Do You Really Own Your Own Business?
60What Does Owning Your Own Business Really Mean?
When we are working on the Internet to build our own businesses, we find many Web sites that want to sell us something or get us to use their marketing system to build our businesses.
But if we were to use a marketing system that is not our own, can we really own our own business?
No, not really!
Here is why.
The Renegade Marketing System Is A Great Example
Look At What Is Being Taught
A place to look at a great example of this is at the Renegade Marketing system. You might think that from the name that it is just another marketing system like all the other marketing systems out there.
But it is really different in what it teaches.
Here is why.
The Renegade Marketing System teaches you:
How to build YOUR marketing system to build YOUR own business!
It does not teach you to depend on it for the rest of your life in order for you to have your own business. That's a big difference!
Look at building any Network Marketing business. If you put all your efforts into building a MLM company that is not owned by you, do you really own your business?
What if that company goes out of business?
Then you are out of business as well.
This holds true if you depend on any system to build your business that is not yours. If they decide to quit and no longer offer you their service, you would also be forced to quit until you learn how to stand on your own two feet without them.
What About Using Tools From Others?
When you use tools such as Auto-Responders or even a company to host your Web site, you are not depending on them to build your business. Yes you use them to build your business, but you don't depend on them.
I use Aweber for my Auto Responder and newsletters. They offer a great tool and it is user friendly so I recommend it for others whom I coach in the business.
If they went out of business tomorrow, I would just change to another service provider and continue building my business as I was doing.
But there are some who want you to not only depend on their system to build your business, they also want you to send your prospects to them as well so that you can build your business even bigger.
However, that is not how the big money is made in this industry, at least not for you unless you are the one making this offer. Nor is it a way to really own your own business.
Here Is How To Check If You Really Own Your Own Business
This test is very simple.
If you are using a system from someone else, and that system was gone tomorrow, would your business still be able to continue?
If not, you don't own your business.
If you can continue your business without it, Congratulations, you really do own your own business!
Learn to Become A 80/20 Individual
If you really want to own your own business, there is no short cuts. You just need to become a 80/20 individual.
What does this mean?
It means to look at the 20% that is responsible for 80% of your results and focus on this 20% to make it even better.
Don't fall for hype, scams or anyone telling you that you need their system to build your business.
The only thing you need is your own core desire and someone to show you how.
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Comments
You are so right Irene. And to think that there are very few leaders that understand this like we do really opens the door to real opportunity.
To have people join our businesses because it is their idea instead of ours makes Monday mornings just like being on vacation 24/7!
Renegade Coach says:
16 months ago
Great distinction Bob!! Great minds think alike they say; I was just planning on writing my next hub on this exact topic!
Prior to finding Ann Sieg and the Renegade Network Marketer I believed that having 3 teams in my MLM meant I had multiple stream of income! How naive I was! Now my MLM is just one stream and if they went out of business tomorrow it would be a blip on my radar instead of a major catastrophe.
Robert Kiyosaki asks the question: "If you went away for a year what would your job or business look like?" Being self-employed at the time, this was a huge Oprah light bulb moment for me. My business owned me! If I went away I would come back to zero! I asked a sharp business friend of mine the same question because he was always referring to 'his business' He kind of grumbled, hemmed and hawed and finally said that I knew perfectly well what the answer was.
I find it ironic that the old school thinkers that teach us that we need to think outside of the job box are firmly entrenched in their MLM box.
To be successful on the internet we must marry network marketing with internet marketing and affiliate marketing. Most people I meet online already have an MLM, think their products are the best and are very loyal to them. In the past this would have been the end of the discussion; it is now the beginning. As a solutions provider I can ask them questions to see how I can best help them build their business and more importantly to brand themselves so if their MLM does go out of business they themselves are not out of business!