Persistence, What You Need to Succeed

Persistence is what you need to succeed.were, $600 weeks, some were $1,200 weeks. But as
And you need to know that you can succeed. Youlong as Iwas knocking on doors and talking to people,
can do it.I knew I was goingto make sales. And I did.
Several years ago, I was in need of a job. And notNow, it was tough that first week on the job. Tough
just any job.to walk upto strange doors and go into my pitch,
I needed one that paid well, but had flexibility. I washoping I had all theanswers if the questions came.
workingalso as an Actor and doing Commercials bothAnd they did, and I answeredthem. All of them. Took
Radio and TV as wellas training tapes. Something Itime to get all the answers down so Icould do it
still do, but which has sloweddown quite a bit in thesmoothly, but I did it. I mastered the job, and Imade
last years. But I needed to be able tonot work onsales and money. A lot of money.
short notice to be able to go to auditions andstudios.What has all this Door-to-Door stuff have to do with
Anyway, I need a special kind of job. And what INetworkmarketing?
found and whatEverything.
I succeed in will surprise you.You must have the need to do the job.
I did Door-to-Door Sales.You must learn how to do the job.
Before I started this, I would have been the lastYou must learn your product and answer the
person whowould have thought I had what it tookquestions.
to go Door to Door andsell things. But not only did IYou must keep talking to people.
do it, I made Money at it, andbelieve it or not... I hadYour need might be just earning a few extra dollars
Fun doing it. I was 5th in the wholecompany for salesonline amonth. Or it might be earning enough to quit
one year.your day job. Or itmight be a need to make a ton of
We sold a card, a piece of heavy paper which gavemoney. What ever your need is,you must want it
the barerdiscounts on Oil Changes, Service Work,bad enough to do the job, learn the job andlearn
Tires and the like. Ordiscounts on Pizza. I loved sellingyour product or service.
the Pizza cards. Talkingabout something good to eatNotice I keep calling this a job? I bet you thought of
and saving people money was reallyfun.this as away out of a job. But it is a JOB. You can
The people I met were great. You never really knowcall it running yourown online business, but it's still a
how manywonderful people there are in the worldJOB. And you have got totreat it like one. You go to
until you talk withthem. Of course some were not soWork everyday at the same time andput in your
nice, but 99% of them weregreat and good people.hours, right. The same needs to happen with this
But when I started this, I needed something. INetwork JOB. You need to learn how to do it, and
needed to bepersistent. I didn't start out as a topfollow throughor you are never going to make a
salesman. As withanything, I needed to learn how todime and you might as well playthe Lotto with all the
do the job. I was fortunatein that I had greatmoney you spend joining this thing andthat thing.
teachers, and we offered real savings topeople.I am trying to help you do the JOB. I am trying to
I was motivated, I needed to make money and Iteach you howto do the JOB. Are you learning
needed to do itfast and every week. So I listenedanything? Persistence pays off,whether you are
and learned from those whowere doing it week aftergoing Door-to-Door selling or placing ads onlineor using
week. And I started to make money. Manyweeks IHit Exchanges. Or posting to Safelists, or buying adsin
made over $1,000. That felt real good.E-zines.
But not every week started out great. SometimesDon't let me hear you say you can't do this. Don't let
we had a badcontract, or a neighborhood that wasn'tme hearit. Because you can. All you need is the need
working out. But I keptat it, I kept walking up toto learn it and doit.
those doors, knocking and tellingpeople about what IThis is important. You need to have the need. You
offered. Every week, I made money, someweeksneed to learnthe JOB. You need to be Persistent.