Now Appearing in an Extended Engagement! Join David Robison as he takes you into his world and his daily life of reviving a stand-up comedy career. Prepare for side trips exploring the "art" of salesmanship and business ethics and his experience with Multi-level Marketing. Enjoy some frequent detours describing his observations on life. Read the exploits of this self-proclaimed Renaissance-man and blooming blogger as you go
On The Road With Dave.
Since the recent news regarding the buyout of a British company that manages some of the USA's ports by a company in Dubai, I thought you'd like to see a link I have had in my "Favorite's" file for a while.
Most people equate a "carnival" as a small traveling amusement attraction filled with amusement "rides" surrounding a "midway" of booths containing games of chance.
So, I've been "busy" each night after work taking my family to the parades each evening that lead up to Mardi Gras day or "Fat Tuesday" as it's called.
This year the big day falls on February 28th. And if you have business to conduct on the Gulf Coast on that day, then consider your business cancelled. Though, originally a religious-rooted holiday, most of the cities that participate in the celebration close businesses and agencies to join the revelry.
The office I work in will be closed that day, too; even though we will have an "on call" person (ME) to handle emergencies.
In the meantime, parades and celebrations are held every evening, and I have tried to be there to catch my share of beads, stuffed animals, and moon pies.
Private parties, "balls", and pageants are also plentiful as well as good old fashion "crawdad" "boils".
I ate my share of the ugly "mud bugs" yesterday at a friend's house, while watching the Daytona 500.
Even though I'm as southern as the next guy, I'm not a big fan of NASCAR; but I had a great time. My wife and I met some new people, enjoyed some good food and drink, and had a relaxing Sunday afternoon.
I've been a lot of places in this country, but nothing beats the Gulf Coast during this time of the year.
If you got some time, I invite everyone to "come on down" and experience "Carnival".
This news from Rich Razgaitis, Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Oasis LifeSciences:
Oasis LifeSciences will undergo a name change to Univera LifeSciences. In addition Oasis LifeSciences will be merging with sister company Namyang Aloe.
So, Passport closes down, and its Founder joins Oasis Lifesciences along with some other ex-Amway/Quixtar distributors and all of sudden we get news of a name change from Oasis to Unistar...um I mean Univera Lifesciences.
Has the influx of ex-distributors and blog news of the Quixtar/Oasis connection prompted this name change? Who knows? I'm sure the two are unrelated, but I don't doubt the speculation will be raised in the MLM community.
"Well, it seems that Vice-President Cheney has decided to give hunting lessons in his spare time, he wants his first clients to be, (insert something clever here)"
Sometimes when I'm writing a blog entry or writing jokes for my comedy act; I'll have a pretty good premise, some vauge ideas, and not much else. So, I may write down what sounds good, and leave myself a note to come back to the idea and "insert something clever here"
You've probably seen comedians on stage tell the audience, "You can make up your own joke" after saying an obviously funny "set-up" line. "Insert Something Clever Here" is also my version of that.
So, when I was asked what kind of "tag line" or slogan, I wanted at the top of my blog, it was obvious to me that "insert something clever here" was going to my choice.
I hope that on most days, I fulfill the admonition to myself and provide you; my loyal, yet slightly warped readers; "something clever" to read.
You can also read my other "insertions" at Comedy This Exit and yet another new blog I am infrequently updating at Comedy Soapbox.
Comedy Soapbox is a site strictly for comedians, bookers, and fans and is proving to be a valuable resource in furthering my comedy career.
A link to the "Soapbox" and my blog at that site is at Comedy This Exit.
Now, for the above "make up your own joke"; tell me what your clever line would be.
Here's the set-up once again...
"Well, it seems that Vice-President Cheney has decided to give hunting lessons in his spare time, he wants his first clients to be, (insert something clever here)"
Okay, I am emphatically NOT making fun of the Shaklee company, nor their distributors, and especially NOT the couple who wrote what is reprinted below.
