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Story time.
Today i was approached by an assistant in another suite that happens to work in the same build as i do.
She called me over so she can show me "something" -- at this point i was assuming she needed help moving something as they were moving their stuff to another level of the building (renovations & such) -- she tells me "no" -- she just needs me to watch something. I go to her desk and look at her screen, when she hits the play button on me.
5 Seconds into the video playing, and by reading the footer of the website (dream tours) - i knew this girl landed into some MLM funnel and is now trying to recruit me. I said "Oh this is an MLM, i'm not interested in this...." -- faster than i could finish my sentence, this girl starts demanding/asking me all sorts of questions about why i don't do it -- and why i wouldn't want to make more money -- and how much am i making now -- etc -- at some point she starts firing off tons of reasons why she's doing so great in this program and that she made her money back already.. i told her, im not interested in that because it's not a real business -- it's a pyramid scheme. She proceeds to tell me that if i joined i wouldn't be needing a job and that her boyfriend buys $400 pants and $600 shoes, and that she could quit her job at any moment, and that she's going to be rich... etc etc -- i just couldn't understand it -- how this conversation went soooooo off the deep end so quickly. I chuckled to myself because here we are - your promoting this "opportunity" to me, getting mad at me because i'm not interested, then have the nerve to make assumptions of my finances. And she's the one coming to work everyday as an entry level, part-time assistant.
Unfortunately, this isn't the first time i've been approached by an acquaintance or friend about this. Yet here we are, many months later these people are still broke. MLM's only works if you're on top of the food chain. Period. There is almost no value in joining an MLM, unless it's to train you to get out of an MLM, and help you transition into a real business.
They always get mad, don't they? It's unbelievable.
When I was managing a T-Mobile store, I was approached by a guy who was trying to recruit me into an insurance sales MLM. I took his card, and told him I would look into it. 5 minutes of due diligence via a Google search (seriously, that's all it took) and I pegged it as an MLM. Tons of complaints. The guy called me about a week later and asked me if I wanted to grab coffee and discuss what he had to offer. I just kept saying "no thanks, I'm not interested." Very neutral in my tone. Obviously agitated, he laughs, says okay, and hangs up.
The general rule is that MLMs make their money from constantly recruiting new employees, not from selling products. Without the recruitment of people, there is no business.
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