The NEW American Dream

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Why do most people get involved in Network Marketing? For the money— pure & simple. But more & more, money alone isn’t enough. It’s money and…

More time to spend with
friends, family and yourself.

In short, the balance between life & work even a successful part-time Network Marketing business offers.

Please watch this short (10 minute) TED.com video from Nigel Marsh: “How to make work-life balance work”

An idea who’s time has come? Truly, an idea who’s time never really left. Yet as Mr. Marsh points out, there are very (very) few corporations willing and able to effectively incorporate these increasingly sought after human values into their work-a-day worlds.

But in Network Marketing, the freedom to balance your life and work is a fundamental benefit.

The burning or burned out corporate executive… the working mom who longs to be home with her kids… the 20-somethings who aren’t buying into having to give up your life to make a living… even the successful small business owner who’s painfully realizing his business owns him… all of these people and many more are turning in increasing numbers to Network Marketing as not only “the last bastion of free-enterprise,” but as the one place where they can earn the income they need to enjoy the balanced and fulfilling lifestyle they desire, dream of and deserve.

Network Marketing isn’t the only way.
We just don’t know a better one.

PS. If you are not yet a Ted.com “freak,” please consider becoming so. TED IS the Web at it’s best!
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This post was written by John Fogg.

Seth Godin is one of my heroes. In so many, many, instances, Seth’s writing cuts through the morass & misunderstanding of the world we live & work in with a uncanny precision & vision that makes things crystal clear. Especially “things” such as what can be done to change what’s not working for the better, perhaps forever.

In his latest book, Linchpin. Are You Indispensable? Mr. Godin makes a case for what’s not working in the world of work and why. Like this:

The system we grew up with is a mess. It’s falling apart at the seams and a lot of people I care about are in pain because the things we thought would work don’t. Everyday I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. They have become victims, pawns in a senseless system that uses them up and undervalues them.

It’s time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map.

Stop settling for what’s good enough… Stop asking what’s in it for you and start giving gifts that change people. Then, and only then, will you have achieved your potential.

For hundreds of years, the population has been seduced, scammed, and brainwashed into fitting in, following instructions, and exchanging a day’s work for a day’s pay. That era has come to an end and just in time.

Seth goes on to say that we have an opportunity today to change our lives for the better. He is NOT making a case for MLM Network Marketing. From my conversations with Seth I believe (unless he’s changed his “worldview”) he has not held our profession in the highest esteem. I don’t think he fully understands us, because without intending to, I believe he IS making a case for Network Marketing as one of the options to choose from.

Linchipn continues…

The Take-Care-of-You-Bargain
Here’s the deal our parents signed us up for:

Our world is filled with factories. Factories that make widgets and insurance and Web sites, factories that make movies and take care of sick people and answer the telephone. These factories need workers.

If you learn how to be one of these workers, if you pay attention in school, follow instructions, show up on time, and try hard, we will take care of you. You won’t have to be brilliant or creative or take big risks.

We will pay you a lot of money, give you health insurance, and offer you job security. We will cherish you, or at the very least, take care of you.

It’s a pretty seductive bargain.

So seductive that for a century, we embraced it. We set up our schools and our systems and our government to support the bargain.

It worked. The Fortune 500 took care of us. The teachers’ union took care of us. The post office and the local retailer took care of us. We followed the instructions, we washed the bottles, we showed up on time, and in return, we got what we needed. It was the American Dream. For a long time it worked.

But in the face of competition and technology, the bargain has fallen apart.

Job growth is flat at best.

Wages in many industries are in a negative cycle.

The middle class is under siege like never before, and the future appears dismal. People are no longer being taken care of— pensions are gone; 401(k)s have been sliced in half; and it’s hard to see where to go from here. You might be the hard working secretary, the one with the institutional knowledge, the person who has given so much and deserves security and respect. And while you might deserve these things, your tenure is no guarantee that you’re going to get them.

Suddenly, quite suddenly in the scheme of things, it seems like the obedient worker bought into a sucker’s deal. The educated, hardworking masses are still doing what they’re told, but they are no longer getting what they deserve.

This situation presents a wonderful opportunity.

Yes, it’s an opportunity. An opportunity to actually enjoy what you do, to make a difference to your colleagues and your customers, and to unlock the genius you’ve been hiding all these years.

It’s futile to work hard at restoring the take-care-of-you bargain. The bargain is gone, and it’s not worth whining about and it’s not effective to complain. There’s a new bargain now…

Again, to be clear, Seth Godin DOES NOT directly endorse MLM Network Marketing. That said, there’s a lot we ARE by design & on purpose that’s right up his alley.

What Seth presents is a picture of the “American Dream” that is past tense. “The bargain,” and the systems and structures and people and ideas that have supported it, “has fallen apart.”

Three years ago I put together a book titled, It’s Time… For Network Marketing*. It was, alas, at least as indicated by its lack of acceptance & sales success, ahead of it’s time. Perhaps no longer.

It is clearly time for a NEW American Dream.

