On Friday 12 October 2007, xxfarmhandxx wrote:
> The saddest thing about the whole "chase your dreams" motivational
> thing that the MLM's push is that it applies very nicely and
> effectively to just about anything in life OTHER than an MLM
> business.
That's part of the problem. The "It takes money to make money" is such
a cliche that people just accept it, so when the king pimps say it,
people just listen and go along and start spending money.
One issue I had was that my business is based on custom software that I
have written and much of it was quite complex, so I'd have to be quite
obsessive about writing parts of it. I had sections that I had to
focus on for weeks at a time, spending as much time as possible on
them. I had to give up a lot of my life while doing that. It was also
working, intentionally, on the idea that I could do most of the work up
front and when I was done, I could relax and let it keep going and
bringing in the money.
With my ex-gf, that was a big problem in trying to show her some of the
problems with their system. I had set my business up so once the work
was done, I could relax, it was based on replication (I write one piece
of software and add more clients, but it takes very little time to deal
with each client), and the pattern looked too much like what the king
pimps were promising.
One funny, at least to me, story about how blind an IBDrone can be
involved her upline, one everyone thought was quite wise. He was a
nice guy, but his faith was literal and that was part of what they had
tapped in to (see the other thread on the rant on religion if this
doesn't sound familiar).
One night we were on a date and he called her. That, right there, shows
one big difference between my business and hers: I would *never* take a
business call on an evening date. My clients wouldn't be calling me
then, but in "The Biz," it was their whole life. (I kept expecting one
of them, at some point, to quote the Blues Brothers with, "We're on a
mission from God.")
While she was talking to her upline, he asked to speak to me (which
makes me think it was all part of a set up). He told me he was at a
ball game and talked with an old friend who needed some database
programming and I could talk to him about it. I thanked him, but told
him that taking a "pay per hour" job was counterproductive for me and
I'd lose money on it. I told him that whatever work I put into my
system paid me back many times over when anyone wrote me a check. He
simply didn't understand.
Many of you may not see the point, but if you've seen The Scam, er, The
Plan, then you know what I'm talking about. They make the same point:
you work at a job and get paid by the hour, but they claim in their
group, each bit of your work is multiplied by every member of your
downline. They preach replication and duplication and that's exactly
what I told him was going on with me, but he was so trapped in his
brainwashed views that he didn't see that.
> My wife and I after 6 years of being out of Scamway are
> closing in on where we were dreaming of being as Emeralds and the
> future looks very promising. Let's see.....six years working 12 - 18
> hour days 7 days a week building an Amway/Quixtar business, having
> virtually no leisure time, little to no contact with family and
> friends, substantial debt and STILL generating negative profit
> or...... Two years building a traditional non-mlm business, being
> truly independent, lots of leisure time, relations with family and
> friends that is better than ever, quickly shrinking debt, and a
> healthy income that shows every indication of continuing to grow?
> Hmmmmm?.....
> loser. If I'd only known that being a loser in the eyes of the
> upslime was so profitable and such fun I'd have told that
> first "successful" IBDrone where he could stick his circles.
Unfortunately for me, to get my business up and running took 5 years of
intense and hard work, which is what Quackstar IBDrones tell people
what to expect, but I never had to answer to anyone else and I did have
choices, at each point, about how I'd do things, what I'd do, how I'd
solve a problem, and so on. In Quackstar, no one can tolerate you
making a decision.
And, now that things are working, I can spend my time doing what I want,
not speaking at meetings or psyching people up.
Isn't it nice to have the freedom that an MLM always promises but can
never deliver? ;-)
Hal
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