The Religion of Network Marketing

by Greg Mangin

I'm not sure why I thought of this, perhaps some kind of guilt thing for not attending church regularly, but have you noticed the similarities between organized religion and most network marketing programs? Here's the analogies I see.

The religion is capitalism, or the desire to achieve monetary immortality. What are we seeking when we participate in organized religion? We are seeking grace, or forgiveness, or blessings, a place in heaven or avoidance of hell. Depending on the organized religion you're talking about, there are some variations on the beforementioned goals and desires.

In network marketing, we are seeking something better than what we have. More income, more financial security, more leisure time, etc. etc. In a nutshell, a better way after our current way of trading hours for dollars. The goals of the two are similar in that the participants are seeking something better.

Let's confine this comparison to Christianity, for ease of discourse. There are many branches of Christianity when you consider Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Evangelical, Charismatic, Presbyterian, and on. Even within those branches, there are subsets such as Southern Baptist. These can all be considered "the opportunities", or the biz-opps you work to get into heaven.

Each religion has a head and each church has a preacher, church, minister, etc. The person that starts a new biz-opp is like the founder of a new church or religion. He recruits various gurus in the internet marketing industry to be the preachers of each of his branch churches.

Most MLM and network marketing programs hold regular "services", that being conference calls. Some are once a week, some are daily. Not too different than church services and variations there.

The process of repitition of a message to the masses is to develop a "like mind". Many people all having the same thoughts and all with a desire to get other good people involved in the good things at their "church".

I may expand on this later, but for now I urge you to pick a "church" and attend regularly.
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Greg Mangin, April 2008

Procrastination, Killer of Dreams

Copyright © 2008 by Gregory A. Mangin

Are you among those who are fed up with living your life at the dictates of others while spending almost all your time away from your family? Are you among those who silently whisper a prayer for a better life hoping that some day, something might happen and rescue you from this day-to-day drudgery? There is good news for you right here. You can change your life, you can do what you want, you can be happy and economically productive at the same time.

This is not a miracle or a magical wish come true. This is the plain truth - the Internet brings to you a vast platform of work at home opportunities for those who prefer this mode of earning; it also provides unlimited opportunities to start your home business. There is only one condition - you should commit to the path now; not today, not tomorrow but now.

Did you know that more than 68% people fail in achieving their goals due to procrastination? Studies show that procrastination is the greatest enemy of all productivity and inner motivation. When you allow yourself to postpone any work, you are burdening yourself with guilt and this guilt in turn chokes your willingness to work completing a vicious circle which would sooner than later transform you into a vegetable.

How To Fight The Urge To Procrastinate And Achieve Success

As mentioned earlier the Internet offers you tremendous scope to success with working from home. You could work as a freelance professional - writer, programmer, web designer, copy writer, virtual assistant, and so on. You could use affiliate Internet marketing to earn a comfortable income with comparatively lesser effort than any regular job. You could fill in questionnaires, or sell merchandise on e-bay; the choices are unending.

You can do anything you can put your mind to, provided you have clear cut goals and focus on these goals with a one-track mind. Contrary to common belief work at home does not translate into earning while doing no work. On the contrary, in order to see your home business or work at home efforts succeed you need to observe strict self-discipline and schedules, which are more difficult than you think.

When you work you have your boss telling you what to do when to do; at home it is your decision when to do and what to do. If you procrastinate and leave for the last minute (or worse never get to do it) you would always be a few steps away from achieving success; from achieving freedom from the 9 to 5 job without compromising on your pay packet. It is very easy to say - "I will do it a little later" and that is okay if it is occasional. However, if that becomes the rule, you might as well forget about your dream to stay at home with your family while working - because this is not for you.

Do Not Kill Your Dreams - Nurture Them

The Internet is an extraordinary vehicle which could help you achieve all your dreams. Do a search on the Net and see how many people have made it big with the help of the Internet. Some of the stories are exceptionally inspiring which set you thinking - if he or she could do it, why not me? Why not indeed?

Start today. Draw up a list of your strengths and then analyze what you could use or do to earn income on the Internet. Allow three to four weeks for intensive research and then go for it. You can do it as thousands before you have done it, provided you act today, now. Stop procrastination from killing your dreams.

Gregory A. Mangin

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Greg Mangin has been involved in internet marketing since 2002.

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Never Give UP!!!

Copyright (c) Sharon Lambkin

I can see the glow from your face coming through the screen
- if that is the case - Why the name of the article -
Never Give UP!!!

The glow is coming from the fact that you have just gotten
your web pages up and you are ready to set the world on
fire with your product. We've all been through that same glow.

