Residual Income or "Walk Away Income" are terms used by many



people promoting Network Marketing

businesses. These words mean that you can

build up a group of people that you will get paid on

whether you work or not, like royalty income from books

or music. Well, the truth is, it doesn't

happen like that at all...

This is a touchy subject among some people, but

I want to share my take regarding it. I have been

working full time in the work at home

industry for 10+ years. Some of that period has been spent

in network marketing where the

concept of working 3-5 years and

creating a walk away royalty income is

promoted and sold. I have been very

fortunate to have some tremendous success

in that arena, working in that type of

compensation model for 7 of my 10 years. During that

time period I've had enough time to see trends and see

that this concept of walk away income doesn't

exist.

In my 10 years I've been fortunate to

meet some great leaders and have followed their careers, but I

have yet to see one of them completely walk away from their

business and still keep their business on an equal footing. Some

of these leaders have tens of thousands of distributors on their

team! Most of them are not even with the same company they were

with when I first met them, some on their 3rd or 4th and are

having to rebuild each time they start over. yet, they are still

promoting walk away income in their marketing and selling this

dream to their recruits and teams yet they haven't achieved it

themself even with their success.

There are many reasons why I feel this way and all are based on

real life examples. One is companies change. I don't think

companies like paying a million dollars a year to a

someone sitting on a beach somewhere not doing anything

to grow the company, so they change the compensation

plan to include requirements to make these people "work", hence no

"walk away". The company may go out of business or get sold, the

product may have issues with a federal agency and

recruits get scared and your downline

disappears. One of your top leaders

gets a transfer incentive to come over to

a new business and takes half of your

team with them, then what? No walk away income and you

are beginning over.

Not only are these real life examples, but they all happened to

me!

So here is my question to you... If there isn't

true walk away residual income, why not work in a

business that allows you to

create the most income in the shortest

period of time? Then you can take that money and invest

it in passive investment vehicles like Real

Estate or other investment opportunities that throw off

passive residual income. The word "passive" is the key

word here.

I ask many people this question and most of the time I

hear "but this one is for real" or "this one is different". I

heard this recently from a friend and very talented

marketerleader. It was early

December and he had "found it", but

just 2 weeks later a delivery arrived in the

mail from a new business he was now building

not even 2 months later!

So I say - Do it NOW, Do it BIG, Don't believe the myth!