By Jason Cardamone

Network Marketing for Dummies! - 11 do or die tips for successful network marketing
Several years ago, I discovered that there are unlimited paths on which one can travel through this journey we call life. Up to that point, I had done nothing but dream of the day I would play professional soccer. My senior year on the college soccer team was cut short with a bad ankle injury, so I focused on finishing up my degree and graduating.
There I was, just having graduated college where I was receiving my computer science degree and was ready to do what you're supposed to do, go get a 9-5 job for the next 44 years and retire at age 65. I went to work at a respectable aeronautics company as a Software Engineer. My head was always great with computers, but my heart would never listen to my head. I found a "MLM"/network marketing company shortly after beginning my soon-to-be short lived software engineering career. After paying a LOT of money ($5,000) for a LOT of product, became a "director" at this company. To make a long story short, 6 months later I had $4,900 in products sitting in my parent's garage, and the network marketing company was involved in a lawsuit and had been completely shut down. I was supposed to get reimbursed some portion of the $5,000 I had invested (after lawyer's fees and such were taken out), but that was about 7 years ago and I haven't seen a dime since then.
Fast forward about 4 more years down the road. I was on my 3rd software engineering position and had almost tripled my income from when I first graduated college! This was GREAT, but even then I realized that the reason I was forced to find my 3rd job was because the company at my 2nd job went through a company-wide slashing and laid-off about 2/3 of the entire company. I did NOT like the idea that one day my family would be at the mercy of bosses and VP's at companies who are only looking out for themselves. I had to do something about this…
I saved up money for several months of expenses, and started exploring many businesses that I could start on my own. I had a short stint with my best friend and one other person. There was a rather successful company they had both worked at before…and said it was going to be easy to recreate everything that their former company had done. We started out, and I quickly left after making 200-300 cold calls per day. (3