The Economics behind Network Marketing in the Modern Age!

Friends!your life, and reducing your long-term health care
With almost eight months of research this is thecosts.
best explanation of why we all need to payThe best way to learn about wellness is through
attention to network marketing growth and homesomeone close to you who has had a wellness
based business opportunities.  I continue to learnexperience.
more about the science involved. I continue toYou see your college roommate and go, “My
study economics. This applies to everyone, fromGod, John, you look great. You look so
every walk of life. It is very real, and economicallyhealthy—what did you do?”
correct. It is long, but this note may be just whatMaybe you see an old friend online during the day
you needed to read right now! Go for it!doing things you wish you had more time to do.
Thanks!You bump into a wellness experience and start to
Petefind out that there is a whole wellness industry
$10,000 per week:out there, with all sorts of new products and
Most people can not grasp the meaning of billionsservices. This experience is very real. You just
and trillions. In-fact, most people can not wraphave to ask a few question and be bold enough
their mind around earning $1500 per week letto get started on change. Network marketing has
alone $10,000 or more per week without sellingchanged. The world has changed too!
anything. They do not understand finance, or
modern economic drivers to include the internetDistribution in the New Economy:
where the world is represented and moves by usIn his 1990 book “Unlimited Wealth,” Paul
every single second regardless if we are asleep,Zane Pilzer wrote that “new wealth in that
awake or plugged in!  This is normal. How manydecade would be created mainly by people who
Americans are taught about finance in High School,distributed things, rather than by people who
or even know how money moves in anmade things.”
economy?  How many people know how moneyThe great fortunes of the 1990s would be made
can move an economy? in distribution. But that opportunity has come and
As a People, Americans are not concerned aboutgone. The fortunes to be made today and in the
economics or “our economy.” Economicsyears ahead will be made by those who are
is not something that can possibly affect aninvolved in teaching people about new products
American with tenure, or a Union job. Economicsand services that they either didn’t know
is not something that possibly could affect a Policeexisted or didn’t know were now affordable.
officer, or a School teacher. Wrong!Intellectual distribution, as opposed to physical
All we want to know is if we can keep our job,distribution, is where the greatest fortunes are
salary, and quality of life in the new emergingbeing made today and will continue to be made
economic reality that is a worldwide paradigm. Iffor a long time to come. Manufacturers today
you ask or are wondering about where your job,report that the greatest bottleneck they have is
or that advanced degree fits into Knowledgenot in creating the next great new product;
Aged economics…it is probably too late.it’s how to reach people and teach them that
Research, learn, and start acting now. This is notthese new products exist.
something you want to be "reactive" about, it isPeople like to do things the old way. They are
something you need to plan for. Be proactivedefensive of what they know, or really what
about solidifying your financial security right now.they “think” they know.
Remember my words!People fight change:
In the past year I have more than a few friendsIn everything we do, from shopping and cooking
who had good careers, with great pay andto taking care of our health, we often have the
benefits lose their jobs. These people are beingnostalgic view that the good old days were
told they are being downsized, or laid off. Thebetter, that the good old ways are the best
truth is that the jobs will not exist, or are slowlyways. But the “good old days” of a
being squeezed outside of United States borders.strong manufacturing base that created middle
If you have your mind set on manufacturing thenclass income is gone. Wages are dropping. The
move to China or Indonesia where the labor iseconomy has shifted.
cheap, and the government is not telling theThe truth is that the “good old days”
CEO's what they are worth.were not so good. How many people approaching
Americans really want to know: “What can Iretirement actually have enough money invested
do in this new economy to succeed, to take careor saved to live a comfortbale life? Add in a dollar
of myself and my family?”that has devalued and the money saved or
What could you do with an extra 2076 hours perinvested will not spend the same as it did when it
year?was earned five, ten, or twenty-five years ago.
Now, if you were earning a six figure income, andNevertheless, people tend to cling to the known
living comfortably while trading about fifty-fiveand resist the unknown.
hours per week at work, you may not be able toConsequently, when they watch television, read
grasp that people are earning $4000 per weekmagazines or surf the Internet, they tend to look
from home, without selling anything, for aboutfor things that reinforce what they already know.
twelve hours per week.
