When the personal computer was gaining popularity in 80's and into the 90's I remember learning DOS and working with windows 3.0. As Y2K approached, I had my first home business running well based on new technological developments in the health care field. I remember backing up all my work on New Years eve in the hoopla of what might happen! (I really wasn't too concerned - in fact I found my wife a very cheap airline ticket to go to the Bahamas with for a few days with a friend. She was literally in the air as the new millennium was birthed!)

As the new century progressed, a good friend introduced me to a new network marketing company. Although I was staunchly anti-mlm at that time due to my ignorance of the industry, I had enough respect for my friend to take a look at it. The light bulb went on, and I joined and started building a team. At first I did what my upline suggested, and found out after doing the old fashion ways and wasting lots of money on out-of-date marketing methods my company and upline suggested, I realized that something had to change if our team was to work towards success. I begin to research and learn how to market my business through the internet. Internet marketing, especially in network marketing, was in its infancy.

Also at the same time, I realized that the industry of network marketing had a huge vacuum that teaching solid business principles of marketing and team building could fill. It was out of this convergence of circumstances that the WorksTeam was formed. I had recruited some great people across the nation via network marketing and I had pulled together a mastermind group to lead our team. The initial goal was just to train the team within our company to learn more professional and internet based strategies to build their business.

As our team was growing and succeeding (our company reward me in 2003 with the most successful team builder in the company) we were also attracting people from other companies to our style and training. When our company was going through significant challenges, we decided at that point we couldn't afford to put "all our eggs in one basket" and begin to expand our portfolio and training - one of the best decisions we ever made. The now famous Ann Sieg became a part of our WorksTeam master mind leadership group at this point. Out of the incubation of that group came some great success, including some of the seed thoughts to her powerful Renegade System.

We opened the WorksTeam training up to anyone willing to invest in our tools and wanting to learn our approaches to training and marketing. The consultative approach coupled with the power of internet marketing became the center pieces of our training. We were some of the forerunners of changes that are now sweeping the industry.

As I transitioned into full time missions work in 2006, Wendy Mills took over the leading of the Worksteam and has taken it to even higher levels of professionalism and training.

The network marketing industry is just now starting to apply the tried and true business and marketing principles that propel every other industry in the world. NWM is shedding its infantile beginning ways and practices of marketing (like the 3 foot rule.) As the WorksTeam applies this revolution to the most recent internet marketing strategies and techniques, the future is bright.

What we have learned the years is that there will be challenges, but the effort to keep up with technology and apply it to online marketing is well worth the effort

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