I
always say that if you’re not willing to give a
business at least a year, don’t even bother
getting involved. Understand: It takes time to get to
know all the nuances of the compensation plan. It
takes time to determine which products you want to
lead with. It takes time to develop a game plan. It
takes time to figure out what marketing activities
deliver the biggest bang for the buck. Anything
worthwhile takes sustained effort. If you’re not
thinking long term, you’ve set yourself up for
failure. REPEAT: If you’re not thinking long
term, you’ve set yourself up for failure. I
can’t emphasize this enough!!!!
But
let’s look at some real examples and see if we
can put some perspective on this. I’ll start
with myself. My success as a home business
entrepreneur is well known. Having earned over eight
million dollars, I’m sure there are some
who’d vote me in to the Home Business Hall of
Fame if there were such a thing. Yet what most of
those same people don’t know is that I LOST
money my first two years. I only broke even in my
third year. And it was only when I got to my fourth
year did I see my first profit. Was it worth it? Are
you kidding?!! Today I live a dream life, work from
my dream home, drive my dream car --I’m blessed
beyond my wildest expectations.
But
let’s go much farther. Let’s look at some
members of SFI’s $100,000 Club, the actual home
business superstars we’ve featured in Six-Figure
Income Magazine.
ROBERT
BLACKMAN now earns as much as $85,000 per
month.
Yet it took Robert 2 years to see his first
4--figure check ($1000 or more), and it took him
5 years to see his first 5-figure check ($10,000
or more).
CHARLES LESLIE’s monthly income
exceeds $12,000 a month.
It took Charles 5 months to see his first $1000
check, and 3 1/2 years to see his first $10,000
check.
TRACY DIETERICH earns $36,000+ monthly.
But it took six months to hit that first $1000,
and a year to get to $10,000.
DALE CALVERT makes so much more than
$100,000 a year that he won’t even divulge
the amount. Yet Dale worked four months before
seeing that first 4-figure commission check...and
two full years before hitting five figures.
DR. JOE RUBINO now cruises at over $62,000
each month.
But that first $1000 check took 2 months, the
first $10,000 check, one year.
ROBERT BUTWIN drops $80,000 or more into
his bank account each month.
But would you believe that first $1000 check took
two years to reach, and a full FIVE years for
Robert to reach the first $10,000 check?
It’s true!
SCOTT OHLGREN earns as much as $53,000 per
month.
But Scott gave a 4 month effort before seeing his
first $1000 check. And it was more than 3 1/2
years later before that check topped $10,000.
DAVID A. NELSON clears $40,000 in a month.
But reaching that first $1000 check took 18
months. Reaching the 5-figure check took two
years.
TONY KENT has exceeded $90,000 in monthly
earnings
But exceeding $1000 took Tony 1 year...and a year
and a half to exceed $10,000.
In
other words, even the most dynamic, highest-earning
entrepreneurs in the industry took MONTHS to begin
seeing an income of any real significance. And the
real wealth, the $100,000+ income we all strive for,
took an average of almost THREE YEARS to achieve!
Do you think ANY of these gentlemen don’t think
the ends justified the means? Do you think for an
instant that the months and years invested
hasn’t been rewarded a thousand times at least?
You don't even have to think about it, do you?
If I told you that after 2-3 years of following our
system you’d be making more in a month than you
now make in a year, could you handle that? If you
were sitting across from me right now, I can look you
in the eye and tell you that this is a genuine and
realistic goal. But when you say to me you want to
quit your job in six or nine months and live off the
income from your new business, I’ll tell you
that probably is not reality.
Not
what you wanted to hear, right? But is what I’m
suggesting so tough to swallow? Of course not. Can
you think of any other endeavor where you could
invest just 5-10 hours a week for a couple years and
at the end of that time have turned it into a $3000 -
$10,000 residual monthly income stream? Money that
keeps coming in month after month, year after year.
Money that keeps coming in whether you work ten hours
a day or two. A commission check waiting for you in
your mailbox when you return from yet another
vacation. Money that when you’ve left this
planet continues to provide for your spouse,
children, or grandchildren.
Sounds
extremely nice, doesn’t it? But again, these are
not things you’re going to see in your first
year. It just ain’t gonna happen, folks! Some of
you, the go-getters, you WILL see it happen in your
second year. For most of you, however, you need to be
thinking 2-5 years. And you know what? When you get
there, I guarantee you, you’ll say it was
nothing!
We
reap what we sow, but the harvest is never in the
same season as the planting! Today you are
planting...and will be at least for the next several
months. Your harvest will come in time. Be
persistent. Be patient. Work the Web using our proven
SFI system. Think long term. Take action every day,
(no matter how small) to build your business and you
cannot fail. Great success will be yours if you
follow this simple formula.