I have removed all names, and replaced with initials, but I have not altered the story in anyway.
I reprint the Shaklee distributor's "Welcome" message from their Shaklee-approved replicated website.
Several things jumped out at me about this message.
1. The 100% faith in the Shaklee products. 2. The unashamed religious faith of the distributor and their boldness in displaying it. 3. The "stream of conscience" writing and lack of edits, or attempt at a re-write. 4. My complete negative reaction to such a message.
I haven't made any final conclusions as to whether I think a message such as this would be good, bad, or indifferent in the grand scheme of this particular Shaklee distributor; but they would probably not "sell" me on joining their particular line of sponsorship, even though I have an overall positive opinion of the Shaklee Corporation.
Here's the message:
"We began our Shaklee business in September, '88. I really wasn't looking for a Shaklee business. I had made Jesus Lord of my life and He was teaching me how to build beautiful cells by the food choices we make. For instance, we can choose junk food and build a shack or we can choose choice food and build a mansion (temple). I was buying Health Store vitamins at the time.
I desired to bring Mom into our home from the nursing home. My friend felt that I would be missing the Lord if I did that, so she agreed to fast with me to seek God. It was like 'green light, go get her'. After my husband, D. and I made the decision to bring Mom into our home, The Lord spoke Shaklee to me 5 times. I had heard about Shaklee, but didn't know the value of the products. But The Lord did. So, I began looking into the company and the products. I was amazed at what I found. You wouldn't believe the research and testing that goes into these products and also the standards used for their choice of ingredients. Amazing!!!
My mom had Parkinson's Disease. She weighed 190#'s and could not get up by herself. D. and I had to get on each side of her and pull her up from a sitting position. I changed her diet and started giving her lots of Shaklee nutrients. Shortly thereafter, maybe 2 weeks, my husband came in from work and was amazed at what he saw. Mom in the kitchen helping with supper.
It's 2004 now and we're enjoying wonderful health. No medicine, no drugs, just good health!
It's hard to keep this kind of information to yourself. Our Shaklee journey has been delightful and we get to share these fabulous products with others and make money while doing it.
Since 85% want to own their own business, if you're one of that percent, let me show you how.
Working at home, no time card to punch, freedom and flexibility. How much better can it get?
Would love to hear from you. Truly - S and D W."
Tell me; What do you think? I'm open for comments.
P.S. I do think it would be great for Quixtar to have such a "Distributor Locator", that puts prospective clients in touch with a local IBO, and not just a Platinum-type IBO.
From the NewPRWiki comes a list of corporate CEO bloggers worldwide.
Listed below are the CEOs or members of corporate leadership that are blogging in the USA.
The list at the PRWiki site is complete with active links connected to each name of the CEO. I just reprinted the plain list.
