Network marketing is not a conventional business by most definitions. It doesn’t require much startup capital and it doesn’t require the usual difficulties of a business. By that I’m talking about things like administration, brand building, generating buzz, stocking product, shipping the product and so on. In most network marketing companies, such activities are taken on by the company itself.

Contrast that to starting say, a pet grooming business in your area. You would have to get the funding (large capital investment), find a location, get a land use permit, rent the space, get the space suitable for your canine guests and many more tasks just to get ready to open your business. Then you would have undertake some kind of marketing campaign to get people to come to your business. And since you’re just starting out, you probably won’t have the budget to hire help, so you’ll have to do all the work yourself. Yikes! Well a business like that could do well – over time. But it might be several years before it makes any money and word of mouth starts to help you out.

That’s just one example of a ‘traditional business’ but most of them share the same issues. The only thing network marketing businesses have in common is that, yes, you still need to market them. In all other respects, network marketing is very unlike other types of businesses, and that makes people forget it’s a business. Yes, it is still a business and should be treated as such.

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