I used to be in MLM, but now I've been doing affiliate marketing. How is network marketing screwed up? Nothing is screwed up about this system. It's those who abuse the system, those who continue front line recruiting, like what's happening in my last company.
Front line recruiting keeps going and going and going while those who are already in it are not getting any help from the person who brought them into the business. My former upline Michele even told me that I shouldn't expect any return calls from her. I remember Kim saying in one of her courses that if you turn your back on your enrollee, they're just going to disappear. Well it happened when I decided to leave, especially when this Michele tried to make it look like it's my fault by covering up her mistakes. Her direct upline doesn't even have time for any one of her frontline distributors.
I thought I was the only person who went through this, but I talked to other distributors in the company I worked with and they have the same complaint.
After I left, I told her on a chat session that I was sorry that we didn't work out. I thought it was the most respectable thing to say, at least I didn't disappear out of thin air, but she started rambling that network marketing is not for me, that if I don't follow the system of chasing people and spending hundreds of dollars on leads that were filled out by people who were tire-kickers looking for a freebie like a laptop or a digital camera, and get on useless team calls that were rehashed from someone else's team calls. What a waste of time to listen to crap that's not helping us close any sales. After all, that's what we're suppose to do. Basically, that's what the uplines want me to do and as long as this is their standard practice, my reservation remains high.
Anyways, what's my point here? Network marketing, one of the most ethical forms of business today, becomes defaced, picked on, crapped on by the 95% (including me) who dropped out, because the leaders focus solely on recruiting, picking up anyone on the street who aren't qualified to work this type of business in the first place and then when they quit, they started filing complaints on other boards or the ripoff report that this company is bad or the leaders are bad (which most of them are or are becoming) misusing this concept by continuously recruiting instead of focusing on customer service.
Network marketing remains a powerful people-based model to exponentially explode your organization, but if you misuse it, people in your downline will start deserting. If you're willing to train the 8 to 12 good people to doe the same thing you're doing, 5 levels later, your 5th level will have over 32,768 distributors. Theoretically, this is possible. Less is more by having 8 distributors in your frontline, that is much better than having 512 distributors in your frontline. Besides, how can you get a life by having that many distributors in your frontline and keep them afloat. Some of them would have quit by now.
My advice to you all is before you join your next network marketing company, ask the hard questions before you dig into the business and dish out $100, 200, 500, or even $3,000 to get started. That's because you're going to need them when you get stuck.
So that's what I wanted to say.
Sidney
http://aboutsidney.blogspot.com
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Posting On The Jobs Category Of Craigslist
Trouble posting on the Jobs Category Of Craigslist?
Perhaps you gotta put something that has value or something that sells.
In my last two postings, I was able to get 95% and a 99.5% sticking rate.
The product I was marketing converted five sales and reeled four of
them today.
With the Jobs category being one of the hardest to post on Craigslist,
you gotta find a way to appeal to those who are looking for a job.
Some MLMers use this section to recruit distributors, but since I'm
not in MLM, I don't really have to worry about using this medium to
recruit distributors.
I'm unsure if I'll ever join another MLM organization, especially with
the way your upline treats you like what happened to me with my
last MLM company. I'm having more fun trying to provide information
that helps people find their niches. However, I like to teach someone
succeed in the same niche I'm in because in the long run, it puts you in
a position to become a leader in your niched industry.
With corporate downsizing, an economy in challenging times, gas prices
approaching $4 per gallon, and management in your company or a government
organization, such as NFESC (a US Naval Command) trying to squeeze every
penny out of you and make life miserable for you, and for those who
have young kids like me paying between $120 to $150 per week for babysitting,
the home-based business avenue is the way to go. This industry is growing
into a multi-billion dollars worth of transaction and will be here to stay,
especially for those who will never return to work for someone else.
However, to be able to pull of this challenge, you must figure out how to do
it first. As a Craigslist Masters student, we have a community that will help
you succeed in your home business, regardless of what Craigslist does to
their systems.
However, you must enroll to become a Craigslist Master member. Whether
you're a seasoned marketer or a novice marketer, you will continuously
be a student of this game because the Internet marketing spectrum will
continue to be dynamic. There are no graduates of this program, but you
will continue to be updated with the changes that surround us.
