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In short, this blog is my opportunity to present myself to you as a mentor and as a student. As you may read on my About Me page, I’ve been an Instructional Designer for seventeen years. Over the last several years I have become more and more focused on teaching Internet Marketing. I specialize in mentoring people who are building a Network Marketing company. I teach them to utilize the Internet to find people to share their opportunity with, and I teach them Internet Marketing to sell their products.

How I Got Into Network Marketing
As most people in Network Marketing, I have a “Day Job.” For the last three years I have worked for a training company. With them, I have been a business trainer, internal trainer, and instructional designer. I led the team that developed their online training program.

In the Spring of 2008, I was given the assignment by my employer to create a course of instruction for teaching people how to be successful in building a network marketing company. In my research for that project, I came across Mentoring-For-Free. This is an international organization that offers free training to any professional network marketer regardless of what company they are involved in or what products they promote.

Mentoring For Free It was founded by Michael Dlouhy, the author of the book, Success in Ten Steps. In addition to the book, the free training consists of several live calls held each week, along with recorded audio training.

No company or product is mentioned or promoted. The system can be used to train your own associates in some basic skills needed for success, such as how to immediately determine the best approach to take with a specific prospect (page 46), how to understand your company’s compensation plan (page 80) for maximum earnings, how to create and maintain the mindset needed for success, how to build relationships, and how to obtain the names and phone numbers of potential prospects without spending a lot of money or approaching friends and family.

After finding Mentoring For Free, we realized that the course of instruction I was designing did not have a need. The need was already met. The project was shelved and we moved on to other things. I became a member of Mentoring For Free. Many of my clients who had hired us to teach them Internet Marketing did so because they wanted to market the products of their Network Marketing company. I have referred many of them who have benefited from the free training.

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Eventually I found a company that fit my interests and that survived the scrutiny of measuring it against the 5-Pillars of a sound Network Marketing company.

Blogging Goals
My goals with this blog include sharing the training of Mentoring For Free, helping people understand what it takes to be successful in Network Marketing, how to avoid scams, and how to own your life.

Join me on this journey.

Gary J. Harris