If you are involved in network marketing (also known as Multi-level marketing or MLM) you are in business FOR yourself. But your company assures you that you are not BY yourself. Your organization is not employing you. You are not accountable to a boss. You don't have to start or finish work at set hours. You don't have a quota. Your success or failure is dependent on what YOU do. But your company is committed to helping you succeed.

In a network marketing business you are responsible for recruiting customers and prospects to buy the product. You may also be responsible for recruiting others to work in your organization in the same way that someone recruited you. The people you recruit become part of your down-line and your success depends, in part, on their success. This means that just as others are helping you grow your business, you now want to help others in the same way.

A lot of people do grow rich in network marketing. But for many people in this field, there is much more to it than financial success. They find that here, they can learn lessons about life that they would not have learned anywhere else.

Network marketing is a people-to-people business. An ordinary entrepreneur or businessperson is solely concerned with himself or herself and how he or she can succeed. Entrepreneurs boast about being “self-made”.

A network marketer cannot be “self-made”. Those who are in this business testify that they are never really alone. More than in any other business, they depend on working together and being a team.

Why is this? It has been said that the three steps to success are Being, Doing and Having, in that order. Until you ARE, you cannot DO. What you are must grow and develop until you reach the point at which you can do. You can only discover why this development is needed is by failing.

In marketing, you fail all the time. In ordinary marketing, you either give up or you pick yourself up. In network marketing there is someone there to show you where you went wrong and how you can get over this to succeed next time.

So you need to learn how to deal with rejection. How to come back from a run of poor results. How to believe in yourself. How to communicate effectively. How to relate to people. How to be honest with yourself and evaluate yourself. To learn these things on your own is almost impossible. You need support, you need people to be honest with you. You are on a voyage of self-discovery, but you are not on it alone.

As a result, you build strong relationships. You find power and skills you never knew you had. You also learn your own limitations. So ultimately you unleash your personal power and effectiveness.

What other type of business will give you all this?