The "my own business" is a good one. I have my own business. If
someone approached me with that line, I'd have at least a half dozen
questions to ask them. Do you pay taxes? If not, it's not recognized
as a business, which means you don't own it and you don't control it.
Is it in your name? Can you hire and fire at will? Do you have full
authority over what products you sell and at what prices? And so on...
In some ways I'd just love for a drone to prospect me so I could be
nasty and take out any remaining frustrations on them by asking them
questions they just won't be able to answer.
<<Good morning, Hal! ;-) You knew I'd pop out on this one! I have to comment (respectfully, of course) on this comment about "owning my own business". I still feel like I own my own business as an MLM'er. Take a look at franchises. A McDonald's franchise owner, for example, still owns his own business. He has purchased the right to market under this specific entity. Yes, he has SOME room to make his own decisions, but he still must adhere to basic fundamental practices and codes of ethics. Of course some don't. For example, I was yelled at by a McDonald's MANAGER (yes, manager!) because I asked for a straw when one wasn't given to me with my meal. And I asked nicely. I shared this story with friends at a later time, and one of the ladies commented about how she no longer patronizes that particular McDonald's because she has met with rude service there. This is my feeling of what happens with most MLM's. The concept is started, with good intentions (although I still feel
that most MLM's are NOT started with good intentions; they are started as a way to rip people off and take their money) however, somewhere down the chain of uplines, downlines, etc., there are certain personality types that screw it up.
Back to making own decisions: MLM'ers are able to make many business decisions for themselves (i.e. choosing what hours they want to devote to the business, which products to stock, if they must stock inventory, how they market, etc.). But, like the franchisee, must adhere to certain basic concepts or regulations. So, in this sense, MLM can be considered similar to a franchise.>>
Okay, digressing, but still, just thinking about the issues of people
coming up to one with lines like "I own my own business!" As to why people fall over and over for different MLMs, the short and accurate answer is that such a person has emotional needs that are not fulfilled and the MLMs look like they will fill those needs. Money and
logic have nothing to do with it.
Hal
<<I beg to differ here, also. First off, many people have emotional needs. EVERYONE has SOME kind of emotional needs. It's part of being human. We have emotional needs from the time we are born. In saying "the short and accurate answer is that such a person has emotional needs that are not fulfilled" makes it sound like everyone who has been with an MLM or is currently with an MLM is some kind of emotional freak that stalks people. We're not, and I don't think you are either; the average person isn't. I joined MLM's (all but one were a waste of my time and money) because I thought I could make some money, because that's the way they were pitched and I thought there was some relevance behind them. But I wasn't some sad sack of an emotional pile of dung; I have needs (i.e. paying my bills, wanting to fee my kids), but I'm not "needy". And there are many MLM'ers out there who aren't. You were in an MLM at some point yourself. Does this mean you were emotionally needy?
Probably not. It just means, that, like me, you, if only for a moment or a few years, were introduced to something you thought you could make into something that produces in income. We both obviously made that mistake.
Secondly, money and logic have a LOT to do with it, because the reason most people get involved in an MLM is for the money. Or for the money they are told (usually through lies and deception) that they will make. And, it appears logical for a time, at least. Although with most MLM's as time goes on, the logic starts to disappear once the MLM'er sees the truth behind the scam.>> Terra
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