SOME SAY (7): I do not have the time to go out in search of downlines.

And to them I say: Network building does not necessarily entail going about the town in search of downlines. You can conveniently integrate the exercise into your daily routine. Whatever your job or vocation, you are constantly surrounded by people and you are constantly interacting with people. Communication is not only by meeting people physically. Think of the telephone; think of e-mails on the internet.

It is true that the unemployment situation in the country today has caused many people to venture into network marketing and regard it as a full-time business from day one. But the basic fact about network marketing, generally, is that it is a part-time business - something you do to earn extra income in addition to your regular job. However, the time may come in the long run when the “extra” income may become your major income and you will have to make the inevitable choice of quitting your regular job and becoming a full-time network marketer. The history of Tianshi business is fraught with many of such cases.

But, as a beginner, you need not sacrifice your regular job to go hunting for downlines. Just make it a habit; make it a part of your life wherever you find yourself - at your workplace, at school, on the street, at the marketplace, in the church or mosque, anywhere. Human nature is such that whatever the mind is set to do, it manages one way or the other and finds time to do it.