Network Marketing – The seed, the pod and the plate full of beans

There are many similarities between Network Marketing and other things in life that can be used as examples to explain the system and how it can benefit many people in building their own business. Here’s an example.

Jack’s mum was not very impressed when Jack came home with three bean seeds in exchange for a cow. They were struggling for money and needed extra cash. Jacks mum was so unimpressed that she took the seeds and threw them out the window in disgust.

So where did it all go wrong, Who made the biggest mistake – Jack or his mum?

A bean seed is an amazing thing. When planted it can grow into a plant that produces 25 to 50 pods, each of which can contain 5 or more bean seeds. 125 to 250 or more beans (seeds) can be produced from the planting of 1 single bean seed. Plant 2 Bean seeds and you could have 500 or more seeds.

If Jacks mum had of planted the 3 seeds (assuming they were NOT magical :o ), and expected the same average results mentioned above, They could have expected 375 to 750 bean seeds. If they held off eating them for the first year and planted the 750 seeds the following season they could have expected 150,000 bean seeds or more to plant in the third year.

Plants have an amazing way of duplicating themselves to ensure their survival.

It was obviously, wrong of Jack to trade a cow for a measly 3 bean seeds but having done so, it was possible to look at the situation and try to duplicate those Bean seeds into a profitable Bean venture within 3 to 5 years.

The obvious similarities to the Network Marketing Model should not be underestimated. Not just in the duplication example but the whole process.

Like Jacks family, when people join a Network Marketing Business they are often struggling financially and use a small portion of whatever savings they may have to purchase a business. A business that “may” work (like trading the cow for the beans) only to find out they don’t WANT to do it a week later and throw the business kit out the window (as with the seeds).

If only they had planted a few seeds (sponsored some representatives) fed them with support, training and encouragement And assisted them in duplicating the same way you did. Within a few years they would have seen the duplication of their efforts begin to kick in.

If you are currently building a Network Marketing Business and are considering your future options, try using this example and sticking with your business a little longer. Perhaps you could use this article to assist you showing your Opportunity to your prospects to see how easy duplication really is.

June 14, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Network Marketing

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