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MLM and the Truth about Making Money

Posted on February 12th, 2008 in My Rant...that can make you money! by admin

Ok I have to say this and it’s a bit of a rant and so for that I’m sorry. I happend to be reading online and ran across a post on a scam site talking about they felt they were scammed because if BOLD letters the site said NO SELLING! They claim when the spoke with the company about it after not making any money they were told oh you don’t really have to sell the product sells it’s self.

I have two distinct problems with this situation. Number one is the person thinking that selling is something you don’t have to do and somehow you are going to make money. What has this world come to where people really think they don’ t have to sell at least their personality to sell a product? I only buy stuff from people I know and trust and when I have a good deal I share it with anyone that will listen. It’s like having an extra buy one get one free coupon and sharing it with the schmuck in line behind you because it’s a good deal.

That’s what MLM is. Plan and simple it’s nothing more than that. You have something you think is great and you share that with everyone you know and you hope to God that you can find a few good people to do the same thing. If you do there is a ton of money. Why?? Because the company doens’t have to pay for ads and you are selling the product for them. That saves on labor and other cost they would have if just employing sales people. For example I sell the “Crap” out of Direct TV but I’m a Dish Customer. I get about $125 per sale and I make great money for about 4 months a year then it sucks a$% for the rest of the year unless I really need some extra money. I sell about 10 to 12 systems per month so you do the math. Now that’s not bad and the reason you don’t make more is because it’s not my main thing.

M y point is I make money two ways. By selling it myself (that means getting flyers distributed) or by telling people if you want to order Dish or Direct you can get up to $125 back if you sign up to sell it then buy it from yourself. I’ll get $20 for getting you to sign up and you get $125. Most people say really??? Why would you not just try to get me to buy it from you? My answer is hey I’m not that interested in selling it. I would rather have 200 people buying Dish or Direct than selling 20 or 30 systems personally. I’m all about the deal and I don’t mind passing on a good one.

This is all MLM is. It’s passing on something good to someone else. Now the company that I won’t mention shouldn’t have been playing word games, but the person should have had some real expectations on what having a business is and that selling is something you have to do no matter what.

Now this post is after 3 glasses of a very good wine call Staccato from Argentina so sorry it’s too long.

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