Thursday, August 21, 2008
I have a confession to make that is a bit difficult to make since it will now be public knowledge and can be traced back to me for years to come, but here it goes. My first experience with network marketing was with Amway. Yes, I was one of those people who drew circles on a marker board showing everyone how great things could be if they joined and got others to join too. There's a step in AA that says something about confessing the exact nature of our wrongs or something like that. I do not feel better for having admitted that, but there is a reason that I have.
I actually was semi-successful at Amway, but something happened that caused me to never find out how successful I may have been. I was still in the military and building a business in what little spare time I rarely had and needed to go to the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, Ca. I left my fledgling business in the hands of my upline fully expecting things to be fine when I came home. Boy was I wrong! It seems that my upline attempted to sleep with the wife of one of my downline. I doubt there is anything that will destroy a network marketing business faster than that. Word spread like one of the prairie fires I fought as a volunteer firefighter during any remaining spare time I never had.
Things sure have changed over the years. Now I have a global business with people I actually enjoy. I purposely have built it that way. I am the one saying no now and I no longer have to keep my product a secret during my presentation because I am proud of the companies I represent. You see, relationships matter in network marketing now. It is no longer a numbers game though many will disagree.
I actually was semi-successful at Amway, but something happened that caused me to never find out how successful I may have been. I was still in the military and building a business in what little spare time I rarely had and needed to go to the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, Ca. I left my fledgling business in the hands of my upline fully expecting things to be fine when I came home. Boy was I wrong! It seems that my upline attempted to sleep with the wife of one of my downline. I doubt there is anything that will destroy a network marketing business faster than that. Word spread like one of the prairie fires I fought as a volunteer firefighter during any remaining spare time I never had.
Things sure have changed over the years. Now I have a global business with people I actually enjoy. I purposely have built it that way. I am the one saying no now and I no longer have to keep my product a secret during my presentation because I am proud of the companies I represent. You see, relationships matter in network marketing now. It is no longer a numbers game though many will disagree.
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