned for normal weather difficulties, any variance to the extreme could prove disastrous for my business.

Event 3, while looking for jobs we could do during the bad weather that would also accommodate my shoulder injury, I received a notice from the Social Security office which told me how much money I could expect to receive each month when I chose to retire. As a professional musician for twenty plus years, I hadn’t thought to contribute to the fund so needless to say it wasn’t very much. The band around my chest tightened a little more.

Event 4, We made a decision to relocate to be closer to my wife’s work. I figured I would pick up new customers, and build my business back up to where it was without too much difficulty. Leaving my business behind, I found myself the new guy on the block. Adding insult to injury, I ran right smack into this current recession that was pulling the bottom out of the construction industry. I was hanging high, dry, and underfunded.

During the time I was recovering from surgery, and watching the rain pour down; I had a little time to explore alternative sources of income. I had only a few criteria. It had to be one that didn’t involve employees, was weather proof and recession proof. This new source of income had to be able to grow big enough to support us when we wanted to retire, and it had to involve helping people. It seemed that only one seemed to fit that bill, Network Marketing.

Now, because it is a business I can build from our home, it’s weather proof. Because I am working with a network of ambitious volunteers, it doesn’t involve employees. And did you know that well run Network Marketing companies actually thrive in times of recession?

That’s how I got started, and I’m doing pretty well.

When are you going to pick up the hammer and get going?