The first step to building a successful PART-TIME Network Marketing Business is to make a decision that you are going to DO it… no matter what you have to do or learn!

This is really critical… and the most frequently overlooked or perhaps deliberately misunderstood thing. You see, deciding to DO IT means leaving yourself no escape hatch, no excuses and no unproductive ‘busy’ work that fills your time.

We all have the same three assets. The part-time business builder simply must be more efficient and effective with them. They are:

• TIME
• MONEY
• ATTENTION

Money is something you can exchange for things you need and/or want.

Time is limited by day, week, month and year. Worrying about how ‘little’ time you have is simply a time-waster. Instead, develop the habit of recognizing that you have 24 hours to “use” EACH DAY.

Attention speaks to your ability or power to concentrate mentally.

Your use of the these three assets will determine your level of success. And one of the ‘tricks’ to success is being able to Budget Your Assets. By the way, the definition of the word budget is:

To plan in advance the expenditure of.

You’re probably most familiar with it in terms of MONEY so let’s look at that first. You budget or plan in advance how you will expend your money.

Like this:

“I’m going to put away $100 each month for 12 months and go on vacation.” or – “I’m going to allocate $300 per month towards promoting my business.”

Those are examples of budgeting money.

How can you budget time? Consider this… when you set your alarm clock you ARE budgeting, or planning in advance your time. So, when you set a window, say a two hour window, 7pm – 9pm as a time you will ‘work’ your business, that is also budgeting your time.

What about budgeting attention? When you consider that ideally,  time and attention go hand-in-hand, then you may realize that there are times when you are physically there but mentally you are somewhere else altogether.

So the trick here is to remember that when you allocate your TIME to your business, you also want to allocate your ATTENTION. Just like when you allocate your attention to your family you want to be there 100% also!

When it comes to your business you want to be reasonable with what you budget. When you first start you want to start small. Decide to budget some money each month for promoting your business. Say $100. When you first begin your business is not yet generating any cash but it is now that you want to consider allocating future business earnings to this amount. In other words, as your business grows, the amount you allocate for promoting will grow.

Promoting your business may include websites, autoresponders, online classified ads, newspaper ads, sending out post cards, buying leads and lists of names, buying memberships into organization where you can meet new people, buying books, CD’s and educational items to personally gain more knowledge and become more effective, etc.

These are very inexpensive uses of the asset MONEY that can allow you to use your other assets very effectively.

As for the other assets, TIME and ATTENTION – you may find you already have a very full schedule. This is what makes it even more critical that you decide what time can be allocated to building your business.

Remember, you don’t have to work your business every day of the week, but when you ARE working your business, be sure you are taking the most effective action possible.

This may mean, if you have a regular job you’re required to be at between 7am and 5pm and then you have other obligations and family you want to spend time with… then you are going to want to take a serious look at how you currently spend your days and weeks to discover when and where you can carve out 30 minute blocks of time.

When you make building a successful MLM business a priority you WILL find the time. And understand this… because of the residual aspect of network marketing, you are making a ONE TIME SACRIFICE FOR A LONG-TERM REWARD. So be willing to put 100% of your non-allocated self into it!

Yes, that may mean temporarily giving up a hobby or two. Yet when you consider the reward, in both time and money, it will truly be well worth it.

The level of your commitment will resonate with others of equal commitment. It has to… it’s the law! This alone will increase your asset of money. And you’ll be amazed to discover the impact it will have on your asset of time as you suddenly find yourself getting more and more efficient.

I’ve also discovered that once you truly make that landmark decision to make $10,000 a month a funny thing happens around that asset of attention. My ability to concentrate mentally and become laser focused increased dramatically!

The DECISION had to come FIRST!

So, if you want to build a powerful and successful Network Marketing Business Part-Time take the time to set up your Daily Operating Procedures and follow it. Here’s an example:

DAILY OPERATING PROCEDURES (DOP)

1. Read your goals

2. Prioritize your “to do” list – based upon your goals

3. Do your A list (most important) regardless of the time it takes them

~ Touch tasks one time and complete them

~Don’t let distractions take you off of what you’re doing.

~Make decisions swiftly. Either: YES – NO – MORE DATA REQUIRED

~Know yourself as the CAUSE of your day. You are the gatekeeper to what enters your mind and what you think about

~Choose to put into your mind only those things which will further you in reaching your goals. Do not get entangled in small games and worthless arguments that rob you of your assets of time, money or attention.

Read Your Goals (An example of what you can read (and do) for business goals)

Focus thoughts for 5 minutes on making $10,000 a month. To achieve it, follow this plan:

1. Educating daily by self-training – 30 min – 1 hour. Plan it now!

2. Promote your business daily by – sending out direct mail, buying leads, running ads, meeting new people (on and/or off line), dialing the phone. Plan it now!

3. Be effective by – connecting with people, setting appointments, selling products, sponsoring people, training new people.

===> All expenditures are to get you to $10,000.00 per month. No toys and hobbies. Buy only assets that build your business.

===> Attract to yourself the business partners that will make your goals a reality because of your willingness to contribute to others.

Example of a Part-Time Schedule

7:00 Rise, read DOP – Write new ad – Exercise – Call sister

8:00 Breakfast—(pack lunch & snack)  Grocery Shop

Travel to work—call Jim (downline) – Get oil changed— car

9:00 Place product order

10:00 Regular Job

11:00

12:00 Make 5 invite phone calls Write ad, place ad- Social online networking

1:00

2:00

3:00 Regular Job

4:00 Money Activities – Cultivate Goals

5:00 Self Training

Travel home—invite calls & downline Direct Mail

6:00 Admin (return emails, messages, paper work, etc.) Leaving Messages – Dinner – Advertisements

7:00 Meet New People

THIS IS PRIME TIME! Dials

8:00 ONLY TALK TO PROSPECTS. NO DOWNLINE Connects/Incoming (downline’s prospects okay) Appointments Set

9:00 EITHER NEW PROSPECTS OR FOLLOW-UPS Retail Sales

Call (downline) – Kim, Susan, Todd Sponsored People

10:00 Reply to emails, Social networking online,  New Reps Training Package – send welcome cards