Michael75065
05-13-2013, 08:25 AM
My biggest pet peeve
My biggest pet peeve is the greed that MLM sometimes create in people. Associates think they have tolk to look successful (a complete facade) in order to attract people to their business. Then they make their downline think that is what it takes to succeed. Being in debt up to their eyeballs is not success!
Also, there are too many companies and upline out there with the attitude of sponsor, sponsor, sponsor. It's like throwing the new recruits up against the wall to see who sticks. I got into it one time with a man who was in one very successful MLM and sold out. Then he bought another company. I went to a meeting he conducted to show the plan and I could hardly stand hearing what he was saying. All he could talk about was sponsor at least 20 people across and then go down. After the meeting, there I was, a small new distributor at my first meeting telling the hot shot he was wrong as we entered the elevator. I told him that is how to alienate family and friends and make people hate MLM. I told him that sponsoring downline to create a tap root builds stability and loyalty. Even though I was not rude and spoke to him with more respect that it sounds like in this comment, I could tell that he didn't like what I said. I felt he needed to hear it and so did the people he was preaching this garbage to as well. To me, it was a matter of principle and ethics to tell him what I knew to be the truth because of my prior experience in a MLM from years earlier.
What good are tons of downline if you lose 95% of them? I know Verniel Cutar, 95% do fail when they are sponsored like this. Their upline doesn't have time or the resources to adequately train these people and so they die on the vine. The only ones who get the attention are the ones who impress the upline.
Oh boy did this question get me started...I'm sorry! As you can tell, I feel very adamant about this subject and people like this get my blood boiling. They get people to dream and then they rob them of that dream by not training them right.*
I know the right way to build a strong MLM business. I did it! I had over 60 people in my organization the first three months of starting to work the business, with 7 personally sponsored. That means I had 53 others by working downline in four legs. Then, in the fourth month I made a huge pay check. Now that is what really fires up people all the way down line. People making money from you all the way down is always better than only the greedy upline sponsoring the world and then leaving them hanging.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to voice these peeves of mine.
Why some people make it in MLM and most don't.
Please read my blog below
These examples are case studies, and are not representative of the norm. They've succeeded despite their shortcomings. If it were normal to succeed with these shortcomings, they wouldn't be detrimental qualities in the first place.
The problem with helping people to get what they want, again, is that the rank and file in MLM get in with practically no sales and marketing education/experience. It's the blind leading the blind in most cases.*
MLM educational tools aren't enough. Required college courses in MLM business practice or something similar as a condition of acceptance into the network would be a good start. Anyone can regurgitate internet content in a piecemeal fashion and package it into a CD or book, and sell it to downlines. It hardly makes them a subject matter expert, though.*Verifiable*substantial MLM income for decades, and/or college degrees in business and such would qualify one to be a subject matter expert, not an unknown quantity, someone who professes to do well in MLM, but is most likely following the "fake it until you make it" methodology.
I find it quite curious that distant uplines profess to be quite well of financially, but cannot produce financial documents to prove such claims. I can say that I'm a level 18 MLM wizard with a $250k income, but that could be a total fabrication. Anyone can lease a sports car for a day, or get their picture taken at a fancy resort down the road from the budget motel they're staying at. Boat excursions can be quite cheap as well. Just get to the meeting before everyone else and hide the beater car a few blocks away, and leave after everyone else. It's real easy to fake affluence.
My biggest pet peeve is the greed that MLM sometimes create in people. Associates think they have tolk to look successful (a complete facade) in order to attract people to their business. Then they make their downline think that is what it takes to succeed. Being in debt up to their eyeballs is not success!
Also, there are too many companies and upline out there with the attitude of sponsor, sponsor, sponsor. It's like throwing the new recruits up against the wall to see who sticks. I got into it one time with a man who was in one very successful MLM and sold out. Then he bought another company. I went to a meeting he conducted to show the plan and I could hardly stand hearing what he was saying. All he could talk about was sponsor at least 20 people across and then go down. After the meeting, there I was, a small new distributor at my first meeting telling the hot shot he was wrong as we entered the elevator. I told him that is how to alienate family and friends and make people hate MLM. I told him that sponsoring downline to create a tap root builds stability and loyalty. Even though I was not rude and spoke to him with more respect that it sounds like in this comment, I could tell that he didn't like what I said. I felt he needed to hear it and so did the people he was preaching this garbage to as well. To me, it was a matter of principle and ethics to tell him what I knew to be the truth because of my prior experience in a MLM from years earlier.
What good are tons of downline if you lose 95% of them? I know Verniel Cutar, 95% do fail when they are sponsored like this. Their upline doesn't have time or the resources to adequately train these people and so they die on the vine. The only ones who get the attention are the ones who impress the upline.
Oh boy did this question get me started...I'm sorry! As you can tell, I feel very adamant about this subject and people like this get my blood boiling. They get people to dream and then they rob them of that dream by not training them right.*
I know the right way to build a strong MLM business. I did it! I had over 60 people in my organization the first three months of starting to work the business, with 7 personally sponsored. That means I had 53 others by working downline in four legs. Then, in the fourth month I made a huge pay check. Now that is what really fires up people all the way down line. People making money from you all the way down is always better than only the greedy upline sponsoring the world and then leaving them hanging.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to voice these peeves of mine.
Why some people make it in MLM and most don't.
Please read my blog below
These examples are case studies, and are not representative of the norm. They've succeeded despite their shortcomings. If it were normal to succeed with these shortcomings, they wouldn't be detrimental qualities in the first place.
The problem with helping people to get what they want, again, is that the rank and file in MLM get in with practically no sales and marketing education/experience. It's the blind leading the blind in most cases.*
MLM educational tools aren't enough. Required college courses in MLM business practice or something similar as a condition of acceptance into the network would be a good start. Anyone can regurgitate internet content in a piecemeal fashion and package it into a CD or book, and sell it to downlines. It hardly makes them a subject matter expert, though.*Verifiable*substantial MLM income for decades, and/or college degrees in business and such would qualify one to be a subject matter expert, not an unknown quantity, someone who professes to do well in MLM, but is most likely following the "fake it until you make it" methodology.
I find it quite curious that distant uplines profess to be quite well of financially, but cannot produce financial documents to prove such claims. I can say that I'm a level 18 MLM wizard with a $250k income, but that could be a total fabrication. Anyone can lease a sports car for a day, or get their picture taken at a fancy resort down the road from the budget motel they're staying at. Boat excursions can be quite cheap as well. Just get to the meeting before everyone else and hide the beater car a few blocks away, and leave after everyone else. It's real easy to fake affluence.