Hi Suzanne,
My sympathies.
Your boyfriend is, most likely, going to lose money. Very few people make any sort of money out of working in an "mlm". The figures are usually available at the MLM website - you just have to look for them. Most "associates" or "independent business owners" consistently just lose money. They are the fodder that provides for the uplines to make their money. The constant chhurn of new people coming in, paying their fee, making their first few purchases and then leaving befor ethey earn anything at all is where most of the small proift comes from.
The really big money for the uplines people comes from two other sources.
1) Motivational material. The CDs that the IBO just have to have in order to be successful - the constant barrage of CDs, meetings, more eetings and conventions. The uplines get the money from the CD sales to the faithful, a cut on the hotel room for the conventions (booked through them of course) and a handsome profit on the ticket sales - If you look through the posts on here I think Hal did a work out of how much money the "upslimes" make out of their captive audience.
2) Lead purchases - if your boyfriend takes a long hard look at where he is buying his "leads" from he is most likely going to find it is from - his uplines. And they are making a nice little earner off him.
Your boyfriend sounds like a guy who is willing to work hard - anyone who is willing to cold call to try and build has got some go in him or her (I do not). The shame is that he is going to get used up and all his hard work will not get him what you and he need.
Is he a good salesman? Is that what he is trained to do? If he is he could get a regular job with a telemarketing company who are always looking for people who can stand the gaff.
You don't mention how long you gus have been involved with this. here's a test for you
1) How much money have you spent on this? Not just the fee to join, but the rest of the costs, the purchases for the regular order "to qualify" the phone service, buying leads and so on. How much - total.
2) How much have you made?
3) Now add up the hours you have worked on this. All of them - the meetings, the presentations, the sales pitches on the phone and so on. Add up all the hours. Now multiply that total by the minimum wage figure.
Add 1 and 2 together - this is the investment. Now take the figure from 2 and see how much "profit" you have made on your investment.
You make no mention of what you and your boyfriend work at up there and where your areas of expertise are.
If you came here to find what has worked and what has not worked to get people out of MLMs - you are in the right place.
Mick
sueskiride <no_reply@yahoogroup
I recently joined the group and wanted to introduce myself. My name is
Suzanne and I live near Yosemite National Park. Jobs outside of the
park service are pretty limited in our small town so my boyfriend
Craig joined a mlm with hopes of bringing in some money quickly. It
has been quite the ride watching him start this home based "business".
He purchased some leads, as recommended by his upline and started
calling. So far he has contacted a minor, a divorced person and the
best yet a dead person! I feel sorry for all the rejection he has
faced. He is still determined his efforts will be fruitful- although
he hasn't made a cold call in a while.
I am excited about being part of this group to see what has worked and
what has not for other mlmers.
Cheers!
"Yo, Brutus, you just glad to see me or is that a knife under your cloak?"Julius Caesar
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