Well, it is time for us to post our reasons as to why we pick out and chose not to join Empower Network. Also why we don’t advocate our team join Empower Network. Joining Empower Network goes against every little thing we believe in in terms of constructing a productive small business as an entrepreneur.
To this day we nonetheless get individuals emailing us asking why us chose not to join Empower Network and we believed we have been fairly clear but apparently not.
We are not bashing Empower Network or David Wood
The purpose of this post is not to bash Empower Network or David Wood, but to clarify our causes for not jumping on the bandwagon. The truth is David Wood is fantastic! He is an great marketer and we’re proud of his accomplishments. So, let’s get that straight ahead of we dive in right here.
Why We Do not Join Empower Network
Attraction Promoting -We really believe in attraction marketing and advertising and that we wouldn’t be exactly where we’re right now generating over 30K in December of 2011 if it had been not for our attraction promoting efforts.
We have built a list of followers who trust in us and believe in our trainings. If we had promoted Empower Network to our list, what would we be saying to them? Do not brand oneself, instead ride the coat tails of a different “guru”.
This goes beyond every thing we stand for in this industry. We think in developing your own personal brand, “YOU INC.”, and that is certainly precisely what we’ve accomplished. It makes no sense for us to advise any one to promote one more person’s brand when we’re in this organization to make our personal.
Some could argue, nicely Bill & Michelle you are promoting MLSP’s brand. This is true, we are. However, while we might promote MLSP as a system, at the same time the system has carried out a fabulous job of positioning us as leader’s within the business. We do not think the Empower Network blogging system would’ve enabled us to establish and increase our personal brand that we’ve right now.
Then there are those men and women who say Empower Network does the same thing as MLSP. We disagree. Empower Network is a blogging tool. It is foolish to think that they are one and the same.
MLSP has capture pages, auto responder series, sales pages, free trainings to offer, more than 19 affiliate income streams, over 3 years worth of trainings performed by 6, 7, & 8 income earners, video hosting, Facebook Fan Page templates, leadership levels, leadership recognition, custom branded capture pages, product campaigns, and much much more….
Through our success with MLSP, I, Michelle happen to be able to speak at Live Events and produce her own products for them, generate more than 19 affiliate income streams, train at private live mastermind events, become member of the month, become part of the EMT leadership team, and much much more.
More importantly, who do you see at the top of this blog? MLSP? David Wood??? No, you see us. Our brand, our picture, and anything within this blog has served to increase our brand, not someone else’s.
We want to make buzz around our name, our blog, our trainings, our products; not David Wood’s.
No one can shut down our brand, it is ours and we are in control of it. What happens if something goes wrong with Empower Network? Where are you left then? What is your list going to think after they trusted your lead and followed you into something that now no longer exists? Are you prepared to clean up the mess with your individuals? Or will you just abandon your list and let them fend for themselves? Think about it?
Why not develop your personal brand, your own personal blog, your own personal training and become a leader on your personal without riding the coat tails of someone else???
Focus – If we had to chased after every shiny object that was presented to us and abandoned what we had been currently creating we wouldn’t have gotten to exactly where we’re currently.
We are firm believers in not abandoning what we’re doing even if it isn’t working. We believe in staying focused and keeping things simple.
There are many who put their hands into too many pots and what happens is you spread yourself too thin. We’ve seen it over and over the more you spread oneself the less effective you are. If your energy is placed into too many projects or systems than how can you actually become an expert at any of them?
There had been a few persons in our primary team who bailed because they weren’t creating significant money after only a few months. Unfortunately, jumping from one shiny object to another is a horrible habit that we see happening over and more than again in this business.
The truth is, if you start developing a house and stop construction after only creating the foundation how can you ever expect to build a home? It really is the same thing in business enterprise. If you start constructing something and only give it a few months of effort and you quit on it, you will never realize the success you could of experienced had you stayed with it.
Consider this; if you’re having a hard time recruiting folks in at the mere $500 dollar level in one company what tends to make you think you can do it in an additional? It really is time to stop looking to the side, and look into the inside.
Furthermore, the appearance of you jumping from one shiny object to an additional can definitely ruin your reputation as a leader. How do you feel when you see a leader or your up line jumping form one opportunity to a further?
For us….our appearance to our list and following is important and we want them to see the focus we’ve, the determination we’ve, the drive we’ve, not to mention the success because we stick with one thing until it really is mastered. We are proof that it works if you put your heart, soul, and mind into it.
Many folks have come to us and have asked if we’ve checked out the latest on XYZ. Our response is always the same, “no, we focus on one thing until it is mastered, we do not fall prey to the shiny objects.”
Don’t do it because everyone else is – If everyone in this business jumped off a bridge would you? We firmly think in the notion that you must first believe in your self. That’s specifically what we did. We never once doubted what we had been capable of accomplishing and we knew in our heart that if we stayed focused and didn’t follow the masses we would find our path to success.
Confidence – We are very confident in our enterprise and our decisions we have made thus far. That’s why we’ve stayed put. But, what baffles us and saddens us is the newbies in this business that chased after the quick buck. If those newbies would’ve stayed in one place and remained focused, they would be a lot further along now.
The quitters showed weakness and truth be told only those with a big list were able to profit from Empower Network. Not sure what the newbies were thinking when they jumped in and believed they could compete against the veterans.
Look around in Empower Network….who are the one’s that are effective? Sorry it really is the truth, but those with the biggest lists who were able to promote to their lists the quickest made the majority of the money.
We’re in this sector to develop leaders into producing over 10K a month onward to more than 20K a month by creating their own brand and establishing their own following.
We are not about HYPE – Let’s admit it now, if you haven’t already, Empower Network was chalked full of hype. Thankfully it is died down just as any new venture does. We are not about hype and we’ll run the other way, unless we firmly think in the product. We weren’t comfortable enough with Empower Network and their claims that all you have to do is write a piece of content each day, post it to the Empower Network blog, and the leads and the money will flow in.
Last time we checked we had been generating leads, we were producing money and we didn’t need Empower Network to do that. If we had decided to join Empower Network it would only be because we knew more than half of our list would follow and we could just make a make a quick buck off of them. We had been just not comfortable in promoting a product that we did not firmly believe in simply to make some quick cash.
You want leads? Then brand oneself. Get the tools necessary for your personal blog to make that happen. Trust us, there are plenty of them out there. Look at Ray Higdon’s blog and how many leads he generates a day. You do not need Empower Network to generate leads into your company nor do you need Empower Network to generate money from your primary enterprise.
Empower Network is the lazy man’s way of blogging. Get real, get your own blog, brand oneself and do it right. Think it is too hard to do your own blog? Then invest in oneself and your business and buy your self a good course that will clarify to you precisely how to effectively blog.
Bottom line guys…it’s not our place to tell you whether you should join Empower Network or not. It is completely up to you. We just feel it’s important for us to tell those who keep asking and those on our team why we do not advocate you use Empower.
We built a 6 figure business enterprise in 6 months and guess what? We didn’t have Empower Network to help us do that. You can build a thriving business without Empower Network and build “YOUR INC” all at the same time.
Our advice; focus on oneself and focusing on constructing “YOU INC”. Do it yourself not the lazy way and reap the benefits of being a TRUE leader within this industry.