I'm ready to enroll and crack the code. Sign me up now!
Perhaps you gotta put something that has value or something that sells.
In my last two postings, I was able to get 95% and a 99.5% sticking rate.
The product I was marketing converted five sales and reeled four of
them today.
With the Jobs category being one of the hardest to post on Craigslist,
you gotta find a way to appeal to those who are looking for a job.
Some MLMers use this section to recruit distributors, but since I'm
not in MLM, I don't really have to worry about using this medium to
recruit distributors.
I'm unsure if I'll ever join another MLM organization, especially with
the way your upline treats you like what happened to me with my
last MLM company. I'm having more fun trying to provide information
that helps people find their niches. However, I like to teach someone
succeed in the same niche I'm in because in the long run, it puts you in
a position to become a leader in your niched industry.
With corporate downsizing, an economy in challenging times, gas prices
approaching $4 per gallon, and management in your company or a government
organization, such as NFESC (a US Naval Command) trying to squeeze every
penny out of you and make life miserable for you, and for those who
have young kids like me paying between $120 to $150 per week for babysitting,
the home-based business avenue is the way to go. This industry is growing
into a multi-billion dollars worth of transaction and will be here to stay,
especially for those who will never return to work for someone else.
However, to be able to pull of this challenge, you must figure out how to do
it first. As a Craigslist Masters student, we have a community that will help
you succeed in your home business, regardless of what Craigslist does to
their systems.
However, you must enroll to become a Craigslist Master member. Whether
you're a seasoned marketer or a novice marketer, you will continuously
be a student of this game because the Internet marketing spectrum will
continue to be dynamic. There are no graduates of this program, but you
will continue to be updated with the changes that surround us.
I'm ready to enroll and crack the code. Sign me up now!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Why Did I Have To Leave My Last Network Marketing Company
Were you one of those who were signed up by your enroller and then later on ignored when you try to call them?
Were you signed up by someone else known as your enroller and then your were just told to listen to all these calls, but when you try to contact them, you didn't get any responses.
When you decided that you're going to throw the towel, your enroller magically appears. Once you told that enroller, and her name is Michele, she decided to disappear back to whatever she was doing and I assume that is continuous front-line recruiting.
When you begin to inquire about your enroller Michele is not responding to your calls, emails, IM, or morse code, she states that you should never expect a reply or to be contacted as she's only working with those willing to work.
When there is a lack of communication between you and your enroller Michele, frustration begins to arise and my feelings becomes stronger that this person will never ever call.
When you have an enroller like Michele who uses the three time-zone excuse to not respond to any form of contact that you made to her, you know she refuses to admit to her wrongdoing. When you have an enroller who never admits her wrongdoing like Michele, you know the relationship is unhealthy and it may be time to consider jumping ship.
When you have an enroller who says that network marketing is not for you, under the terms of continuous front-line recruiting, you know it's time to jump ship.
An enroller who has at least 100 frontline distributors in their belt will not have more than 1 hour of time per week. Assuming that you work 12 hours a day, seven days a week, you still won't be able to give that one hour quality time per week. If this is what network marketing is all about, then it's hard for me to be in this type of industry. My understanding of this model is you sponsor eight and your eight sponsor their eight and so on. Not sponsor 100 or 400 frontline distributors.
The top bananas in Herbalife, Shaklee, Excel, and NuSkin don't do type of frontline recruiting.
I'd prefer to join an organization who emphasizes putting more on customers first and growing an organisation of distributors as I outlined on my How Do You Grow Your Organization article.
What's wrong with teaching the people you bring into the business? I don't believe that there's a problem for me to train aces and have those newly trained aces train their own aces.
The network marketing industry is at its lowest point and mlm/network marketing is getting a bad name.
The only regret I have is I didn't quit six months ago. I should have done that but decided to give it another chance. However, this time, enough is enough.
If I decided on returning to this company, I'll join under someone else's organisation who believes in using that person's strengths to grow their own and believes that continuous front-line recruiting is the wrong path to take as I said in my article.
