View From the Balcony

Attitude changes and choices for online business come and go but in most cases it is for good reason. We just are not suited to some forms of business.

I cut my teeth on sales. So that is one change that does not bother me. My parents bought a store when I was 11 years old and I spent a good deal of my teen years working in it.

My passion for writing took me into freelance writing for a few magazines that paid me healthily as well as for photography.

While my children were very young, I attended college courses on sales and sales and business law too. Drove 45 miles each way daily to take computer courses. Computers did not exist for you and I when I was going to school. I was one real green horn I can tell you. So I fully understand when someone tells me they are scared of this electronic beast that takes up so much of their business desires.

Another stint as the assistant manager in a Sears store provided me with even more insights into customer relations and getting to understand the buying minds of the consumer in general. It was
there that I also learned the meaning of commission structures.

I was very successful at all of them. Each profession taught me a lot but none of them other than my writing or working with other hopeful netpreneurs has ever granted me a sense of fulfillment.

On line, I cut my teeth teaching Safelists and FFA systems and enjoyed working with new subcribers. I can see the clock going backwards to embrace Safelists once more and I worry for the newcomer who does not understand their temptation or their ease of getting you charged with spamming if not handled right. These are only two of the many traffic generation methods out there, and the problem is, they require a lot of knowledge and constant education on how to use them properly.

When my good friend and business partner, Vicki Osgood-Whatley introduced me to Traffic Exchanges I was hooked. Here I saw this great honest open opportunity to exchange page views whether they be a web site page, a squeeze page or a splash page, it held such great opportunity to advertise for the new, the broke and the serious prospects looking to build an online presence.

It was here clicking for credits on the varied Traffic Exchanges the new could learn from the efforts of those that came before them. It was right there in your face. No new changes to rush through, just look, click and discover the many advertising secrets others only talked about.

There is not too much that beats the powerful combination of the right advertising strategy and Traffic Exchanges. unless you want to pay for it. And even then, it is not necessarily as successful.

The cost of working Traffic Exchanges? Time well spent learning and occasionally a sore finger from all that clicking. Been there worn that coat too.

Should I change back to MLM?

Earlier today, I had contact with an old mentor, sharp as tacks and taking on a whole new dimension in their online experience, but it is really not for me. This person has won trips, is a super salesperson and trains other company people how to be an MLM superstar and I wish them the best. That is their forte and that is where they are happiest. Good for them and good luck!

For me to do this, would be to turn away from all I have found worthwhile to do now. It is a change I do not wish to go backwards on. I have had my fill of MLM business opportunities.

I am pleased that they would consider me the type who would build their team the way they need it built, but for me, I am quite content following my writing, creating courses and helping other new people and not so new as well get the most they can out of working on the Internet.

Change is exciting. Change needs to be embraced but change that is not fulfilling to who we are needs to be thought on with great consideration as to where it will lead.

Fran Klasinski
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2007-11-22

MLM Enterprises Changed my whole outlook on the Internet