It is a wonderful feeling and there would be no web pages
put up without that expectation. You've read all the right
things to do according to all the guru's on the net. You've
listed and read and listed again and again. You've covered
the FFA (free for all) pages, free classifieds, written for all
the e-zines. Now all that is left to do is sit back and wait.

The glow grows brighter - you just know you have hit the target
of every marketer on the web. You've covered all the bases.
Now you have slept on it - and you get up and can't wait to
get to that computer to see all the orders you know will be waiting
for you.

You open up your e-mail and find you have 150 messages.
Alright!!! We're on the run now. Quickly you open up the
e-mails - and one after the other - the same story - all these
people are trying to sell you something also. They didn't even
read your classifieds, all they wanted was your e-mail address.

What a disappointment - the glow dims a little. This is the game
called Internet Marketing. Lesson number one learned.

It's not that easy!!!

Now I'm not saying it can't be done. Dig deeper is the answer.
You read every book you can find that tells you how to market
on the Internet. You've read that the best thing to do is to market your
own product with some good bonuses.

You realize you need another e-mail account to handle all the offers
coming through now, but you are afraid to delete all these messages
because there may be buried treasure in 'them thar e-zines.' So you spend hours reading and sure enough, you find some buried treasures. You
now have a new direction to move in.

Developing the e-zine is a lot of fun and you search and search for
information that will interest others. You spend days putting the
e-zine together and are very proud of yourself. The disappointments
of the first round you thought was a failure has now developed you
into a much stronger and more knowledgable marketer.

You now place a few paid ads and a few ad swaps and find that
there are really people out there reading your work and interested
in your product. Even though it has not happened overnight.
It is a slow and painstaking process and only those with the attitude
of "I WILL make it!!!! will survive.

You finally get a order and see that the system works. Now the
glow is back on your face and you go at it even harder. You have
just reached another level of marketing. Each level that you reach
that you felt was a failure will bring you into another level of knowledge
and a more experienced marketer.

I wish it would be as easy as telling you to just follow others steps -
but then you will miss out on the wonderful step in life called 'experience.' Nothing can replace that. Take advice from the ones who have been
there, done that - but never copy them - the ingredient that would be
missing is -YOU!

Each failure brought to a glowing success will make you stronger
and more determined and soon you will become the guru that will be
leading others. But the bottom line will always be

'NEVER GIVE UP.' and by the way - do you know what GURU means -

GEE U R U.

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My Network Marketing Confessions
Copyright © Greg Mangin
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Hello, my name is Greg Mangin and I’ve been involved with work-at-home, internet based, network marketing since September 2002. I’m going to tell you exactly what led me to network marketing, what successes I’ve had and my mistakes. Hopefully this will help you to make correct decisions about your choice to enter the work-at-home family.

I graduated Purdue University in 1980 with a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. I went to work for a very large company in Indianapolis Indiana which was part of AT&T, then the largest corporation in the world. I was there only 4 months when I found an opportunity to move back to my home town and become a principal in a small consulting engineering company where I spent the next 21 years. That brings us to the point where I began looking at “work-at-home” opportunities.

I had become very unhappy at my position even though I owned nearly ¼ of the corporation I was working for. The reasons for this do not need to be discussed here any further than to say that I was making plans to separate from my business partners and start my own consulting engineering firm. I formed a corporation to do just that in August 2002 and was divorced from my partners by October 2002. During this time I had been doing a lot of internet searching for “work from home” and “home based businesses” in case I couldn’t make it as a consulting engineer on my own. I found SFI, then Six Figure Income, now it’s Strong Future International or just “SFI”. I signed up for email information and finally, after several sales emails, I joined SFI in September 2002.

Now, SFI is a fine company. I have highest praises for their business and the opportunity. I began reading and studying all of their materials. Somewhere, in all that literature, I found that it was best to have your own website with which you can promote your affiliate programs. This is of course true, and makes absolute perfect sense. But… Affiliate sales require someone to visit your site in the first place. You can’t sell anything if no one sees it.

Back in 2002, everyone was just coming across the idea of search engine optimization (SEO) which is a way of setting up your website to favor the search engine spiders. That is, give them what it is they are looking for. It’s impossible to have a website with much of a chance of getting any search engine recognition if all you have is a cookie cutter affiliate site that 7 million other affiliates have. Most of the search engines won’t even list it or bother to “spider” it. So…. I found a place to plunk a website. I think it was “tripod” which had a klunky website development program. I began studying HTML and how to make a website. My first website was a dismal, poor, awful sorry looking thing and got no traffic to speak of. I kept reading and searching the internet. Somehow I came across Stone Evans in late December of 2002.

