Over the past year I have
been involved in a Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Organization called It Works! Global as my side job. I started because being a single mom I
needed to supplement my income to have a little bit of breathing room each
month. The more I started to learn
about MLM and the more I read, one thing kept sticking out to me and it continues to stick
out. Every single book I have read
says that teachers and coaches excel in the network marketing profession. I guess I shouldn't be too shocked, considering the CEO of my company, Mark Pentecost, started as a teacher/coach and now he is purchasing golf courses with CASH! Crazy...anyway, until I start making enough in my MLM
to replace my income, I continue to work in public school public relations. Before this role, I was a high
school teacher and I've also served as an adjunct college professor.
Needless to say, education is very important to me. So when the theme about teachers and coaches kept
coming up about being successful in MLM I have to say, I agree 100%. A lot of my time is teaching
others on my team about the products, how to be successful, how to make the most out of the compensation plan and how to think
outside the box. I am teaching
customers how to best utilize our products and educating them on what products
are best for their individual needs. Those things are ones that come natural to anyone that has been in the educational
environment, I'm not different. No wonder educators succeed in MLM!! I have struggled over the past five
months with approaching any educators I have ever worked with about this opportunity
because of conflict of interest in my current role, but yesterday sealed the
deal for me and I feel obligated to at least share it with others and post it
here! No harm, no foul, just my
opinions and beliefs!
The sad realization is, as
educators, we are facing very uncomfortable economic times in our
profession. Some of us have gone
three or more years without a raise, we have all seen the cost of health care
increase - causing checks to decrease and to top it off, we are now learning about the 2013 Tax Tables that might also cause a decrease in our pay
checks. It is so hard for me to successfully
do my “public relations thing” in this midst of all these hard times for so
many. I am always hearing about
the possible cuts, the budget, the agony!! The district I work for has over 2,200 employees. Many of these are friends of mine, so I
absolutely hate that they are going through this. I am by no means taking a political stance one way or the
other, but I am taking the stance on saying that I feel their pain because I am
right there with them! We
“administrators” are not immune to the difficult financial times either or I wouldn’t be investing so
much time and energy into MLM and I wouldn't be writing this blog post.
I know we didn’t get into the
profession for the pay, obviously.
The students, the relationships, the overall cause, and the time-off are all
things that draw most educators to the profession - along with a fairly stable
pay. We all know that our pay will
increase, slowly, over the course of our tenure, but even at the max, unless an
individual becomes an upper-level administrator or head coach, they probably
will not make more than $75,000 annually. I
decided to make a change, step out of my comfort zone, and supplement my income
in a way that gave ME control over what I earned and the amount of time I spent
on it! Many of the same
reasons I got into education are the same reasons MLM was so attractive: the
overall cause, relationships and the potential for so much more time off and of course, the income. The only thing missing is the students…oh
wait...they are still there, just in
the form of my team members and customers!
I am not going to ask any
educator reading this to join my team (even though I would love it if you did),
but I do want to encourage all of you to look into a MLM company of your
choice. “Uncertain times call for
uncertain measures” and there is not a lot of risk in joining a MLM company but
the payout can be significant. For
example, to join my company it only costs $99, so I didn’t feel like I was
breaking the bank! I really hate
to see our profession going through such hard financial times, and it makes me
physically ill to see so many friends and families being impacted by things out
of their control. How many budgets
have you seen cut? How many
positions have you seen evaporated?
How many friends have you seen let go or get non-renewed? This financial crisis facing education
has impacted many of us…I don’t want to see it impact you when you have this
piece of information at your disposal. I feel a responsibility to tell you, as an educator myself, why I feel that there is a firm reason that we succeed in MLM companies. It's because we have passion, we like to learn, we thrive on helping others learn and reach their full potential, we like to motivate...so MLM is a perfect fit!
Research MLM and you will probably be as intrigued as I was…Who knows,
maybe one of us will be the next Teacher to Millionaire!
Join
our Facebook Group, Teachers to Millionaires, to learn more about MLM and our
company It Works! by following this link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/187153164759773/
We would love to have you on our team as a student initially and then as the rock star teacher/coach that we know you are!
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