oduct that should be used to cover your business costs like advertising and other expenses.

2. High End Commission Income: this can be your fast-start bonus or the commission you get when someone signs up and buys a large selection of your company's products. This gives high-end cashflow and you can use your imagination as to what to do with it.

3. Residual Income: this is the stable long term income that makes it all worth-while

Aha! There it was, my mistake was stated so clearly right here.

What I had been doing, as you were probably also trained by your upline to do was to work for the 2nd and 3rd types of income--That is to recrui

For those of you who don't know my story I went from a network marketing mess to a network marketing success almost over-night. Many people in my organization became curious as to how I produced cashflow on the internet from my home business in 7 days and this is what I will share with you.

I really attribute it to one main mistake I had corrected--really it was something I had neglected.

You see, for the whole first year of operating my business, I spent more money on it than it paid me. Don't get me wrong, I made rank advancements, sponsored people, and cashed some decent cheques even then. But when reviewing my expense/profit report for my taxes, I realised I had a problem.

It was 12 months in and the total I spent on prospecting, having coffees with prospects, mobile phone bills, prospecting tools, autoship, etc had added up to thousands in expenses, yet I had made significantly less in commissions. It did not make sense!

There was another problem, my downline weren't performing and many of them dropped off because unlike me, they didn't have the patience (or funds) to keep running their business.

It's like going out and building a sand-castle at high-tide. No sooner do you build it, then the tide laps up at it. All my hard work kept toppling over.

More out of frustration than anything else, I decided to set out and find a solution that I could easily teach my downline so they would stick around long enough to learn the skills they needed to succeed.

I cracked the code one day, with a little guidance from a colleague of mine, and within 30 days my business was self-funding.

What you should understand is that in those early 12 months, I made giant bounds in my learning. Use your imagination to understand how I went from a PhD student of computer science with zero people skills to a people-networking machine.

There were 10s of personal development books, courses, audio and video programs that I studied. However, most of the people who joined my organization were not willing to invest similar efforts to transform themselves to reach their dream.

I remember at the time feeling a sense of guilt for the many people who joined me but did not succeed. Unfortunately, the average network marketer who does not see cash very early on loses patience and drops off within 30-60 days.

In an effort to solve this cashflow problem for my downline, I read an excellent book by a colleague of mine on the principles of attraction in network marketing or MLM.

What I learned was that the income from your business can be divided into 3 primary types:

1. Retail Income: a low cost, high volume retail product that should be used to cover your business costs like advertising and other expenses.

2. High End Commission Income: this can be your fast-start bonus or the commission you get when someone signs up and buys a large selection of your company's products. This gives high-end cashflow and you can use your imagination as to what to do with it.

3. Residual Income: this is the stable long term income that makes it all worth-while

Aha! There it was, my mistake was stated so clearly right here.

What I had been doing, as you were probably also trained by your upline to do was to work for the 2nd and 3rd types of income--That is to recruit

realised I had a problem.

It was 12 months in and the total I spent on prospecting, having coffees with prospects, mobile phone bills, prospecting tools, autoship, etc had added up to thousands in expenses, yet I had made significantly less in commissions. It did not make sense!

There was another problem, my downline weren't performing and many of them dropped off because unlike me, they didn't have the patience (or funds) to keep running their business.

It's like going out and building a sand-castle at high-tide. No sooner do you build it, then the tide laps up at it. All my hard work kept toppling over.

More out of frustration than anything else, I decided to set out and find a solution that I could easily teach my downline so they would stick around long enough to learn the skills they needed to succeed.

I cracked the code one day, with a little guidance from a colleague of mine, and within 30 days my business was self-funding.

What you should understand is that in those early 12 months, I made giant bounds in my learning. Use your imagination to understand how I went from a PhD student of computer science with zero people skills to a people-networking machine.

There were 10s of personal development books, courses, audio and video programs that I studied. However, most of the people who joined my organization were not willing to invest similar efforts to transform themselves to reach their dream.

I remember at the time feeling a sense of guilt for the many people who joined me but did not succeed. Unfortunately, the average network marketer who does not see cash very early on loses patience and drops off within 30-60 days.

In an effort to solve this cashflow problem for my downline, I read an excellent book by a colleague of mine on the principles of attraction in network marketing or MLM.

What I learned was that the income from your business can be divided into 3 primary types:

1. Retail Income: a low cost, high volume retail product that should be used to cover your business costs like advertising and other expenses.