That is a yearly difference of 2076 hoursSo where will they learn?
between your “traditional” job, and theThere is really only one place: from other people.
lifestyle a home based business will provide. OneThe most effective way to teach people is
thing you have to wrap your brain around is thatone-on-one, word-of-mouth communication and
you do actually put in hours and time from home,networking. I could teach you a business that will
but they are more productive for a variety ofhelp you to replace your current income simply
simple reasons that the average person mightby exchanging emails! Despite the fact that we
miss.have the internet, and sophisticated tools to
The difference between your $120,000 per yearcommunicate, business people will still fly across
and mine:the country to meet face-to-face when they
Let’s say your household income is $120,000have important issues to decide. Person to person
per year or $2500 per week. That is a nicemarketing, and person to person communication is
income. One or two people may combine for thisone key to success is a worldwide marketplace.
type of income in a household. If two peopleLearning how to use the new tools, as well as the
combine to earn $120,000 per year, you need tobest of the old ways is a key element in modern
double the hours in the below example.aged success.
Take $2500 per week and divide it by the hoursNetwork Marketing in the Years Ahead
to and from work, as well as hours at work.On going education is important to me. I have
Let’s set this number at 55 hours everyalways been creative. I have always searched for
week. If this is you, you earn $45 per hour.new knowledge and the teachings of people who
If this is combined income of two partners in onewere more successful than I was. I have read
household you work 110 hours per week, andbooks on finance, marketing, investing, psychology
take home $22.50 per hour.and leadership.  I have owned three successful
A bartender earns $20-$30 per hour. Many schoolbusiness concepts, invested pretty well, and sold
teachers earn that pay range. Corporatethem off for profit. 
managers earn $20-$30 per hour. It is a goodOne of the most exciting attributes of this new
hourly rate. The problem is that a household thatcrop of 10 million millionaires is that they are more
trades 110 hours away from the home, awayoften teachers at heart, rather than conventional
from the family to earn the low end of this paybusinesspeople. They are people who learn about
range may be overloading their work life.a new product or new service and adopt it for
They may be tired after work Monday throughthemselves and their families—but they
Friday having very little energy or patience todon’t stop there. They then go out and teach
take part in the lives of their kids. If they do notnew people what they just learned. They
have children, they may not emotionally orresearch and share knowledge that most people
physically have the energy to go to the gym, orwill find useful but may have never known!
to do things that they enjoy or love. The truth isNetwork marketing is both the oldest method of
that at 50 hours or more per week, most peoplesales communication and the newest. It is the
do not have any energy until Saturday. But whenbest method we have today to change
Sunday comes around they are alreadysomeone’s paradigm and teach them about a
emotionally preparing for the next five days fillednew product or service—a new way of doing
with ten or more hours away from the house.something that they wouldn’t have gotten by
What kind of life are you living?  Is it really "living"reading a magazine, surfing the Internet or
or are you a product of your work?watching television.
Now take someone earning $120,000 per yearPerson-to-person, word-of-mouth communication
working a total of twelve hours per week torepresents the cutting edge of intellectual
include all travel and any meeting time. Thisdistribution. This is why we are seeing so many
person earns $208 per hour or almost five timesFortune 500 companies jumping into the direct
what the “traditional” household incomeselling arena, and Wall Street investors such as
earns at an hourly rate. This one person earnsWarren Buffet entering the business.  This is why
almost 10 times what the dual income householdRobert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump recommend
earns.  I know dozens of people who earn sixnetwork marketing as a top vehicle to create
figures and work less than fifteen hours perwealth.  Kiyosaki states that if he had to start
week. Do you?from scratch, he would do it in a modern network
The network marketer who earns $120,000 permarketing paradigm. 
year may walk away from his work for a familyNetwork marketing has grown steadily over the
emergency, or just to go on a long vacation andlast 20 years, increasing 91 percent in just the last
his income will consistently be $2500 per week...ordecade no doubt due to new companies with
maybe more. Modern network marketers workincreased pay structures and scientifically unique
for and with each other. One persons success isproduct lines.
championed by the group. It is an up-side downWith more than 13 million Americans and 53 million
pyramid where people can and do out-perform,people worldwide involved, it is now a $100 billion
and out-earn the people who sign them up!global industry. Yet as impressive as this is,
You have no idea until you take the time to learn!it’s not hard to see that the real growth in
Since 1991 Wealth in the U.S. has quadrupled:this business model has only just begun!
