The Donkey and The Tram

I am a fan of a lot of comedians and one of my favorite comedians is Ron White. In one of his sets he tells the story of how he and his wife visited Greece.
“We went to San Terrene which is the partial rim of the islands ancient volcano which was a big tourist attraction. Now for 2000 years the only way to get to the top of the volcano was to take a donkey to the top which is 800 feet up the switch back, which took forever. Till 5 years ago when they build a tram that did it in 18 seconds. The donkey guy was still there and he had the worst pitch I had ever heard in my life.”
The donkey guy said:
“You can take the donkey to the top of the rim or you can take the tram, it is the same price.”
To which Ron White said:
“That would be my biggest secret if I was you. I would start lying right away. The donkey is $3.20 and the tram is about $2000 Euro.”

Why am I writing about Ron White’s story?

I saw it as an entertaining story that parallels the Network Marketing industry and the Online Marketing Industry for your Network Marketing Business. There is 2 ways to build your business. You can take the donkey or you can take the tram, they both will get you there.
Most of us got into our business opportunity and were taught that we should follow a “proven business model” and that if we duplicated what our sponsor did that we would have the same results. Friends and Family, the business sells itself, the service or product is the greatest, etc. Sound familiar? And because this model was “proven” it was the way to do it because everyone else in the company did it this way so it must be right.
HEEEHAWWWW….jump on the donkey and we will get to the top in no time…somewhere between 2 and 5 years…I think that is what they said.

But then a great thing happened. They built a tram! A faster and more efficient way to do the same think, get to the top. Our tram came in the form of online systems that harnessed the power of the internet to help us build our businesses. By learning to market we could do some much more, so much faster, and automate parts of it to maximize our time, our efforts, and in doing so increase our profits. Now instead of roping prospects into unprompted and unsolicited business presentations, we were learning to use technology to make our prospects come to us. We were learning to use blogs and articles, not friends and family lists. We were learning how to do use YouTube, Skype, and Facebook, not 3-way calls and meetings with your upline. We were learning how to attain in months, what took your upline years to accomplish.
No more “100 No’s”, rejection, wasted time with people who weren’t interested in the first place, and no more BABYSITTING your downline.

The new way provided us with so many more opportunities, than our “Business Opportunity” could ever give us. You see once you know how to market and once you get good at it, it no longer matters what business you do…a knowledgeable Online Marketer can market any business, any product, any service, and do it virtually with no effort. I am not saying there is no work involved, however a good online marketer knows just what to implement to get the maximum results in the shortest amount of time. My friend Jonathan Budd, a great marketer, built an organization of 2000 people and tens of thousands of dollars…in 2 or 3 months on his 2nd Network Marketing business. Granted he knew what he was doing and he had the list (which using the “Tram” will show you how to do, as well as I will) to email to. But it does show to possibilities.

So are you going to ride the donkey and do what most of the old school Networking Marketing people are doing?
Or would you like to cut your time to the top by a fraction by riding the Tram?
Here is your Tram http://www.mlm-mastermindmarketing.com/
Let the donkey sleep, he is very tired.


Blaine M Brazzle
MLM Mastermind Marketing
http://www.mlm-mastermindmarketing.com/