What is this? You have managed to turn this into an Amway sales pitch? I thought we were talking about helping needy people around the world. Is this how you are helping? No, you are not helping them. You are kicking them when they're down.
You are taking advantage of their desperate situation and exploiting them when they are most vulnerable, luring them into your pyramid scheme...all the while bad mouthing those who are truly helping them.
As for your opinion of what we are doing... I beg to differ. In fact, I cannot disagree with you strongly enough.
First off: We are NOT exploiting anyone, or taking advantage of desperate situations.
It is the international bankers, corrupt politicians, cartels, and war mongers across the planet that exploited them.
We are addressing their desperate situations in a sustainable fashion. That's lasting change.
Secondly: I was not bad-mouthing anyone. Again, I was very clear. My astonishment was reserved for those who do not bat an eye at suffering in the world, but who get all riled up because someone has taken out a billboard advertisement that states an opinion they do not agree with. I was not bad-mouthing Christians or faith based relief organizations.
Thirdly: We do NOT operate a pyramid scheme, ...we are a legitimate network marketing company.
Pyramid schemes often try to disguise themselves as network marketing companies, that doesn't make them so.
Is this a pit bull or a bunny rabbit? See my point?
...and I am not involved with Amway.
Fourthly: I have not made a sales pitch. You asked me what I do to help these people. I told you what I do to help people in desperate situations, and I told you I dig wells and build schools with my colleagues. end of story. You then came back asking for further clarification, asking me how I do what I do, ...and I told you that network marketing is the vehicle that allows me to do this. Had I informed you about the very products & services I provide to the public, the various prices of the items sold that generate the income, that finances this, then perhaps you could stretch somewhat to try to fashion an argument that I was making a sales pitch, ...but I have got to insist that you not keep requesting further clarification, then objecting when I give it to you.
Fifthly: We are truly helping people, however, we are doing it in a sustainable fashion
NO STRINGS ATTACHED.It takes money to build a school. Many faith based organizations do the same. I will make a comparison between us and them because I believe that is who you think I was referring to (despite my previously stating that not to be the case). As we can both agree, faith based organizations help others in various parts of the world to meet basic needs, etc. They acquire their funding through handouts. Begging money from governments, citizens etc. Then they come back next season requesting more.
Some people will give $50 to a group, but do so not out of some desire to help, but because their religion tells them they have to give this money to their church, so they do it out of dogmatic obligation and/or a tax write off. Many other people have a sincere desire to help, but do not have the financial resources to do so directly, or the ability to roll up their sleeves and help, so they give $5, $25, $100 etc., to a faithbased org or registered charity, and hope it's not run by an individual with the character of Jimmy Swaggert, Jim or Tammy Faye Baker.
Network marketers however, are a different breed of humanitarian.
We fund our charitable & humanitarian activities through our businesses.We have the financial means, and the lifestyle that enables us to hop on a plane and fly to some part of the world, ...roll up our sleeves and put shovel to dirt. A network mktr making a 6 figure monthly income has a lot of resources at their disposal to get the job done, ...not to mention the ability to fly to some remote part of the world for 3 or 4 months at a time overseeing a project, ...all the while the income continues coming in.
Most people cannot do that. There are those who would love to go to Peru and work with farmers down there, but they have to work their 9-5
Just
Over
Broke day in day out to put food on their own table, and a roof over their family's head. So they again turn to some organization hoping it's not run by a Jim Baker.
A huge distinction between what we as network marketers do and the faith based groups do, is that network mktrs do it without any strings attached. The faith based groups (missionaries) will go over, and provide the assistance, but along with it comes an agenda; ...one that discounts, and obliterates native customs, cultures, and religions, and replaces it with their particular doctrine. Their help comes with a price tag... religious conversion and endless proselytizing ad nausem. I don't think we need to get into the effects on a society when their culture is destroyed. Especially while corporate avarice moves in and takes all their resources leaving nothing in return except destroyed local economies, and polluted environments. It creates unsustainable bubbles that eventually burst to the detriment of all concerned. We've seen ample evidence of that across the globe over the years, ...and in recent months.
The network mktr however, is simply supporting a cause we believe in. These people over there need a school. Let's build one. This village over there needs clean drinking water. Let's put in a well that will do just that. This organization needs a source of perpetual funding, one that is not vulnerable to whimsical changes in government administrations, or influential lobbyists with exceptional access to administrative decision makers. Our solution, ...let's build a business whose profits can sustain the funding needs of the organization through passive residual income. This allows the organization to devote their time to the task at hand, rather than constant fundraising. We are entrepreneurs with a talent for feeding two birds with the same worm. We are intimately acquainted with universal principles and the interconnectedness of all things, and we leverage these principles.
Let's say you have a valueable product with the ability to simultaneously clean up the air, while reducing the customer's expenditures, allowing the customer of the product to keep more money in his/her pocket, or in the case of some (if your customer is a business owner), to even remain in business. The more customers you have using it, the cleaner the air would be, the more money your customers would have, and the more businesses that would stay afloat right? The more sales generated, the cleaner the air becomes, the more money your customers keep in their pockets, ...and the more money you make, and the more money you have available to do good works.