4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 = ? 4 people at five levels gives you 1,024 distributors in your downline.
You all should know what I'm doing by now. Why don't you go and check out this site called the Internet Dream Machine and learn how to grow your business using the methods you can learn. I've already cracked the code and able to put out over 200 to 300 ads per day on Craigslist. I'm shooting for 2,000 per day within six months marketing several affiliate products. I just had to organize my advertising strategy.
I left because I want to change uplines. Since the company I was with requires a few months waiting time before I come back under a different upline.
Because I love the products that the company I was with has to offer, I am considering a return in October, but will enroll under someone else. I'm still evaluating who I want to sign up under, but yes, I prefer someone who will address my needs, wants, and don't wants. Yes, you will be asked to answer a few questions and the answer to those questions will determine whether
we work together or not. I'll just go to your website and fill out a form if you're one of those who are picked for me to interview. I'm looking for a certain audience as stated here in this link.
If you have any questions about me leaving, just email me at sjuachon@networkingleader.com
Till next time...
Sidney
Were you signed up by someone else known as your enroller and then your were just told to listen to all these calls, but when you try to contact them, you didn't get any responses.
When you decided that you're going to throw the towel, your enroller magically appears. Once you told that enroller, and her name is Michele, she decided to disappear back to whatever she was doing and I assume that is continuous front-line recruiting.
When you begin to inquire about your enroller Michele is not responding to your calls, emails, IM, or morse code, she states that you should never expect a reply or to be contacted as she's only working with those willing to work.
When there is a lack of communication between you and your enroller Michele, frustration begins to arise and my feelings becomes stronger that this person will never ever call.
When you have an enroller like Michele who uses the three time-zone excuse to not respond to any form of contact that you made to her, you know she refuses to admit to her wrongdoing. When you have an enroller who never admits her wrongdoing like Michele, you know the relationship is unhealthy and it may be time to consider jumping ship.
When you have an enroller who says that network marketing is not for you, under the terms of continuous front-line recruiting, you know it's time to jump ship.
An enroller who has at least 100 frontline distributors in their belt will not have more than 1 hour of time per week. Assuming that you work 12 hours a day, seven days a week, you still won't be able to give that one hour quality time per week. If this is what network marketing is all about, then it's hard for me to be in this type of industry. My understanding of this model is you sponsor eight and your eight sponsor their eight and so on. Not sponsor 100 or 400 frontline distributors.
The top bananas in Herbalife, Shaklee, Excel, and NuSkin don't do type of frontline recruiting.
I'd prefer to join an organization who emphasizes putting more on customers first and growing an organisation of distributors as I outlined on my How Do You Grow Your Organization article.
What's wrong with teaching the people you bring into the business? I don't believe that there's a problem for me to train aces and have those newly trained aces train their own aces.
The network marketing industry is at its lowest point and mlm/network marketing is getting a bad name.
The only regret I have is I didn't quit six months ago. I should have done that but decided to give it another chance. However, this time, enough is enough.
If I decided on returning to this company, I'll join under someone else's organisation who believes in using that person's strengths to grow their own and believes that continuous front-line recruiting is the wrong path to take as I said in my article.
4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 = ? 4 people at five levels gives you 1,024 distributors in your downline.
You all should know what I'm doing by now. Why don't you go and check out this site called the Internet Dream Machine and learn how to grow your business using the methods you can learn. I've already cracked the code and able to put out over 200 to 300 ads per day on Craigslist. I'm shooting for 2,000 per day within six months marketing several affiliate products. I just had to organize my advertising strategy.
I left because I want to change uplines. Since the company I was with requires a few months waiting time before I come back under a different upline.
Because I love the products that the company I was with has to offer, I am considering a return in October, but will enroll under someone else. I'm still evaluating who I want to sign up under, but yes, I prefer someone who will address my needs, wants, and don't wants. Yes, you will be asked to answer a few questions and the answer to those questions will determine whether
we work together or not. I'll just go to your website and fill out a form if you're one of those who are picked for me to interview. I'm looking for a certain audience as stated here in this link.
If you have any questions about me leaving, just email me at sjuachon@networkingleader.com
Till next time...
Sidney
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