About Me

Michael Dlouhy Short Biography

Business:    
• Started in network marketing in 1979.
• Full-time in the industry since 1991.
• Joined over 100 MLM companies in 1992-94, to find out everything he could about how the business really worked.
• Does 15 hours a week of network marketing training by phone for anyone in any company.
• Has written 2 ebooks: SuccessIn10Steps and Powerful Networking Secrets!
• Owner of the website MentoringForFree.com, Inc., a service to help train network marketers from any company.

Personal:    
• Regarding his 8th grade education & difficult early family background: “It turned out to be a good thing. I had to make it on my own in life from an early age. I learned to be an entrepreneur from the start.”
• Married to wife Linda since 1970.
• 2 great children: Matthew (22) & Amanda (19)
• Favorite places: “Linda & I love to drive on the beach at Daytona, or go snorkeling at Looe Key.”
• Favorite outings: scuba diving & motorcycle riding with son Matthew; boating with daughter Amanda & helping her work on her T-top Camaro.
• Best advice: “EVERY Olympic athlete has a coach. The top ones hire their own personal coach. Most top business people have (or once had) a true mentor, someone who’s done it before and knows what to do. The person with a mentor has a big advantage. Tom Schreiter was my mentor for 15 years before I ever joined his business. I would be honored to be YOUR mentor, no matter what company you are in.”

More:

We caught the network marketing bug in 1978 when a gentleman came to the house to sell us insurance. I was building houses, and he asked me a question that changed my life:

“Michael, how would you like to get a little less money on every house that you build, but then the people would pay you ongoing income for the rest of your life? Would that interest you?”

It just clicked. It made sense. He showed me network marketing with an insurance program, and that’s where I got the bug.

We learned about target marketing there, only talking to people who have raised their hand, who were interested. You have to target them and pull them in.

I also learned that you have to have a mentor. I searched out and found somebody who was massively successful, read everything he ever wrote, travelled around the country going to his seminars.

We joined another program and had massive success. We actually retired from the company. And because I had the time & money, I wanted to really figure out network marketing. So in the early 90s, I joined over 100 network marketing companies in a 2-year period. I analyzed them to see what worked & what didn’t.

I actually wound up doing consulting with network marketing companies. That was a great learning experience. The companies wanted to figure how they could design a compensation plan so the THEY would make the most money. The distributor wasn’t really part of the equation.

It gave me a great perspective on how to analyze a company.

Likes: I love spending time with my family. Talking, laughing, going, doing, having fun with my wife. Linda & I love to be around each other. I love it when my daughter Amanda comes home from work and gives me a big hug and tells me she loves me. I love it when my 21-year-old son Matthew hugs me and tells me he loves me. Those are the all-time best of the best of the best.

Dislikes: Pushy, aggressive people coming at you, trying to sell you, get you in their deal. I will not let those people in my life. Most of those people have never done anything worthwhile, anyway. They’re all lying.

Hobbies: I love the water. We live in Florida for a reason. We go out to Anklote Island. We like snorkelling, scuba diving, fishing, water skiing, camping out. We like going down to Looe Key for diving & lobstering. You see fish of every shape & size. Great place to go.

I like cool old cars. Motorcycles. Racing. I love speed, anything to do with action.

Pet peeves: I hate liars & cheats. If I tell you I’m going to do something, I’ll do it, no matter what. And I expect the same from you.

Favorite food: My wife’s homemade steak hoagies. She marinates the beef & chops it, slices it & grills it. She does a steak hoagie on a soft yeast roll with mushrooms & melted swiss cheese. It will take your breath away.