Ann Sieg of The Renegade Network Marketer fame; earns $250,000 per month! I just about fell off my chair! It isn't so much the amount of money per month that Ann Sieg is making; it's the fact that in August 2004 she couldn't afford to buy Traffic Secrets for $997!

In a recent email that was sent out to those who had subscribed to her eBook: The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing, Sieg said:

• "I have three main mentors who I consider to be responsible for my success more than anyone else. One of them is John Reese. In 2004 he released his infamous 'Traffic Secrets' training course (which ended up making history as one of the most successful courses ever on how to do business on the Internet) and I can vividly remember myself drooling over this massive bundle of information when it first came out - just imagining what it could do for my business and my income. However, with a price tag of $997, I couldn't afford it at the time. So I eagerly saved up until I could, and the moment I had enough, I rushed to order his course. I can honestly say it was one of the best investments of my life. Some of the most important decisions I've made which have led to me building a $250,000/mo business can be directly traced to things that I learned from his course."

We're talking 4 years here! Talk about learning the power of leverage! As far as the $250,000 I would be happy to shave off a zero or two! Why? Because this is primarily passive income as opposed to earned income or trade time for dollars income. If you don't really get the difference you need to read Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki; particularly p.4 where he tells his buckets of water story. That one story was my Oprah light bulb moment. I realized the difference between being self-employed and being a business owner. Big difference. BIG.

Now this works out to $3 million a year which doesn't sound exorbitant in this day of sports stars and CEO s of big corporations. Naysayers simply do not understand the network marketing business model. When you teach people how they can make an extra $400-$1000 per month initially they don't get excited. They are in a mindset of earned income as opposed to a mindset of passive income. This concept is now being merged with Internet marketing and affiliate marketing. Ann Sieg is paving the way for this new way of doing business. My acronym for this is ANI: Affiliate Marketing + Network Marketing + Internet Marketing. To read more about why we are at such a critical moment in time see: http://hubpages.com/hub/Network-Marketing-Endorsed-by-Thomas-Friedman

Can we all be sports stars? No. I just saw David Beckham on 60 Minutes. They were interviewing the lower paid players about whether they minded that he made so much more than them. They did not. There has been a huge rise in the popularity of soccer, basketball and hockey. Why? Because parents see it as the ticket for their children's success. Despite the fact that a mere 1% make it big. It's a mystery to me why network marketing gets knocked for a 97% failure rate.

Can we all be CEO of a major corporation? No. Do the employees mind that they make so much money? They may grouse about it but they are glad he's doing a good job because it means they get to keep their job.

Can we all be successful at Internet Network Marketing? No, but network marketing online is the best solution for most of us. Our success is in our hands instead of being at the mercy of a large corporation who may decide we are redundant or having a career ending injury. Plus Ann Sieg is working hard to change the odds.

I was on webinar with Ann Sieg the other night. She specified her goals: "My goal is to change the industry average where only 2-3 people are responsible for 80% of the business growth." Online, offline, what you see is what you get with Ann Sieg; someone that has gone down the road ahead of us and is saving us months if not years of frustration and disappointment. The Pareto Principle or the 80/20 rule applies to everything. This is the only industry where you can work on your people and marketing skills and become part of the 20% and even the top 3%.

Simply put leverage on the Internet is the everyday persons chance. If more people understood this they would work harder to do it themselves. However it does require you to roll up your sleeves and go through some personal change.

Now skeptics would say Ann Sieg is just making money off us suckers. It all depends on your perception. Personally I've only met a very few that truly understand servant leadership and that are willing to work as hard if not harder than their followers.

To quote J. Paul Getty "I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort." If Bill Gates helped 100 people to be millionaires, would they really care if he was a billionaire? I think not. Ann Sieg and her Renegade team have put in countless hours for the benefit of people like you and me. "A rising tide lifts all boats."

"Leverage is the reason some people become rich and others do not" Robert Kiyosaki

LEVERAGE DEFINED- the power to earn more by working less and less. 5% have learned the power of leverage either OPT/OPM (other people's time/other people's money)

"In my opinion working hard to build a network makes more sense than working hard as an individual." Robert Kiyosaki

In the diagram below the green arrow represents leveraged income. IBO stands for Independent Business Owner.

If you start working at the age of 25 and work for 40 years, the above diagram shows you where you can expect to end up. Living on ½ of what you couldn't live on before! The cost of living and taxes continually rise while our raises tend to flatten out after a period of time. Why do we fight so hard for this model? Someone said if you fight hard for your excuses you get to keep them.

Here is an example of leveraged, passive or royalty income: A friend of mine is a financial planner who also has a successful network marketing business. These stats are a couple of years old but are meant only to be used for the purpose of example. The point I'm making here is the difference between earned income and passive income.

I still get paid on 'work' I did 2 years ago. By work I mean I made a friend, found a need and provided a service. They get product, they get free shipping, they get convenience, they get 100% money back guarantee and I get paid. Sounds like a win win to me.

