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David Henson wrote:
> Please take a look at this guaranteed, no risk, no work necessary plan:
>
> 1. No monthly payments - not now, not ever!
> 2. Your one-time enrollment fee will generate a 5-6 figure income depending
> upon which plan you chose,
> 3. Your entire enrollment fee will be returned to you in 90 days or less!
> That makes the program entirely risk free,
> 4. There is absolutely NO recruiting required - not now, not ever!
> 5. Your first level will be filled in 90 days or less - Guaranteed - even if
> you do NOTHING. Even if you've never sponsored anybody in your life. Even
> if you've joined dozens of MLM programs and never collected a penny! Even
> if you completely fail at all your promotional efforts. No matter what you
> do, you will have a downline in 90 days or less - guaranteed.
> 6. Your first level's first level will be filled in another 90 days or
> less - Guaranteed. Even if they're complete stiffs who couldn't work their
> way out of a paper bag. Even if all they ever do is call you and complain
> that the program isn't working. No matter what they do, the program will
> work anyway!
> 7. The THEIR first level will be filled in another 90 days, and so on, until
> your entire matrix is full. And a full matrix will pay you a 5-6 figure
> income --- $11,353.80 for a Basic Plan, $56,769 for the Business Plan, and a
> whopping $113,538 for an Executive Plan - even if you enver do a thing!
> 8. 100% no questions asked money back guarantee.
> 9. You will make big money in months, not years.
> 10. You'll earn a hefty sales commission for ever y single sale, ($50 to
> $500) if you do a little bit of work!
>
> What more information?
>
> Just e-mail your mailing address and I will send it to you. No one will
> ever try to call you. I will include my home phone number if you have any
> questions and want to call me.
>
> This is for real; the one you've been waiting for. You literally can't
> lose.
>
> I will also throw in special incentives!
>
> Please - have a look!
>
> mailto:lungd...@multipro.com
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> >
>
> hi,
> do send me details.
> Thanks
>
> rahul.
> dimple...@vsnl.com
You know, the smart thing to do would be to specify if you were asking
David to send details, or Irene.
Since this post is Re: Irene's post in the thread (at least on my
server), it looks like you want her to contact you. Since David
specifically says to email him for details, I doubt if you will be
getting a response here. I have rarely seen any of the posters of
these "guarantees" bother to actually read the newsgroups where they
post. Irene has been asking this guy for an explanation of his
guarantee for a while now, with no response.
While I am here, I thought I would comment on the difference between
MLM and Direct Sales (while attempting to defend them both), in the
context of Internet-based offers.
Direct Sales companies, historically, have retained the services of
full-time, trained sales professionals, to market directly to the
end-user of the service or product. While there have also always been
some "part-time" individuals involved in these companies, they have
been a small minority. Some companies have hired outside their own
organization to "sales management" or "sales consultants" businesses
rather than carry on the administrative duties of running a sales
force, but that has been just as rare as the "part-time" component of
the sales team. This is the position of Network Marketing companies --
they have retained the services of a number of "sales consultants" at
no cost, and do not have to pay them at all, unless goods or services
are sold. So, "MLMs" are a sub-set of Direct Sales companies.
MLM (or Network Marketing) assumes several things. One is that you
will be presenting the product/service to your EXISTING "network" of
contacts. You know, family, friends, neighbors, people you attend
church with, people you work with. That eliminates the need for the
Company to have an advertising budget. That is why it is called
Network Marketing. While it also assumes a multi-leveled
organizational structure to the sales organization that you may or may
not build, ALL sales organizations are multi-leveled. After 20+ years
in sales, I can assure you that Sales Managers and Sales Directors, as
well as Marketing Directors, receive "over-ride" income on all the
sales made in their organization. As we know, of course, ALL income is
dependent upon the sales force. Salaries can not be paid without
someone actually generating a cash stream by selling the product or
service the company markets, regardless of what that company may
choose to call its sales efforts. So, calling a particular type of
company "Multi-Level Marketing" is pretty meaningless.
