A few weeks ago, my son, Phillip, and I were in the backyard picking blackberries.
When a blackberry is ripe, it looks like a fat cluster of shiny black pearls.
There is a certain charm to having food producing plants in your yard. There’s something nostalgic and wholesome about growing your own produce. Additionally, it gives you some time outdoors in the healthy sunshine and gives you some wonderful experiences with your children.
But wild Oregon blackberries are a unique crop.
They grow wild here, like weeds. They are vines, that once the end hits the ground, they will send out roots and create a new plant. If you cut them back, they send out underground runners and sprout up elsewhere. And of course, the birds & squirrels help spread seeds. Left unchecked, one fine sunny day, you will find that your property has been overtaken by them.
Native Oregonians often keep a goat to keep it under control. Those of us who are not permitted to keep such critters are left to chop away at the mess and spray herbicides.
Aside from the sweet, tart fruit, blackberry vines have a lot of thorns. I’d dare say more thorns than roses! There is no way to pick blackberries without getting stabbed and snagged by those thorns.
As I plucked away at the delicacies, filling our bowl full for the cobbler I would make, I thought of how the Network Marketing industry is similar to picking blackberries.
Those of us, who desire having a home-based business, and chose network marketing, are often the tender unsuspecting folks looking to “pick” the very best, ripest business opportunity.
There are a lot of opportunities out there, just like there are a lot of blackberries for the pickin. The mission is to choose the best company that has integrity and that will make you the money you desire. Choosing the wrong company is like picking a green or red blackberry…bitter & nasty. You could come out of your network marketing experience with a bad taste in your mouth and shredded by the thorns of dishonesty, unfair compensation plans, and a pile of debt with no profits.
So how do you choose the right company?
Very carefully! Just like I learned to wear gloves and trim away the vines as I picked blackberries, I learned to protect myself from the thorns of the industry with the help of Mentoring For Free.
At Mentoring For Free, we teach anyone from any company the skills they need to be successful in their business. And our help is all for free…no kidding!
When you download the eBook, Success In 10 Steps, and read it through, I will be able to begin helping you realize the “sweet dessert” of your success.
