Linear income is such that you only get paid once for your efforts. Insurance sales is an example of residual income. The agent sells the policy once, yet gets paid commissiond for the entire time the policy is in force.

The MLM Business Model is an avenue that 15 million use to build a residual income. It is therefore hard to beleive that 99% of the people who start an MLM business to make a residual income fail. A residual income is hard to come by but very much desired way of earning an income.

Time is the most important factor when building a residual income. Most people fail because they don't understand how much time it takes to build an MLM business. The most important time in the MLM business is when you startup and this is when you make the least amount of money. This is when you build the foundation for a residual income.

When putting in a foundation for a new building is when most of the heavy work is done. To people looking in from the outside it looks like nothing is going on. Most people wonder when will the building start to go up, or for MLmers, when will your downline begin to duplicate?

An example of building your MLM Business foundation is creating lead capture pages with followup messages thru an autoresponder. You are signing up your 1st level and training them. Fail to train your downline correctly and you will fail to duplicate. Duplication is the key to residual income in MLM and success.

It will cost you money to lay a firm foundation to earn a residual income in your MLM Business. You will not earn money during this period. The best you can hope for is to break even. This is the reason the failure rate is so high. Few people can overcome laying out money for 6 months, while it "seems" that nothing is happening. Get past this crucial period, and you probably couldn't stop the momentum if you wanted to.

Patience is the key to success in MLM. The time factor which is a inherant component of building a residual income cannot be rushed. Accept it, build a strong foundation, and you can't help but to succeed.