Eldon Beard

Hello! My name is Eldon Beard. Like many home business seekers, I tried a number of MLM / network marketing business opportunities and at one point got so discouraged that I just about gave up for good. I was frustrated, and tired of trying to build my business in the traditional way (friends and relatives were my prospect list).

My first experience was with Amway. I didn't enjoy it at all. I just couldn’t relate to the way I was taught to build that business. The secretive approach, the requirement to say just about anything to avoid telling someone it was Amway...I exhausted considerable time and energy trying to make this work. I also didn't like the hypocrisy. I was supposed to practice “Fake it ’till you make it” and be somebody I really wasn't. That approach just didn’t appeal to me.

In the years after Amway, I signed up with Shaklee and some other promising opportunities. I learned a little and began to see some success, but nowhere near what I was looking for. I instinctively knew there had to be a better way, I just had to find it.

During the mid-1990’s, I had the privilege to serve as the moderator and leader of the popular “MLM Forum” on America Online. In this position, I learned a lot about network marketing and what it takes to succeed. I enjoyed meeting and learning from some of the top leaders in the MLM / network marketing industry.

During this time, I discovered some new ways to approach MLM and network marketing that made a tremendous difference in my attitude and success in this industry.

Two things became very clear to me:

• it makes no sense trying to convince people to join my business
• it makes sense to be professional and have opportunity seekers contacting me when they are ready to make a move

Just grasping this concept and getting past the old fashioned, pushy, hype-filled approach to MLM / network marketing was such a relief!

These days, I enjoy success with network marketing and publish a blog filled with tips and help with choosing and successfully building a home business in network marketing or MLM. Network marketing has been good to me.