Market America, Mentors Galore!
Market America, Mentors Galore!
In any sales job (and, most emphatically, in any direct sales job), it pays to have a mentor, to have someone who inspires you to jump out of bed and do what you do only try a little harder or do it a little better than you did it the day before.
In any sales job (and, most emphatically, in any direct sales job), it pays to have a mentor, to have someone who inspires you to jump out of bed and do what you do only try a little harder or do it a little better than you did it the day before.
Market America is also all about putting these lofty expectations into the hands of living, breathing, actual human beings who, more often than not, have their feet on the ground.
Of course, Market America's system is all about mentoring, passing the baton, helping others realize their own dreams and developing goals that help you define your life instead of letting other people define it for you.
The truth is, many wage earners are struggling. Incomes do not stretch as far as they once did, personal debts are extravagantly high, promotions and raises at work are far to small or seldom to really cut it.
There's a standard formula for this that had been true for most Americans for decades that dictated how much you were expected to earn. The pattern followed this prescription: In your twenties, your earnings were supposed to be somewhere in the $20,000 or higher range. By the time you reached 30, your salary should have been somewhere in the vicinity of $30,000 or higher. By the time you reached 40, you should have been earning better than $40,000 and so on.
This is, of course, preposterous today. In an April 2015 article in Money, a highly respected magazine that covers personal finance, careers and other topics, it was said that the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that “for 10 broad degree categories ranging from engineering to communications, 2016 graduates are (were) projected to have an average salary of $50,556.”
The article went on to say that the average expected salary was up 5 percent from just two years prior, in 2014, “when new grads earned an average of $48,127.
Yes, we live in a day when the numbers just get bigger and bigger. That $50,000 plus in 2016 was the average expected salary, meaning some graduates were likely earning twice that in their first year out of school. And the average had gone up 5 percent in two years. If that trend had continued, and there's no reason to assume it did not, that $50,556 in 2016 would be $53,993 in 2018 and $56,692 in 2020.
The average debt in the United States is also trending higher and there are more debts out there than ever before. The total of debt origination fees in the United States recently topped $15 billion for the first time ever among U.S. banks. The average car loan now starts out at more than $27,000. The average existing debts for U.S. households includes $7,630 for revolving debt (basically for credit cards), $11,245 for student loan debts, $8,163 for vehicle debt and $70,323 for mortgage debt.
That means, the average college graduate in 2018 earned $53,993, but owed $97,361 if he or she owned a car, bought a house and had a credit card or two.
And, if this is averages, this means millions of Americans are not keeping up. After all, there are, likely to be at least as many graduates below the curve as there are above it.
This brings us back to the concept of mentors and the plain, solid truth is that the Market America Unfranchise system is not only packed with mentors, by definition, everyone who sponsors and fosters new Unfranchise entrepreneurs is, by definition, somebody's mentor.
A recent look at the Market America website, of course, reveals some of the top mentors in the Market America system – people who have the get up and go, the chutzpah, the verve, the market sense and whatever else it takes to succeed in the Market America universe.
If you want a role model, look no further than the likes of International Field President Ming-Chu Kuo and his wife Marian, listed on the Market America profile page as earning $110,000 to $124,000 per year on their Unfranchise business. In fact, he says, he dropped his career as an environmental engineer, which he now pursues as “a hobby,” while Marian dropped her career as a computer programmer to jump full time into their Unfranchise opportunities. Simply amazing!
Look no further than Carole Anderson, director, whose profile very much sounds like she was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, nor did she have the luckiest life story to tell. Her first husband died. She raised a child by herself and knew what it was like to live paycheck to paycheck. All she wanted was to live that comfortable lifestyle she had expected all along. Is that too much to ask?
Look no further than Benjamin Ginder Jr., field president. In fact, if you want to talk mentoring, Carole Anderson says Ginder pursued her for six months before she agreed to attend a Market America Leadership Meeting – an event that changed her life.
After giving up his career in finance to embrace the Market America Unfranchise option, Ginder found that his economic dreams could come true. He now lives in a “sprawling estate,” in Wrightsville, Pa., overlooking the scenic Susquehanna River, and his fleet of cars includes a Lamborghini, a Ferrari, a Bentley, a Rolls Royce, an Aston Martin and an Mercedes! In some circles, that might deserve an explanation point. What do you think?
What is most fascinating about these Unfranchise shinning stars, however, is not their achievements, but how they made internal adjustments along the way. Grinder writes of “self-discipline and determination.” He talks of his “struggle to pay the bills,” and then says he learned to “communicate with (his) inner conviction to get the results you (he) want.”
Field Vice President Lou Manfredi says he and his wife Charlotte began their Market America Independent Distributors careers in 1993 and champions the concept of having an “ONGOING INCOME.”
Manfredi says it all starts with believing in yourself. It took that inner conviction, confidence and courage for him to achieve “tremendous wealth” with his Unfranchise business. He is in the Unfranchise Million Dollar Club and boasts an earning level of somewhere between $36,000 and $44,000.
If you want to find a mentor, the takeaway is this: The Unfranchise system is nothing but mentors from top to bottom from JR an Loren, right on down to the newest member. At the same time, try this on for size: Be your own mentor! Take charge! Follow your dreams!
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If you want to find a mentor, the takeaway is this: The Unfranchise system is nothing but mentors from top to bottom from JR an Loren, right on down to the newest member. At the same time, try this on for size: Be your own mentor! Take charge!