2. High End Commission Income: this can be your fast-start bonus or the commission you get when someone signs up and buys a large selection of your company's products. This gives high-end cashflow and you can use your imagination as to what to do with it.

3. Residual Income: this is the stable long term income that makes it all worth-while

Aha! There it was, my mistake was stated so clearly right here.

What I had been doing, as you were probably also trained by your upline to do was to work for the 2nd and 3rd types of income--That is to recrui

, I decided to set out and find a solution that I could easily teach my downline so they would stick around long enough to learn the skills they needed to succeed.

I cracked the code one day, with a little guidance from a colleague of mine, and within 30 days my business was self-funding.

What you should understand is that in those early 12 months, I made giant bounds in my learning. Use your imagination to understand how I went from a PhD student of computer science with zero people skills to a people-networking machine.

There were 10s of personal development books, courses, audio and video programs that I studied. However, most of the people who joined my organization were not willing to invest similar efforts to transform themselves to reach their dream.

I remember at the time feeling a sense of guilt for the many people who joined me but did not succeed. Unfortunately, the average network marketer who does not see cash very early on loses patience and drops off within 30-60 days.

In an effort to solve this cashflow problem for my downline, I read an excellent book by a colleague of mine on the principles of attraction in network marketing or MLM.

What I learned was that the income from your business can be divided into 3 primary types:

1. Retail Income: a low cost, high volume retail product that should be used to cover your business costs like advertising and other expenses.

2. High End Commission Income: this can be your fast-start bonus or the commission you get when someone signs up and buys a large selection of your company's products. This gives high-end cashflow and you can use your imagination as to what to do with it.

3. Residual Income: this is the stable long term income that makes it all worth-while

Aha! There it was, my mistake was stated so clearly right here.

What I had been doing, as you were probably also trained by your upline to do was to work for the 2nd and 3rd types of income--That is to recrui

my organization were not willing to invest similar efforts to transform themselves to reach their dream.

I remember at the time feeling a sense of guilt for the many people who joined me but did not succeed. Unfortunately, the average network marketer who does not see cash very early on loses patience and drops off within 30-60 days.

In an effort to solve this cashflow problem for my downline, I read an excellent book by a colleague of mine on the principles of attraction in network marketing or MLM.

What I learned was that the income from your business can be divided into 3 primary types:

1. Retail Income: a low cost, high volume retail product that should be used to cover your business costs like advertising and other expenses.

2. High End Commission Income: this can be your fast-start bonus or the commission you get when someone signs up and buys a large selection of your company's products. This gives high-end cashflow and you can use your imagination as to what to do with it.

3. Residual Income: this is the stable long term income that makes it all worth-while

Aha! There it was, my mistake was stated so clearly right here.

What I had been doing, as you were probably also trained by your upline to do was to work for the 2nd and 3rd types of income--That is to recrui

oduct that should be used to cover your business costs like advertising and other expenses.

2. High End Commission Income: this can be your fast-start bonus or the commission you get when someone signs up and buys a large selection of your company's products. This gives high-end cashflow and you can use your imagination as to what to do with it.

3. Residual Income: this is the stable long term income that makes it all worth-while

Aha! There it was, my mistake was stated so clearly right here.

What I had been doing, as you were probably also trained by your upline to do was to work for the 2nd and 3rd types of income--That is to recruit for active income and have distributors on autoship for the passive income.

The one component most of us are missing is the retail income. Without the cashflow from Retail Income, you will continue to spend yourself broke without much reward.

Now you are probably thinking "It's not like I'm having much luck retailing my company's product either."

Great. I'm not suggesting that you start pushing Herbalife weight loss, USANA vitamins, or ACN phone plans--if it were that easy to sell the product, your company wouldn't need you.

No, we don't want to try to sell the company's product--not like that anyway. But imagine if you had an inexpensive product related to your business, and lots and lots of people were actively looking for it. What if you could sell it automatically?

Would a tiny $500/month retail income make a difference in your business? Certainly it's not the final answer. But with that little bit of extra cashflow, now you can advertise your primary business opportunity and generate all the leads you want. You could pay your autoship effortlessly. Furthermore, because your product is related to your business, anyone who buys it is a highly qualified lead for your primary business.

The light bulb switched on in my head.

Why don't you start to think about what such a product might look like and how you could automatically generate cashflow from it?

-- Jim Yaghi