Joe Agliozzo, CEO, BetterPPC - blogging since May 10, 2004 Paul Allen, Founding Partner, Infobase Ventures - blogging since May 2004 Scott Anderson, Director of shared content, Tribune Publishing and Interactive - blogging since April 28, 2004 Marc Babej, President, Reason Inc. - blogging since July 28, 2005 John Bailey, President, John Bailey & Associates, Inc. Jeff Barson, CEO, Surface Medical Spas - http://www.medicalspasonline.com/ Randy Baseler, VP of Marketing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes - blogging since January 17, 2005 Brock J. Blake, CEO, FundingUniverse.com - http://www.brockblake.com Matt Blumberg, CEO, Return Path - blogging since May 10, 2004 Carole Brown, Chair, Chicago Transit Board - blogging since [[April 15, 2005]] Buzz Bruggeman, Founder, ActiveWords - blogging since January 10, 2002 Jason McCabe Calacanis, Co-Founder & Chairman, Weblogs, Inc. Mark Carlson, CEO, SimpleFeed - blogging since September 24, 2004 Brian Carroll, CEO, InTouch - blogging since Oct 31, 2003 Jonathan Carson, CEO, BuzzMetrics - blogging since May 13, 2005 Beth N. Carvin, Founder and CEO of Nobscot, blogging since August 23, 2002 Richard Charkin, Chief Executive, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., blogging since December 12, 2005 Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC - blogging since July 22, 2004 Henry Copeland, Founder, BlogAds - blogging since September 05, 2001 Bob Cramer, President & CEO, LiveVault - blogging since June 3, 2005 Colin Crawford, VP/Online, International Data Group - blogging since March 1, 2005 Michael M. Crow, Arizona State University President: The President's Post - blogging since December 1, 2005 Karen Christensen, CEO, Berkshire Publishing Group - blogging since December 15, 2004 Steve Cody, Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Peppercom - blogging since July 11, 2005 Marc Cuban, HDNET & Dallas Mavericks - blogging since March 12, 2004 [http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/ Ross Dawson]], CEO, Advanced Human Technologies - blogging since [[October 5, 2002]] Brian Dear, Founder & CEO, EVDB, Inc. - blogging since February 1, 2002 Joseph DePalma, CEO, Vertora, Inc. - blogging since February 17, 2005 Chad Dickerson, CTO, InfoWorld - blogging since January 25, 2003 Ed Dodds, Founder & CEO, - blogging { in a manner of speaking } since December 23, 1996 Scott Dow, founder, The Empower Network, blogging since September 14, 2004 Michael Dunn, VP, Hearst Interactive Media - blogging since January 19, 2002 Tim Dyson, CEO, Next Fifteen, blogging since November 11, 2004 Richard Edelman, President & CEO, Edelman - blogging since September 29, 2004 Demian Entrekin, CEO, Project Arena - blogging since july 20, 2005 John Estafanous, President, Estco Medical - blogging since December 16, 2004 Brad Feld, Mobius Venture Capital - blogging since May 4, 2004 Bill Flitter, CEO of Pheedo - blogging since February 29, 2004 John S Flowers, Founder, nCircle Network Security & kozoru, Inc. - blogging since Feb 1, 2003 Gil Friend, CEO, Natural Logic - blogging since June 11, 2002 Leslie Gaines-Ross, Chief Knowledge & Research Officer, Burson-Marsteller, blogging since [[November 18, 2005]] Scott Gatz, Senior Director of Personalization Products, Yahoo! - blogging since October 1, 2005 Bahar Gidwani, CEO, Index Stock Imagery - blogging since June 24, 2004 Frank Gilbane, President and CEO, Bluebill Advisors, Inc. - blogging since January 8, 2005 Kathleen Gilroy, CEO, The Otter Group - blogging since February 20, 2004 David Geller, CEO, WhatCounts, blogging since February 15, 2005 Frank Gens, Senior Vice President - Research, IDC Terry Gold, CEO, Gold Systems - blogging since November 12, 2004 Steve Goldstein, CEO, Alacra - blogging since March 23, 2004 Dave Gray, Founder & CEO, XPLANE - blogging since August 21, 2005 Rex Hammock, President of Hammock Publishing, Inc. - blogging since August 28, 2000 Christopher Hannegan, SVP, U.S. Director of Employee Engagement, Edelman - blogging since May 18, 2005 Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO, Sxip