The internet has changed the Network Marketing industry dramatically in many ways. None bigger than how It has provided a place for Networkers to recruit beyond their warm market and to do it without leaving their home.

One problem I see is that many people have drawn a line in the sand between “Old School” networking and the “New School” internet model. Many people promoting the “New School” model make it sound like it is an either or choice, when it is not. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard or read “old school is dead.”  The facts are “Old School” is not dead.  Many and probably most of the biggest whales in MLM built their businesses “Old School”. Many and probably most of the biggest MLM companies, with real products that will be here 20 years from now, were built “Old School”.

I have built very large organizations with thousands of personally sponsored reps and almost all done online. I also built a personal customer base of over 15,000 for a nutritional product online. These large organizations included many warm market and other “Old School” recruits and customers in my down line and I my bank account has been far better off because of it.

So I am not an old time “Old School” networker trying to hold on to the past. I believe the future of networking certainly moves further and further to the internet but it is a mistake to just write off “Old School”.

MLM organizations need people and not every future networker can be found online. People get loyal buyers and recruit low hanging fruit out of their warm market and that is not going to stop. The internet is great for networking and where I choose to market myself and my business but there are many, many Top networkers who barely no how to turn on a computer who I would love to have on my team.