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April 19, 2009
cory c @ 1:54 pm
Whenever I get that MLM sense, I avoid whatever the offer is. I have spent hundreds of hours checking out all the get rich quick schemes. For the record I have a website with ideas and ways to save money and make extra money through cash offers and paid surveys. The website is
Thanks
Cory
Oh, gosh, don’t these MLM’s seem like a CULT? I know of a dear friend who is involved in selling books, art packages, and other small items to the public. This person is out in the heat every day, thinking he is going to make a killing in a few months. I haven’t really said anything to him directly. He’s young and very trusting. There is no investment, but the pay is horrible. I don’t know how he’s making it. I wish I knew what to say or do. It’s a little late to point out the problems, and yes he takes great offense at anyone who knocks it. He feels that people are attacking him personally, and don’t believe in him. Does anyone else have any ideas about this?
I feel embarassed/pity for Marcello. This poor guy wastes hours and hours every day bashing what others do for a living, when he could be actually trying something like WORK and getting on with his life. There are things in the world that I don’t like either, jobs I would never consider doing, but I have enough respect for the people that do them to never try to make them feel that what they are doing is insignificant.
Time to get a life Marcello.
Go get yourself a job, as you obviously subscribe to the 45 year plan, retire poor, get yourself a nice big bag of Walmart dog food to try creative cooking with, and live off the government. Leave those of us who are earning an honest income ( far more than you earn, guaranteed) alone.
No one has a problem with you analyzing a business, but you are unable to do it with any form of an educated opinion, and frankly, you’re just sickening.
So once again, GET A LIFE MARCELLO…Join some group where you can spew your uneducated drivel and have yourself a big old time!
Perhaps join competitive checker leagues or something a little more in your caliber.
I wasn’t going to bother chiming in to this question until I notices Mexico4me felt the need to embarrass himself yet again.
You can’t post a question in the small business section or the career section without Mexico4me spamming you about his business opportunity. He is a classic case of what is sad about the MLM business world…and now they are all over the net like a virus. This chain letter style business had no respect from the beginning and is merely a punch line today.
The only people with any respect for the business are those who stand to profit from selling stuff to them (like motivation books & tapes), or the people who are in MLM themselves. No one who is outside of MLM has any respect for this industry, and what’s worse is most MLMer’s don’t even know it.
MLM is the only so called “business” on the planet where EVERYONE who chooses not to do it thinks its a sham and those in MLM think everyone who chooses not to do it must be lumped into a bitter 40 year plan. I have more respect for the janitor who works 40 years for his pension than any MLMer who needs to sink so low as to prospect in someone’s yahoo question the way Mexico4me does.
Marcello, you are a little hard on these guys but I know where you are coming from. You are 100% correct, but I suspect you are more amused making fun of them than anything else. Am I right?
To add some points though:
i have never seen people in any other business that will just accept the numbers without any validation like they do in network marketing.
in network marketing, people who have never been in business sign on to this because they hear things like people are making X amount of dollars, you could make millions, or Donald Trump says network marketing is the best way (although he is a real estate tycoon and has no affiliation with network marketing). Can you imagine making a decision to start a business based on hype? that is what happens everyday in network marketing because the average person that joins has no idea how to analyze a business. evidence of this is the fact that so many in network marketing try to recruit off the internet. if that is your pool of business people you intend to base your income on, you definitely have my pity.
also, you will always find there is some lawyer or doctor who lends his name to an organization and suddenly everyone in that is brought in is thinking “wow, if a lawyer or doctor is doing this, then I must be doing the right thing. And wow, i heard they were making $10k a month, and look at that nice car.” these people of course never consider that this lawyer or doctor is either making all their money in their own practice or is equally unqualified to judge a business. Being a good doctor doesn’t automatically translate into good business sense. I once knew an accountant that left his profession, left his family hanging, and went into Network marketing full time. Everyone in his upline and downline applauded him all the way to losing his home. If you asked anyone new to the business what happened to him though, the story line was he retired from his success in the network. Bravo. yes, pity all the way, although anyone stupid enough to get involved deserves what they get and perhaps the only way to learn is by getting in and failing, and getting it our of your system.
Marcello, you are one wacked dude. However, it is true, the numbers don’t work in MLM. Just do the math in a simple 3×3 matrix. By the the time you hit the 14th level, you need 10 billion people. The MLM response is to not get caught up in the numbers, or don’t take the numbers too literal. Imagine saying that during a real estate transaction? “Mr. Investor…. you are taking the numbers too literal. Don’t get hung up on the numbers…” Wake up MLMers. 99.9% of you won’t make it. The other .1% will siphon enough off the others, to appear “successfull” so you can then sell tapes and seminars, to the 99.9% to make up the bulk of your income. Mexico4me, I want to join your business, so can I see you income statement? Profit and loss? And you uplines, and your upline’s upline. No I can’t? You are right, I am getting hung up on the numbers again, silly me.