Networks - blogging since May 1, 2004 Peter Himler, President, Publicity Club of New York, senior media consultant, Edelman - blogging since June 2004 Gene Hoffman, Co-founder and CEO, Vindicia - blogging since September 5, 2001 JB Holston, CEO of NewsGator - blogging since June 4, 2003 John Honovich, CEO/President, MaxPPS (maximum level physical protection systems) - blogging since April 7, 2005 Michael Hyatt, Thomas Nelson Publishers Working Smart - blogging since April 28, 2004 From Where I Sit - since March 29, 2005 Kingsley Idehen, Founder and CEO, OpenLink Software - blogging since May 5, 2003 Salim Ismail, Chairman and Co-founder, PubSub - blogging since December 13, 2005 F. Nicholas Jacobs, President & CEO, Windber Research Institute and Windber Medical Center - http://windberblog.typepad.com/ Jeff Jarvis, President & Creative Director of Advance.nett - blogging since September 23, 2001 Leslie Jump, CEO, Jump Walker International Group - http://www.marketerblog.net/ Adam Kalsey, CTO of Pheedo - blogging since March 11, 2000 Dave Kellogg, President and CEO, Mark Logic Corporation - blogging since August 22, 2005 Michael Kempner, President/CEO, MWW Group Denise Klarquist, VP of Operations, Cheskin - blogging since March 4, 2003 Joe Kraus, co-founder and CEO, JotSpot, blogging since September 14, 2004 Pran Kurup, President & CEO, Vitalect Technologies, blogging since July 8, 2004 Jim Lejeal, CEO, Oxlo Systems - blogging since Sept 1, 2004 [http://www.burtongroupblogs.com/jamielewis/ Jamie Lewis]], CEO and Research Chair, Burton Group Phil Libin, CEO, Corestreet - blogging since February 2, 2004 Bob Liodice, President and CEO, Association of National Advertisers - blogging since March 18, 2004 Randy Littleson, VP, Marketing, Kinaxis - blogging since august 2005 Steven Lubetkin, Managing Partner, Lubetkin & Co. Communications LLC, blogging since February 24, 2005. Bob Lutz, Vice Chairman, General Motors Corporation - blogging since January 5, 2005 Kevin Lynch, Chief Software Architect, Macromedia - blogging since February 2, 2003 Don MacAskill, CEO and Founder, smugmug - blogging since November, 1994 (entry lost to bitrot :( ) John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market - http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blogs/jm/ Pat Matthews, CEO and Co-founder, Excedent Technologies & Webmail.us - blogging since October 7, 2004 Tom Markiewicz, President & CEO, EvolvePoint, Inc. - http://www.tmarkiewicz.com/ Ross Mayfield, CEO, Socialtext - blogging since October 14, 2002 Alan Meckler, CEO, Jupiter Media - blogging since December 6, 2003 Robert Mendez, CEO, NetHawk Interactive - blogging since April 5, 2004 Christopher Mengel, Razorwest: http://razorwest.typepad.com/marketing/ Chris Mercer, CEO, Mercer Capital - blogging since April 2, 2005 Lisa Meyers Brown, VP for Marketing, American Cancer Society’s Eastern Division, blogging since March 9, 2005 Greg Milliken, CEO, Alibre, Inc. Marty Morrow, CEO and founder, Quovix.com - blogging since 2002 Craig Newmark, customer service rep and founder, craigslist.org - blogging since September 11, 2003 Ray Ozzie, former Founder, Chairman & CEO, Groove Networks - blogging since August 1, 2002; currently Chief Technical Officer of Microsoft, blogging at http://spaces.msn.com/members/rayozzie/Blog/ Tom O'Neill, Managing Director, Summit Private Capital Group - blogging since April 25, 2005 Katie Delahaye Paine, CEO, KDPaine& Partners, LLC - blogging since March 8, 2005 Greg Papadopoulos, CTO, Sun Microsystems, blogging since February 7, 2005 Bob Parsons, President, godaddy.com - blogging since December 16, 2004 John R. Patrick, former Vice president of Internet Technology at IBM, on the boards of many organizations, including Opera Software, Jupiter Media and the Global Internet Project - blogging since August 17, 1997 Michael Powell, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - blogging since July 7, 2004 ... but is it a blog? Om Malik says it's not. What do YOU think? Bob Pritchett, President, Logos Bible Software - blogging since