I was watching the SunTrust Indy Challenge at Richmond International Raceway this evening, and was excited to see network marketing companies Herbalife and MonaVie with their names on multiple cars and the pit wall. Add to that Amway North America, who pioneered new ground last year with television commercials and Amway Arena (the home of the Orlando Magic), and it is safe to say network marketing has hit prime time.

To see Amway, MonaVie, and Herbalife side by side with AT&T, GoDaddy and Target is a wonderful step forward for network marketers everywhere. Not only does it bring our company names into the public eye; it legitimizes our business model through association with these major sports organizations.

But with this new exposure comes new responsibilities. We must now conduct our business with the legitimacy and integrity that such efforts by our parent companies demand, otherwise we undermine these efforts. Let us all take advantage of this opportunity to obliterate the negative perceptions of network marketing and portray it as the true business it is.

I will be featured on tonight’s call Timely Topics with Tania. She will be dissecting my business and giving pointers on how to find your target market in the online community. Please join us and watch me be in the hot seat.

So be sure to join us at 712-432-6100 and use passcode 99185#. The call begins at 9:30 PM EST. Don’t forget to say “Hello” and introduce yourself when you join the call.

To learn more about Tania and what she is doing, visit her blog.

After recouping from the onslaught of people registering last Thursday (04/02), the folks over at Renegade Professional have decided to open the doors again for today and tomorrow only (04/06 – 04/07).  Then, according to Mike Klingler, “…we will close for some time to take our focus off marketing (and reacting to the results of that marketing) and onto working with the new students and addressing their needs.”

So for those of you that wanted to register but were unable to on Thursday, NOW is your chance. Register today and become a Renegade Professional!

For those who don’t know, network marketing successes Ann Sieg and Mike Klingler have put together Renegade Professional, an online training series based on Ann’s book The Renegade Network Marketer. It is a subscription based service that opened April 2, 2009. Registrations closed at midnight that very same day.

According to their blog, they had to stop accepting registrations due to the sheer volume of people that were scrambling to get their hands on this valuable resource. "At one point today, we were getting an average of 40 of them per second," Ann writes.

I was one of the fortunate ones. I was eagerly sitting at my computer screen ten minutes prior to the doors opening. After reading The Renegade Network Marketer, I knew I was onto something. I had been involved in network marketing for a number of years, but I always struggled with the techniques that were being taught. I did do them, but I was not getting the results that I wanted. It was a lot of work for a little result. In her book, Ann was talking about reversing the whole process. It was talking about how to have prospects coming to me. How to position myself as an expert who had knowledge and value to offer others. Man, did that sound better that chasing down everyone I met and subtly feeling them out to see if I should even bring up my business opportunity. Needless to say, I was not going to let this opportunity to get more in-depth training slip past.

And this is some cutting-edge training. With tons of instruction covering things like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and email-campaigns, "the world is your oyster" as they say.

While the doors might be closed right now, be sure to keep your eyes open. It just might open up again. In the meantime, The Renegade University is still open for new members. And, it’s free.

Until next time.