The truth about network marketing.

in earnings •  8 years ago 


Hi guys!
So! The Grand event of company X. All active distributors come from different cities and even countries on this unforgettable event to boost your motivation to hang out with "successful business coaches", "leaders", "mentors" partners, gain knowledge, etc., etc. is Going to a big hall of 500 people and even more, the atmosphere is great, everyone is happy, cheerful and all in anticipation of the event!

Here it is! The event starts, all rise, some even jump, shout, whistle, clap their hands and greet people who reveal this wonderful event! Pat, pohudeli and sat down.

Begins speech by the first speaker, and let's say his topic is "what determines success in life." He talks about the reasons hampering the success of why most people are not successful, what to do and what to become in order to be successful, etc.

As soon as he finishes and says "that's it For me, thank you", everyone starts to thank him with applause, to clap, to shout, to whistle, loud music, under which some even manage to dance, in General the hum is incredible.

What's next? Then again, in the same spirit. Under the same storm of applause the noise of the next speaker, and when the cries cease, he begins his subject, say — "What is sponsorship and how to do it." This is a very important topic, so all open their notebooks and begin to listen carefully and take notes.

Some in the hands of a bunch of colored markers to outline a more beautiful and memorable. "And in red I will highlight smart quotes," says John DOE to his friend Pete, sitting beside him. "Well done, and I will highlight in green."

OK. Bob and Peter agreed! Everything is in the same spirit, speaks the next speaker, then another, another, etc. Someone the whole event was scratching, and someone outlined so that the entire notebook was filled. Uhh, knowledge of the mountain now!!!

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Before proceeding to the closure of the event is the awarding of the most active distributors and leaders for the quarter. On stage the founders of the company and call the names of those lucky ones. These lucky people also take the stage and they give into the hands of large handsome checks with different figures.

Someone is 3000$, someone 5000$, and someone even 25000$. Playing loud music, firecrackers pop, all presented with flowers, gifts, etc. These lucky man on stage 5-8, all others are in the hall, resounding clap and dance.

Someone is happy for these guys, someone is jealous, someone is happy and jealous at the same time. Well, not the essence. Basically most of these people standing in the hall, thinking about the same and sounds something like "Well, neither of which, soon I will stand on this stage and to hold such large checks."

Well, maybe many people do not want to stand on stage of course, but checks to large want everything in any hope.

The event comes to an end and on the scene of the last speaker with the topic "the truth about MLM". The title of this topic appeared to be not understandable and some not normal, it seems to be all about success but about the success of the theme pushes, sponsorship, skills, motivation, etc. and the theme — "the truth about MLM". What is this weird that this came on the scene? Everyone in the room is not big shock!!!

Well, not the essence! Crank this by the way was called Ivan!

Well. Then came the roly chudacek on stage and began his speech, asked the audience a question, — "Raise your hands please those who are in our company earns$ 1500 per month and more."

Of 500 people, hand raised to approximately 20-30 people and all these people, the whole hall immediately recognized the face, it was the leaders of a company, which constantly sparkle with big checks on stage, and those guys who act as speakers at events.

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"Okay, put your hands down," said Ivan. "My next question is addressed to everyone else, those who raised your hand it does not concern you". So the question — "Who among all of you in the MLM business for a year or more?". Approximately 200 people from throughout the hall raised their hands.

"Why so bad? Why you don't make at least$ 1500 per month? It's been so long. In MLM business only the language of the nagging need that is so hard?", — again asked Ivan. The whole room was in shock. 5 minutes ago all had fun, rejoiced, clapped their hands and here you... all immediately became sullen faces and nobody wanted anything to shout.

"Well friends, or anyone that can not say, I thought so. Now hands up all those who are in the business came quite recently, a week or two ago, for example" — again asked Ivan to the audience.

Hands raised approximately 30-50 people. Hand raised very modestly, as if something feared, probably shy. The bold raised their hands first, Ivan did not touch. Ivan looked at those who raised their hands last, remember them, chose one victim and asked her to enter the price.