August 14, 2003 Jeff Pulver, CEO, Pulver.com - blogging since July 6, 2003 Paul Purdue, President, iFulfill.com - blogging since May 2, 2005 Michael Pusateri, VP of Engineering, Disney ABC Cable Networks Group, blogging since January 21, 2000 Peter Quintas, CTO, Silkware - blogging since April 21, 2004 Darrel Rhea, Principal and CEO of Cheskin, blogging since April 9, 2003 Glen Reid, CEO, Five Across - blogging since July 3, 2004 Ed Roberto, CEO, Newmerix - blogging since Sept 30, 2004 Will Ruch, Versant CEO and Managing Partner, blogging since March 1, 2005 Eric Rudder, SVP Servers and Tools, Microsoft Corporation (the most senior Microsoft blogger?) - blogging since May 20, 2003 Scott Ryan, CEO, architel - http://pd.architel.com/ Andy Sack, CEO, Judy's Book - blogging since Sept 17, 2004 Jonathan Schwartz, COO, Sun Microsystems - blogging since June 28, 2004 Mark E. Seremet, CEO, Spreadshirt US - http://www.spreadshirtmedia.com/weblog/ Steve Shu, COO, 21Publish - blogging since February 23, 2005 David Sifry, Founder and CEO of Technorati - blogging since January 8, 2002 Steven Silvers, Principal and Director, GBSM - blogging since June 14, 2005 Michael Smith, CEO, EntertainCom - blogging since March 10. 2005 Anne Stanton, President and CEO, The Norwich Group - blogging since May 3, 2004 Roger T. Staubach, chairman of the board and CEO, The Staubach Company - http://roger.staubach.com/ Joshua Steimle, CEO, MWI - blogging since June 5, 2003 Steven Streight, President, Streight Site Systems - blogging since May 31, 2004 David Teten, CEO, Nitron Advisors - blogging since February 27, 2004 Michael Tiemann, CTO, Red Hat Mena Trott, Co-founder and President, Six Apart - blogging since April 3, 2001 Jeff Weiner, Senior VP of Search and Marketplace, Yahoo! - blogging since March 27, 2005 Will Weider, CIO, Affinity Health Systems - blogging since June 7, 2003 Alan L. Weinkrantz, President, Alan Weinkrantz And Company - blogging since December 1, 2004 Joe Wikert, Vice President and Publisher, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Professional/Trade division, blogging since February 19, 2005 Steve Wilson, Senior Director of Global Web Communications, McDonald’s - blogging since September 18, 2005 Charlie Wood, VP of Enterprise Solutions, NewsGator Technologies Bob Wyman, CTO and co-founder, PubSub, blogging since September 2, 2003 Hu Yoshida, VP and CTO, Hitachi Data Systems - blogging since October 20, 2005 Scott Young, President and CEO, UserLand Software - blogging since November 17, 2003
Why does it seem to me that the trendiest way to market an MLM company by an MLM associate is to use a variation of the following phrase:
"My MLM is better than your MLM, no matter what MLM company I associate with this month."
Is this technique being taught by some MLM guru, that I'm unaware of?
I'm encountering bloggers and chat-room participants that seem to feel that the best way to garner prospects and recruits is to criticize and ridicule some poor MLM newbie about the company they are associated with, and then after countless attacks, offer the same newbie a chance to get in and associate with the "attacker" in their MLM.
What surprises me is that the "attacker" has normally been associated with more than three MLM companies themselves.
So, what is the attraction of joining with these people?
Do the people using this "Mine is bigger than yours" technique succeed merely by the same "numbers game" most MLMers use? That is to say...Put yourself in front of as many people as possible with your message(no matter the message) and you'll eventually find a few to join you.
Or, is it more psychological?
Like the "brainwashing tactics" commonly used by some MLM promoters; instead of using motivational techniques, these people use a "negative motivation".
"You'll be sorry if you stay in that MLM that you are in now, you must join mine to ever see success."
I suppose if you state this over and over again, you'll convince or "brainwash" a select few prospects into believing this motivational technique in reverse.
Or, does it involve greed?