Since 1991, U.S. household wealth quadrupled fromDemand for quality:
$13 trillion to about $52 trillion in 2005. ReadingFor one thing, demand is increasing exponentially.
such figures, you might say, “That’sBecause of the ever-accelerating pace of
interesting… that sounds like good news.”technological advancement, there is a growing
But it becomes very personal when we look atflood of new products and services that
what this actually means to individualdesperately need their story told in the
entrepreneurs who are involved in the mostmarketplace—stories which no amount of
economically vibrant emerging new industries.screaming TV ads or sprawling Internet pop-ups
There is something very different about thisand banner ads can effectively tell.
enormous increase in householdThere is demand 24 hours per day, 7 days per
wealth—something that has never happenedweek.  This demand can hit your business no
before, and has significant implications formatter where you are, or what you are doing! 
people’s individual lives.Grasp this concept, and you will grasp why this
This growth is occurring not only among anbusiness will be a trillion dollar business in the next
exclusive group of the already-rich, butten years!
throughout a broad demographic that includesThere is expensive research being done, and
millions of “ordinary people.” Paul Zaneproduct development that is changing the quality
Pilzer, one of the worlds top economists describesof peoples lives. There are ingredients in these
this phenomenon as the “democratization ofproducts that no big corporate company will take
American wealth.”to the market because it will screw up their
Let’s take a quick look at how this works,in-store price points, or measures for profitability.
and then see some of the most powerful waysNeil Offen, president of the Direct Selling
to insure that you can be part of this excitingAssociation, predicts that, at the current rate of
trend.increase, worldwide some 200 million people will
The Democratization of American Wealthenter this industry over the next 10 years,
In 1991, there were 3.6 million American familieseffectively quadrupling its current percentage of
with a net worth of $1 million or more. Today,the population. So now is a great time to learn
there are more than 10 million such families andmore, and secure a position with a person or
we are adding new millionaire families at the ratecompany you want to represent and work with!
of one million per year.While we’ve alwaysNetwork marketing is already a force to be
had periods where the rich get richer, we’vereckoned with—but its growth will explode in
never had so many ordinary, working-class peoplethe coming decade.
become rich.Currently I work with someone poised to clear
You can see dramatic evidence of this at theone million dollars in income in the next twelve
very top echelon of U.S. wealth, the billionaires onmonths. In this industry I have met more than a
the Forbesdozen millionaires.
Over the next 10 years, as U.S. household wealthHow many millionaires have you met in your
doubles to $100 trillion, at least $10 trillion of thatworkplace? Would your CEO or boss encourage
new wealth will represent new entrepreneursyou to out-perform or out-earn him or her?
coming to the table.Network marketing has evolved and is an industry
That $10 trillion represents another 10 million newalready breaking records worldwide. It also fits in
millionaires.nicely with the shift in economics to a Knowledge
A great opportunity lies ahead, not for just aAged Economy that is also a worldwide
chosen few, but for literally millions ofmarketplace.
“ordinary people,” individual entrepreneursThe Home-Based Business Boom:
who were not born into wealthy families, but whoThe advent of intellectual distribution is one reason
choose to apply themselves in the new andthat network marketing offers such a favorable
emerging industries where this new wealth isopportunity, but it is not the only reason. Another
being created.powerful factor is the current boom in
“Two of the strongest emerging industrieshome-based businesses. Only 20 years ago,
where this growth will occur are wellness andpeople who worked from home were
network marketing.” –Paul Zane Pilzerimmediately suspect, as if that implied there was
Reactive Mindsets:something wrong with them, that they
Ironically, of the $2 trillion we spend on healthcouldn’t get a “real job.”
care in this country, which represents one-sixth ofToday, the sharpest and richest people we know
the U.S. economy, most has very little to do withare the people who work at home.
health. “Health” is defined in the dictionaryOne factor in this change is a massive shift in the
as “being sound in body, mind or spirit,”dominant unit of technology, the building block of
but what we call “health care” has a veryour total economy. 30 years ago the best
different focus, and would more appropriately betechnology was expensive, and big companies
called the sickness industry.were the only ones that could afford it.
American medicine is reactive by nature. We areToday, as a home-based entrepreneur, you can
a reactive culture. If you are cynical about myconduct business far better than someone can
business, or the wellness based scientific studieswho’s working in a large company and has to
that drive our success…you are beingdeal with the overhead. The big companies just
“reactive” too! If you are saying "yeahcan’t innovate fast enough. In the ’80s,
right," or believe that you "can't do this," you arethe rule was the bigger the company, the newer
being reactive! and better the technology.
Today, the rule often is the bigger the company,
Sickness industry:the older and more out-of-date the technology.
