“Tales from the emails” This segment is simply a cut and paste from my everyday conversations with prospective members, applicants, and active members. I post these “tales from the emails” to give you (the reader) a raw look inside the industry in the hopes that I can leverage my answers to anyone who may be facing the same questions or issues.

********* I don't have Kate's original email as it was a conversation passed onto me from one of my members Dan but here's the story anyway..

Hi Kate,

I hope you don't mind but Dan shared his frustration with me and forwarded your email over. I just wanted to add my 2 cents; all the reasonsDan listed for quitting should be all the reasons you should stay. I can say this because I was where you are and so was Dan, our backs have been against the wall and our heads full of doubt but the difference is we persisted onward. I wasn't an instant success, it took hard work, MONTHS of determination and studying to get to where I am, and I don't mind telling you it has become very lucrative for me. My "why" and the reward for me was worth burning everything I owned in order to achieve the better life that I believed I was destined for. If I quit on month 3 I wouldn't have made 15K in month 6 and so on. My plan is to gross 100K per mo. and employ 3 people and I know it's going to take the better half of 2009 to get there but come on, where else could that even be possible in such a short amount of time!

Kate your a bright woman with good reasons so be honest with yourself by asking these questions:

• Did you plug into the program by taking advantage of the web training and attending as many live calls as possible?
• Did you take action on what you have learned.
• Do you legitimately put 4 hours 5 days of work into this every week as if you would if you were working a part-time job?
• Could you continue to work this part time while working another job to cover your day to day life expenses (like many people do)?

Take some pressure off yourself and reward yourself for what you have accomplished – 600 leads is certainly nothing to shake a stick at and statistically speaking you should have made more than one sale but in my experience conversions take on average 45 days and in order to achieve statistical averages you need to base it on enough numbers to begin with (thousands). It's just the "law of large numbers." I already know you are capable of developing 600 leads and I have little doubt that if you could do that consistently each month for 12 months you would be in a much different position by the end of 2009.

Seems like a long time huh? Not really when you look at this like a real business and you've put work into your business so please don't let that go to waste.

Quick story: February 2008, I had already made over 10K in the industry (all on paid CL) but I still had my doubts and I'd sit on my stoop in the morning sipping my coffee with my head in my hands wondering how I was going to generate more leads, get more business, and stay on CL….Believe me, quitting has crossed my mind but the reality was I had nobody to tell I was quitting to, so it forced me to be real honest with myself and look around….

This is certainly real, other people are making it happen so why couldn't I? I found a way to continue posting even though it was a huge pain in the ass but it forced me to learn to market other ways and increase my personal worth. Now fast forward to September 2008 I'm on the same stoop fresh cup of Joe and still have my head in my hands but the question has changed;

"how am I going to manage all of this business and such a large team effectively?"

Now I started this with absolutely no experience in this industry and a complete nimrod when it came to computers (I'm still typing with 2 index fingers to this day) if you were to work as hard as I have then the only thing separating us would be time. You can absolutely be where I am by not quitting. Kate I have nothing to gain from you going in either direction, and I will continue to mentor your member but I took the time to email you today because you have already overcome 1 of your most important hurdles.. Developing leads, the other one is getting out of your own damn way. A lot can happen in this business overnight but you have to be in it to win it. Need more opportunity? Call me. Need a direction? Call me.

Wanna complain? DON'T CALL ME, call Dan…

Look around… Look at the people showing up on the superstar and award lists, they've all been in the internet marketing industry for more than 12 months so give it some time and persist. We are very fortunate to be a part of this group as our first introduction into this industry.

I just spoke to an applicant who has been involved in another Direct Sales company and in a years time she only developed a handful of leads and some of the methods we are exposed to were of great surprise to her… What ever you decide I wish you the best and I enjoyed meeting you but I truly hope one day we look back at this an laugh while sipping umbrella shaded cocktails at an event in some killer location. I'll be there and I want you to be there too, there is much more to this business than just automated CL posting..

P.S. Dan is a great sponsor who I know has spent a lot of his time with you helping you get to where you are. He will be there in the long run for you too.