These MLMers using this technique; jump from MLM to MLM trying to catch the next big wave, and in the wake of "wave jumping", they must take as many people with them on to the next break in order to gain any semblance of financial gain. Each break MUST be bigger and better to finance their greed or obsession with success.
Whoever thought of this technique must be a millionaire by now. I see the technique on message boards, chat rooms, and blogs. I guess it works.
I'd prefer to promote the MLM concept in general, and then my OWN company specifically. After that, the prospective recruit could investigate Multi-level Marketing, my company and what ever other company they may come across during their research.
Sure, I want them to decide to join me, but I don't have to attack another company or another company's distributors to make ME look credible.
Maybe that's why I'm not an MLM guru, or selling my MLM Success Guide to the masses.
I just can't see myself practicing this trendy technique.
Over the past several years, the author has responded with a similar post to countless messages from people desperately seeking a "work at home" opportunity. Each time I read it, I am impressed with the honesty and forthrightness of the message.
Personally, I think the message should be the first article at any blog, or forum that discusses the topic of "working from home."
Thanks Audrey for allowing me to reprint your message here
We've had several new members join recently who have said they wish to "work at home"
I thought I'd run a post I wrote from several years ago:
A gal named Melissa asked about spending $35 to buy a book of "work at home jobs". I answered her as follows:
Melissa,
Save your $35. I'll provide you free of charge in this post, anything that might be in their "book".
Let's start with some basics. There are only TWO things you can do at home, yes, only TWO.
You can telecommute or you can run a business. That's it, TWO.
TELECOMMUTING--This means you have been hired by an employer, and that employer is open to having you work at home anywhere from a few hours a week, to full time.
Some folks will work mornings in office, afternoons at home. Afternoons at home, allows them to pick up their kids, start dinner etc, all while working also.
Some folks work every other day in office. This allows them bring work in, drop work off, be available for meetings etc.
You are an employee. You are either paid per hour or per week.
The sentence I see most often posted is "I want to work at home, so I have more time with my kids". Find some folks who do telecommute. Their kids are in daycare, as they need to work. They also end up putting in more than 40 hours per week as they want to make sure they put in their 40 hours and make up for those trips to the store, the trips to pick kids up etc.
Telecommute positions are very tough to find. Most employers are not willing to have employees working unsupervised. Reason is, just look in office. Truly, how many employees give a job their all? How many work hard even when the boss is away? How many come in a few minutes early and leave a few minutes late on a consistent basis?
Now let's compare that to how many make personal calls? How many take a few extra minutes on their lunch? How many stand around the water machine chatting? How many day dream and don't produce as much as they can/should? So, most employers are not willing to allow employees to work at home.
Again, speak to some folks who work at home. Ask them point blank what they did to get this job. Most will tell you that they had worked for a long time prior to this arrangement. They will tell you that they know their job inside out. They will tell you that they work over 40 hours per week. They will tell you that they do get "lonely" working all alone. And they'll tell you they do go into the office frequently.
There is no book of companies that allow telecommuting. Those employers who have allowed this have done so with an existing employee. My sister telecommutes for HP. But she had her degree in computer science. She has had tons of company training and she worked there 10 years. So putting HP down in a book and telling you that they hire telecommuters is misleading at best, an out and out lie at worst. And you have to pay for that book.
A BUSINESS--To start there are only TWO things you can sell. You can sell a product or you can sell a service. Look around YOUR town. What do the businesses in YOUR town sell? They all sell either a product or a service. A home business will be no different, you'll sell a product or a service.
If you want to sell a service, look within. What are your skills? Are you proficient with a word processor? If so, you can consider selling your word processing skills. Remember, proficient means near perfect. I can use MS Word, but I could not sell it as a service.
Have you done bookkeeping or billing before? If so, this again, is something you can sell as a service. Are your kids older, in school all day? Consider an errand service. Heck, there are many days I feel I live in my car LOL. I always have books with me as I'm forever waiting for someone or something. Do a web search for errand services and view what others are offering and at what fees.
