I received the following in an email today (name of person redacted):
Now, I am not one for any sort of ointments or potions, but I know that there are plenty of you out there that like this sort of stuff. I do however “partake” of aloe vera drinking gel every morning but that is about it. I get mine from XXXXX “making you healthier and wealthier” XXXXXXXXX who runs a network promoting the benefits of Aloe Vera products from a company called Forever, for use both internally and externally, I have no doubt that she would have something to help with those Zoom Wrinkles.
XXXXX has had an interesting journey to establishing her part time business working from home. Over 14 years ago she started working under the umbrella of Forever Living Products, the Aloe Vera Company. As she says herself, she was looking for a replacement income to enable her to retire early from her full-time job in further and higher education. You maybe know the feeling.
She had always had an interest in all things health and well-being and after trying Forever's aloe vera based products and seeing great results on herself (she was her own guinea pig) she began to share information about their products with family, friends and work colleagues.
She took the plunge and retired early from "the day job" of almost 30 years in 2012 and has never looked back. She now runs her successful Forever business part-time working from home.
You could say that she helps people stay healthy through recommending and retailing the wide range of aloe vera based health and wellness products.
But in addition, she also shares Forever’s business opportunities by showing people a different way of working which is flexible and fits in with existing day-to-day family and work commitments. This way of working involves personal contacts and building customer relationships and good old fashioned referral marketing. We all do this to some extent but I think XXXXX has it nailed.
If you would like information about Forever's product range (for your Zoom wrinkles) or income earning opportunities, then just get in touch with XXXXX. Check out her website, or you can email her.
And which unscrupulous promoter did I receive this from? My accountant. My flipping accountant, of all people. They send out a weekly business newsletter. I can only assume that they haven't done their research, so I sent them the following reply:
"I am very, very surprised and a little disappointed to see an accountant promoting a multi-level marketing company. By Forever's own figures, 88.6% of the people who signed up to Forever Living in 2018 made absolutely no money whatsoever, 7.86% earned just $105 a month on average, 3.42% averaged $1,493 and just 0.2% averaged $28,512 a month - and those figures are turnover, not profit. There's a good summary of some of the issues with this company here (which gives the source for those numbers): www.talentedladiesclub.com/articles/how-much-money-can-you-earn-at-mlm-forever-living/
I'm glad for XXXXX that she has a successful business out of it when so many don't, but the whole model depends on people signing up new recruits to work underneath them and getting commissions from stock they buy which they have very little hope of selling. I've seen so many people get into serious debt because of this company's emphasis on 'fake it till you make it' and encouraging new sign-ups to load up credit cards buying stock, and often these are people who have signed up at a time of desperation in their lives because they've lost their job or have an unexpected huge expense to cover.
Normally love the newsletters though, so please do keep sending them!"
No response yet.