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One of the most prominent, and obvious, reasons that network marketers fail is that they give up easily. Many quit and move on during their first 90 days with their new business. I have seen folks join my Watkins downline and give up long before they even gave their new home business a chance. Sometime, new home based business owners expect things to happen very quickly. They expect to be making significant money in their first month or two, even starting out part-time. If they don’t, they often quit not realizing that the work they have already done may be about to start paying off.

Consider this story. You rent a plot of land from a neighbor, because you want to plant a vegetable garden and don’t have room in your own yard. You get all excited, till the ground, and plant your seeds. You really take care of your new garden, keep the weeds out, and water and fertilize regularly.

After about a week, a few new seedlings start to appear. You keep up the good work and take care of them. After two weeks, you have lots of small plants starting to grow. You continue to work, and you’re still anticipating great things from your garden. After three weeks, you have some nice plants but no vegetables. After five weeks of hard work and daily tending, your plants are really getting big, but you haven’t harvested any vegetables from your plants.

You get disgusted and quit. You give up on your garden. You think, “it just didn’t work, I put all that time and effort in and got not one vegetable for my efforts. Gardening doesn’t work!”.

Three weeks later, your neighbor harvests two bushels of tomatoes, a bushel of green beans, and an armload of squash. And this is just the beginning. There will be much greater harvest over the next few weeks. Your neighbor wonders why you abandoned your garden just before it started producing.

This happens all too often in network marketing and MLM. People sign up, get excited, work at it for a while, and then quit. They just don’t realize that it takes time and patience to get a new home business off the ground. Sure, our world is full of stories about people who join network marketing opportunities and make thousands their first month. Sometime, this does happen – but you are never told HOW they do this. Usually, people who make that much that fast have brought a significant downline over from a previous business. Or, there are other special circumstances that do not apply to most of us.

So, you sign up for a network marketing business opportunity and give it up in the first few weeks. Who then benefits? Your sponsor and upline, who will reap any results of your efforts. Why do network marketers do this? Don’t quit like this! Pick a solid opportunity like Watkins, start doing the things necessary to build your business, and stick with it!

Note: This is the eighth in a series of articles discussing reasons that network marketers fail and what can be done about it. An index to all of these articles can be found here:

Reasons Network Marketers Fail

About the Author:

Eldon Beard is a Watkins Manager with Associates All Across the USA and Canada

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