I recently joined Quixtar and LTD a couple of months ago. I was
excited and traveled in a car pool to the LTD team meeting in Raleigh
1 1/2 months ago. The meeting room was bursting with people and the
halls held several people. I sat on the floor at the back of the room.
The meeting started at 7pm and was supposed to end at 11pm but
dragged on to midnight. I'm a member of Toastmasters, a public
speaking and leadership group (not MLM), and familiar with good public
speaking. I expected a more professional meeting and content, but was
disappointed.
Sixty percent of the meeting time the platnums and emeralds hogged
the mic (with a lot of you know's, Uh's, etc.) with the "I Love You
You love me" stuff. Five percent was spent talking about product
(found that to be strange), and ten percent about how to recruit. The
rest of the time was the motivation/ cd & book selling time.
By 11:30 my mind was restless from the incessant you know's and my
butt was numb, so I slipped outside for a walk. I saw dozens of people
in a daze trying to stay awake in the hall, and I said to myself "this
is like David Koresh's cult in Waco". I was out in the parking lot
when the meeting finally ended at midnight, and I saw a couple of car
speed out of the parking lot like a bat out of hell!
After that I went to the night owl with my upline team at a nearby
pizza place, and the buffet lines were enormous. After eating, we had
a long meeting (ie. Joe Markiewicz preaching until 3 am). Then my team
carpooled the 3hr trip back to Charlotte where I live, and I crashed
at home just before sunrise.
I have two good friends who used to be in Amway years ago, and I
described the meeting to them. I amused them with my description of
the cult.
Two weeks later, I went to a local chamber networking hob nob with
a good friend. I was learning how to do introductions and pass out
business cards. I arrived home late and didn't want to bother going to
the open meeting so I surfed google videos about Quixtar and the
products. I was dumbfounded to learn more about the products on google
than from my upline.
A couple of days later,I was surfing on google video again, and
realized my upline doesn't know any crap at all about marketing
either. Why is it called network marketing if nobody is marketing?
Calling friends and family and roaming the malls is not much of a plan!!
I've seen first-hand the desperation new IBOs have, but they are
not being taught anything but recruiting and buying your 100 PV. I've
gone from shocked to angry about how the LTD tools business is ripping
off the membership with motivation but very little useful information.
It's like a person getting addicted to crack (tools). They get the
buzz of excitement for the first time, and will do anything stupid to
get it back again, but only ruin themselves. The crack dealers are
desperate crack heads themselves, and only care to sell more crack.
Looking for better options. I like the Quixtar products themselves,
but more interested in legitimate retailing. I can't look to my upline
for help, and I don't have the cashflow to do 100 PV on my own.
Sincerely,
Alan L.
Charlotte, NC
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