Explode your Home-based Business by Becoming a Life-long Learner

Have you ever wondered why formal education only teaches you how to be a follower and not to be a leader? High schools never teach "Home-Based Business 101," or "Inroduction To Network Marketing." Both of these classes would make students stop and think that they could actually make a fortune instead of just making a living working for someone else. Maybe it's because schools are funded by large corporations and they want people to learn how to fall in line instead of start their own.

Whatever the reason, home-based business owners have to put on a totally different thinking cap than the ones high school and college students wear. You can't just receive a diploma from attending a few opportunity meetings and be on your merry little way, thinking you can become rich now that you have learned how to sell one product. That is the mindset of the person who thinks of their business as a casual hobby.

The masses stop learning after school, and then lead lives of quiet desperation. They let someone else determine what they are worth, and they trade their precious time for the security of knowing they will receive a small paycheck. You have other goals and dreams that working for someone else can't provide. Just like many other apects of working for yoruself, you have tackle the responsibility of keeping yourself educated all the time. Self-education is what you learn along the way to success that keeps you improving.

Most network marketing companies very seldom teach you what you really need to know in order to build a successful business. How could this be, you ask? Just think about it for a moment. The only thing your network marketing company is really responsible for is to provide you with products to sell, then pay you when you sell them. With this in mind, most of the training techniques they provide are more focused on increasing their overall sales rather than teaching each distributor how to be the CEO of their own company.

How many training events have you been to where you see the same people up on stage every month claming that they are doing the same things you are doing and getting rich at it. Why is it working for them and not for you? Probably because those people chose be life-long learners through a different education system that ties into the ones you attend. Take a look around at your next event. Chances are good that you will find yourself learning how to motivated to sell products more than learning how to be a successful CEO.

If you're going down the wrong path, you don't need motivation to speed you up. You need proper marketing education to turn you around. Most companies are not willing to spend the time and money on this because in the long run, the numbers game they play tells them it is more prosperous to just teach you how to get customers. Whether you succeed or not, your customers will still probably continue buying products.

The first lesson to being a life-long learner is to start learning the right things. A lifetime full of learning the wrong things won't get you far. It's never to late to change your direction. I spent ten years learning the wrong things, but there was some value in it. It led me to find the right kind of marketing education and that has not only enabled me to explode my business, but it allows me to get other people on the right learning path as well.

Constantly reflecting on your own situations allows you to learn what went right and wrong. Once you change from learning the wrong things to learning the right things, then you can focus on getting into the routine of learning more and more of those right things. Read books and keep yourself up to date on the ever-changing technologies that can help withyour business. It isn't what the book costs, it's what it will cost you if you don't read it. Books lead to ideas, and ideas lead to success.

All of your learning doesn't have to be from a book or a training class. You can probably learn the most through observation of others. Seek out people who are already successful and do the things they do. When you associate with successful people, you're chances of reaching your goals will improve. I'm sure that you will find these people are life-long learners and they will welcome the chance to learn something from you as well.

No matter where you are in life, commit to learn as much as you can. Strive for success, even when most people your age have given up. You are never too old to learn and grow in new directions. People who learn because they want to will go on to be the most successful kinds of people because they have a passion for improving themselves. By default, they teach others the importance of continued education, and that is what networking is all about.


William Winch is a Business Growth Specialist whose mission is helping people expand and explode their home-based businesses without breaking the bank. A former High School and College Business Educator and Counselor, he mentors from his home office in Rochester, NY. If you are interested in learning how to explode and expand your home-based business, you can contact William by visiting his website at http://www.thefreemlmpowerreport.com or by calling him directly at (585) 234-5283.