I just thought about it, and I have been in 4 MLM and DS companies. Wow right?
The first one, I ended up getting a lot of stock but never did anything with it because of my wonderful social anxiety. Why I didn't think of this before signing up, was beyond me!
The second, I ran an OK business for about a year and a half. I was not an entrepreneur by any means. I was a distributor. Plain and simple. I was selling product and not expanding my skills. I didn't even know what Multi Level Marketing was at that point. I'm still learning, believe me, I think it's a constant learning process and I actually love learning the ins and outs. Back then, I thought it was all about telling my friends, and hoping they would book parties, and some of their friends would book parties and so on. Of course this worked for a while, but that dwindled and my friends got sick of me constantly updating them on the newest products. I didn't know just how far it goes beyond your "facebook friends circle".
In my journey, I've been told I'd never get anywhere, I've been told things are "Pyramid Schemes", basically a lot of negativity. A lot from one person in my family, but that doesn't get me down about what I do, it just makes me lose respect for that/those people and drives me to work harder, do better and expand to the best things I possibly can.
I wasn't born a leader, in fact I always grew up a follower. Being the youngest in the family, I followed my older siblings, did what they did, bought what they bought and basically believed everything they told me for a great part of my life. lol Same as school, I always bought the same clothes my friends bought because I really had no sense of style so I trusted their opinion more than mine, I'd never make a decision about where I wanted to go on dates or what we should do. I was such a door mat, especially seeing myself actually type these things out.
Well, that person I am no longer. I'm not sure exactly what point my life changed, but as I got older I learned that the people I grew up thinking "they HAVE to know what they're talking about" really don't always know the answer and they aren't always right.
Somewhere along the way I found myself, what I'll tolerate as not only an adult but as a human being, my self worth and so much more. I've also found that people actually do care what I have to say sometimes, people actually do like me... most of the time, I am funny and that people do like to be in my presence. lol
With that knowledge and power of taking back (or finding out who I truly am and what that means), I have discovered I love I love leading and helping others (people and animals) the best I can, I love giving advice, and it just so happens on a whole other side of the scale, I love sales. I've wanted to be a real estate agent since I knew what jobs were about. I could probably tell you what a house was worth within 5,000.00 in the last City I lived in (Lived there from 1997 to December of 2014). Love characteristics of homes, looking at lay outs, finishes, property, locations. Love love love! Okay... so you get the point.
Anyways, life happens and I bought a house when I was very young and was always working and never really got around to it because I thought only making commissions wasn't a wise choice without a back up plan.... almost 10 years down the road and I now have two amazing little boys who are 4.5 and almost 2, and I don't want to get my real estate licence becasue I want to be there for their hockey games, t ball games, camping on the weekends, and home at night. So, at this point it's just not something that would work for me.
So... here I am. Working from home, changing diapers, cleaning up messes, driving to pre school, caring for our two dogs, bird, hubby and our boys... the list goes on and on, and if you're a Mom, you'll totally know what I'm talking about. I've actually prepared a couple snacks and stuck my thumb in a poop filled diaper checking to see if he pooped. Yup. Turns out he did!
So, there you have it. Mom, caretaker, working from home and loving it. It's a journey. A true journey learning about Multi Level Marketing. And I'm finding out not everyone wants to give their tricks to you as I had so anxiously been waiting for. Nope... I'm all on my own.
I've got a few tricks up my sleeve that have been proving to work just by countless reading and learning and expanding my knowledge and that's what makes this so exciting!
I hope you enjoyed my story and it came out as smooth as it did in my head.... Stay tuned for more marketing tips, funnies and whatever strikes me to talk about!
Amazing first blog!!! I love it and think you are an amazing person! I love you as my new friend and partner and I am so happy we are learning this business together! Surely, you and I together can come up with the tricks of the trade since no one else seems to want to share their "secrets" with us. We WILL figure this out and we WILL succeed AND help our teams succeed with us! We can be the leaders who actually do what we say we will which is actually SHOW them how its done! Yay, love your story and you are funny too! You are really going to go far, Brittany and you are a follower no more! You are a true LEADER!!!
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