Yoli Founder Daren Falter shares the start of his successful MLM career “Zero To Hero: My MLM Story.”
Zero to Hero in Network Marketing / MLM
By Daren C. Falter, How to Select a Network Marketing Company
Father Knows Best
It’s funny. My father was, and still is, an armchair entrepreneur and, to my mother’s vexation, has been affiliated with more home-based business opportunities than you can shake a protein shake at (that was an attempt at home business humor). While I was growing up, my brothers and sisters would fight with each other over whose privilege it was to check the mail. Every week was like Christmas at the Falter household because we were always receiving mysterious new packages filled with miscellaneous merchandise. Everything from nutritious food tabs, to mini-trampolines, to waterless car wash sprays, to face-lift creams, to concentrated soap, to water filters—and the list goes on. Although I was always interested in all these cool products, and used or consumed more than my fair share, I never wanted anything to do with the businesses associated with these products. What can I say? I was a kid! When Dad was giving opportunity presentations in the living room, I was sneaking quietly out the back door to go play basketball with my friends. It’s funny how something I had so little interest in as a youth became my passion as an adult. Eventually network marketing would support my family, my extended family, and a variety of other worthy causes and concerns. Ironically, I didn’t become interested in network marketing until I actually moved away from home and was approached by a complete stranger. What this stranger said to me made sense and, suddenly, I put down the basketball and I was all ears. After I was converted to network marketing by a total stranger, I then started calling my father on a regular basis to compare notes… from my armchair.
The Hook
I became officially involved in network marketing during my first year of college. While enjoying a delicious plate of chicken cordon bleu at my dormitory cafeteria, I received a compelling sales pitch from a fellow student. He invited me to a product and business opportunity presentation and even offered to arrange to pick me up since my only form of transportation was a hand-me-down Schwinn 10-speed with half the gears missing and semi-flat tires. That night, my soon-to-be business mentor, Paul, rolled up in his brand-new fully loaded Pontiac Grand Am purchased with home biz cash. The temporary license plate was still in the back window. Paul proudly displayed and demonstrated all of the features and high-tech bells and whistles as we rolled through the neighborhood on our way to the business opportunity meeting. One thing that impressed me about Paul was that he was not much older than me, but he really seemed to have a handle on his finances. And he was one of the first guys I’d ever seen with a portable cell phone—you know, what we used to call the Motorola “brick” phone (back in the day, this was the symbol of cool). He really knew how to throw out the “broke college student” bait. I was caught, hook, line, and sinker.
At the time I was a full-time student in my first year of college, volunteering many hours with my church and working a minimum wage job that I didn’t like in order to pay for school expenses and, of course, dates with my soon to be bride. Needless to say, I was very open to suggestions on how to make more money in less time so I could enjoy the things I liked to do with the people I enjoyed doing them with. Being open to any ideas, and having nothing to lose and everything to gain, I agreed to attend my first opportunity meeting.
The Road Less Traveled
Not to be over dramatic, but this meeting changed my life in every way. I wish I could go back and thank the people who first addressed me at that meeting and lit a flame in my heart. Little did they know that this flame would never be extinguished and would grow to become a towering inferno of purpose and passion. Even though I was attending college at the time and just deciding on my major, I knew from that day forward that my formal education was not going to help me find an opportunity with this much potential.
Over the next few years, I was foolishly enticed into several different network marketing and home-based business opportunities, one after the other. Although I had nothing to show for it after several years, these were the years when I earned my PhD in the school of hard knocks. What kind of education could be better? So where was the turning point? How did I pull myself out of this failure slump? That’s another story for another day. Cheers.
About the Author
Daren C. Falter is the author of the network marketing industry-wide best seller How to Select a Network Marketing Company. Daren has been a consultant to the network marketing industry for over 12 years and a student and participant for over 20 years. Daren has built downline organizations into the tens of thousands of distributors with several different companies. Daren is a popular convention speaker and trainer. You can visit Daren online at his blog at www.networkmarketingreview.com. You can also order Daren’s best-selling MLM book at www.networkmarketingbook.com.
Daren recently launched a new network marketing company, Yoli, Inc., near Salt Lake City, Utah. Daren and his four partners are excited to introduced the worlds most nutritious beverage using patented BlastCap™ Technology. For more information about Blast Cap Technology, Blast Caps, or Yoli, visit Yoli at www.prelaunchinsider.com.
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