The victim was a man, 23-25 years old, his name was Sergei, so humble, downtrodden all, he is very much embarrassed to go on stage, his face immediately reddened and seemed to swell from it. So he came out on stage and John asked him to stand in the middle. Sergei stood in the middle, and Ivan walked away taking with him a microphone!

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"Friends," and loudly said to Ivan, "Look at all of this man"...

View all 500 people sitting in the hall fell on Sergei. The hall was plunged into total silence for 15 seconds. During this time Sergei's face went even redder, over the body and palms poured hot sweat, heart pounding so that his heartbeat could be heard to the people sitting in the first rows... Still, all the attention is on one person...

"Well enough," said Ivan and walked over to Sergei. Patted his shoulder and began his formidable speech, referring to all sitting in the hall...

— "You know Sergey, I think you're a good guy! Since you arrived here, it means you strive for something clearly, you must want to grow and improve, you want to earn a lot of money in our company and achieve success in it am I right?

— "Yes," almost inaudibly said Sergei, as still not recovered from the excitement.

— "Something I couldn't hear you, you want or not???" — Ivan cried.

"Yes, I want" and loudly replied Sergei.

— "Now the other thing Serge, then listen further," continued Ivan.

You and everyone in this room needs to understand 2 very important things 2 very scary truth:

  1. Only the shepherds get big checks in MLM
  2. Passive income in MLM does not exist is a MYTH.

What began to happen in the audience needed to see. The faces were not happy, started a rumble like in football, when the fans scream, "the Judge on soap" and in the hall he had made a negative atmosphere.

"What are you so unhappy?" — Ivan asked the audience, "Now I'll explain everything".

You know friends, here to take you to the example of Sergey, who stands next to me. Most people on earth exactly the same. They are humble, cowed, they do not believe in their own strength, they have low self-esteem, etc. such people are called betas. There are Alphas and have the beta, so Sergey what beta.

Most of you sitting in this room, too beta, and you can not argue with me, still I will be right. Alpha stood on stage today with checks, alpha today acted as speakers, and you beta, not all of course, but most Yes.

Most of you don't go to the stage and never come out, and some inside, there is a great desire, I'm sure, but you don't. Why? You're afraid of. I already talked about this, no confidence in themselves and their abilities, low self-esteem, fear of public speaking, etc., because of all this, you will always sit in the middle of the hall or the back and never come here. Beta not succeed in MLM — the truth! If you want to succeed in MLM you need to become the alpha.

And while you're not alpha everything you will do and can do is to try. You will be seated at such events and to record interesting and useful things heard from the speakers, you slap them standing, to rejoice and to hope for a happy future, you'll dream, you will try to do this business, you will be motivated for each such event and inside you will sometimes break out a mild flicker, but unfortunately, which will gradually fade.

For-so he fired up again you need to be very good to motivate, and if not to motivate and not give you a magic pendalya, you most likely do Saturnia...

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Friends, remember, and mind you those words were Only shepherds receive the big checks in your MLM. Shepherds I mean people Alf. Beta is a sheep. Yes, I know this is very rough, but it's true! Sorry if offended anyone. Better a bitter truth than a sweet lie.

Shepherds in MLM I call people who always go only forward, they penetrate the walls head up and never give up! Shepherds do not need to motivate, they motivate themselves to motivate the need of sheep. The shepherds set goals, make plans and seek their implementation, the sheep only dream of.

The shepherds are constantly working day by day and even at night, for them, the words "time to sleep", or "I'm tired(a)", "I slept late last night(eh)" does not exist, objective kill the shepherds sleep, the shepherds see their future and what awaits them if they will act.

Sheep just whining and making excuses why they can't do sheep usually say "I'm very tired(a)", "Go on before, I slept late last night(eh)", "something head aches from working" etc. the Shepherds when faced with a problem or knowledge of the information in some area of life say:

"I don't know, but I shall or will learn, I will solve the problem", the sheep start whining, bullshit, blow snot and say something like "I don't know how, I don't know", "I'm not a Pro in this field", "I need help", etc., the brave Shepherds, and sheep clogged and modest...

