Robert Blackman

Age: 37

Education: Bachelors in Business Administration 1984 Oklahoma State University

Employees: 0

Type of Business: Network marketing author and distributor. Also does consulting, copywriting, design, and printing.

Year Started in Business: 1987

Best month (gross revenue): $85,000

Hours worked per week during start-up: 60-80

Hours worked per week now: 10-20

Heros: Father (he served in Germany during WWII), Rich DeVos & Jay Van Andel (for cutting the path in the Network Marketing forest)

Favorite Business Periodicals: Robb Report, Upline, Jay Abraham’s Newsletter

Favorite Business Books/Authors: Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty by Harvey McKay, Advertising Magic by Brian Keith Voiles, Personal Power by Tony Robbins

Relaxes by: Playing Golf

Favorite part of his business: Helping his downline make money!

Least favorite part of his business: The frustration of seeing people so close to success but who won’t do the necessary things it takes to get there –when it becomes apparent that you can’t help someone because of his or her negative mindset.

Stays in shape by: lifting weights in his own office gym. Golfs at least twice weekly and uses a treadmill daily.

Admired Companies: Microsoft, Amway, Life Force International

Favorite Quotes:

“You Make The Rules” (Jay Abraham)

“What If Everybody In Your Downline Duplicated EXACTLY What You Did Every Single Day Of The Week, Would You Be Excited Or Would You Be Depressed?” (Robert Blackman)

“The Big Shots Are Only The Little Shots Who Keep On Shooting” (Christopher Morley)

Contact Robert at: Robert1MLM@aol.com

For Robert Blackman, it was dad who served as the inspiration for entering business. “My Father was the president of a continuous forms business in Bartlesville, Oklahoma called Central States Business Forms. At age 58 he took early retirement and started a quick-print franchise. At the time I was 18. It really impressed me that dad was willing to “start over” at age 58 because he was tired of all the corporate politics. He left a $75,000 a year job in 1980 (which was big back then) and started over.”

Robert had grown up in his dad’s manufacturing plan. At age 25, it was time to follow his lead and start his own business. And as if to prove the value of his upbringing, Robert turned a profit in his very first month and has never looked back.

Like most entrepreneurs, the reward is freedom. “Some days I don’t work at all. Other days I work 18 hours straight. It just depends on how I feel,” says Robert. Being able to write his own paycheck ranks high, too. “The only limit to the amount of money I make is up to me! I love getting up in the morning and being in complete control of my financial destiny.”