Network Marketing -
The Perfect
Business
Robert
Kiyosaki, the famous author behind the Rich Dad, Poor Dad
series of financial books has talked about network
marketing as one of the most perfect business models in
the world today.
But why is
someone who has never been involved in network
marketing endorsing it as a good business model?
Some may think that he is being hypocritical, but in
reality, Kiyosaki’s findings are founded on solid
business building principles and hence, are real
valid observations.
To understand
what he means by a perfect business, you must understand
the background of the E, S, B, I
quadrant.
E stands
for employee, where you are under legal employment
working for an employer getting a stable payroll.
Kiyosaki claims that most employees are stuck in a
rat race, where the employee is constantly working to
pay off his debts to the government, the taxation
institutes as well as the banks. He finds that there
is little freedom and to exit from the rat race, you
must progress into the different
quadrants.
S stands for
small business. He quips that it stands for solo
businessman who believes that in order to do things
right, you have to do it yourself! This quadrant of
businessmen rarely leverages on others because they not
only have the responsibilities of a business owner, but
often need to double up as the worker and sales rep, the
customer service rep and sometimes, even the delivery
guy!
B is the
quadrant Kiyosaki wants to get people into where you run
a BIG business by leveraging on people ‘under’
you.
Lastly, the
‘I’ quadrant is where big business investors wind up.
They use their money to earn MORE
money.
Kiyosaki
describes the network marketing business model as the
perfect business simply because he believes that you can
easily leap from the ‘E’ quadrant directly into the ‘B’
quadrant without going through the hardships of the ‘S’
quadrant.
When you
start a network marketing business, the most important
skills you will learn are business skills. Skills such as
managing people, understanding the needs of your
customer, how to invest your time and money wisely and
lots of self-improvement, mindset changing awareness that
will take your business skills to the next
level.
The most
important aspect about being in a network marketing
business is that you get to learn all these business
skills at a very low investment (a couple of dollars to a
few hundred dollars worth of product investment), the
guidance and believe of a mentoring upline, and all the
time in the world for someone to develop those business
skills. After all, not everyone’s attitudes are alike. A
network marketing business will help you to build those
skills even if you are a slow learner – because you don’t
have to worry about huge rental or inventory costs unlike
a traditional business in the S or B
quadrant.
The facts
indicate that what Robert Kiyosaki says is valid and true
about network marketing indeed, being the perfect
business.
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