Are you one of the hundreds of thousands of netpreneurs, or would-be netpreneurs (Internet entrepreneurs that is) who have accepted the idea that you have to recruit, recruit, recruit to make money on the Internet?

Maybe you’re one of the two-to-five percent of humanity who are natural born, highly skilled or incredibly hard working and persistent promoters who make a good income online as a result of your ability to get people to sign up in one or more programs you’re marketing and pay money every month for the privilege of recruiting, recruiting, recruiting in their turn.

More likely, you’re one of the 95% to 98% of the population who are lousy recruiters and whose efforts to recruit have brought you frustration, misery and financial loss. You may even have grown to hate recruiting because of all the stress, pressure and failure you’ve experienced in connection with your efforts to build a downline or fill a matrix and make money.

Hey, you’re in good company. Don’t take it personally. The “average” entrepreneur can only recruit two to three people. If you join programs that have a good compensation plan or matrix system, a strong team, club or group support orientation, or a really supportive sponsor (especially one who gives you “spillover” signups in your downline) you just might be able to actually cover your costs for a program and get into profit. That’s a lot of “ifs.” But yes, it can and does happen, even with just two or three recruits. Visit http://www.lifemoreabundantclub.com/abundanceworks.html for some quality, low-cost, programs that have low recruiting requirements.

The good thing about building a downline or filling a matrix with people who faithfully pay a monthly subscription fee is that you can create residual income. One of my friends calls this “pulse free” money, because it’s income that you don’t have to trade time or effort to earn.

One little problem with this multi-level marketing approach is that getting people to join your program and pay a monthly subscription is only half of the battle–or equation. If the people who join your opportunity are unable to recruit enough other people to cover their costs and get into profit within the first two to six months after they join, guess what? Many of them are going to drop out of your program(s), you’ll lose their monthly commission(s) and you’ll have to keep aggressively recruiting to try to fill those “holes” and keep your downline from crumbling into nothingness.

The drop-out rate for new members in “active” programs (programs that do require recruiting for you to get into profit) can be quite high. I have heard of drop-out rates as high as 80%. It’s probably safe to assume that 50% drop-out rates are common. The higher the monthly subscription fee, the more likely your downline members are to drop out sooner rather than later.

The ultimate goal of making money from home business opportunities is to create a residual or “passive” income that rolls into your coffers without you having to trade your time or effort to get it. Trading your time and effort for money are what most day jobs require, and everyone knows that day jobs do not offer much in the way of financial security, far less financial freedom or personal wealth.

Creating multiple streams of passive or residual income is the best “formula” for achieving financial independence and financial security. These streams of income can come from real estate, buying and selling stocks and mutual funds, license fees, multi-level marketing…

Which brings us back to recruiting again, right? Wrong. There was a popular button slogan and saying back in the 1960’s: “question authority.” I would suggest a modified form of that saying: “question assumptions.”

Just because all or most of the home income opportunities you may have come across on the Internet seem to require recruiting, and provide you with banners, promotional email letters you can send to your friends and contacts, advertising texts and lists of places to advertise your “opportunity,” don’t assume that this is the only way to “play the (home-based business) game.” The first three letters in assume are…? Yes, assumptions can make asses of you(u) and me.

Admittedly, it is hard to overcome the natural tendency to trust and try to follow in the footsteps of all those (often self-appointed) experts, gurus, super-marketers and wealthy “heavy hitters” out there telling you how easy it is to ditch your day job, work in your pajamas and make fabulous profits by following their, simple, easy, idiot-proof systems–most or all of which require recruiting for you to be successful.

There are a lot of people who spend years working with “recruiting intensive” programs (online and/or offline) because they are simply unaware that there are any alternatives to this way of building a home-based business. They assume that this “is just the way things are” and that “it’s the only game in town” and “I’ll just keep trying harder and/or keep looking for the perfect program that will make it all happen for me.”

There are alternatives to home business opportunities that require their members (also called affiliates) to recruit to make money, however. Quite a few of them, actually.

Some are free to join, some are low-cost, some are moderate-cost, some are high cost. At the lowest end of that range (the free-to-join programs that don’t require recruiting for you to earn money) you can earn a few hundred dollars a month, although $500 a month is the maximum profit for these types of programs.

The programs that do require you to spend some money will offer higher passive income profits that can mount up to thousands of dollars a month. They also tend to be a lot less labor and time-intensive than the no-cost, free-to-join programs.

If you would like to learn more about these profitable alternatives to programs that require recruiting, check out the Life More Abundant Club at: http://www.lifemoreabundantclub.com/ 

Cynthia Lee
Administrator, Life More Abundant Club
abundantlife@cox.net