7- Mindset!
I practised positive thinking and law of attraction long before MLM. It had a huge impact on my life and I 100% believe in it because I speak from experience! Again this is not an MLM thing! This is an Oprah Winfrey, Steve jobs, will smith, and any other successful person thing!!!
To become highly successful in anything you will absolutely need to apply certain disciplines to yourself, negative thinking actually brings bad health. The study of neuroplasticity is something I think should be taught in schools!! Again not MLM.... Neuroscience!
As I suffer with a neurological condition I came across this whilst researching what I could do to improve my health in certain ways. I have also spoken to my consultant, who happens to be at the best neurology hospital in the uk, and he has praised my view and attitude on positive thinking and adopting different ways of seeing the world! As far as I'm aware he is neither a Mormon nor an MLM bot!
8- Does it bother me that our CEO apparently doesn't support gay marriage?
No it doesn't and I will tell you why.
I have many gay friends, I support gay marriage. However I am not religious, so therefore it doesn't upset my beliefs in any way.
If you are religious that would clearly go against what you believe and therefore I respect that view and opinion. Catholics don't agree with many things (my stepfather was Irish Catholic!) but would I boycott a company due to the beliefs of the CEO?? If I did I would never buy from most high street stores.
It wasn't that long ago that most of the population were against black people sharing a bus with white people! We move on, we change we evolve we respect others opinions. If you found out your CEO supported fox hunting would you tell him stick his job???? Probably not!
Did you boycott McDonald's after their embarrassing support and funding of the IRA became public years ago?? Probably not!
Does our CEO pay the bonuses regardless of our beliefs?? Yes!
9- Are my downline successful?
Don't assume that every one that joins wants huge income! Are they earning huge incomes? No! Some earn a top up of anything up to £800, some earn more than their previous employment, some earn enough that they have replaced their full time income. Some earn far more than they ever came in for. Some have gained confidence, have a bit more self worth, are happier, have made great friendships etc is that not a good thing?
BUT.... If I judge the success rate on those coming in and getting what they originally wanted then we have only a 4% fail rate. 4%!!!! Not 99!! This is because most people don't want huge income! I know! Mad right! I didn't! I'm successful because I wanted £400 a month and got it! then wanted a full time income... I got that. I then wanted to give my children a nice home .... I got that. That also takes time! If someone in my team has been in for 2 months and not had a six figure income yet do we count that as unsuccessful??? No!
Have people dropped out? Yes! Do I recruit every Tom dick and Harry?? No! For exactly this reason! I don't want disgruntled team members that were never going to do it, leave and tell everyone what an arsehole I am! Although unfortunately there have been a couple! But these people NEVER did anything!! They never spoke to people about the products, they never spoke to anyone about the business, they never tried a product or gained knowledge, they never wanted to learn anything. Who's fault is it then that they made no money??? Mine??
I joined the same way, I made money. Why?? Because I worked hard and gave it time!
Those who come in for a few months, don't do what they need to do to learn or don't apply the basic principles of at least showing the products will not make money!
But surely it's no different to me paying £600 to learn how to be a hairdresser and never becoming Nicky Clarke???? Who's fault?? Mine!
The problem with many people today in general is always trying to blame other people for their problems, take responsibility! What would you like me to do?? Work the business for them? Build their business for them?? I honestly don't understand who else is to blame if someone doesn't build their own business! Some may be unlucky in who recruits them, I understand that not everyone involved in MLM has the same attitude as me and not everyone will be ethical... That's not a reflection on the company the same as a dodgy doctor shouldn't be blamed on the NHS or a Paedophile teacher is the fault of the education system (my daughters school had 4 of those!) who did I blame?? The teacher as I'm 99% sure the school never made that a policy that had to be adhered to!!
10- I asked permission to comment on here?
Are you serious???? None of my upline tell me what to do, if they did I'd still do what I felt was right anyway! I didn't ask the company! I mean honestly some of these comments make you sound obsessed not me!
You have a very distorted view that we are so controlled by the company! We are not! Infact I was more controlled by a private healthcare company when I wasn't allowed to tell people how badly the company was run and how shameful some of the residents were being treated.... Guess what?? I told the manager I was whistle blowing because I stand by my morals...so that's what I did! And I kept my job purely because they actually appreciated my honesty! IRONIC!!
I have always been outspoken and MLM hasn't changed that! I still choose to give an opinion of i feel I wish to do so!
I can assure you that none of the really successful upline are bothered by this thread at all, do you think in 10 years of being in MLM they haven't dealt with this sort of thing before?? Probably??
All these kinds of threads really do is affect the people already not that confident or scared of people's opinions. For the majority it isn't an issue, I only even bothered to read this because my daughter got notified when my name was mentioned!