Comments on Do you feel embarrassed/pity for the people you know in MLM? »
Whenever I get that MLM sense, I avoid whatever the offer is. I have spent hundreds of hours checking out all the get rich quick schemes. For the record I have a website with ideas and ways to save money and make extra money through cash offers and paid surveys. The website is
Thanks
Cory
Oh, gosh, don’t these MLM’s seem like a CULT? I know of a dear friend who is involved in selling books, art packages, and other small items to the public. This person is out in the heat every day, thinking he is going to make a killing in a few months. I haven’t really said anything to him directly. He’s young and very trusting. There is no investment, but the pay is horrible. I don’t know how he’s making it. I wish I knew what to say or do. It’s a little late to point out the problems, and yes he takes great offense at anyone who knocks it. He feels that people are attacking him personally, and don’t believe in him. Does anyone else have any ideas about this?
they r hard working people who believe in their dream to be rich one day.. so .. treat them with respect
I feel embarassed/pity for Marcello. This poor guy wastes hours and hours every day bashing what others do for a living, when he could be actually trying something like WORK and getting on with his life. There are things in the world that I don’t like either, jobs I would never consider doing, but I have enough respect for the people that do them to never try to make them feel that what they are doing is insignificant.
Time to get a life Marcello.
Go get yourself a job, as you obviously subscribe to the 45 year plan, retire poor, get yourself a nice big bag of Walmart dog food to try creative cooking with, and live off the government. Leave those of us who are earning an honest income ( far more than you earn, guaranteed) alone.
No one has a problem with you analyzing a business, but you are unable to do it with any form of an educated opinion, and frankly, you’re just sickening.
So once again, GET A LIFE MARCELLO…Join some group where you can spew your uneducated drivel and have yourself a big old time!
Perhaps join competitive checker leagues or something a little more in your caliber.
I wasn’t going to bother chiming in to this question until I notices Mexico4me felt the need to embarrass himself yet again.
You can’t post a question in the small business section or the career section without Mexico4me spamming you about his business opportunity. He is a classic case of what is sad about the MLM business world…and now they are all over the net like a virus. This chain letter style business had no respect from the beginning and is merely a punch line today.
The only people with any respect for the business are those who stand to profit from selling stuff to them (like motivation books & tapes), or the people who are in MLM themselves. No one who is outside of MLM has any respect for this industry, and what’s worse is most MLMer’s don’t even know it.
MLM is the only so called “business” on the planet where EVERYONE who chooses not to do it thinks its a sham and those in MLM think everyone who chooses not to do it must be lumped into a bitter 40 year plan. I have more respect for the janitor who works 40 years for his pension than any MLMer who needs to sink so low as to prospect in someone’s yahoo question the way Mexico4me does.
Marcello, you are a little hard on these guys but I know where you are coming from. You are 100% correct, but I suspect you are more amused making fun of them than anything else. Am I right?
To add some points though:
i have never seen people in any other business that will just accept the numbers without any validation like they do in network marketing.
in network marketing, people who have never been in business sign on to this because they hear things like people are making X amount of dollars, you could make millions, or Donald Trump says network marketing is the best way (although he is a real estate tycoon and has no affiliation with network marketing). Can you imagine making a decision to start a business based on hype? that is what happens everyday in network marketing because the average person that joins has no idea how to analyze a business. evidence of this is the fact that so many in network marketing try to recruit off the internet. if that is your pool of business people you intend to base your income on, you definitely have my pity.
also, you will always find there is some lawyer or doctor who lends his name to an organization and suddenly everyone in that is brought in is thinking “wow, if a lawyer or doctor is doing this, then I must be doing the right thing. And wow, i heard they were making $10k a month, and look at that nice car.” these people of course never consider that this lawyer or doctor is either making all their money in their own practice or is equally unqualified to judge a business. Being a good doctor doesn’t automatically translate into good business sense. I once knew an accountant that left his profession, left his family hanging, and went into Network marketing full time. Everyone in his upline and downline applauded him all the way to losing his home. If you asked anyone new to the business what happened to him though, the story line was he retired from his success in the network. Bravo. yes, pity all the way, although anyone stupid enough to get involved deserves what they get and perhaps the only way to learn is by getting in and failing, and getting it our of your system.
Marcello, you are one wacked dude. However, it is true, the numbers don’t work in MLM. Just do the math in a simple 3×3 matrix. By the the time you hit the 14th level, you need 10 billion people. The MLM response is to not get caught up in the numbers, or don’t take the numbers too literal. Imagine saying that during a real estate transaction? “Mr. Investor…. you are taking the numbers too literal. Don’t get hung up on the numbers…” Wake up MLMers. 99.9% of you won’t make it. The other .1% will siphon enough off the others, to appear “successfull” so you can then sell tapes and seminars, to the 99.9% to make up the bulk of your income. Mexico4me, I want to join your business, so can I see you income statement? Profit and loss? And you uplines, and your upline’s upline. No I can’t? You are right, I am getting hung up on the numbers again, silly me.