Say No to MLM
When I was in college, I bumped into an old friend who use to go to high school with me. She was a year younger and was looking very dressed up for a would-be-college-bound girl. I asked her what she was doing at the time. She explained to me that she was doing her own business and that she was making alot of money. She had a knack for selling and did a great job in explaining to me how she made money. Little did I know, I agreed to go with her to a seminar for her company… NTC, the now defunct multi-level marketing telephone company. I got all my friends involved. We had great results signing up our families but that was as far as it went. The income was non-existent because the momentum slowed and the time commitment required to really go out and sell this product competed with my desire to stay on track at school. It was at this time that NTC’s recruiting strategy was at it’s peak. Everybody knew about NTC and recruiting new member was getting much more difficult due to the saturation of recruitment to the colleges. After losing hundreds of hard-earned dollars and dealing with my family and friends complaints about the outrageous cost of the service, I vowed never to join another MLM again. Years past and I was invited to other groups. But I fought off every single one of them. And to this day I have not met anybody who has struck it really rich doing this.
I only mention this because I’ve noticed that recently there’s been an increase of the next set of eager 20-somethings trying to pitch their MLM to me. I do not want to know how to get out of debt. I don’t need to join something that Donald Trump supports. I don’t have the need to sell any mutual funds or other financial tools to people or have someone join under me so I can get income from their sales. That to me brings back really bad memories. I don’t want to sell-out my friends and family again. I will help them my own way. I will get rich the old fashion way without feeling that I’ve made sacrificial lambs out of my friends and family. I’m not saying MLM won’t work. But for me it doesn’t and I realize that well in advance. I’m saying “No to MLM”. So to all that know me and are pitching me their MLM, STOP!
