everybody this is Eric warrior and
welcome to network marketing pro comm
and today I have a beef with mr. Dave
Ramsey and here's why yesterday I was
driving the car headed to go to the gym
to workout and I heard I turned the
radio on and Dave Ramsey was on as he is
and I like listening to Dave Dave talks
about financial responsibility Dave
talks about getting out of debt all
concepts that I agree with but on this
particular call he got a caller from a
young lady and I only caught the second
half of it I didn't get all of it but I
got the context through the rest of his
answer and the the caller was saying hey
I have these entrepreneurial hopes I
have these entrepreneurial dreams and I
found this network marketing company
that I think is a solution for me a
friend introduced me to this network
marketing company and he proceeded to
dump cold water on her in a really
irresponsible way and Dave you know I
hope this message gets to you so I can
you know at least you can hear my
perspective on this I want to talk to
Dave first Dave if you hear this and
then I want to talk to the young lady
and the rest of you can kind of listen
in what Dave basically said was are you
sure this is your dream are you sure yet
this is the best entrepreneurial way for
you you know these network marketers
they make it sound so easy but it's hard
it's hard work and I have friends that
are successful network marketing but
it's hard work and you know if you use
is this exactly the product that you
want to be representing is this this and
just doubt doubt doubt doubt cold water
cold water cold water on top of this
young lady and you know do you realize
that for the rest of your life you're
just going to be recruiting that's all
it is is recruiting and
that really what you want to do do you
want to be a recruiter do you want your
friends looking at you funny because
these network marketers drive everybody
crazy so it made my blood boil just a
little bit because Dave you weren't
telling her the whole truth here's the
truth
as far as entrepreneurial options you
should be championing network marketing
above all others because it's the most
financially responsible of all choices
the average person the United States
that wants to start a traditional
business spend sixty five thousand
dollars to do it of the money that you
know Dave they should be spending or
should be saving and investing into
their future sixty five thousand dollars
borrowed from friends and family sixty
five thousand dollars into a business
that they know nothing about most of the
time and 90% of those fail over the
course of five years so a network
marketing Dave what you needed to tell
her is hey listen if you have
entrepreneurial hopes and dreams network
marketing is definitely better because
instead of sixty five thousand you could
do a thousand dollars or less and even
with that Dave you said all you know you
might be stuck with a bunch of product
in your garage that's not even true
you've got to get educated on that
almost every network marketing company
in the world has a 90% buy back policy
90% so if they spend a thousand dollars
to start their business and get some
initial inventory their risk is a
hundred bucks not sixty five thousand so
what's the most financially responsible
choice for his person who wants to
pursue entrepreneurial teams just from
an economic standpoint instead work
marketing it's the safest it's the most
risk-free when it comes to just the
dollars now second thing you talked
about was that all you're doing going to
be doing is recruiting here's a better
way to say it Dave all you do is you
expand your network and you expand the
productivity of that that
network you expand your network and you
expand the productivity of that network
and guess what you've done Dave your
whole career you expanded your radio
network and then the productivity
through advertising everything else was
expanded exponentially you expanded your
financial adviser network all those
advisers you have in every state all
over the world that are providing advice
for you inside of your network and
giving you a little piece of the pie the
wealthy people in this world they've you
know build networks look for networks
and then increase the productivity of
those networks network marketing is no
different it's the same what we do is we
grow networks of people does that mean
we talk to people about being part of
that network yes we do does that mean we
help other people do the same yes we do
why we're trying to expand the network
and reach more people and then we try to
increase the productivity of that
network it's not just about recruiting
it's about product movement recruiting
expands the network but the network by
itself pays no one the only way people
get paid in network marketing is when
product moves to a consumer so is this
bad thing recruiting no it's building a
network and it's expanding the
efficiency and productivity of that
network just like you do just like
virtually every entrepreneur in the
world does they expand their leverage
they expand the productivity of that
leverage and they use that to create
wealth the next thing you did is you
just said well you know not too many
people are successful you know you
really got to work hard
90% of traditional businesses fail they
work hard
90% of sales people come into sales
leave the sales arena they work hard
90% of real estate agents that get their
real estate license never sell a single
home listen part of this is law of
averages understanding that not
everybody is going to succeed especially
when you have an entrepreneurial venture
especially when people are on their own
especially when they're maybe come in
and untrained right to be able to start
that's the real world but you're going
to work hard and not very
people are successful here's the truth
you want to be in the 1% of the income
earners United States 1% those people
make $400,000 a year 1% you want to be
in the top 1% do you that what makes you
