No Degree Required

Network Marketing the Ivy League Way

Amy Powers

• Publisher: Winsome Entertainment Group
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781513694153
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Marketing
• Index: Business

Has your work stopped working for you? Are you feeling burned out, stressed out, or left out? Have you heard about Network Marketing, and are you wondering if the whole concept is brilliant... or BS?

 

GET EDUCATED! Harvard trained lawyer, Columbia Business School graduate and high-level Network Marketing pro Amy Powers gives you a frank, fun, "Ivy League" intro to this smart yet often misunderstood business model.

 

This book will help you:

 

- Learn what Network Marketing really is... and isn't

- Decide if Network Marketing could be a fit for you

- Identify a company that's a match for your values

- Master the 'Ivy League' blueprint to build a sustainable, balanced business

- Tap into 'Ivy League' Tips used by Top Performing Network Marketers

 

...NO DEGREE REQUIRED!

 

Chapter 1

It’s Crazy—or IS It?

Are you truly happy right now? I sincerely hope so. But if you’re not, it’s not surprising. And it’s not necessarily your fault. Life is ever more unpredictable, juggling everyday demands ever trickier, and satisfaction ever more elusive. There are so many people who are silently—or screamingly—discontent with the trajectory of their lives, who don’t know that Network Marketing offers a potential answer as close as their smartphone.

Before we dive into the details of the business model, you’ll need to decide whether there’s even a chance you’d be a candidate for this kind of thing. Ask yourself: Are you open? Warm? Honest? Coachable? Do you like helping people? If you answered yes for each, great. Those are all prerequisites to becoming an Ivy League Network Marketer.

Next, diagnose yourself. Do you have one or more of these top 10 common modern era symptoms that signify Network Marketing might be for you? You can call it your Ivy League entrance exam—except no one is going to grade you but you.

1. Your Day Job is a Nightmare.

It happens. And it’s OK to admit. But let’s clarify: are you sick of your job . . . or sick from your job? If you are sick of your job, you are not alone. You’re in the majority. According to a Gallup Poll of the American Workplace, of the country’s approximately 100 million full-time employees, 67% either feel no connection to their jobs, or actually resent them. Worldwide, that statistic is 85%.

If you’re sick from your job, I feel you. Being a lawyer made me literally ill with chronic fatigue syndrome. Law was a great fit for my bank account, but a lousy fit for my body, not to mention my soul. Nothing against the legal profession—it’s awesome for the right type of person. I just wasn’t her. So, if you are sick from your job, your body could be telling you that something needs to change.

2. Your Work Just Isn’t Working for You.

You don’t have to be sick of your job or sick from your job to be feeling like something’s off. Maybe the economics of your industry are shifting in a way that makes you uneasy. Maybe you’ve outgrown your cubicle. Maybe at 27 you trained to be a dental hygienist and it was great, but now you’re 47, and you don’t want to put your fingers into anyone else’s mouth but your own. Maybe you simply feel you’re not growing. Or your energy’s not flowing. Maybe you just get the feeling you were made for more.

And of course, you don’t need an actual “job” to feel this way. You can be “working” as a stay-at-home mom, as a volunteer organizer, as a solopreneur, an entrepreneur, an unpaid intern . . . and it can be working for you, or not.

3. You are Currently Job-Free.

If you don’t have a job and it’s because you have a big fat trust fund (my family calls this “Lucky Sperm Club”) or you have a big fat lust fund (what we call it when your life is paid for by someone who thinks you’re hot), congrats! Network Marketing may not be your jam. (Though it still might be, because you might see it as a vehicle for social change, community, or philanthropy.)

But if the reason you don’t have a job is because you’ve been sidelined from the workforce by illness or injury—your own or that of someone you love—or just by a topsy-turvy economy, you might be in the right place because this is one profession where you can never be “hired” or “fired.”

4. You’ve Got Student Loan Debt—Whether You’re a Student or a Parent.

Awkward congrats—you’re part of a huge club of which no one enjoys being a member. In the US alone, you’re one of 44.7 million people who have traded learning for loans, averaging almost $33,000 per student. Or you’re one of the 3.6 million generous Parent PLUS loan borrowers who borrowed money to help pay a child’s educational costs. Your average loan is $25,600.

You might be fresh out of college, or someone who went to school decades ago and still has unpaid debt. Or maybe you’re one of the 25% of private student loan cosigners ages 50 and older who had to make a loan payment because your student borrower failed to do so. If you’re younger, just having loan payments can feel like a burden. And the older you get, the more the financial strain likely comes at an inopportune moment in your earnings timeline. Blech.

5. You’ve Gone to an Institution of Higher Learning but You’re not Higher Earning.

If you’re a recent grad, you’re one of over 40% who doesn’t have a full-time job six months after graduation. At two years after college, you’re part of the 43.5% who feel you’re underemployed. You either have a full-time job, but believe it doesn’t put your education, experience, or training to work, or you’re working part-time when you’d rather have a full-time job. Later on, your odds of having a job go up to approximately 90%, but you still might feel that you’re not getting paid what you’re worth.

6. You’re Tired of Betting on a Broken Employment System.

The old-school model of getting a degree, working for 40 years at 40 hours a week, and retiring comfortably with a pension is gone, never to return. Whereas companies used to be places you could count on for the long haul, now the average time at any job you get in the US is four years. Not to mention outsourcing, downsizing, pandemic-related disruptions, and the benefits-free joy of the “gig economy” (or as I call it, the “gag economy”). You might be ready to bet on yourself in a new way.

7. You’re Earning a Lot but Don’t Have the Time or Energy to Enjoy Your Money.

You’re in the happy minority of highly paid people; however for you, earning and fulfillment aren’t going hand in hand. You might be feeling “time-poor” because there just aren’t enough hours in the day to practice your profession, plus engage in hobbies, philanthropy, or meaningful time with family or friends. Or maybe your work takes so much physical or emotional effort that it’s wearing you down. Whichever the case, you can’t take advantage of the other things the world has to offer and might want to explore a way to ultimately have more balance.

8. You’re at a Crossroads.

You’ve made some choices, and they’ve led you to where you are, but you still feel like you’re missing a map to the next destination. You’re ready for the next chapter, if only you knew what that looked like. You’re stuck at a decision point. You’re past the past, but you can’t see the future. And you can go this way, or go that way, but you can’t just keep standing there forever.

9. You’d Rather Potentially Get Paid than Just Pay.

Like it or not, we buy stuff all the time. Imagine if just some of that stuff cost less and could even make you money. You’ve gotten hip to the fact that, while most people are simply paying for their stuff, some people have created businesses where they can potentially get paid because of the stuff they choose to use. You’d rather be like them.

10. You are Silently Suffering.

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Resource List