The same can be said of a "pyramid." Look at any organizational chart
in the Human Resources office, and you will see a pyramid -- boss at
the top, lieutenants next, division managers next, etc., until you get
to the people who actually do the work (the ones at the bottom of the
chart). Most people do not want to admit that, because they have
little or no hope of getting to the top level of the company, but
everyone knows it subconsciously.
So when we talk about a Network Marketed company, what are we really
talking about?
Well, it is a company that produces some product or service, and has
chosen to market that product or service through a "self-developing"
structure of independent sales contractors. Just as in any
organization, that structure will evolve around the most successful
contractors in a pyramid-like form. In any Network Marketed company,
you will see "pyramids" within "pyramids" within "pyramids" within the
corporate "pyramid" structure. The only UNIQUE aspect of a Network
Marketed company is the assumption that the service or product will be
sold primarily by "part-time/some-time" independent contractors, to
those people they already know.
The Internet is largely a connection of people (contacts) that you in
fact do NOT know. We have only the illusion of knowing anything about
one another here. While the Internet would appear to be an excellent
place to do Direct Marketing, it is in no way an appropriate vehicle
for Network Marketing. And as we already discussed, ALL sales
organizations are Multi-Level, so calling your opportunity MLM or
NOT-MLM is pretty meaningless. What you are doing is recruiting a
sales force. Selling a product or service. Offering an opportunity to
make money on a part-time bases, perhaps, and if everything goes well,
maybe even make enough to quit the full-time job.
Now, Direct Sales requires one thing above all else. It requires a
product or service that has enough unique value that someone can
actually make a living selling it. Since Network Marketing is a
sub-set of Direct Selling, any company that does not have such a
product is really in the business of selling something else. The only
OTHER thing you can sell is the income opportunity itself. Yet,
without a strong product, there is no income. And that is why people
fail at MLM-Network Marketing. Just as anyone would fail, in any other
aspect of Direct Selling, who had a poor product. We see post after
post, here and all across the Usenet Newsgroups, and in our email,
attempting to sell... what? An income opportunity!
To add insult to injury, these people then appeal to that little
instinct for greed that resides in all of us, as well as what I call
the "lottery-mentality" that, if we are just in the right place at the
right time, we will not have to do anything but "buy the winning
ticket" and all our financial concerns will be over. Folks, there is
no free lunch. Not here, not on the Internet, not in your job or back
yard. That is just the way it is -- get over it.
Now, the Internet proves to be a not very good place to do Direct
Marketing, either. Unless you have a product or service that has high
intrinsic value -- then, just as you would using any other method of
Direct Sales, you can succeed magnificently. What we see here, again,
is a confusion between the value of the service/product and the simple
"technique." The greatest technique will never overcome a poor product
over the long term. And any organization that leads with the promise
of substantial income over the value of the product or service, or
tells you that some technique, like the Internet, has "repealed the
rules of selling" is busy selling YOU something, all right. I just do
not know if you want to buy it. Most of these "income opportunities"
are dependent on a virtually never-ending stream of people who are new
to the Internet, financially unsophisticated, not in business for
themselves, and so woefully unprepared to carefully examine the bill
of goods they are being asked to buy. That is the only area where the
Internet has "changed" the rules -- it has brought the opportunity to
be ripped off to countless more thousands of people than would have
been reachable otherwise.
So, the next time you see someone offering an "opportunity" that
sounds too good to be true, ask yourself this:
"If I heard this same pitch from some stranger on the street, would I
be likely to believe it? Does it make sound economic sense? Where is
the product/service? Would I be likely to buy that product or service
if there was NO income opportunity attached? At the price asked?"
If the answer to any of these questions raises concerns for you, dig
deeper and ask for some straight answers, or walk away -- just like
you would from that stranger on the street.
Paul
Of course, that is just my opinion. I could be wrong.