think anything in network marking is
gonna be any different if you want to be
in the top 5% of united states is 166
thousand dollars and most of those 75%
of those households have two incomes two
people working full-time in order to be
able to create that hundred 66,000 those
people move into the top 5% so are there
the other 95 percent that don't achieve
that success of course and so rather
than painting network marketing as this
particular exception where only a few
people succeed why not compare that with
the rest of the world where there are
winners and there are losers there are
people who achieve and people who decide
not to there are people who face their
fear and they're people who don't and
compare it that way that would be a more
fair comparison the other thing he
talked about is is bothering your
friends and annoying people and I will
give you I'll give you two things one is
network marketing as a whole has set an
unrealistic expectation around the world
we've made it seem too easy from when we
talk to prospects no argument there
that's what I've done for the last seven
years is pound on the message of there's
no need to hype the the truth is good
enough we don't need to exaggerate
incomes we don't need to exaggerate
products I'll give you that and also for
the people who run out there and annoy
their friends and family because they're
unskilled we work on that too and that's
changing that's improving although all
around the world but here's what I want
to tell you Dave and and reason why I
think you need to be a champion for
network marketing for someone who
decides to take an entrepreneurial path
they have it in their gut network
marketing provides an alternative for a
person to get in with virtually zero
risk the company even buy back whatever
you
versus a traditional business the
company will provide all the product the
product development all of the
investment of putting together the
infrastructure necessary to support that
business a network marketing distributor
can build not only in their local market
but they can build maybe in different
states maybe in different countries
around the world from their phone from
their laptop a network marketing
distributor can do it part time without
jeopardizing their family in their
career and their finances and everything
else a network marketing distributor can
come in with no training and get support
inside of that environment versus being
virtually alone being you know swimming
with the sharks out there in the rest of
the environment that's what a network
marketing situation provides so why
would that not be a great learning
ground for the average person to be able
to go out there and do something scary
for them but important for them taking
that entrepreneurial step I say all the
time and I believe it to be true
network marketing isn't perfect it's got
its challenges just like every
profession the financial services
industry is not perfect it has its
challenges but network marquees not
perfect but it is better if you have an
entrepreneurial bone in your body it's
better so I say all that to Dave and
David I hope you get in the spirit of
you know when you come into my world if
I come in and to give people financial
advice hey you'll call me to task you
come into my world and talk about
network marketing like you know it I got
to call you on it sorry man and I
respect your work but in this case
you're off base and and it's and it's I
would rather that you just tell them
look get out of network marketing
because I hate it I'd rather you do that
then there's oh well are you sure this
think about it this little kind of
innuendo this doubt filled drizzle that
you drizzled over this this young lady
so I say it in love I say it in respect
okay now to the young lady that that
that called in don't take his advice
your choice your instincts are right
your instincts are right you this is a
better way this allows you to create
leverage in your life this allows you to
flex your entrepreneurial muscle this
gives you access to to hopefully I don't
know the company you're looking at great
products great services it gives you the
ability to scale your life it gives you
the ability to take charge it gives you
the ability to help not only the health
and wealth of health of other people but
the wealth of other people that one of
the greatest joys of network marketing
is seeing the light bulb come on in a
person that joins your organization
where they finally see they start to
dream again and you have the opportunity
to be able to give that to other people
you have the opportunity to grow and
contribute and leave a legacy and build
a network that's second to none you
could do it from your living room you
can do it from your house you could do
it from your phone you could do it from
your laptop why not what you want to
want to start a dry cleaning business
really you know you want to you want to
go open something in a strip mall sign a
long-term lease ask Dave about the the
wisdom of that come on did this you know
get in here and learn get in here and
grow get in here and build some
relationships get in here and expand
something build something from scratch
from the ground up with an amazing
support system network marketing isn't
perfect but it's better and if you're
hearing this and you're on think Ramsey
and you have this conversation I hope
someday we meet and you tell me your
story about how you crushed it in side
of this network marketing business and
you took all the doubters including mr.
Dave Ramsey and you proved them wrong
that's our show for this week hope
you're having an amazing time hope
you're living a great adventure ladies
and gentlemen my wish for all of you is
that you decide to become a network
marketing professional you decide to go
pro because it is a stone cold fact we
have a better way now let's go tell the
world everybody have an amazing day
have an amazing week and I'll see you
next time take care