Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams! (Paperback)

by Mark Yarnell (Author), Rene Reid Yarnell (Author) "NETWORK MARKETING IS ONE of the most fun and rewarding businesses in the world, but eventually all network marketers are faced with certain widespread and..." (more)
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To listen to its proponents, network (or multilevel) marketing is the greatest thing since sliced bread: top performers earn $1 million a month, reside in alluring places like Aspen and Kauai, and still find quality time to happily raise children and lovingly cement spousal relationships. Contending that those who fail to make it that far are ill prepared for the initial challenges they face, Mark Yarnell and Rene Reid Yarnell--married network marketers who are among the industry's leaders, as well as members of a University of Illinois faculty that teaches the only college-certified course on the subject in the U.S.--have written Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams! to convey both advice and inspiration to newcomers. Peppered with personal anecdotes that bring their recommendations to life, the two offer logical strategies for overcoming rookie obstacles and kick starting a career. Individual chapters explore issues such as battling rejection, avoiding depression, handling prospects, supervising recruits, and managing time. Each concludes with a comprehensive summary, but save it for later reference and don't skip the preceding narrative, or you risk missing the book's considerable motivational component. --Howard Rothman

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Product Details

• Paperback: 270 pages
• Publisher: Prima Publishing (January 7, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761512195
• ISBN-13: 978-0761512196
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (100 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,218 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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97 of 98 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helped me more than anything!, September 29, 2005

By	Adam Troy (Binghampton, NY) - See all my reviews

I have been in network marketing for over ten years, failing miserably. I tried this company and that company. Wasn't going anywhere untill I bought this book and used it.

This book should be called "How To Become Brilliant on the basics" and subtitled "How To Unleash Your Potential in MLM." It sure did for me.

Before reading "Your First Year in Network Marketing", I thought I would be lucky to get 100 people on my list. After reading what Mark said, I easily came up with a list of over 2,000 and the bst part is that those 2,000 know 2,000 who know 2,000 who know 2,000 and so on. I think it is true that if you know three people, you know everybodyelse in the world.

The affirmations were great and got me thinking bigger. The scripts were a great start, although I have midified them since then.

Overall a great book by Mark. I wonder how many other failed network marketers would do well if only they read (and applied) this wisdom?

117 of 120 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for all new MLM'ers, June 11, 2002

By	cassandra uhl (Youngstwn, Ohio) - See all my reviews

If you are just getting started in Network Marketing, you need this book. I recommend this to everyone in my downline.I also recommend "Self Wealth" by Mark, "Self Matters" and "Life Strategies" by Phillip McGraw and "Turner, Turner, Turner: The King of Network Marketing" by Glenn W. Turner.

83 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Eat the meat and spit out the bones..., September 4, 2004

By	Tony Rush "IFoundTheSolution.com" (southeast Alabama) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Let me first say that my opinion of this book has changed dramatically as my career in MLM has progressed.

When the book was first released and I read it cover to cover, I thought it was going to be a panacea for me. It was clearly written, described lots of situations that I'd already encountered and just plain made sense.

As I've progressed to a six-figure home-based income, it became increasingly clear that the main problem with this book is that much of it still boils down to the same basic advice that most MLM gurus have you doing: making lists of friends and family, doing milk-and-cookie parties in your home, doing three-way calls.

And, if you've been in MLM for more than 20 minutes, you probably know that most of those things probably don't create the results you're looking for.

Heck, it's not that hard to figure out: go find any top-earner in the business and you'll probably not see his friends and family anywhere in his business. And yet they always tell you to enroll your friends and family.

I gave the book THREE stars because I DO believe that it forwards alot of the same impractical thinking that is presented in most other MLM "how to" books.

Where this book DOES shine is in teaching you the proper mindset and posture of a professional networker which is as important as any of the nuts-and-bolts.

So, if you haven't got this book, I do suggest you get a copy. But, you can probably ignore the areas about warm marketing, cold-contacting strangers and doing drawing circles on whiteboards in your living room for prospects....it's not going to be the solution you think it is.

Tony Rush