And although not for everybody, for millions of people “…who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back.” Who, “have become victims, pawns in a senseless system that uses them up and undervalues them.”

The NEW American Dream can be found in Network Marketing.
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Excerpt from Robert Kiyosaki’s book, The Business of the 21st Century.

Now that layoffs are rampant and everyone is worried about what the future holds, millions of people are soberly reevaluating their finances and realizing that if they want to have a secure future they can count on, they’re going to have to come up with a Plan B. People today are hungrier than ever to earn extra money, and because of that, they are more receptive and more inclined to open their minds to new avenues.

In fact, this was true even before recent economic meltdown. Ever since the 80′s, and especially since the turn of the century, the drive to control our own economic futures has been building. Here’s what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in 2007 report titled Work, Entrepreneurship and Opportunity in 21st Century America: “Millions of Americans are embracing entrepreneurship by running their own small businesses.

72 percent of all adult Americans would rather work for themselves than for a job, and 67 percent think about quitting their jobs “regularly” or “constantly.”

Now, I’m no economist, but I know someone who is: Paul Zane Pilzer.

Paul is a wiz kid, was Citibank’s youngest-ever vice president, and left the banking world to make millions going into business for himself. He’s had a few New York Times best-sellers, predicted the Savings & Loan crisis before it happened, and served as an economic advisor to two presidential administrations. He’s someone worth listening to.

Paul talks about a 180-degree shift in cultural values around the nature of career paths, with the conventional corporate-employee career structure giving way to the entrepreneurial path.

“The traditional wisdom in the second half of the 20th century,” says Paul, “was to go to school, get a good education, and go to work for a large company. The idea of going into business for yourself was most often regarded as risky. Admirable perhaps, but risky … and maybe a little crazy. Today it’s completely the other way around.

Paul’s right. That U.S. Chamber of Commerce report I mentioned also refers to a Gallup poll finding that 61 percent of Americans say they would prefer to be their own boss. Another poll, this one by the Fresno research firm Decipher, found that 72 percent of all adult Americans would rather work for themselves than for a job, and 67 percent think about quitting teir jobs “regularly” or “constantly.”

And it’s not just about making a living: it’s also about the quality of how we’re living.

People are waking up to the fact that they want more control over their lives. They want to be more connected to their families, be in charge of their own time, work from their homes, determine their own destinies.

In that Dicipher study, 84 percent of the respondents said they woud be more passionate about their work if they owned their own business. The No. 1 reason they gave for wanting to work for themselves?

“To be more passionate about my work life.”

What’s happening is that the 20th-century myth of job security, with it’s promise that the path to a long, happy fulfilling life is to find a job working for someone else is crumbling before our eyes.

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There has never been a more important time to learn about and be open to the possibilities of Direct Sales MLM Network Marketing. It is The NEW American Dream.
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This excerpt is from a recent Commentary by Brett Arends of Marketwatch.com.

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The economy lost jobs in each of the last four months. We may or may not double-dip, but the economy enters the fall desperately weak. Ominously, in the past two months nearly 1 million more people resorted to part-time work because they couldn’t get a full-time job. The total in that camp is now 9.5 million.

The so-called “underemployment” figure, which measures those who want a full-time job but can’t find one, just jumped to 17.1%. And what kind of jobs are we creating? Waitressing and bartending rose by 34,000 last month. Manufacturing has been flat since May.

TrimTabs, which tracks real-time jobs data from tax withholdings, says the picture remains weak.

Every recession in the modern economy hits the lower-skilled workers the hardest. But this time around, the slump has been devastating particularly for those who went to college…

The key figure here is not the official “unemployment” figure, which is largely a fiction, but the one showing the percentage of the population actually with work.

Right now, nearly one in four men over 25 with a college degree lacks a job, any job.

The percentage with work is 77.6% — down from 78.8% in January of last year. While the figures have ticked up a little in recent months, they remain around the lowest levels by far since records began in the early 1990s. Until recently, the figures were typically above 80%.

This is a recession that has hit the white-collar, college-educated middle class especially hard…

By contrast, the percentage of male high-school dropouts with jobs has actually risen since January 2009. Sure, it’s only from a dismal 50.5% to 51.5%. But it’s still up. Go figure.

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We keep saying there has never been a better nor more urgent time to take a sincere & serious look at the possibilities of owning your own home-based MLM Network Marketing business. One reason— perhaps the biggest single reason of all— is Jobs.

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How much joy— yes, we said “joy”— are you experiencing in your job? If you’re like most of the people we speak with, the question doesn’t even make sense. Joy and job are, for the most part, mutually exclusive. Please read this from Set Godin’s blog Organizing for joy:
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Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses, are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy.

McDonalds, Hertz, Dell and others crank it out. They show up. They lower costs. They use a stopwatch to measure output.

The problem with this mindset is that as you approach the asymptote of maximum efficiency, there’s not a lot of room left for improvement. Making a Chicken McNugget for .00001 cents less isn’t going to boost your profit a whole lot.

Worse, the nature of the work is inherently un-remarkable. If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low.

These organizations have people who will try to patch problems over after the fact, instead of motivated people eager to delight on the spot.

