Motivational YouTube monologue by Alan Solarsh promoting network marketing as a low-cost, fast-return alternative to traditional businesses. Solarsh contrasts high startup costs and long ROI of franchising with network marketing’s low barrier to entry and potential to generate income within 7–14 days if one learns the system. He emphasizes three core maxims—get excited, pay attention, never quit—recommends following industry mentors (Marcus Setter, Matt Morris, Eric Worrall), and gives practical advice (learn the product, expect many ‘no’ responses, aim for ~20% signup rate).
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Alan Solosh here, the passive income guru. And I just wanted to shoot this video, guys, and just give you my thoughts and feelings on entrepreneurship. And I just want you guys to ask yourselves, who would like to be an entrepreneur? And generally when I ask that question, a lot of people say, well, they don't normally put their hands up. Only a very few percentage of people put their hands up. Now, when I ask you another question, I say to you, who of you would like to be entrepreneurs without the structure and responsibilities of being an entrepreneur? There are a lot more hands in the room that actually go up. And the reason being is because people don't want those sort of responsibilities of running their own businesses. And that's what I love about network marketing. Network marketing allows you to own a business at a very low barrier to entry. That means that the cost to get involved is very low and the amount of reward that you can get is very high, unlike in traditional business where it's very expensive to get involved and you need a whole different skill set to make your business successful. So, I mean, if you wanted to own a McDonald's franchise, McDonald's franchise can cost anywhere from 1 million to $2 million. And you'd need a lot of training. And also, yes, you're fitting into a system, but you give a lot of the profit away to the franchise, to the franchisee. And that's, you know, it's a great system. But, you know, if you have to borrow one or two million dollars, the return on investment only really happens in about five to 10 years where you really start actualizing your profit. Whereas in a network marketing business, you can start actualizing your profit in the next, I don't know, seven to 14 days if you equip yourself with the tools and you've got the correct mentor and you decide to really do this as a professional, take this seriously. So on that note, I just wanted to tell you that in network marketing, there is a system. It's more philosophy than anything else. And there's certain things that you need to do and there's certain things that you should not be doing in network marketing. And on my website, there's a full training on how you can get started quickly in network marketing. I highly recommend that you go and check out those videos. And I posted earlier about my mentors being Marcus Setter, Matt Morris and Eric War. Now, those are the industry leaders and I've been following those guys for the last five years. And Matt Morris and Marcus Setter in a different network to us. But their teachings are Universal throughout network marketing. And if you follow their principles and you do exactly what they tell you to do, it is absolutely impossible to fail in this industry. So my, the first, the first three rules that I was taught was get excited, never quit those, that was the first rule. Okay, get excited, never quit. And that's exactly what, what I've done in my network marketing career. Every time I've got involved with a different company I've been ignorance on fire. And that ignorance that, that fire is, is very, very catchy. And a lot of people like join people that they know, like and trust. People don't normally join people that they don't know them. And if they do join someone that they don't know then they buying into the philosophy of the person that has actually introduced them to their business. So the most important thing about it is to get excited.
Pay attention and then never quit. So you need to pay attention about the product, get excited about the product and then follow through. Learn the concept, learn the tools, learn the product, the inside out of the product and then never ever quit. And that's the only way that you will succeed in network marketing is if you never quit. Obviously with everything else in life, you know, quitters never win, winners never quit. I hope you in that bracket of, you know, the winners that never quit. So I hope that you found this video inspirational. Go and learn the tools, go and show your buddies, go and show your family, your friends, etc about this amazing concept. It's one of the only concepts out there that allow you to make money within 14 days. You know, in all network marketing concepts you only make money when you sell the product in this, in this environment, we make money when we buy the product. Okay, so after between 7 and 14 days of you having the product, you make money. And that is very, very unique in the network marketing space. And that's why Atlantic has exploded. The, it has exploded. You know, I feel that we've got a social responsibility not only to our fellow family, friends, colleagues and strangers in South Africa, but to the, to the rest of the world. You know, network marketing is a better way we can show people exactly like how to get out of the shackles of modern day slavery. And I hope that you take this opportunity seriously and show your friends and family exactly how they too can get out of the shackles of modern day slavery. So get out there, go and show your friends. It's not hard, just you know, carry on, keep on doing it, keep on doing it. One of my biggest.
Lessons that I was taught by my mentors was to go and get 100 people to say no to me, not 100 people to say yes. Okay. During the path of getting your 100 people to say no, your signup ratio should be about 20%. Means 20% of the people should say yes to you. You've then got a business, your self esteem should go up and your signup records should start to go up at an exponential rate. But the first part is to go and get your feet wet and go and lose some self esteem and go get some people to say no to you. So I hope that helped and I'll see you on the next video.