Products and services provided reactively toWhere are the greatest opportunities today?
people after they contract an illness, ranging from“Even for people starting right out of school,
a common cold to cancerous tumors. Thesethe best opportunities are not to go work for
products and services seek to either treat thesome big company (unless it’s a company
symptoms of a disease or eliminate the disease.that makes tools for individuals), but to go into
These procedures do not provide a cure either.business for yourself as an entrepreneur.”
Many people believe the FDA is important for–Paul Zane Pilzer
better health.
The FDA is controlled by the government andHealthy Family, Healthy Economy, Healthy World:
pharmaceutical companies. The FDA approvesThe change in technology is one reason we are
drugs to treat one symptom, with a list ofexperiencing such a boom in home-based
sometimes deadly side-effects that number inbusinesses. Another reason is that working from
double digits. Again, the "sickness industry" is bighome is a more personally satisfying way to live.
business. I am not saying that you should not seeIn the new economy, the sheer quantity of
a doctor, or go in for a procedure when youcompensation is no longer enough and for the
absolutely have to.same amount of energy a home based
I am saying this: Why not focus on prevention?entrepreneur can far out-pace that corporate
I can give you the answer: Your ego tells youincome.
that you will be just fine. Your newspaper, andMore and more, we have come to realize we also
your television "habit" convinces you that takingwant a certain quality of compensation, too. We
drugs will provide for a better life because thedon’t simply want money; we want lifestyle.
actors are smilling, hugging, and seem so happyIt doesn’t matter how much money you
(while the side effects are being rattled off for 45earn if you never get to see your family. It
of the 60 second commercial).doesn’t matter how many possessions you
Wellness industry:have if you never get to use or play with them.
Products and services provided proactively toFinally, it doesn’t matter how great of a
healthy people—that is, those without anpersonal economy you create if you don’t
existing disease—to make them feel evenhave the health to enjoy it.
healthier and look better, to slow the effects ofThe concept of “quality of life,” which we
aging, or to prevent diseases from developing intake for granted today, is actually a fairly recent
the first place. Anti-oxidants come from fruits andinvention. Our economy and living standards have
plants. Everything is made up of dirt, water, andgrown to the point where we not only expect to
carbon. We are all the same. There is an entiremake a living, but we also expect to have the
industry dedicated to better all-around health, butbest possible experience doing it. Twenty percent
some of the products are expensive toof the average corporate workday is spent just
manufacture.commuting to and from work. Studies show that
Why should a giant pharmaceutical companyup to 50 percent of the time spent actually inside
spend the money on research or infrastructure tothe workplace is wasted around the water cooler,
provide all natural products that help preventgossiping and talking to other people.
disease, when they can charge $20 per pill andSome of you reading this message are at
charge it to our health insurance? This same pillwork…not working!
could also kill us!Today, more and more people don’t want to
120,000 Americans die every year after correctlyspend their time chatting with other workers in
taking pharmaceutical pills that were prescribed.the office—they’d rather spend that time
with their spouse or their children. They’d
Why do Americans suffer from so manyrather get their work done in a few hours, and
diseases?then get back to the business of being with their
People in Okinawa, Brazil, and countless otherfamilies. For these people, a home-based business
countries do not suffer from heart disease, ortoday is both a more efficient way to work and a
have high rates of cancer or other disease. Whylifestyle choice.
does a Brazilian have such nice and youthful skin?Balance:
Brazilians are exposed to a lot of sun, and areWe often talk about the challenge of keeping a
also the same dirt, carbon, and water asbalance between our work and our families.
Americans.Picture it like a seesaw, with work on one end
People in Okinawa don't wear eyeglasses, yet byand family on the other. When you’re
our 40's Americans start to lose their sight acuity.constantly playing these priorities against each
I stumbled upon the wellness industry in the lateother, your life swings and swings, until eventually
1980’s when I could bench press 330poundsthe whole thing breaks, whether that means
and run for hours every day. I started to reallylosing your job, your family or your health. Many
watch what I ate, and sought out information andpeople lose all three.
supplements to help. I did not know how toBut if we are fortunate enough to find a way to
generate income with my knowledge untilintegrate work into your home, then we
recently.don’t have to think about balance between
Recently I have had a hard time recovering afterwork and family so much as how we can weave
strenuous workouts. If I were a commonthe two together. There is actually something
American I would make excuses like "I am gettingironic about this.
