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.
