“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” Napoleon Hill Two years ago I was “broken” and struggling mightily to regroup with the realization that I was looking at completely starting over. At the age of 37 I was jobless...

Cliches are tiresome, especially when their long term effect is negative. In traditional direct sales and retail marketing we focus on the product value statements to convince people to buy a product or service. For many network marketers brief lip service is given to the superior nature of...

I am a fanatical entrepreneur, I admit it. I love the thrill of attempting to organize chaos.  I love taking new and undeveloped ideas and making them a reality. I love challenging myself and others. I started my first business when I was 8 buying candy in bulk from a wholesaler and selling...

Do you know how easy it is to create a good product today? Easy, very easy. Because the cost of manufacturing is so cheap compared to what it used to be, it is almost impossible to create an iconic brand or movement based solely upon producing a great product or making it cheaper. Great...

“The Emperor’s New Clothes” is a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about an emperor who unknowingly hires two thieves to make him a new set of clothes.  Network marketing, like many traditional businesses, is full of people selling us on false hopes.  In the...

New York Times best-selling author, key advisor to Presidents of the United States, highly successful in network marketing, and an international businessman known throughout the world named me to his MLM Hall of Fame today.  I was greatly honored to read what he said about me and am truly...

In a down economy network marketing is thriving.  There are many reasons for that, but we must be careful or we too can be affected. The networking pie continues to get bigger and there is plenty of it to share, please remember that.  So, what can network marketing learn from corporate...

Question – Is competition good to have in my business? Answer – Competition is fine, but be careful, be very careful.  Be a good winner. I love to play sports. I love competition. There is nothing like the thrill of a game and there is a great feeling of winning a well fought...