Network Marketing is like farming

Cindy Loewen
MLM Success Story

Manitoba - Rey and I have been married 30 years. We are grain farmers in southern Manitoba, Canada. We love to spend time with our 3 wonderful kids: Chad (about to be married to Kelsey), Derek and Janessa. We love travelling, boating, cycling, camping, and taking cruises.

We owned a trucking company for 13 years. I've been a bank teller for 10 years.

In 2004 and 2005 we had a crop failure. It had been too wet to even put seed in the ground. No seed, no harvest. In the winters of 2004 and 2005, Rey went long distance trucking to pay the bills. I needed to make extra money, but didn't want to work the 9-5. I wanted to work flexible hours, be home with the kids, attend their activities, take holidays when we wanted, and be available on the farm.

I saw a newspaper ad: "Make $5000.00/month returning phone calls." I love talking on the phone. $5000.00 a month was great. Sounded easy. That is the day my network marketing began.

But guess what? It wasn't that easy. Network Marketing is like farming. You have to seed before you harvest. It takes time for that seed to grow. But with cultivation, care, rain, and sunshine there will be a harvest.

I joined several companies, spent a lot of money on leads and advertising. I had downloaded the ebook "Success in 10 Steps", in March 2006, but never read it. I struggled for a year. I didn't know how to train people who joined me. I didn't know how to mentor, motivate or lead a team.

I read the Mentoring For Free website. I didn't believe Michael Dlouhy would really mentor me, that he would teach me and my downline to do this business. In March 2007, I finally read "Success in 10 Steps", and went on my first conference call. It clicked. I knew I had found a mentor and a proven, duplicatable system, step-by-step instructions that anyone can do.

I learned how to evaluate a company, how to be a critical thinker, how to generate my own leads for free, how to call leads, how and where to advertise, personal development, how to identify my prospects by personality.

Best of all, Mentoring for Free is a network marketing family, a safe place where people open up and share their struggles & their past, with no judgment from anyone. When I joined, I didn't believe in myself. When Michael said he'd believe in me until I believed in myself, it gave me hope that I could be successful.

To have the harvest I want in MLM, I needed to get the weeds out of my mind. That negataivity and low self-esteen had to go. I learned to paint new pictures in my mind, of who I want to be, and what success looks like to me. Now I speak my future into reality. It takes focus and persistence and faith. You have to believe it before you can see it. I know that if you plant corn, you will harvest corn. And if you plant good seeds in your mind by reading good books and getting together with like-minded positive people, then you will reap a great harvest.

Network Marketing is not about the money - it's about people. Build people and then the people will build the business. Even if we would never make any money in this businesses, we're growing and becoming the people we were meant to be, and we're helping others grow into leaders.

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Michael Believed In Me Until I Could Believe In Myself

Bill & Cynthia Breed
MLM Success Story

I grew up in South America -- Brazil and Argentina, and witnessed the haves and the have-nots of deplorable poverty. I Want my children to see this. I Want gratitude and God to be present in our lives each and every day, and I want the freedom to travel and see the world with my family at the drop of a hat.

2001 was the worst year of our lives. I lost my father in May. Bill lost his favorite Aunt in July. In August, we rushed Bill to the hospital for major surgery. He was away from the office for 6 weeks. September brought 911. November brought our third child, who spent his first two weeks in Intensive Care.

I shut down my ad agency when my largest account closed their US operations. We went from a two-income family down to one. I refused to have daycares raise our children, so I stayed home and depleted our retirement. We lost tremendous amounts of money that year in our office supply company and took forever to dig ourselves out. Yet we persevered with the help of family and friends.

In May of '06 I was working very hard in MLM, but I was racking up thousands of dollars in credit card debt, and getting very little back. I was struggling to build my Network Marketing Business, approaching people in coffee shops and parks trying to convince them that what they REALLY wanted was to make millions working under me in my MLM company. I cringed inside every time I approached someone. As a matter of fact, Bill and I had done Network Marketing a total of 4 times over a 20 year period and failed each and every time. My self-esteem had taken a beating and I struggled to stay positive, organized and calm for my family.

Then Mentoring for Free came into our lives.

I had many personal struggles to overcome and Michael Dlouhy helped me. He mentored me and helped me grow into the person I am today. He taught me the importance of eliminating the negatives from my life. The news, which is almost ALWAYS negative, the radio and negative people, were impacting my view of life in ways of which I was totally unaware. He taught me the importance of studying books for personal development. And by providing us a weekly Mastermind Group for personal growth, I most certainly grew in major positive and success oriented ways by eliminating any negative ghosts that haunted me.

Michael helped me get to the core of my WHY, the difference I want to make in this world. The PURPOSE I am to fulfill in my lifetime is to help abused children understand what is happening to them by providing them with professionals that can help them wade through the messes that adults created in their lives.

I owned an advertising agency for 6 years. Bill has successfully run our print management/office products company for the last 16 years. So we couldn't understand why we were failing at network marketing. Michael showed us why and what to do about it.

Michael believed in me until I could believe in myself. Now I build my MLM business coaching, mentoring and believing in people until they can believe in themselves. It starts when they download the Success In 10 Steps ebook. I follow the Mentoring For Free System like it's been designed to be used and now I am building a huge organization as a result ... Mentoring for Free is a proven, duplicatable system, and my business is growing as a result of its duplicability.

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