Royal Bank analogy:

example 1. You earn $150/month from your network marketing business. ($1800 year) This would be equivalent to having $180,000 in a GIC at the Royal Bank of Canada.

example 2. If you generate $833.33/month from your network marketing business; ($10,000 year) This would be equivalent to having $909,090.91 in a GIC at the Royal Bank of Canada.

example 3. If you generate $4167/month from your network marketing business; ($50,000 annually) This would be equivalent to having $3,571,428.57 in a GIC at the Royal Bank of Canada.

Now do you see why Ann Sieg's income of $250,000 month is worth far more than earned income of $3 million per year? For family and friends of network marketers do you understand why they are so excited about this concept? It's people like you that are standing in the way of them bringing financial freedom not only to themselves but to you as well! LOL.

Is this get rich quick? No. Partly because of so many skeptics standing in the way. But also this requires that you become a different person from when you first started. Develop people skills, read books, study, do things that unsuccessful people are unwilling to do...but that's another article.

The 95% rule says 95% of everything you personally know you learned from people in the 95% income group. If this is true what income group should you end up in? .....The 95% group!!!!

Everything we have learned has come from the 95%. Our teachers at school are employees after all. This was exemplified by a comment my 13 year old son wrote after reading Rich Dad Poor Dad. He brought home a permission slip for Go to Work With Your Parent Day which all Canadian kids do in Gr.9. Across the top of the consent form he wrote: "Another example of teachers teaching us to be employees instead of employers."

At age 65 the stats reveal that we are either dead, dead broke or still working. This is a government statistic commonly used by insurance companies. So what income group should you end up in? The 95% group. Therefore it is imperative that we listen to the 5%. They think different. In fact Robert Kiyosaki tells us that the only difference between the rich and everyone else is the way we think.

We see that the rich send their children to university so we make the assumption that that is what we need to do too. WRONG assumption. They send their kids to school for education not to get a job. You see the rich teach their children differently. Robert Kiyosaki reminds us of what most of us have been taught: "Go to school, get good grades, get a job, work hard, get out of debt, save money, buy a house". And as we know in America today, that's not the formula. I followed that formula, went to university for 5 years and like 1000s of others like myself am not using my degree.

At the end of the day even professionals own a job. Unless as a lawyer you own your own firm or as a doctor own your own clinic. Robert Kiyosaki teaches us that the secret of the rich is leverage. The secret of the rich is that they OWN their own business. If you read Robert Kiyosaki carefully you will notice that he encourages people to own a business before they every jump into the I quadrant of investments and real estate. He teaches that there are 3 types of business:

• (1) Create a system, the Sam Walton example which cost a lot of money and took a lot of years.
• (2) Buy a system as in the case of a franchise like McDonald's for example. The drawback of course is that it costs a lot of money. Also unless you own several you really own a job.
• (3) You buy a private franchise as I like to call it or as it is more commonly known, network marketing. Once you have built a business then you invest the money that you have earned from your business; discretionary income not borrowed money or next weeks rent money.

Ann Sieg teaches a system for why Internet Network Marketing is for You, as an individual. Ann Sieg is teaching multiple streams of income. She is teaching us to merge our network marketing business with Internet marketing and affiliate marketing.

"The whole idea of Multiple Streams of Income will be a powerful paradigm shift for most people. Robert Allen gives practical and beautifully illustrated knowledge on how to do it. Mastering financial principles is an important habit in life because it gives us the freedom to focus on what matters most.- Dr. Stephen R. Covey - Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Thomas Friedman recommends being on a team: http://hubpages.com/hub/Network-Marketing-Endorsed-by-Thomas-Friedman I choose Ann Sieg's team. With this team you have a choice of using Ann Sieg's system or building your own. Her goal is to have us become independent of her. Why on earth would anyone just belong to one network marketing company with one stream of income when you can literally have multiple streams of income???

The only reason I can come up with is old school network marketers with a scarcity mentality feeling threatened by change. All very ironic when you consider that their whole platform has been to change from a job and embrace network marketing!

The resources I have been able to tap into because I purchased one e-book are astounding. This is a personal as well as a professional development program available for no cost! To read more on why I recommend Ann Sieg and her associates: http://hubpages.com/hub/Social-Networking-Web-20-Tips-for-Social-Networking

It's important to associate ourselves with the 5% whether in person, in a book or on a CD because otherwise when we hear the 5% speak it doesn't add up; it doesn't compute. Nobody wants to be part of the 95%. Can we assume that the process to get there was flawed thinking?

The problem is the majority of us have a job or own a job so therefore it is considered normal. Normal thinking doesn't think about the future. We want to be abnormal. We need to think I have to retire so I NEED TO DO SOMETHING NOW. I have to develop both personally and professionally. I need to read good books ,attend webinars, and grow my business because I need to be able to do what I want when I want and not be controlled by the almighty buck.

I'll leave you with some food for thought:

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

-Albert Einstein

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