How To Achieve Exponential Growth In Your MLM Business

There is one big reason why many people fail in network marketing. The best way to illustrate it is by using the story of a marathon runner as a metaphor.

Imagine this:

The marathon runner has trained hard for years leading up to the big event. He runs every day, he works out at the gym, he eats well and commits himself to the sport. When he begins the race he is bursting with pride and enthusiasm, the moment if finally here.

The sun beats down on his head, his muscles ache with the effort but on he runs. Eventually he reaches the last mile. The finish line isn’t far away. On he pushes, everything he has done has built towards this moment. Pushing and pushing, harder and harder, nearing exhaustion, on and on…

Just before the finishing line, with it in his sight, the marathon runner falls to the ground completely exhausted and spent.

So close yet so far…

This effect happens to many people who work in network marketing. There are many who began their training with high hopes and enthusiasm but when they are so close to experiencing success and the transformation into a leader they quit just before they would have finally seem the rewards of all their hard work. This is often because they lacked the perseverance to see the bigger picture, or sometimes because they were burnt out.

If you want to see results and success in network marketing you must commit to being in it for the long haul – to see the finish line and cross it no matter what. Don’t be afraid of not getting results in the short term, the long term results are what it is all about. Nothing grows overnight – babies learn to smile, then coo, and finally to talk. All of this takes a long time. Baby steps are natural but you will walk and even run eventually.

Network marketing works on the principle of exponential growth. This growth may be very slow but it is exponential non the less:

When you first start out in network marketing you have to go through the training and overcome nay negative influences that you have been subject to prior to taking on the opportunity. It might a year to completely overcome your fears and lack of confidence and begin to flourish in your new profession. Most network marketing reps don’t begin at the bottom – they actually begin at a negative figure on the scale!

It is for this reason that so many people give up just as they might have been about to reap the rewards.

The thing to remember is – just because you can’t see the pot of gold yet doesn’t mean it isn’t there. You just need to go a little further, look a little harder and there it is!

Exponential growth may be slow but once you get going success is inevitable.

Take the effect of doubling numbers like this - 1 plus 1 becomes 2, 2 plus 2 becomes 4. Soon you are reaching 64, 128 and so on. Once you grasp this concept it is easy to see how powerful network marketing growth will become once you cross the 4 figure mark. If you can only go the distance and never give up. Just think, if you give up now you will never know how close you were to reaching that pot of gold. Hang in there, keep going, and reap the rewards.

Jaz Lai is a home business network marketing expert. Download your free white paper and audio on how to use the internet to Double or Triple your organization within the next 30 days. Available for the next 24 hours only, click below for instant access :

By Jaz Lai Published: 7/7/2008