bankHow financially literate are you? How’s your business sense? Over the past few years I’ve been increasing my awareness by reading the likes of Barbara Stanny, T. Harv Eker and Napoleon Hill ~ and gradually shifted my ‘financial blueprint’ to one where financial success is not only possible, but a commitment I’ve made to myself and my family. I am grateful every day to have found a business and community of support in USANA Health Sciences and Team Northrup. My colleagues Theresa Haney and Pepi Diaz-Salazar wrote the article below which deals with one of the questions we hear a lot. It’s not information most people seem to have, certainly something I understood following my days in corporate HR (doing leadership development and succession planning, I have some insight into this!) ~ so I’m sharing this with you along with some resources to conduct your own research into these questions. Enjoy!

I recently read a new book by Robert Kiyosaki called The Business of the 21st Century. As an entrepreneur it is my job to keep an eye on trends. Given what we have witnessed over the last few years from Corporate America, it is no surprise the industry that I know and love, Network Marketing (NWM), is becoming a more accepted business model as evidenced by the trends in our industry. The uncertainty of corporate America is fueling a resurgence in entrepreneurial vision.
People often ask me the question “Is this a pyramid?” This is a question I welcome, it is one of the most misunderstood concepts regarding NWM. What we think of as Pyramids and Ponzis…the Maddoffs, are no doubt very real. As is another often overlooked pyramid of our time, corporate America. Let me explain; take a bank, the CEOs make millions, the few at the top ~ and the bank tellers never make more than $30,000, the masses at the bottom. This is the kind of pyramid that should make us all wary.
The NWM Industry has been around for years and hundreds of thousands of Home-Based distributors world-wide are thriving from their NWM businesses. Regulations are in place to protect the general public for those with companies that are members of the Direct Selling Association (DSA). So if you are thinking of starting a home-based business do your homework. Visit www.dsa.com for more information
As an owner of a NWM business I have the capacity to make as much as a CEO of a bank, but not at the expense of another person. It’s just the opposite, if I don’t help others find success, then I’m not successful. The sum-zero model of doing business is on it way out. Corporate America is not sustainable.

If you want to know more about what we are doing with Team Northrup and USANA Health Sciences ~ learn more about our ‘Brilliant Compensation‘ system, and contact me to join us on our next monthly telegathering with Dr. Christiane Northrup on June 22nd.

To your financial well-being! ~ Maddy