Information Control!

Lately it has dawned on me how much control my MLM company has on its members. The last few days my room mate and I have been having some discussions about MLM in general. Comparing other MLM's to ours. In those discussions I would bring up some of the things that had been problems for other MLM's and then my room mate would admediatly tell me that all the problems that other MLM companies have ours dosnt have that problem. How our MLM is as close to perfect as you can get. That everybody in the company has the upmost integrity. He would then try to explain to my why that was but could never come up with a explanation that made any plausible sense. He was mostly sprouting the one liners that we were taught to say from the tapes and the meetings. These sayings might sound good on the surfice but when you try to examine them you realize they really dont make any sense at all. What really bothers me is why do we trust these people on the tapes and on the stages so easily. Looking back on things now Ive realized how they never did anything that said they were trust worthy, they just made me a lot of promises that if i worked hard for so long and kept on system success was all but guarentied. But anyways I let my room mate make his points and I really tried not to disagree with him. I know there is no way I can change his thinking Ive got to let him discover some of the truths himself. I just really hope he doesnt find himself burned in a couple of years.

It's the journy not the destination.

Through my expierences with the MLM buisness. I've always been told to remeber the Destination. Remeber where i could be in 5yrs if i stick with it. I find something wrong with this. Ive always believed that in life its not how succsessfull you become but its how you get there that matters. With MLM theres no real creativity in it. Your told to follow a set plan on how to get there. In the end if you make it you havent really created anything, youve just copied something. Its like plagurizing someones work. The reason why your not allowed do that in school is because you havnt really learned anything from it. Youve just taken the easy way out. Ive been told by my upline and the leaders in my MLM that this buisness is the easiest and fastest way to get my dreams. Life isnt always about finding easiest and fastest way to do things. The journey through life is about all the stumblings we have getting through it. I personally would rather start my own buisness something i could build from the ground up using my own creativity and those that i work with. Because in the end yes i will stumble allot. I will most undoubtly fall on my face but in the end I will have something i can be proud of I can say yes i created this. I can leave behind a legacy. Not a carbon copy of someone elses legacy.

Can everyone really succeed in MLM.

Thanks J.O. for that story.(To read the story click on the comments of the last post.) This is most deffinetly not the first story like that, that i have read. Something I believe to be an issue with most MLM programs and the one I am involved with tell you that anybody can have success in the buisness if you put in 100% effort. I believe these to be false statments. I have an upline in my buisness that is a great wonderfull person and puts in like 120% into the buisness every day. But in like the 4/5 yrs he has been involved he has yet to even qualify at the lowest reconizable level. I mean he does every little thing that our buisness system tells him he should do and he has seen very little in return for his effort. Because of this I believe that MLM works for some people with certain kinds of personalities. It just meshes with some people. But for others its like trying to force two strong magnets together. No matter how much you try you cant keep them together they just cant stick. I remeber reading an article by Bo Short and his Amyway/Quixtar buisness, which he was a qualified diamond at one point. Diamond being the holy grail level that every one strives to reach. He said he was tired of seeing so many people work so much harder than he ever did and never achieve anything in the buisness. I believe there is also many other things that factor in to your being able to achieve success in the buisness. Such as your location. If you live in a very low population area and you dont know that many people getting your MLM buisness going is like pulling teeth. But if you live in say a big city there are so many people that finding people who want to build a MLM buisness is not that difficult. I remeber the marketing class i took in college and all the things i learned about what multi million/billion dollar companies do when marketing there product or service. What gets me is how those in my MLM think that no matter where you are or who you are is that there system is a one size fits all. Most company's i recall from my class will tailor there efforts to fit the needs of those in a specific area. But lets not listen to that, i mean these companies only spend millions of dollars on reaserch every year to figure that out!

To Quit or Not to Quit!

To reply to a comment made on my last post, Yes i do want out of this MLM but the things holding me back is all the good friends i have made from it. Ive noticed those that quit the buisness tend to be shuned when they do. Also I cant help but wonder whether or not im wrong about all the things ive learned about the company. That maybe im just looking for an easy way out of having to actually do something thats different to me. I guess i just dont want to make the wrong choice. But I cant turn my head away from all the facts and information that i have learned about the company and all the deception i see on a daily basis. Truthfully i just dont want to pass up an opportunity like this. But I also dont like being lied to either.

Buisness and Life!

Lately I have been really questioning what life is really all about. What are we really supposed to do with the life we were given. According to the MLM company I was involved with, the business is the best thing we could do with it. I’ve heard this many of times, at all the seminars and the tapes that I listened to. The business seems to be god approved. I have a hard time buying into this. I have to say some of my biggest complaints about the business were all the secrecy and half truths that were told to me and everybody else in it. I was always told to fight to get into the smaller meetings in order to get the good information. The information I’m going to need to take my business to the next level. Now I have never actually qualified for one of them but I’ve been told what is said at them and they eventually put some of these talks on tape a few weeks later. I remember one such time I was told by my up line that they said in the talk that there were some groups of people that were telling lies about us. Apparently there was more than that said about it but that is all my up line would tell me because they were told not to discuss this with anybody. Now this makes me wonder why something like that would be restricted information. I think I have an idea why it would be because if they let everybody know many people in the business would look into it and they might actually believe what was being said. I believe I know what prompted this speech and I actually figured that I would hear something about it in the business at some point. It amazes me how badly they want to restrict the flow of information to us. I remember actually being told at a meeting one night that we should not read newspapers, watch the news or TV in general, don’t use the internet for anything other than to go to our business web page. The only place we should get our information from is them.