This past weekend I took two of my mustang horses to a hunter show.
If you are not familiar with the horse show world, a hunter show is where a bunch of people get together, and jump their horses over a course of obstacles (one horse and rider pair at a time, of course). That’s a picture of me and one of my mustangs at a recent show.
At a hunter show, the horse and rider are judged on the prettiness of the overall picture. There are usually 8 to 10 obstacles on each jumping course, and the horse and rider have to jump the obstacles with uniformity. This means the pair must have a steady rhythm, jump each obstacle from approximately the same distance, and look “pretty.” The horse and rider with the prettiest and most accurate course win the class.
Me and My Maverick Mustangs
As you can imagine, there were some really fancy horses there. I showed up with two unconventional horses: one pony-sized mustang mare (Samantha) and one larger elephant-like mare, whom we affectionately refer to as “the Lumberjack” (real name, Valentine).
The Lumberjack warmed up fine, but dumped me before the first jump, for an automatic disqualification. Oh dear. Oh well.
Samantha showed well in the morning with two 4th place finishes, surprising those who owned some of the fancier horses. In the afternoon, Samantha kicked butt, bringing in two second-place finishes (in a class of eight) against some very fancy horses, most of whom towered over her. Though Samantha is not as big, fancy, or pretty as most other horses in the class, she and I were very accurate and steady throughout. More surprise from the traditional hunter folks.
How Mustangs and MLM are Related
What did I get out of this whole experience? As a person obsessed about both horses and MLM, I realized that I have about the same experience with both. I’m a maverick. I love doing the unusual and demonstrating that it is not only possible, but fun. Almost no one shows mustangs in the hunter division because mustangs usually aren’t fancy enough. It’s not conventional. It bucks the system. It’s somewhat ridiculous.
But it can be done and I like doing it. That’s the maverick in me.
In MLM, most people still find it easier to prospect friends and family rather than use the internet to promote their MLM business. I’ve built a successful, very passive, low-maintenance online MLM business while most people just use a corporate-sponsored duplicated website as an extra resource. Did it take some work to build my own website? Hell, yes. Is it paying me back? Hell, yes. Did I wonder if I was crazy while I was building it? Hell yes.
Do I still feel crazy sometimes? Hell yes.
But the maverick in me won’t let me quit. I’ve never done well in the conventional world, but sitting in my office on my farm before the butt-crack of dawn, blogging away for the benefit of those who, like me, really want to do online MLM marketing, makes me giddy. Showing mustangs in the fancy-schmancy hunter world makes me giddy, too. Go figure.
The moral of this story is this: online MLM marketing is on the newer end of things, but it can definitely be successful if you want to do it and if it suits your personality. Heck, if I can successfully show my mustangs (even the Lumberjack was Jumper Horse of the Year a couple of years ago), you can do online MLM marketing.
Are you an online MLM maverick? Do you want to be? Drop me a line if you do. I’d love to schmooze about it!
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Photo: Me and Samantha
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