Linda McCarthy XanGo

By Doug Wead

Linda McCarthy died at 11:00 PM, Wednesday, March 10, 2010.  Her long battle over.

The passing of Linda McCarthy marks a unique moment in the world of business.  As a networker, Linda and her man Mike, who survives her, were renowned for their generosity.  Their popular website, McCarthy Central, drew views far and wide from around the world.  It was an attraction because it gave information and priceless technique and did so freely.  The information was far more valuable than the tricks and gimmicks others sold at a premium.

Mike and Linda were always straight shooters.  If others pushed the envelope with “gray” programs that found temporary success, Mike and Linda always did it the right way.  And it paid.  They were examples of building a network marketing business to the top, without compromising principle or cheating trusting prospects who would have followed them anywhere.

In many respects, the integrity and commitment to people of the McCarthy’s transcended the corporation with which they were working.  Networking companies are notorious for winking at “gray” policies that make them money.  And when finally forced back, will return to the honest, steady work of distributors who follow the rules and provide the dependable bulwark of income.  The result?  The “good guys” often work harder for less.  But the McCarthy’s proved that being good pays money.  They were not only generous and refused to cut the corners or defraud their own prospects, or raid people who weren’t their own, they made money, as much as any of their more flamboyant colleagues.

One more thing.  While offering their wisdom to the world.  The McCarthy’s loved their own lines of sponsorship and promoted them freely.  Their website is more about their people than it is about themselves.

It was a high wire act.  On the one hand they maintained the best of reputations with the company, their downline, their colleagues and on the other they made money.

It is hard to believe that Linda is gone.  But her reputation will live on.  Popular author, Zig Ziglar, who is failing in health, recently told a friend of mine.  When you die, all you really leave behind is your name.  Linda McCarthy leaves us a treasure.  We will feel her with us as we carry on.  And more than once we will ask ourselves, “What would Linda do?”