June 20th, 2007

Top 10 Excuses For Avoiding Network Marketing

Joey Rosario   
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1. It’s a Pyramid Scheme

We’ve all heard this one by now. It all comes down to perception of what you believe it is. No difference from the democrat vs the republican, or the good vs the evil. Everyone have their own opinion.

2. It’s a Ponzi Scheme

Way too many schemes to remember by now.

3. I Don’t Know How to Sell

Who says you have to sell anything? I haven’t, but that doesn’t mean that you won’t. Each person has their own way of doing network marketing. How was that last job interview you had? Was that not a sales pitch?

4. I Don’t Have The Money

You want to own your own business but you do not want to pony up a little start up cost to invest in your own business? I guess some people like to aim big with a $500,000 investment to start a McDonald’s.

5. I Don’t Have The Time

You want to be financially free but you are not willing to spare a little time to build your own future?

6. It’s Too Late To Join

It’s never too late to do anything.

7. Some People Are Making Money Off of Me

Do you think the company you work for doesn’t? How about the vending machine that charges you $1.50 for a can of diet Coke? It’s not exclusive only to people. Machine is making money off of you too. Well, actually the machine belongs to someone but you get the point. The sooner you break out of this feeling, the sooner you will get to where you want to be.

8. I Won’t Make Any Commissions

Says who?

9. Only People At The Top Make Money

And they should. They put the time and effort to build their business. But not everyone at the top make money. Some don’t. Just as not everyone at the bottom do not make any money because a lot of them do.

10. I’m Not Interested

What more could I say?

I am sure I’ll get plenty of hate for this article but it is what it is. Flame away …

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3 Comments

Mike S Said,
June 21st, 2007 @12:48 pm  

Yeah, plenty of arguments could be made in either direction. But it isn’t the issue I have about your blogs. It appears to me that you bring up very good questions/concerns, such as “Sponsoring vs Recruiting” or “Is Network Marketing A Pyramid?”, yet you consistently fail to explain/clarify the very questions you bring up. And this article is a perfect example.
Most of the ten excuses go on unanswered and unexplained, which definitely makes me, and i’m sure others, think: if there is no answer to my concern, is it possible that the concern is truly valid?
Just something for you to think about :)

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Joey Rosario Said,
June 21st, 2007 @1:14 pm  

That’s the objective of the article. There are plenty of sites out there that will answer or challenge most if not all the points I raised. I don’t need to be the next in line. My site’s objective is doing what it is intended to do; to raise awareness and curiosity.

After writing the article “Is Network Marketing a Pyramid?”, I realized answering questions back and forth is not how I want to do build my network. Convincing people will probably get them to sign up, but for how long? I am not sure that’s the right approach because I am in it for the long haul.

Network Marketing is merely a vehicle to get you to where you want to go. But before you can do that, you need to learn how to drive. In the Network Marketing sense, learning to drive is doing the research on your own and figure out whether network marketing is right for you.

I want to build a business and I want to do it by working together with like-minded people who are interested in building their business as well. In my article Sponsoring vs Recruiting, I make it pretty clear on how I want to do it. If I want to go on a long road trip, I want to take with me people who can drive.

Of course there are plenty of ways about doing this but this happens to be my approach. If you can see, I don’t put any product placement relating to the network marketing on my site. I could have promoted it vigorously but then it’ll come out looking like a sales pitch and that’s not how I feel about the business.

But that doesn’t mean that I won’t do it later. Every strategy needs tweaking from time to time. This is my approach at this time and we’ll see how it works out.

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Joey Rosario Said,
June 21st, 2007 @1:29 pm  

You will see plenty of ads about people claim they can show you how to recruit 10-20 people a month. They show you their paycheck how much money they make. My thought is always that’s only that one-month paycheck where he recruited all those people. Show me the same check for 6 consecutive months and I will be a believer.

What I think these people are doing is recruiting people that do NOT know how to drive by telling them all the feel good stories and how much money they will make without teaching and sharing with them how to build their business.

Eventually all these recruits will feel cheated and quit the business and they will resent the business as a result. They were recruited by irresponsible uplines who are only interested in padding their own wallet. Am I naive? Absolutely but that’s ok.

I have a different goal and it’s a goal I want to achieve and I want to achieve it well.

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