In any network marketing company there are leaders, that's on them that keeps. The leaders are on the stage, and on it all the money. The leaders are waving their hands, inspire you, motivate to action, etc., in short, shepherds graze you sheep, you graze. All that you say you are and do.

Guys. Any leader in MLM who check in a few thousand dollars understands that most people don't succeed in MLM because the bulk of them beta. Leaders understand that in order for them to check was a great need to stand out above the others, you need stand on stage and tell you something, then you will have a strong desire to do this business.

You just need to program the actions. Look, what people come to MLM, you need to analyze and you will see that all these people are ordinary stupid and naive sheep who hope for a bright and happy future. Again, not all, but most!

It's a fact — don't argue with that! Leaders understand that their check depends on the circulation of money in their group, so the group should be increased. Out of business out 10-15% of sheep? Or anything wrong with running other, fresh, mess with their heads and everything will be fine.

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Why most of the people beta? If you are an adequate person I think can guess. To do this, now everything is done. Everyone in the community aims to make you feel some poached, not to think that you are the navel of the earth and can move mountains, you must be a robot, a zombie, a person with low self-esteem to which even in thoughts was not to rock the boat in kings...

In short, you must be a sheep. Kept sheep on the planet. TV, media, environment, all that just makes you a sheep, stupid stupid sheep who will never be able to turn onto the right road.

Only the shepherds get big checks in MLM I repeat and say this with 100% confidence!

"Alphas are not born Alphas become". Yes, I agree 100%. But changing yourself for most people is very difficult. The process of transition from category to category beta alpha is very long and may take several years of active work.

It's hard for people to change, they are too lazy to change, people want everything quickly, easily and immediately, so in MLM, they never will succeed. When I was actively engaged in MLM business, my team has grown very active when I moved away from the business, relax simply put, my team immediately vanished somewhere.

God grant you at least a week not going to work with a team — kick it. You know it's the same thing that little kids leave in the woods and they couldn't find their way back home. Okay just the way it finds, will get lost and die from hunger, so they also begin to whine, make excuses why they're so bad, why or why not, will ask for help, start drooling, etc.

After some time, I realized one simple truth. To succeed in MLM there are 2 options:

  1. To be a shepherd herding a flock of sheep.
  2. To build a team of shepherds.

Honestly, both of these options do not suit me. Start with the first one.

Thanks to all that experience that I got in MLM for more than one year of work, becoming a shepherd is not difficult to get up on stage and telling people business opportunities, motivate everyone, to cherish, etc., but I don't want that. Far be it from me to talk to him each and snot wipe. I don't want to waste their strength on the sheep if they didn't have a bright future.

All that talk speakers at the event have one to two well, a maximum of three people out of a hundred, nobody else cares at all! No, of course they care about at first glance, they attentively listen, record knowledge in their notebooks, but only in the development of the business they will face difficulties, I will immediately throw it all a lost cause...

I can't fool people by telling them the truth. Basically all the themes of the speakers at the events of the MLM companies is sponsoring, phone calls, rendezvous, work with objections, motivation, leadership, etc, etc. I don't want to stand on stage and tell the sheep how to make calls for example. Why? Yes, because to make calls in MLM this is the biggest mistake.

Calls in MLM it is impossible to do categorically, this speakers will give you various templates moronic calls to you bringing another herd of sheep, this increases the turnover of leaders and the company, respectively. But to make calls in MLM it is impossible!

I will answer why if you call then you need it! All! Do so called. Here it is true, but if you go on stage and say that in MLM to make calls — a mistake, everybody will know it and call will not be, respectively, the herd will grow very slowly. Leaders will not like it and the company too, so a scene such clever no release. =)

Bottom line: you need to spend your energy on the people who really want something in life, and not whining and making excuses.

