I have been contacted by a few MCNs and have turned down most of them mainly because at the current state my channel is in, the network can't provide anything for me. A network would take (hypothetically) $3 of the (hypothetical) $10 I make each month. Great. How, with that $3, is a network going to be motivated to help my channel grow? It won't be motivated, and you can't blame them. It's not worth joining a network at 1,000, not even at 10,000. When the network offers you something that could realistically benefit you, that's when you sign with them.