Here you have a diary written from the coal face. This is network marketing and making money from home in real life... in real time.

I write it because I used to write for a living and find it quick and easy - there is no suggestion that anyone else should do the same.

The daily activity described here deals with what we call in my company The Business Development Plan. This is a sheet of paper detailing the activity we set ourselves to complete each day - with a space to tick it off in the evening.

This activity could involve speaking to six new people, posting 20 leaflets through letterboxes, handing out 50 business cards. You can do anything you like. After all, network marketing is your own home-based business and you can spend as much time or as little as you please on it - just as long as you do something every day and you remember that the more you do the more money you make.

For the fact is that whatever you do, you end up talking to people - which is where we came in.

If you'd like to know how the conversations develop, you can find out at www.pigincome.co.uk

And, of course, if you think this business might be for you, have a look at www.lookmoneylook.co.uk

John Passmore
Woodbridge, Suffolk,
United Kingdom

For 25 years I was a newspaper reporter - ending up as Chief Correspondent for the London Evening Standard. Then I gave it all up and, with my wife, set out to live the simple life on a small boat while writing a column for the Daily Telegraph. Five years and two children later we moved ashore - and five years and another two children after that I ran out of money. Nobody wanted to give me a job and I couldn't afford to start a conventional business. Then at a craft fair in our local community hall, somebody showed me network marketing. It was described as a home-based business that would provide a second income for anyone who wanted to work from home. I was sceptical. There were claims of high earnings and something called a "residual income". But what if it did work? And beside what alternative did I have? So I threw myself into it wholeheartedly (which is the only way to succeed at anything). I'm not saying it's easy or that there were never moments of doubt but if you're prepared to learn and determined never to give up, then there is a statistical certainty that you will make money. I started in April 2005. I was broke and embarrassed. Today I have no money worries whatsoever.