Let me give you a hypothetical using small numers:Person #1 in NewYork who was just laid off from their job, can sell a product to Customer A, and earn a direct retail sales commission that they can put into their pocket immediately. Customer A is happy because this product represents real value to them. By using this product, they can meet compliance guidelines that allow them to stay in business. They also save themselves $X, allowing them to expand their businesses and hire additional employees. Something sorely needed especially in this economy. Customer A continues to buy the product. Sets up a standing monthly order for this product so it can be automatically shipped to them at intervals of their choosing. They never have to run out of it, or schlep across town to get it from Person 1. Person 1's customer is supplied, and Person 1 didn't have to tie up massive amounts of capital to do it, nor did they have to schlep across town to deliver the product. You have just created an ongoing income from a one-time effort. Of course, Person 1 is now going to sell that same product to Customer B, and Customers C,D,E,F,G etc. All 7 customers set up standing monthly orders for these products. Every month, Person A has income coming in from 7 customers. So what is he going to do, he's going to gather another 7 customers and so on and so on. Let's say that Person 1 eventually develops 100 customers. Every month, Person 1 makes commissions from 100 sales whether s/he gets out of bed or not.
That's 100 customers staying in business and hiring employees... and cleaning up the air in the process.
What if Person 1 received a matching bonus check for everybody that s/he taught to do the same thing?
If Person 1 taught Person 2 how to do the same thing. and then taught Persons 3, Person 4,5,6,7 etc
As Person 1, your business would have 700 sales every month whether you got out of bed or not. Passive Income.
Now Persons 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, duplicated the same thing, and each found 7 more people who each develop 100 customers. You could be earning a residual income on monthly sales generation of 34,300 businesses
...whether you got out of bed or not, in addition to a check matching bonus on 343 other people doing what you are.
What kind of an impact do you think 34,300 businesses NOT closing their doors has on a local economy?
...especially if businesses are a type whose demise could stop a
NATIONAL economy in it's tracks?
How many additional employees can 34,300 businesses hire if they are able to improve their profit margins, while reduce operating expenses. Many companies reduce expenses by laying workers off, ...what if you could help a business to reduce expenses and improve their profit margins, while hiring additional workers? How many local families does that feed, house, and clothe?
Duplicate this process over time, ...and it can generate some very impressive numbers.
It's a win/ win/ win/ situation all around. I see nothing wrong with, and everything right, about being able to sustainably finance the desperate needs of people around the planet, by simultaneously providing value to consumers, an income source for the unemployed, and cleaner air for people to breathe, and stimulating local economies on a global scale.
Do you think that when we go over and build schools, we're trying to recruit distributors?
Because if that's your impression, you are completely mistaken.
Most successful network mktrs belong to companies who do not even do business in those countries.
My friend has been building schools and digging wells in Uganda for yrs. She's also been in network mkting for over 30 yrs, and to my knowledge, not until 3 years ago did she even participate with a networking company that even did business in Uganda. Most only did business in the US, Canada, Japan, UK, and Australia.
There are some network marketers who are attracted to the industry because the income it produces can create a life of absolute hedonistic luxury for them. A $300,000 per month, or a $500,000/month, or in the case of the very elite mlm'er, a 7 figure a month income, can produce an incredible lifesyle and a legacy that can set your family up for life. Not only their immediate family, but their kids, grandchildren, and heirs for generations to come.
The vast majority of elite income earners that I've met however, live well below their means, in quite modest accomodations, rarely revealing their assets except to those within the same asset bracket who would not be intimidated by it. Many continue to live as they did when their family was getting by on their corporate salaries of less than $100K a year, ...but the income is invested in many endeavors... whether it be in real estate, stock markets, or travelling the world putting boots on the ground, doing hands on good works. And yes, some hide it under their mattresses.
Not everyone can be Oprah Winfrey and have their own media empire that enables them to build an elite academy, however, network marketing affords everyone the opportunity to be able to do the same good works as Oprah, and develop the financial means to do it, despite their lack of a talk show, or monthly magazine.
Network marketers have options and choices the non network marketer does not.
The non network marketer gives their money to a faith based group, and that group decides how it will be spent.
There may not even be an existing organization that focusses on the areas or causes the person wants to support, so they examine a list of existing institutions and picks one that comes the closest... again hoping it's not run by a Jim Baker.
The network marketer has the ability to fund his/her desired cause directly, and make a difference on the planet, ..if s/he chooses to make that kind of a difference on the planet. Or, ...s/he can simply keep the residual income they've earned, and live a good life. The choice is entirely their own.
And who cares what Bill Clinton has to say? In that same video he says "In America, if you play by the rules..." If you play by the rules? Yeah, we all know he played by the rules to get to where he is.
That's why we do what we do. We know that society doesn't work the way it's supposed to. We know that many are feeling the harsh betrayal of the corporate world after "playing by the rules". It has led to many lives shattered, loyal employees who've devoted their lives to companies at the expense of their marriages, families, being shafted out of retirement incomes, pension plans, etc., In network marketing, however, ...if you play by the rules, you will be able to achieve your goals and your dreams... whatever they are. There is no glass ceiling. You produce... you get results. Network marketing is simply the vehicle we use as leverage to achieve them. It is
Brilliant Compensation at it's finest.
That's what I do, ...and that's how I do it. I never did get your answer about what you do?
