Make a list and sell, sell, sell. Not my idea of a good time, but now we have the internet and attraction marketing can be applied on a massive scale.

So yes I am now involved in mlm online, the only difference now, I pester no one and simply leave my marketing message online, if anyone’s interested they contact me.

The old way of mlm is painful and wrong.

Stevie

“My college friends are teachers and corporate employees now. Into logistics and medical equipment, ones a doctor. They all have condos or town houses and 2005 or newer car. Turns out 70k or 80k isn’t all that much money anymore. I traveled and did whatever I wanted (kinda) for the last ten years. I have to think a lot and plan. They just go to work.”

You think your doctor and teacher friends don’t have to “think a lot” and plan?!

You may be making money but your aspirations aren’t doing your vocabulary and writing abilities any favours. I’d rather have great linguistic ability than money.

I’m VERY familiar with Amway. And many other MLM companies. I get the genius of it all. But I finally decided what it was that was always holding me back from joining:

THE SYSTEM LACKS INTEGRITY.

The people who get in early are the ones who make the most. Not necessarily because of their hard work or intelligence. Mainly because of luck and opportunity. MLM companies will always tell you that there’s no danger of saturation. But if you were one of the people to hear about Amway when it first began, before it started to piss people off, before everyone and their dog would roll their eyes at even the mention of the name, don’t you think you had it easier than someone joining today? So much easier, in fact, that Amway started focusing their efforts on Quixtar! Amway saturated the market.

The people who get in later work their butts off and as the possibility of recruiting gets smaller and smaller, these last people do all the unglamourous accosting of prospects– a terrifying concept for some people and undesireable at best– buying up product from the company while making next to nothing, while the people at the top benefit substantially from all their hard work. Sure the big wigs work too: Giving talks to desperate hopefuls about how rich they are in order to inspire them. They also coach people who are already interested in the opportunity. Talking to people who want to hear you? Not very labour intensive or intimidating.

I have so much more respect for my husband who works for the government prosecuting criminals. He’s excellent at what he does and provides a necessary service to all of society. No matter how hard or well he works he will only increase his income if the government decides to give him a raise. He has to get the job done no matter what it takes and there’s no charging for hours like a defense lawyer.

He may never be rich. But he oozes intelligence, accomplishment , value and most of all, INTEGRITY.

I’ve known people in MLM companies who like to think they’re smarter than the average Joe just because they found a way to legally make a bunch of money without a lot of work. They may be be clever and gutsy. What they aren’t is WISE. They fail to see the value in hard work. They talk about working hard now so they can be available to spend oodles of time with their kids later, taking them travelling, yadda yadda. They fail to see how crucially important it is for our kids to see us work. And not just volunteer efforts here and there because you want to volunteer. But to work hard out of a sense of need, of urgency, commitment and honour.

I think that any time someone is getting more than the effort he puts in to get it, something in his soul shrinks. He is missing an opportunity to grow his endurance, his commitment, his talent, his humanity.

Life isn’t about leisure and pleasure. Life IS about work and charity.

There’s a reason why MLM followers are not the kind of people most of us want to be around and it’s NOT because they annoy us with their selling. It’s because they are shallow in their souls.

(Disclaimer: I am not referring to direct sales companies such as Usborne, Arbonne and the like who sell valuable products at respectable prices. I’m referring to crap like Amway and United Pro Media.)

Sorry that you had a bad experience with MLM.But there are good companies out there with products which gives value.I am with AGEL for the past one year.I paid just the sign up money,i am not forced to buy anything.Totally,we are following internet marketing apart from recommendations from preferred customers.
I learned a lot about personal growth,positive thinking,leadership.I started to read lot of books to help myself.My entire thinking shifted in a positive way.I am going to retire earlier than the conventional age.These are the benefits i see with MLM.
In any filed,there are good and bad.Do your research,believe in your self,anyone can do it.

Best wishes,
kannan viswagandhi
http://www.truemlmrockstar.com
http://www.growing-self.blogspot.com