old," or blame my condition on the pain, ratherThe United States started out as an agrarian
than on the muscles or ligaments that support thesociety of entrepreneurs that networked with
problem area!  I knew I had to work harder toneighbors door to door, or in a central
maintain my shape.  That work is not easy.  Itmarketplace. Everyone was a small-business
is not comfortable.  I just don't want to be thatperson. One big blow to this was when Ford
person who takes pills to mask pain. I had tocreated the assembly line. Factories were built
swallow my ego long enough to work hard tothat needed people to work them. The people
build my muscle groups back up!worked them, and this slowly increased demand
Between mogul skiing, basketball, work stress,for more products. You know this story. This is
and all of the curve balls presented by life…myone key to network marketing today, the
body was starting to fall apart. I would play ninetyindustry creates a link between a product and a
minutes of aggressive basketball and then not beconsumer.
able to walk for two to three days! I went toThe rise of the giant corporations, which our
doctors who told me to stop playing, orgeneration took for granted as the
recommended surgeries as a fix. Then, I found a“normal” employment path, is really a
product packed with a certain strong form ofhistorical anomaly. It is rapidly slipping into the
glucosamine in liquid form. This product cut myhistory books as we return to our entrepreneurial
recovery time by more than seventy percent. Iroots.
wanted to find out what else my surgeon andThe Explosion of Network Marketing!
other medical providers may have known but didIn many ways, wellness and network marketing
not want to share with me.are natural sister industries. For one thing, wellness
By the late 1990’s the Wellness Industry,is rich in the kinds of new technologies that are
which only a decade earlier had hardly existed,best learned person-to-person. Next, it is often
was already a $200 billion business.the same quest for a better quality of life that
This represents an extraordinary economicfinds expression both in exploring wellness and in
opportunity. The millions of people spending billionspursuing an entrepreneurial, home-based business.
of dollars to further their wellness represent aFinally, the demand for higher quality products that
new and growing economic sector who are eatingbig corporate giants can not produce, or
and living healthier than anyone ever before incompetitively bring to market has created a
history.“Perfect Storm” that reaches a human
Americans spend more than $70 billion annually onbeing at a cellular level! The science behind these
vitamins and food supplements.companies products are the reason why people
Who are these people?succeed in sharing the knowledge and products
Mostly baby boomers: prosperous people fromwith others!
the ages of 40 to 60. Baby boomers are the firstWellness and network marketing also both
generation in history who refuse to blindly acceptrepresent enormous financial opportunities; either
the aging process. They are also a powerfulopportunity alone has tremendous potential to
economic force; they represent only 28 percentcreate new wealth. Some companies have
of our population—yet this group and theircombined the best of both worlds, creating a
spending represent 50 percent of our economy.“perfect storm” of unprecedented
Until recently, marketing to baby boomers hadeconomic opportunity: A convergence of forces
been all about how to help them remember whatenabling entrepreneurs to create a satisfying
it was like to be young—oldies music, retrolifestyle, and—at the same
clothes and ’50s-styled automobiles. Now, ittime—tremendous new wealth.
has gone a step further. Today, boomers areOver the next 10 years, the U.S. economy will
starting to buy things that actually make themcreate 10 million new millionaires. You have the
younger in terms of having a healthier body, andopportunity to start now and become one of
a sharper mind.them.You should do so not only for the benefits in
Network Marketing and Wellness:health and happiness to yourself and your family,
As I began exploring this fascinating new industry,but also because you will be adding to our
I found myself asking a basic question: How areeconomy while you also add to the wellness and
people learning about all these new approaches topersonal fulfillment of many others. In so doing,
their health and fitness? Certainly not through theiryou will be contributing immeasurably to your
doctors. Doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceuticalcommunity, your nation and the world! ON the
companies are mostly part of the “sicknessother hand, you can be a cynic or a skeptic. It is
industry” because, until recently, mostfree to walk away. It is free to learn more. My
scientists and public policy leaders viewed wellnesssupport is free. My system is free. I will work
or preventive care as “quackery.”both for and with you! Why not follow the lead of
Today, numerous scientific studies have validatedpeople who are doing this? Why not you?
what a few million Americans seem to haveTake a look around. Maybe message me and ask
known all along: There are hundreds or thousandsa few questions. If you are familiar with the
of efficacious treatments to make people feelindustry and are interested, then sign yourself up
healthier, to slow the effects of aging, or toonline. Message me to learn how to get started.
prevent diseases from developing in the firstShare with me your goals. I will not quit on your
place. But until you first experience one of thesesuccess. This company will not let you down
treatments working for you or a member ofeither! You just have to make a choice to get
your family, you are probably going to remain aafter this!
skeptic and miss out on improving the quality of