You gotta tune into "calls", find out how your income is a direct average of the 5 people closest to you so you should either try to have them join you or ditch them, don't worry, you wont need friends, you'll be a part of a community. Soon, after some trial and error you'll be sailing on a yacht while your turnkey business makes money for you. In the meantime you'll have to fake it until you make, pretend you're doing well so you can attract others to you. You're selling an illusion, not a product of value. It's as easy as that. Plus, as a top producer you'll get a nifty ring or pin and recognition within the community since you'll have no real friends. Also, you wont get any benefits, forget about health and retirement and your kids wont help you when you're old, they'll hate you for pushing worthless crap on good people and being an overall douche. Your wife? In MLM's marriage ends in divorce unless you lock-in a foreign chick who likes shiny things.
I remember giddyup pumping up amway a few years ago. How'd that work out for you? (obviously not very well)
Funny thing is this is the same concept across multiple MLMs. They all use the same lingo and the same strategies to get people in. All you ever hear is: Your income is the average of your 5 closest friends around you. This is why you are where you are. This is why you are broke and poor. You are hanging around the wrong people. Why not hang out with other MLMers. Your income will substantially increase. MLMers simply do not build a community they build a FAMILY. Why hang around negative people who are so ANTI-MLM? Ditch them. Ditch your long time friends. They are the reason you are where you are, P O O R. When the times get rough, I'm sure your MLM family will be there for you through it all.
OH...and make sure you attend the "MANDATORY" and "ESSENTIAL" international training meetings 4 times a year. If you want to be successful you have to be at international. Where they place a cheaply made gold painted pin on you in front of 20,000 people to make you feel like you have accomplished something in life. They want to make the moment special for you, to make others want to be in your shoes. ACN loves international training. $159 to $189 a ticket per person. ~ 20,000 people attend the event. (its always 20,000...because only the same dam idiots in this cult attend every time) $3,000,000+ for ACN every 3 months. ACN Corporate sure loves International.
I'm not the one comparing ACN reps to human smugglers and drug dealers... If a business like ACN has survived for as long as it has, it IS LEGITIMATE. Not liking aspects of it does not de-legitimize it. I've said no to ACN for more than a decade, but it deserves to be ignored if you don't care for it rather than it should suffer childish insults and put-downs. Heroes comes in all shapes, sizes and degrees. One of my great heroes is the single mom that was my neighbor for five years. She raised three daughters on her own and made all kind of sacrifices for them. One is now a lawyer, one is in nursing school and the third is in college. They were excellent students, rode horses and learned music all the while. If you don't think that's tough, you don't know jack-****. Her heroism is not the same kind of heroism as someone with boots on the ground in Afghanistan, but it is still heroism. I lived next door to it for five years and I'm still keeping up with it 15 years later. Some of you need to just pull your judgmental head out of your nether regions...
No. As here, I was just defending it from a silly onslaught. I was involved with it from 1989 to 1992 or so. It built for awhile and then just flattened. Some of the reason was the kind of stuff that ziggy points up but every bit of that is VOLUNTARY. BTW, the smart-aleck stuff that someone posted about my upline should have spent their time being better City Managers and Lawyers and Veterinarians instead of "wasting" their time in some MLM business just missed the mark. None of those professions could provide the kind of money they made. The only thing I have from those days are a few dozen very close friends, so you see it's not the end of friendship either... necessarily.
You have a few dozen of very close friends who you met through your MLM days? Is that what you are referring to or are you saying you have a few dozen of friends (who you had PRE-MLM) and who you still have? If you are referring to people you met through your MLM and you are still close friends with them...may I ask how many of them are still in a MLM? How many of them "Made it Big"?
Well, they all are known for ripping people off.......... Does this logic apply to everything that's survived for a long time? LOL, just because it's been around for a long time doesn't make it legitimate. That woman is absolutely a hero. But what does that have to do with MLM?
Nice trying to work heroes back in to change it up to make it seem like everyone here is against single moms - I can see why you like MLM's and how they work. Alas there are no marks in this thread as the average user here is too savvy and information on scams and con-artists is readily available on the net. I would love another multi page thread with you claiming water isn't wet or the sky isn't blue it would read the exact same - you doing what you do and everyone else frustrated or wondering if you are ok.
Part of the problem with MLM is that if you fall out or you dont succeed you NEVER blame the company, or that's how your upline pushes the idea. If you dont do well in a MLM, its obviously because you were not "coachable" or you didnt follow exactly what they told you to do. You didnt follow their "step by step" plan. They basically want you to feel like the reason you didnt succeed is because you might have not put in enough effort and time, or you just were not able to follow their direction step by step. So you see that as a flaw upon your self and you "Voluntarily" quit or stopped trying to work the MLM. Issue is...THE MINUTE YOU JOIN YOU WERE 98% SET UP TO FAIL TO BEGIN WITH. Only 2% of the people who join and participate in MLM make their money back and continue to make money. People are told to not blame the system, simply they didn't want to work the business the right way and be coach-able. Obviously its a problem with the business to begin with.
