Yes, there is still an opportunity to enjoy huge passive income from MLM, but there’s a catch: if the strategies you’re familiar with are of the traditional network marketing variety, your efforts are doomed to fail. If you want to make money in MLM today, it’s time to go back to “school” and learn why what was effective yesterday is no longer useful today.

Aggressiveness is a Turn-Off

Politeness was one of the strict requirements of society in the old days, but it was a rule that network marketers ruthlessly exploited. In traditional network marketing, marketers were extremely aggressive and took advantage of other people’s disinclination to appear rude. They exerted pressure of all kinds until they were able to get what they wanted.

But that no longer works. Now, people are smarter and certainly more open about saying what they want to say. People don’t hesitate to reject offers outright if they don’t like what they’re hearing and more often than not, that’s certainly the case with network marketing.

If you believed aggressiveness could still help you earn money from network marketing, you’re in for a rude surprise.

Constant Traveling

Network marketing used to demand people to lead transient lives. For someone to make a living from network marketing, he had to be able and willing to travel to all sorts of places just to find prospects and hopefully turn them into recruits. 

This was indeed a necessity in the past, but only because most of the network marketing companies that favored this strategy weren’t selling anything original or desirable to the market. They needed a new location and a new market because people there weren’t yet wise to what they were doing. Constant traveling was necessary because once people caught up to what they were doing, network marketers had to hit the road once more.

The blame, of course, lies not in hapless network marketers doing their jobs but in the companies itself, for making their affiliates believe that they’re truly selling something desirable.

Thankfully, however, new companies today come with a stronger sense of ethics and nicer products and services to sell.

Exploitation of Personal Relationships

Traditional network marketing trained individuals to believe that their families, friends, and loved ones would help them achieve their goals. Some companies may have led their affiliates to believe that it is their loved ones’ duty to help them. Other companies might have taken the slightly higher road by making them falsely believe that they were simply sharing a golden opportunity with their loved ones.

What none of them taught their affiliates was that it takes more than blood to make a person qualified for network marketing success.

Today’s brand of network marketing explicitly warns people from approaching their personal network unless they’re convinced that they, too, have the necessary KSA’s for the job. Traditional network marketing was all about finding any person willing to pay the membership fee. Modern network marketing, however, is all about finding the right person for the business.

Person to Person Marketing and Cold Calls versus Internet Marketing

Finally, traditional network marketing was founded on two essential things: meeting prospects in person and making cold calls. Such methods, however, can be costly and quite frankly, ineffective as well. That’s why today’s network marketing companies have turned to online marketing.

Thanks to the Internet, network marketing is virtually cost-free but able to generate almost instant results.

If you would like to find more information about how you can successfully grow your network marketing business using the internet, follow the "Internet MLM Success" link in the resource box.