Baseball / Network Marketing - Any Similarities?

Baseball is the only game where you can be a very successful player, be paid millions of dollars per year, and end up in the "Hall of Fame" being only successful 30 to 40 percent of the time. As of today there has only been one baseball player that was successful 40 % of the time. Success in baseball is measured by your batting or earned run average. You can be GREAT on defense and only be 10 to 20 % hitter; you won't be in the game for long, unless you pitch. Pitchers are the only players that are excluded from being a ‘hitter’; they are measured by a multitude of statistics. If you can pitch and hit too, oh boy. That doesn't happen in today’s player/pitcher market. You are paid to play or pitch, not both.

For this article I am going to only use the batting averages of position players. It is the main criteria used to measure their success. There are just too many variables used for pitchers. I smell another article in the future, so here goes.

Ted Williams is the only baseball player that had a lifetime batting average around .400 or 40 percent. No one else has been close to that magical 0.400 batting average. And no one has ever been voted into the hall of fame with a lifetime batting average under .200, except for pitchers, for the reasons listed above. If you are a 'position' player your degree of success is measured by your hitting average, nothing more.

So success in baseball is somewhere between 30 and 40 percent, plus your athletic ability and some degree of luck in being able to play for some length of time. The longer you play with a batting average somewhere around or better than 0.300, the better your chances of getting into the "Hall".

In network marketing only about 3 percent of the people are successful enough, to make millions of dollars from their business. Well, at least, you don't have to be athletic to be successful in network marketing, but you do have to be active. Much like baseball players the longer you’re in network marketing the better your chances to succeed, too.

“OK, that's it, the end, so long, there are no more similarities”, you say. Not so fast!

Very few if any baseball players make it to the 'show' (major leagues) in ninety days, neither does a network marketer have a flourishing business in that time either.

You say, “OK, that's it, the end, so long, there are no more similarities”, again. I think there are additional similarities, let's see.

Baseball players can take years getting to the ‘bigs’ (major leagues) and make big monies, it may also take years to be successful in the network marketing business and making ‘big’ money. As a matter of fact most MLB ‘drafted’ baseball players, never play in the American or National league of Major League Baseball. They never make it to the ‘bigs’. Kind of sounds like the outlook for someone in the network marketing ‘home’ based business to me. Another similarity, oh my!

Plus, have you looked into the ‘dugout’ at any major league or minor league game associated with Major League Baseball (MLB)? There are managers, coaches, trainers, and other support people, plus the players themselves. Now with all of the support that is available to the players why don’t they make it to the professional level?

There are two possible answers, one is they don’t have the talent and the second is they quit. You don’t have to have talent in network marketing, but you can’t quit and be successful either. Another similarity.

Today, there is a player in MLB that spent 23 years in the minor leagues. He didn’t quit, and he used the support that was there to help and support him. He may have played in the last All Star game, played this year.

There are similar stories in network marketing. Many, many people haven’t quit and are successful today. There are lots of stories about people that have persevered for long periods of time before they became successful in network marketing.

Many of the successful people in network marketing never had any support and they spent years learning successful network marketing skills. Some people have 20 years or more under their belts before they became successful. Their stories are all over the internet as well as here in betternetworker.com.

One of the most recently successful and well know marketers worked for years as a ‘waiter’ before he became extremely successful.

Active individuals and groups can shorten, if not completely remove, the need for you to spend years before you become successful. There is experienced management, coaching and mentoring to help you sharpen your skills and become a truly professional marketing networker. Take a page out of how MLB has built their system of support. Use this opportunity to build your support system, find the management, coaching and mentoring style that fulfills your requirements and meets or exceeds your skill level. Affordable support is available to those seeking to assure their success in network marketing. Taking action and using what is available will get you into the game much more quickly with a higher level of financial success, too. I was able to find a group that will guarantee your success in any MLM business if you are a coachable person and in a business that is structured properly for you to succeed. Should you be interested in acquiring that guaranteed success, please contact me. Where can you find that, these days, "guaranteed success"?

Finally, what is really much nicer about network marketing versus major league baseball is the fact that everyone can succeed, because you don’t have to be an athlete. You just have to have the right attitude and some direction, too. Plus commit to becoming successful in your mind and with your efforts, and sticking with it for more then the ninety days, six months or year or so, some people claim it will take to become successful. Your success may take much longer to achieve. A lot depends on how much effort you are willing to commit too, now doesn’t it? The quote, “Winners never quit and quitters never win”, seems to me to be a good stopping point. Which are you, a winner or a quitter?