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Dropping Truth Bombs Along Your Network Marketing Path

Personal transformation isn’t a one-time lightning-bolt moment or a “top 10 tips” list to race through. It’s a journey – a lifelong one, filled with joy, pain, successes, and failures. Is it easy? No. Is it worth it? Absolutely. And if a bad-attitude high schooler turned cynical chicken chopper can transform his life by committing to personal development, just imagine what it can do for you. Take a look around, and see where you want to grow …

The Focus FACTERS

The Focus FACTERS

Running a network marketing company incurs some serious chaos.  It is an opportunity to change thousands of lives forever in ways that are not possible in any other profession.  And yet… Thousands...
Is Network Marketing Worth It?

Is Network Marketing Worth It?

Almost everyone says “No.”Almost everyone who says “Yes” flakes out.Almost everyone who joins you ends up quitting.Almost every company goes out of business.Almost everyone lies.Doesn’t sound like ...
Do you Buy the Lie?

Do you Buy the Lie?

Are you sick of it? Or just numb to it? Or do you respond well to it?
Going the Extra Mile with Proof

Going the Extra Mile with Proof

Are we failing because of "convenient delusions"? When it came to my fitness, I sure was! But read about what happened when I started compounding consistency.
Is Network Marketing a Legitimate Income Option or a Pyramid Scheme?

Is Network Marketing a Legitimate Income Option or a Pyramid Scheme?

Notice the headline featuring “legitimate income option” and “pyramid scheme.” If this article popped up for you, I assure you it is because of the phrase pyramid scheme. It is clickbait: red raw m...
Four Huge Keys to Rampant Referrals

Four Huge Keys to Rampant Referrals

Referrals can be one of the most powerful strategies for the growth of any business.  If you think about it, the star rating system on Amazon and now most websites are nothing more than the front e...
Is the End of Social Selling Near?
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Is the End of Social Selling Near?

This may be a premature question. Or perhaps not. Social media has been a thing…a big thing for now. Here is a brief history organized by Chat GPC The history of social media can be traced back to ...
A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships

A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships

Consider the High Road. You may actually earn less income in the short term but you will build a reputation, friendships and peace of mind worth a fortune.
Raving  Fans For Life. How to Systemize Brilliant Customer Retention

Raving Fans For Life. How to Systemize Brilliant Customer Retention

Making the most of every event and avoiding the 10 mistakes of customer retention can secure customers for life versus them hightailing it somewhere else.
Discipline Is Dead: Accelerating the Momentum of Success

Discipline Is Dead: Accelerating the Momentum of Success

Focus on what you are doing, why you are doing it, what great pleasure it brings you, and how it honors you and your family. Create a mini-movie of it with your favorite inspirational music. Watch ...
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The History of The Four Year Career®

Network Marketing may offer the most dynamic environment for us to develop our spirituality while managing our humanity at the same time. It may just be the most exciting leadership and character d...
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Riding the Infinite Elevator

Do you know leaders who are making a difference in the world and in other people's lives? I know that thousands and eventually tens of thousands of people's lives will be more exciting, secure and ...
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10 Tips To Get To “Life Beyond Money”

In a successful Network Marketing career, first comes massive action and development, then comes massive money, and then comes … Life Beyond Money.
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DSA 2020 Consumer Attitudes Survey: What Does It Really Mean?

What do people really think about MLM? Get the latest data from the Direct Selling Association. Plus, 4 easy ways we can stop overpromising and underdelivering.
The Rule of 200 Blog

THE RULE OF 200

How is a $1000-a-month income worth $200,000? I call it the Rule of 200. And the ones who follow it are easy to spot. (Hint: they’re the ones with the most successful teams!)
RichardBrooke.com Great Network Marketing Mindshift

The Great Network Marketing Mindshift

There’s a historic paradigm shift happening in Network Marketing, with 77% of Americans interested in entrepreneurial opportunities. So what do we need to do to make sure we don’t blow it?
Building Trust, Admiration, and Respect

Building Trust, Admiration, and Respect

In today’s world of overselling, hype, and fraud at the highest levels of our society, nothing could be more important to a salesperson and business owner than building trust, admiration, and resp...
The Power of Pace

The Power of Pace

Launching a Network Marketing sales group is much like pushing a car over a very slight hill. Imagine that you ran out of gas as you were driving up a hill. At the top of the hill the road becomes ...
Leadership: The Next Great Profession

Leadership: The Next Great Profession

Leadership: a new paradigm that is born in service, contribution, courage, independence, authenticity, listening, compassion, stewardship, and love. We need leadership that goes beyond being just ...
Culture Is Queen

Culture Is Queen

In network marketing, culture is queen, the difference between building generational wealth and seeing your Assets turned to dust. Find out how to protect yourself ...
3 tips to change your MLM business

3 Tips to Change Your Trajectory

Are you just ambling along, part of the 98% not believing they can really make it in this profession? What if it success were as simple as 3 key steps? (Spoiler alert: it is!)
Embracing Our Adversaries

Embracing Our Adversaries

Left to our devices, network marketing would be wholly destructive. Find out why adversaries can be a positive and the key decision you need to make next.
7 Lies About Pyramid Schemes

7 Lies About Pyramid Schemes

Uncover the 7 lies that paint legal & legitimate MLM companies as criminal pyramid schemes.  Plus ... who’s telling the lies? (The answer may surprise you.)
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3 Aha Considerations In Choosing A Company

3 Questions to Guide Your Decision Here are three values-based questions that might support you in making a wise choice … one that will honor you for the next 50–100 years.
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Jumping Ship … What You Really Leave Behind

My good friend and mentor Tom Schreiter is famous for coaching this: “Every company has problems. Pick the one you want to have your problems with and marry them for life.”
12 Reasons Why Network Marketing is the Most Extraordinary Opportunity on the Planet ... or Not.

12 Reasons Why Network Marketing is the Most Extraordinary Income Opportunity on the Planet ... or Not.

You can earn while you learn. Some of the biggest empires have been built from smallest most remote locations. You can live anywhere and "work for" a company 1,000 miles away. Some of the bigge...
The MLM Graveyard Is Littered with Broken Hearts and Shattered Dreams

The MLM Graveyard Is Littered with Broken Hearts and Shattered Dreams

What will your network marketing career look like? Will you retire with your integrity, health & wealth in place or squander it all? Let me tell you a story ...
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Heroes

The Heroes I am talking about here are those who take on their own demons …those voices in their heads that paint a compelling picture of the perils of breaking out of the past. Overcome the voice...
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The Antilogy of Your Story

This is a message about enrolling others, about your expectations for them and about how you position the opportunity in their mind and heart. What you have accomplished is ten times more believab...
10 Advantages of Network Marketing

10 Advantages of Network Marketing

There is a strategy that anyone can employ to build wealth, regardless of age, experience, education, income level, or social status: Asset Income from Network Marketing.