Lesson in Network Marketing: Handle Your Money - I’ve seen countless examples of successful online and network marketers who start making some serious money…

 

Only to blow it when they have it and get screwed when they don’t.

 

Remember, things can change. Nothing is permanent. So as much as I believe in the residual nature of MLM and count on it, I would be naive to think that once you have the income, it’ll stay that way forever.

 

That being said, I suggest you watch this video that outlines what we do with our money right now - AKA - our personal financial strategy. https://youtu.be/pp33xdohqQM

 

I’m no financial advisor (most of them suck anyway) and I don’t have a degree in economics but I do know that 95%+ of people end up broke or relying on family / the government by their 70’s…

 

And that networkers who do make it to the top ranks aren’t treating their income like an educated business owner. They’re treating it like an uneducated employee.

 

Making as much as they can to inflate their lifestyle and pouring the extra into blind IRA’s or other investments they don’t understand and have no control over.

 

So while I may not always be right or make the right decisions, I do recognize when there’s a failure disease with the majority’s finances and look the other way for a solution.

 

Remember, the 80/20 rule (and 99/1 rule) is in effect in and outside of the business world AND in the “top earners” club inside of business.

 

Don’t be the 99.

 

Here’s the video.

 

Lesson in Online Marketing: Save Everything - As you may know, we’re always updating our recruiting systems.

 

If you’ve ever made a giant masterclass, you know that it can take quite a while to record all the lessons, make sure everything is clear and if it’s an actual “system” like RRS is…

 

Make sure everything technically works seamlessly. Which can be quite a daunting task.

 

After all, if 500 people start using it and there’s a technical glitch that prevents the system from getting set up properly…

 

Well, that’s a lot of support emails.

 

So, since this is quite a large undertaking, we want to re-use any previous content we’ve created rather than re-shooting footage if we don’t need to.

 

Thankfully, I’ve got a pretty good habit of making double backups of everything so if I have a feeling I’ve done a training on something in the past that would still be relevant today, I can dig it up and put it in there, rather than committing an hour to producing a lesson.

 

But it also shines light on the lessons I KNOW I’ve done in the past but can’t find them for the life of me. I didn’t organize properly or maybe even deleted them and now I’m paying the price.

 

So here’s my suggestion - Don’t delete anything, EVER. Make backups of backups in the cloud on different storage services.

 

You never know when you’ll need it again.

 

Quote I Love: “Be stubborn about your vision but flexible with your plan.” - John C. Maxwell

 

Giving Me Life: Skateboarding - As you may know, moving to San Diego has inspired me to take up my first love again...

 

Skateboarding.

 

And no I’m not talking about longboarding down a hill or using an electric board to ride to my friend’s dungeons and dragons meetup.

 

I mean real skateboarding.

 

Unbeknownst to us, we moved to the “pro capital” of the world. In fact, I was totally out of the skate game for 15 years. I honestly completely forgot where all the pros were.

 

Well, they’re right here. In my backyard. I’ve now skated with many of them. (not exactly keeping up though 😉

 

So, I’ve been going 5-6 days a week to the world class skateparks around here to re-refine my skills and if I’m lucky…

 

Maybe even surpass my old level.