The alternative, it seems, is to organize for joy. These are the companies that give their people the freedom (and yes, the expectation) that they will create, connect and surprise. These are the organizations that embrace someone who makes a difference, as opposed to searching for a clause in the employee handbook that was violated.

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“The alternative, it seems, is to organize for joy.” Hard to do in someone else’s company. Hard to do even in a conventional small business you own yourself. But in an MLM Network Marketing business… You get to “organize” your business any way you want. In Network Marketing you work when you want… where you want… the way you want… with whom you choose. It’s NOT business as usual. It’s business as UNusual.

That’s The NEW American Dream.

Is it time now for you to take a sincere & serious look at what Network Marketing has to offer you? Hope so.

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… to the website for The NEW American Dream— a Blog, a Book, & a Mission.

Our passion and purpose is to inform, involve and inspire you about MLM Network Marketing… To help you learn what makes this business,

“The most remarkable form of free enterprise ever invented.”

And to show & tell you all you need to know to make an intelligent choice if Network Marketing is right for you— or not, and if now is the right time for you— or not.

We claim…

“There has never been a more perfect time for
people to get involved in Network Marketing.”

The world of work is turning up-side down. The economy is in big trouble. People’s wages are falling. They are losing their jobs, their savings & investments, their homes… their futures.

Financial security is gone. Every where you turn the old American dream of “Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness” is not only beyond most people’s grasp— it’s completely out of reach!

We’re convinced Network Marketing is the very best way for millions of “ordinary” people to earn the money and freedom to have what they desire, dream of & deserve in their lives.

We know Network Marketing is NOT the only way. (We passionately believe it is simply the BEST way for most people.)

We also know this is NOT for everybody. Nothing is. But if this business could be a fit for you— you need to learn about it and you need to know now.

Every intelligent person considering a part-time involvement or full-time career in MLM Network Marketing has three important questions they need answered:

1. Will this be worth it?
2. Can I really do it?
3. Will I have help doing it?

Of course, you will decide the answers for your self. The contributors, industry experts, corporate executives, leaders, million-dollar income earners and the men and women much like you building their own Network Marketing businesses every day know the answer from experience.

“If you knew what we know about Network Marketing,
you’d do what ever it takes to get involved today!”

We’ll share those people and their experiences with you on this website.

One… actually two, last things. The NEW American Dream Team and all of our contributors make you two promises:

1. We will never lie to you.
2. We will never knowingly ask you to do something that is not in your best interest.

Enjoy the site. Let us know what we can do to help you.

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PS. This website & TNAD Team do NOT offer any opportunity to enroll in a specific MLM Network Marketing business. If you need help doing that, we’ll do our best to point you in the right direction, but THAT IS NOT OUR JOB. This website is a “Recruiting Free Zone.” So, if you’re already a Network Marketer, “Leave your guns at the door.” This is a policy we will passionately watch over & enforce.

Also, we do NOT share your name & eMail ever. We do NOT collect & sell “leads.” The purpose of this site is education.

“It’s the economy, stupid” was a phrase in American politics widely used during Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign made popular by Clinton campaign strategist James Carville. In a recent piece in The Huffington Post, “The Truth About Unemployment – And Why It May Get Worse“, Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Computer Engineer and Author of The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future, Martin Ford wrote the following:

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In the past two decades, information technology has advanced dramatically and is increasingly being employed to eliminate jobs of all types. Job automation technology, together with globalization, has been the primary force behind the stagnant wages and diminished opportunities for less educated workers we’ve seen in recent years.

As unemployment increases and wages fall, discretionary consumer spending and confidence will likewise plummet. The result will be a downward economic spiral that will be very difficult to arrest. Beyond some threshold, the business models of mass market industries would be threatened as there would simply be too few viable consumers to purchase their products. We would also likely see unprecedented levels of debt defaults, plunging asset values and financial system disruptions that might easily exceed what has so far occurred in the current crisis.

I believe that the impact of accelerating automation technology is likely to present an enormous economic, social and political challenge over the next ten to twenty years and beyond.

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All the more reason to take a sincere & serious look at what MLM Network Marketing has to offer you. And if now is not the perfect time for you to get involved… Just wait.

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In his latest (and perhaps greatest) best-seller, Linchpin, author and noted marketing guru Seth Godin wrote this:
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Author Richard Florida polled twenty thousand creative professionals and gave them a choice of thirty-eight factors that motivated them to do their best work.

The top ten, ranked in order:

1. Challenge and responsibility

2. Flexibility

3. A stable work environment

4. Money

5. Professional development

6. Peer recognition

7. Stimulating colleagues and bosses

8. Exciting job content

9. Organizational culture

10. Location & community

Which of the above are missing in your current form of employment?

If you were building your own MLM Network Marketing Home Business, you would have ALL the above… except one. Number 7. You wouldn’t have “bosses.” YOU would be the boss.

That’s The NEW American Dream.

Is it time now for you to take a sincere & serious look at what Network Marketing has to offer you? Hope so.

Let us know how we can help.
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