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You've
heard the saying that network marketing is all about caring and sharing?
Sadly, all too often, it's about your upline "leaders" caring only
about how much they'll be sharing of the money you bring
into the system.
We want to change that – and the best way to change it is by setting a decent, intelligent, practical example. So we're putting our own teachings to work. (See The
Fulfilment Spiral
for details of this unusual concept.)

Why do we give
away our knowledge free of charge?
We only discovered and articulated that knowledge. We didn't create
it. It already existed, one way or another. It's about the right things to do
and the right reasons for doing them... the Law
of Success. We
can't lay claim to natural principles and laws. (As Albert Einstein so perceptively
stated, "all truth is revealed." We agree with him. It's all
about integrity and intelligence.)
But
we created our own practical, useful implementation strategies, systems, tactics,
tools and techniques and adapted others. These are HOW to do those
right things for those right reasons. They're our intellectual property. We're
entitled to be compensated for sharing them.
We even give a written guarantee with our free seminars and web sites – you
cannot pay for your own participation, even though it costs REAL money
to provide them.
For offline participation, advertising, venue hire, equipment hire, catering,
travel, accommodation and meals, workbooks and resource notes, administration, staffing,
etc all have to be paid for.
For online events and web sites, there are costs as well, including domain
registration, site design and development, hosting, site and server maintenance and
the BIG one... bandwidth used for data transfer. For multi-media presentations, data
transfer costs escalate dramatically.

So how can
we afford to just give it away FREE when it costs us money to do it?
We can't. And we don't. The simple truth is this...
- Someone
else has already paid for YOU to visit our sites or attend our seminars.
If
you participate, and you gain a worthwhile benefit, then you're welcome to pay for
someone else to participate, anonymously. But here's the real kicker...
- YOU
decide IF and WHEN you'll pay – and YOU decide how much! (See below.)
We've
used this approach successfully since 1991. (It terrifies the National Speakers
Association!) But decent people everywhere really appreciate it, because it allows
them to show how much they care about the benefits we offer, and share them with
others in a practical way, according to their own capacity to contribute. And, just
like network marketing itself, it's all about a lot of people each contributing a
little so that everyone benefits... but especially their NEW people who are
looking to learn as much as possible, as quickly as possible, usually at a time in
their lives when they can least afford to pay for it!
Our seminars and web sites are really promotional vehicles that deliver genuine
value and recover what they cost. But the implementations – our workshops,
Master Classes, books, multi-media programs, consulting,
coaching and professional services – are where the real usefulness
lies, and for which seminar attendees willingly pay.
Our knowledge give-away creates genuine excitement. People recognise the VALUE
of the knowledge they gain. That, in turn, creates interest in, and desire for, the
really USEFUL, PRACTICAL stuff – the implementations – because very
few people have the knowledge, skills, talents, abilities or resources needed to
create their own.
But they need to be educated to realise the true value of what we offer, and that's
where the freely-available knowledge comes into play. Knowledge really does
want to be free, because it's not particularly useful or practical on its own!
We enjoy two other major benefits from giving away our knowledge...
- People
who purchase our implementations already understand the underlying principles.
This shortens their learning curve dramatically, and puts us all on the same page.
We all know what each other is talking about. So communication is easier, faster
and more accurate. There's measurably less risk of misunderstanding, confusion, error
or costly waste of time, money, effort, resources, hope and self-confidence.
- People
get very excited by that knowledge, and they tell other people – people who then want that same knowledge! This brings increasing numbers of people
into contact with us. Once they have the knowledge, they're more likely to want our
implementations. It's just intelligent marketing!
People
who refuse to give away knowledge because of fear of loss fail to understand the
truth that, in fact, they have nothing to lose. Knowledge is useless
until it's applied. Owning a book does not make you smarter. Reading it doesn't,
either. It just makes you more knowledgeable until you put it to work. That
requires more than just knowledge. It requires skills, strategies, systems, tactics,
tools and techniques. And that's where our solutions become vital.

Applying
what you've learned is what makes you smarter.
Don't get me wrong here. I'm not suggesting that knowledge has no value. But value
and usefulness are not the same thing. And most people, in business
at least, prefer to pay for usefulness.
As I used to tell my students when I was an academic... "an education has value
for its own sake. Just don't expect to make a living from it. It's what you DO with
that education that will make you successful or not."
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