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Why Are You In This Business Of Network Marketing?

by Wayne on March 12, 2010

in Mindset & Personal Development

When you were a kid, did you endlessly ask “Why”? Do you have kids that never stop doing that to you? You tell them to clean their room and they keep asking “Why?”. They just keep asking “Why?”, “Why?” and “Why?” until you get really annoyed and snap “JUST GO TO YOUR ROOM AND CLEAN IT NOW!” If you’re not guilty of this yourself, I’m sure you know someone who is.

That was just one example of how we are taught to stop asking “Why?” every single day. And it’s a real tragedy because it conditions us to stop questioning and being inquisitive. It conditions us to just accept the status quo and things cannot be changed.

As most people grow into adults, they tend to lose the visions of their dreams, they lose hope, they lose their sense of freedom, they become apathetic, and they get into comfort zones because they’ve been conditioned to accept that this is “their lot” in life and there’s no way to change it. There is no sense of self-worth. [click to continue…]

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Your Friends and Family Have Iced Water Running In Their Veins

by Wayne on February 26, 2010

in Mindset & Personal Development

Do you know what’s so stupid about writing a list of friends and family, and then showing them the plan? Not only will they say “No”, they are also likely to criticise you, chastise you and laugh at you for doing your business. A lot of people will quit just from the criticisms of those who are close to them.

Whenever you make a passionate push for success, there are always going to be people in your life who do not want to see you change. It happens to everybody. The reason why is because they feel threatened. Their lives are so mediocre that they do not want to be left behind when you finally do succeed. Misery loves company.

That might sound a bit harsh, but that really is happening at a subconscious level, even if a friend or a loved one is expressing care for you and doesn’t want to see you fail and get hurt. They will pull you back down to their level unless you have a strong enough reason for doing your business. [click to continue…]

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Deadly MLM Policies and Procedures (Part III) – Termination and Renewal

by Wayne on January 2, 2010

in MLM Business Models & Legal

You know, many network marketing companies, especially the old, large institutions all try to hook you with something like “the freedom of owning your own business.” Is this true? Do you really own your own business?

When you really delve into the opportunity and understand it, you’ll realise that you don’t own your own business at all. It again, comes down to the company’s policies and procedures – the legally binding contract between you, the distributor, and the company. These policies and procedures are living proof that you DO NOT own your own business.

If a network marketing company can terminate your distributorship for any reason, is that owning your own business? Of course not. If a network marketing company can choose not to renew your annual contract, is that owning your own company? Again, absolutely not.

So without further ado, let’s dig right into the “funky” termination and renewal clauses. Some of these are quite unbelievable… and entertaining… but it’s serious stuff! [click to continue…]

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Deadly MLM Policies and Procedures (Part II) – How Long Is Yours?

by Wayne on December 26, 2009

in MLM Business Models & Legal

The relationship you have with your MLM company should be one of mutual respect and support, right? After all, you can’t be successful without your company and they can’t be successful without you. On that basis you would expect your company to trust you to promote them ethically and you would trust them to provide you with the best products and marketing plan.

Some companies just don’t trust you. You can tell by the length of their policies and procedures that they don’t. The longer it is, the less they trust you and the less freedom you have as a distributor. It’s so ironic that this industry is all about freedom, yet some MLM policies and procedures are way more restrictive than employment contracts – beyond what you can imagine.

A fair network marketing company should have policies and procedures that are up to 10 to 15 pages long, according to Rod Cook of MLM Watchdog. Any longer than that and I would the question the motives of the company. I used to think that all MLM company policies and procedures were the same – just some legal flotsam where you would tick “I accept” when downloading some free software, but they’re not… [click to continue…]

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