If you’ve not heard of Stone, he has a very successful affiliate program called “plug-in-profit-site” (PIPS) that promises free website setup and six streams of income. Stone is also a top SFI recruiter regularly making the “leader board”. When I found his offer to set up a website for free I said “Bingo, just what I need” and signed up with him. My PIPS ID is 159. Currently, I believe the ID numbers are in the 22,000’s. Regardless, Stone was an answer to my prayers. I told him so, my testimonial was on his sales page for all of 2003 and I’m not sure for how long after. You can see my current PIPS page at http://dailyearner.com This is my “new” PIPS page which I haven’t done anything to (yet).

The original PIPS program was all “free to join” programs except for the web hosting (Host 4 Profit, which I highly recommend). The autoresponder he chose was (still is) Getresponse which has a free version. If I recall, you really needed to upgrade to Getresponse Pro to get much use out of it though. In those days you could purchase leads from “load your wallet” or any of a zillion leads companies and dump them into an autoresponder and go gangbusters. That all changed with the UCE laws and so now everything is double opt-in. This change happened just after I was getting some moderate success and it really caused me to be disheartened. It meant I had to get leads to sign up (twice, remember double opt-in) or I had to purchase leads that Getresponse generated for pay. I began looking for lead generation systems, traffic generation systems, places to buy traffic, etc.

I began trying other programs, that is, ones that were not part of the PIPS program. I decided to add them to my PIPS website (all that studying html came in handy after all). I added more and more programs, and eventually my PIPS site only vaguely resembled the original. The current big cheese at Success University, Matt Morris (http://dailyearner.com/successuniversity/ ), was my sponsor’s sponsor in a program I joined as a Founder called “Enliven”. I was very excited about the enliven program after having attended the world “Founders Convention” in St. George, Utah. My sponsor and his close associate were very much “old school” and believed in calling people… a lot. First your warm list, then you cold calls. One of the top recruiters at the convention presented a cold calling method that had gotten him 200 opt-in sign ups in a month. I spent a ton of money on some CD’s with a few thousand “network marketers and MLM’ers” names and phone numbers. My sponsors got aggravated with enliven and moved to a company called “FreeLife”. I moved with them and ended up with many cases of goji juice in my basement. Eventually I totally lost interest in Noni juice, Goji juice, or any other wellness product. Orange and Cranberry juices do me just fine.

I bought James Martell’s book and program “Affiliate Success” and placed him at the center of my once PIPS site. James is very much into the SEO thing and one of the first “content is king” crowers. He also promoted many, many mini-sites and heavy linking to get your site listed high in the search engines. This was my first attempt at article writing and linking. I still had the original site which was global2home.com but now I had another “James Martell” site called A1-Homebusiness.com. Notice the website url,

A1-homebusiness.com, a tip from James that the search engines ignore leading characters (like A1-) which is very helpful. I generated traffic mostly by using traffic exchanges where you click and click to view other peoples websites in exchange they show your website to other people. I had a crazybrowser which was one of the first tabbed browsers I’d ever seen at the time. I had a dial up connection so the best I could do was surf five traffic exchanges at once. A lot of the time, I’d just buy traffic on the exchanges. I found auto-surf traffic exchanges and used those heavily too. I joined ProfitRally and was getting some good exposure then when the owner and founder disappeared owing me about $90 (where’d alex go anyway?). I was getting a lot of traffic but not many signups. I made a little money but not much. The only traffic exchange I use now is Trafficswarm which I highly recommend http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?85970 .

Remember, I still had a fledgling consulting engineering business that I was trying to build also http://manginengineering.com . In 2006, I had enough engineering business to move out of my basement home office into a building in town and hire some help. We had a very large project and several small projects and things were really picking up. I made more money that year than I ever had in my previous engineering engagement. We were very busy, working many many long days and some long nights and weekends. I had absolutely no time to promote my internet businesses and let them fall by the wayside. In mid 2006, I cancelled nearly every affiliate position I had including SFI, Empowerism, and any paid or pro positions. I kept my hosting at Host 4 Profit, and of course I’m still a PIPS affiliate.

That, in all, was about a 3-1/2 year run with a pretty big net loss. I allowed myself to become distracted and let myself take off on tangents that only divided my efforts. I failed because I let too many programs with too many promises into my circle. Don’t let this happen to you. I read about article publishing, and ezine marketing, and opt-in email marketing but I thought I had a better way. Like a lot of Internet marketers, I’ve spent many years and dollars on an education.

Stone Evans tells everything that is needed to make money with his website in his 30 days to success training that you get when you sign up with his PIPS program. I’m following the “30 days course” faithfully this time. If only it had been there for me to follow the first time… http://pluginprofitsite.com/main-159

More to come…

Greg Mangin

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