11- Commercial websites??
I'm unsure as to what you mean by that so not sure what the answer is???? Happy to come back to it.
12- Global rally 1500cc
Yes I qualified, I joined in June 2014. Global rally qualification runs from Jan to Dec so yes that was my first FULL year. 1500 means anyone ending the year on more than 1500cc but less than 2500. (I totes could've done more!) always next year!
13- What do I earn for the hours I work?
I will be honest here, I have never sat down and worked out what I earn on an hourly basis. For 2 reasons, 1 I get a headache doing anything admin based and 2 I don't class much of what I do as work! Do you count having coffee in your own home with someone as work?
I worked all day every day for my first 3 months this was a mixture of calls, laptop based learning, meetings with people, chatting to customers etc so not all hugely demanding physical work...BUT I earned £1500 in my first 3 weeks, in my second month I earned double that but most of that income came from my own retail sales due to many people seeing what the product had done for me and my daughter.
Month 3-6 I worked hard but not as mad as I had a big customer base and most were reordering so I looked after them instead of finding more.
My team had grown to around 20 (including downline) in all at that time and by December 2014 I was earning 3 times my previous full time wage in care (a job that took me away from my children most evenings, weekends and Christmases!!!) I worked while kids were at school and evenings doing MLM! I put that time in by choice. That can be adapted to suit the individual, I always ask team what THEY want not what can they do for me. We then plan around their family and plan what they want to achieve without too much sacrifice where possible but obviously if you want £10k a month in a year then you need to be realistic about the effort and sacrifice that's going to take!
I don't still work like that, I was rubbish with time management and I have watched people do better in less time around a full time job in less hours! Organisation is something I'm not good at.
I now work better and I'm time smart. I do approx 20 hours a week, sometimes less but sometimes more depending on my diary that week. I now earn enough to cover bills, car, home, business expenses and still be able to save quite a chunk and treat ourselves. Without giving away my entire financial situation we live comfortably. So it does pay off long term... It's no different to other businesses in the sense you put a lot of work in for little reward at the start.
14- leaflets, flyers, tablecloths etc
Do I need them?? No! I have business cards and that's it!
It didn't suit me to do pamper parties and events, I hate all that! It's there if you choose to do it that way but equally you are free to work it how you want. I choose to speak to people about products and the business not pretend to be a girly girl having a pamper. I believe I've built my business well because I haven't over complicated it. Many do it differently. My expenses are anything between £100-£400 a month depending on what I choose to spend for e.g if I choose to treat the team to a holiday or not, if I choose to drive a lot that week or work from home. It is within your control and I never tell someone to get into debt. I used my earnings from the business to put back in where I wanted to. My commission would pay for my training etc and I tell the team to make money before spending it wherever possible.
15- What else have I missed??
16- ahh my point to make clear on why I asked u to inbox! I couldn't keep up! I could've answered a question one by one without scrolling back thru numerous comments and pages. My concentration isn't brilliant (neurological health condition remember!) I absolutely assumed the response would be shown on here so nothing to do with hiding it! If I wanted to be sneaky then surely I wouldn't be the ONLY one on here actually using my name! What is that all about?? Being anonymous?? Why can't people just be up front and HONEST!! (That's awkward!) and I don't believe for a minute it's about not upsetting friends at all, it's far more likely to be about how comfortable you can be bitching at others without anyone knowing who you are! The fact I blatantly don't care that you know my name and I'm more than happy to be open about it should really show you more about my character than anything you hear via gossip and trouble making idiots that I have been desperately trying to escape from for the last 20 years!! Believe me when I say there are a few of them on here..... Hi guys!!! waves
17- Do we take money from our downline?
No. If say my recruit earned £100 I would not get £30 of that £100! You earn what you work for. I can out earn my sponsor, my recruit could out earn me if she works harder she gets paid more. The complete opposite of a pyramid scheme I might just add. I have seen many people out earn their sponsor. If you recruit and they go mad and you do nothing.... Guess what? You don't earn from them!
18- Anything else? Please don't ask what the net sales of it works or the % of earnings or failure rate throughout FL have been since 1978 because I'm gonna be honest..... I struggle with my own tax admin! I would have no clue whatsoever about facts and figures throughout the history of the MLM industry! And to make that clear... I'm not avoiding the question! I simply don't know the answer!!
MLM is not perfect by any means but for me personally and for many others it is a better option than any other. That's not to say you are wrong in your opinion but also that neither am I.
You should never argue about religion, politics, football and it seems also MLM!
Based on opinions and personal experience meaning the argument just goes nowhere!
....and breathe!!!!! (Bracing myself for a complex return of polite and adult conversation mixed with abuse from the odd know it all)
...... Tea break!