I was asked to ponder this question recently and give my honest
answer. It is an interesting question...and probably one asked
quite a bit, perhaps not out loud, but certainly it has been
internally poised to tens of thousands of network marketers who
live a busy life, have a full-time job, family, obligations,
etc. who are trying to start a home business all at the same
time, with very limited hours.

When I was asked to answer this question, my first answer came
up immediately. I thought to myself, "Of course they can!" I did
it! I've seen lots of other people do it. Viola! There's your
answer and the end of this article.

Then...I realized (I'm a little slow sometimes), that I was
asked to write an article about it, not just answer the
question. That got me thinking. What can I share with you about
my personal experience as a part-time network marketer that you
might be able to use in your life to go from part-time income
and a full-time job to a full-time network marketing income and
a joyous walk to your boss's office saying, "Thank you sir or
madam, this is the last day I'll be working in this job!"

So...short answer. Yes...a part-timer can make it working 8 to
10 hours a week.

Before I go into the details of how to guarantee you make money
working such part-time hours, at what point should you not
bother at all doing network marketing? In other words, does
there come a point where the amount of time you put in weekly
creates a situation where there are no favorable returns on your
minimal time invested? Really...if you want to escape the rat
race, your job, corporate America, whatever your objective for
being self-employed, any time in is good time in. However, you
must accept and come to the realization that if you are putting
in extremely few hours each week that it may take quite a bit
more time to create a decent check.

First of all...if you want to make it in this business, put in
as many hours as you can each week. Set time aside to do the
business. The most important element is how CONSISTENT you are
each week, regardless of how many hours you put in.
Yes...putting time in is critically important. But, being
consistent in your time carries heavier weight. Think about it.
We are in the business of interacting with other human beings.
Humans thrive on consistency. You showing consistency, even in
very few hours demonstrate professionalism and can be a
significant and incredibly magnetic factor in attracting people
to you. The ultimate weight of importance is on the "what you do
during those hours" side of the business. Time in is important,
consistency is important. However, if you are consistently doing
nothing during the time you put in, or consistently are doing
things that don't matter during that time, you will never make
it. Production is all that matters. Be sure to keep
self-checking and ensure that you are on track.

A Simple Game Plan to Guarantee your Success Working Less
than 10 Hours a Week

 If you are part of the great majority of people who join
network marketing and spend on average only about 10 hours a
week in your business, you will appreciate what I am about to
share with you.

I was personally able to generate nearly a six-figure income
working my business very part time. In fact, I averaged about 10
to 15 hours a week, never working more than 15 hours in any
given week during my tenure as a part time home business
professional. I simply didn't have any more free time than that.
So...I worked with what I had and maximized my results during
the time I put in. Did you catch that? If you are going to make
it in nominal hours, max it out. I worked at an absolutely
feverish pace during the hours I put in. There was no time for
slacking, no time for being slow, not time for messing around.
It was production, production, production, and nothing else. In
other words, prospecting was all I did. The best news is that
because of the habits I started as a part timer, I was able to
quickly get my income into multiple six-figure status as a
full-timer.

Here's the next part of this lesson. I knew I didn't have much
time, so I simply didn't worry about dealing with or messing
around with things that weren't of critical importance. You
can't major in the minors when you are limited in time.
And...you simply can't major in the minor things if you want to
be successful in general. I never arranged my leads, and my desk
was a mess. But...I knew where everything was. You should have
seen the amount of dust on my shelves. I was too busy working in
my office to ever clean it. I figured that there would be plenty
of time to have a maid clean up my office when I made it big.
The funny thing is that even to this day, my office isn't the
cleanest in the world. When my house cleaner comes over, I
rarely leave my office to let her come in and clean it. I am
still too focused on producing.

My Simple Secret to Part-Time Success!

I helped a friend of mine get to over $10,000 a month in less
than 12 months working out of his car! I've always been good at
this. It's called walking and chewing gum at the same time. You
must maximize your "dead time". These are all the times during
the day that you could be prospecting and focusing on your
business, but you're not because you aren't realizing those
golden opportunities. You are allowing simple opportunities to
pass you by. This happens in two ways for most. Either a) They
simply let key opportunities to prospect people they meet by
ignoring the signs or taking advantage of those fortuitous
circumstances, or b) They simply do nothing at all when they
could be doing something, even if it means a 3-minute call to a
prospect while you are pumping your gas. Everyone has down time
or dead time that could turn into production time. I was an
absolute mad man when I was part time. Every opportunity between
meetings, at lunch, while getting dressed for work in the
morning, on my drive to the gym, while waiting in line at the
post office, whatever the opportunity, I seized it.

Start realizing you've got golden opportunities each and every
day that simply are impossible to get back. A minute ago is gone
and never to be seen or capitalized on again. You have to
capitalize and seize the minutes as they come.

The other thing I did was plan. I didn't have time to be
shuffling for leads and twiddling my fingers. Every night before
I went to work, I assembled my plan for prospecting in my part
time network marketing business the next day. I printed out all
of my leads and calls I needed to make for that day and printed
it on a single sheet of paper. I had them at my fingertips and
it made it easy for me to make things happen. If you want to
make it part time, you have to plan on making it part time.

Communicate to your leaders. My sponsors knew I was serious and
they knew that I was going to be calling them (regularly) for
3-way support calls. Why? I told them I was going to be calling.
I found out what their schedule was and made sure that I took
advantage of golden opportunities to get leaders on with my
prospects. I'm no dummy. When I don't know something, I leverage
myself by hooking up with people who DO know something so I can
learn it. I had no idea how to close...none. It was the hundreds
and hundreds of 3-ways I did that taught me the art of closing
in network marketing. You've got to be a student if you are
going to be a superstar in this business.

I Knew I Would Make a Fortune the Moment I Saw Network
Marketing for the Very First Time

Does that sound too good to be true? It's the truth...and boy,
it has been good! Don't you hate that statement? If it sounds
too good to be true, and those words are coming out of your
mouth, you're probably a broke skeptic. I never bought into that
ridiculous statement. I just made 50% on a recent real estate
deal I did, and my mom caught word of it. What did she say? "You
know Todd. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." I
had to grow up with the same stuff many of you did. Broke
thoughts, broke mentality, lack, lack, lack. I broke through the
lack with one simple thing: Decision Making. You see, the reason
in knew I would make a fortune in network marketing wasn't
because I knew a darn thing about it, because I knew absolutely
nothing. It was because I know that when I make a decision to do
something, I do it. One of your greatest assets in your ability
to make it part time may simply be your ability to make a firm
decision.

You have a choice. You can make it in this business, or let this
business break you. It is literally that simple. You either say
yes to success or you don't say anything. Not making a decision
will allow someone else to make a decision for you and I can
guarantee you that they will have entirely different plans for
you.

Take note of the things I am saying.

Yes...you absolutely CAN make it working very part time in this
business, but you have to follow the path of other people who
have gone before you in the field.

You deserve success...but you have to work to get the success!

P.S. I am in the process of turning lots of part time network
marketers into full time success stories. You want to be next?



About the author:
About the Author: Todd Falcone has had an amazing career in
network marketing spanning over 15 years. He is a master
prospecting coach and leadership development specialist who now
focuses all of his time speaking and training industry wide. His
articles, teachings, and training programs have been featured
worldwide. For more information, visit his website at
http://www.ToddFalcone.com

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