Each month, more than 100,000 people from all over go online to search “Help me pay my bills.” But they don’t need help paying their bills. Actually what they need is a way off of the treadmill… for good. If this is you, this post might be an answer to your prayers.
If I told you that I Google searched “Help me pay my bills” at one point in my life, would you believe me?
Or would knowing this make you feel better.
Let me share something with you.
In 2006, my husband and I launched a business that catered to the movie industry that was IT. Everyone who saw this site, and the way that it promised to help undiscovered talent break in, just went ga-ga over it. It was one of those no-brainer/why didn’t I think of that kind of services that gave new writers hope and made the industry execs sit up and take notice.
We put everything we had into that business. And for a while, it looked like it was going to work. We even attracted an investor who stepped forward and said he’d help us make it something big.
We had it made, right?
Not quite.
Just a week after we got our investor, Lehman Bros. took a nosedive off of the financial map.
We lost our investor.
We lost over $50,000 of our own money.
And then? We lost our our home to foreclosure and our jobs.
That was in 2008.
Today, we’re staring down 2012, which is just about five weeks away. And today, we are finally, finally feeling like we’re out of the woods.
That’s a long time.
So I know what I’m talking about when I say that I get what “Help me pay my bills” feels like.
Network marketing opportunities have a stigma attached to them used to be well-deserved, but I think those days are long gone.
Not when people like Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki are out there changing the face of the industry with their leadership and encouragement. And not when the Internet has made your reach and influence virtually unlimited.
On his website, RichDad dot com, Robert Kiyosaki (the best-selling author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”) notes that network marketing is the business of the future and says that becoming a business owner is a very wise strategy, especially at this time in history. “Starting your own business,” he writes, “gives back some control over your life If you ever wanted to get ahead of the curve, now is the time to open your mind and look at this business of the future. Now is the time to talk to people when they too are looking for new answers and new ways to find true, long-term financial security.”
Those are important points that bear repeating: Network marketing has the ability to help you take back control over your life, build financial security, and plan for the future.
If you’re over the Google searches, and the bills, and the so on, etc., now may be a perfect time to consider your work from home options.
If that’s the case, then let’s consider three things that you need to build a successful network marketing company.
1) A solid business opportunity: Starting a company of any kind will naturally require you to be passionate about what you do (after all, you’re going to be spending a lot of time and money to make it work). And while it’s true that there are thousands of network marketing opportunities available to you, not all of them are created equal. Before you sign on the dotted line, make sure the company you want to join has a good track record, a solid business model, and experienced leadership.
2) An awesome upline: While the point made above is an obvious first place to start, don’t underestimate just how important it is that the people above you are knowledgeable about MLM and willing and available to share that knowledge with you. After all, your success is their success. Which means that it’s in everyone’s best interest that your team has extensive marketing experience (both traditional and new media) and knows how to grow a company on a shoestring budget.
3) The right tools: This last point will be very important to those who will be marketing their opportunity online, and it’s a topic worthy of its own article. For our purposes here, suffice to say that you want to give yourself plenty of time to map out a strategy for how you’ll approach your marketing efforts (a good team leader should help you with this), and then build your tool kit around that strategy. Be on the lookout for services that offer free or discounted trial periods so that you can test drive the software before you commit the big bucks, and set a reasonable monthly budget for what you can comfortably afford to spend (somewhere between $150 to $200 every four weeks). Expert’s tip: Make sure a software or service is compatible with your PC or Mac, as many only cater to one platform or the other. Waiting until you’ve signed out to find out you can’t run a particular software can be a costly (and frustrating) mistake.
The team you build, the leadership that you follow, and the tools that you use will be critical to the success of your new business and will go a long way in helping you to achieve financial freedom (and say goodnight to late-night Google searches for “Help me pay my bills”), so take your time and do what feels right.
These days, I still do my share of Google searches, but my keywords don’t include “Help me pay my bills.” Instead, my searches are what I do when I want to fuel my dreams. Nice change of pace, don’t you think?
If you are really dedicated to network marketing success, you’re going to want to learn all the marketing secrets you can. For expert insights on this and other useful resources from Pamela Schott, visit her blog or MLSP page.. Free reprint available from: Help Me Pay My Bills (and Other Things People Google These Days).