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Well, the second option. To build a team of shepherds. In order to build a team of shepherds, must first become thereby a shepherd, and then to assemble a team of you like not one five years. This is a very long and difficult to determine which of the people are sheep, and who is the shepherd. Will have to work day and night, will have to plow like crazy and still do not know what will happen to your team in a few years.

Most people can live without MLM. They have a job, the salary which you can live quite normally. The lives of most people today is quite decent, why do they need some personal development, trainings, seminars, earning a lot of money?

Don't need all that bulk. Look around, how many the entertainment circle, alcohol, cigarettes, bars, delicious food, leisure, resorts, etc better spend the money on this than on any trainings and seminars, where they will be brainwashed and say that they don't live right!

In MLM achieve success, only those who fell too much in life, only those who know the value of money, those who understand that we need to constantly develop and work on themselves to achieve their goals in life. Such people are 1 in 100, not even the fact that this 1 is.

I wonder how long did it take to build a large team in MLM it consists of such people and to get a few thousand dollars a month? I think more than a dozen years. I wonder why you need so much money so years 50-60? Come passed moving on.

Passive income in MLM does not exist. Who disagree with me? I think most will not agree. OK.

What is passive income? This is income that comes to you many times over once the work done, even when you sleep. =)
Tell me do you believe that if you do some work in MLM once, you will be able to get the money for it constantly and not what not to do, business does not develop, does not have to motivate the team not to work on stage not to act, etc.

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Don't believe? Well that's all solved. In MLM passive income is not. MLM is business as usual in which hemorrhoids rife. The only thing you can create passive income in MLM is by selling books, courses, trainings, etc! The rest is to plow plow and plow again!!! If you stop to plow your entire business and the team will collapse in a jiffy! Sheep must graze if you're not their mouth they run away!

To in MLM to earn big money you need to work every day, you need to constantly think about this business, to live them, to hurt them, to love him finally. You constantly have to be on stage, to feed the sheep and scream that they have a happy and bright future! The sheep will believe you and follow you, they will want to be like you, everyone will do as you say if you have the result!

In General, the conclusion from all the above one: Or you begin to relate to the business very seriously, every day, to plow your ass off every day to overcome your "I can't", "I don't want" (2%), or to give up and throw everything to hell (98%).

Once again Ivan patted Sergei on the shoulder and said, "Sit in the place of the other." "This is our event came to an end, thank you all for the attention."

Sitting in the room for a few more minutes could not depart from what he heard, but after a while all left the room and it was empty. It was the last event of X, as in 2 months it collapsed, 90% of distributors went out of business in spite of all these MLMмы, cheques leaders fell to zero and they went to other companies to lead another flock of sheep...

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Yes, friends, here's the terrible truth! Of course company X and Sergey, Ivan and function hall for 500 people — this is all my imagination and fantasy, but I think if suddenly the Ivan will take the stage at any event for any company and say what is written above is the crash and burn of any company!!!

This is my truth, and everyone has their own truth. If someone wants to speak, please speak up in the comments, do not judge strictly. Everyone has their own opinions.

You know what else I want to tell you lastly. I still recommend that you come to the MLM business!!! Really??? "Alexander what are you crazy it going?", — you may ask.

No I'm not crazy, I really suggest you to get in this business to pass, as my good friend Stanislav of Turaev, basic training (KMB), to wash their brains, putting them in their place and then leave and do more sensible things that basically do the most self-motivated people... Sheep just give up or go looking for the next freebie...

Success. Now you know the truth about MLM.

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Great post!

Thank you.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

"Flock of sheep" - it's really truth! :sweat:

Yes You are right.

This is a great post and you are absolutely right. MLM is a fraud. It is a Ponzi scheme over people's time and energy. In the end no one wins except of the founder and maybe the first level. To make even few thousands of dollars a month in the second or third levels, requires so much effort and skill, that those who can achieve that could make much more as sales people for a conventional company.

Thank you for Your support.

Love this post.