Are you an expert with a sewing machine? If so, offer tailoring and mending as a service. I am only 5'2" and both my kids are 5'. We need everything altered. I would love to bring it to someone's home versus having to go to the dry cleaner, and change in their icky little bathroom, etc.
Prefer to sell a product? You have a few choices, yes, only a few. You can make the product yourself. You can purchase from a wholesaler, or you can purchase from a direct sales company. That's it, only those few choices.
If you wish to make the products, again, look within. What hobbies do you have? What crafts can you make? Some folks sell hand sewn or hand crocheted items. Some sell homemade soaps and lotions. Some sell homemade jewelry. Are you able to do this?
You can contract with a wholesaler. Look up ________ wholesaler in a search engine. The blank is for whatever product you want to sell. There are wholesalers for just about everything imaginable. Want to contract with a direct sales company? Go to www.dsa.org . They have a large database of their members. Their members range from cosmetic companies, to toy companies, to clothing companies and everything in between. You don't need to pay to access this database.
The site you listed provides a books of scams. Home assembly is a scam. Now, there are exceptions. Occasionally a factory that makes items will advertise for local employees. You'll go to the factory, fill out the application, meet with them, and get hired.
There will NOT be a fee. You'll drop off and pick up finished products. Assembly-at-home jobs found on the internet are SCAMS. Don't believe me? Find me just two people who do this and make money. Just two. From anywhere in the US. Just two ;)
The site you mentioned speaks of transcribing. Do you have experience and training in transcribing? If not, you are not going to be hired. Again, don't believe me, find me two folks with no experience who were hired to transcribe at home.
The site you mentioned spoke of US mail. Chain letters are not legal. All those ads for mail-from-home, order process from home etc; are all a variation of the same scam. You pay money. You get directions to place ads like the one you answered. You then receive a percent each time you scam the next person. You TYPE or PROCESS their ORDER. Nice play on words huh?
If in fact, typing at home, assembly at home, processing orders at home were legitimate, don't you think we'd read more about folks doing this successfully?
I'm sorry for the length of this. I can almost guarantee you would not have gotten this much information had you spent the $35 ;)
If you make a sale in your MLM company, you make a profit between your wholesale price and your retail price minus any expenses.
Make more sales, you make more profit.
Meet a sales level based on your MLM compensation plan, and you earn some type of bonus.
This is what I consider real motivation, that is to say, let profit be your prime motivator.
But, not all motivation should be monetary...nor should motivation be based on listening to some hyped-filled speech.
If you want to motivate your downline; praise them, congratulate them, remember their efforts.
Buy THEM a book. Take THEM to dinner. AWARD THEM!
I still remember when I received my Sales Achievement pin in my MLM company. And it made me strive to achieve a bigger sales goal. But, of course, the check was still good, too.
"We're going inside of ‘em, we're going outside of ‘em -- inside of ‘em! outside of ‘em! -- and when we get them on the run once, we're going to keep ‘em on the run. And we're not going to pass unless their secondary comes up too close. But don't forget, men -- we're gonna get ‘em on the run, we're gonna go, go, go, go! -- and we aren't going to stop until we go over that goal line! And don't forget, men -- today is the day we're gonna win. They can't lick us -- and that's how it goes... The first platoon men -- go in there and fight, fight, fight, fight, fight! What do you say, men!"
Employment provides people with more than just a paycheck. It sometimes identifies their purpose in life and their passion. Sometimes it molds their personality through success or disappointments. And still other times it provides them with experiences that shape their lives.
In my life, I have had many jobs that paid well in money, and other times paid well(or poorly) in experiences. If anything, they have provided me with "a story to tell" for almost any topic of conversation.
As I work on my comedy act, I have been remembering these past jobs of passion AND poverty and progress AND prosperity; and the stories related to each endeavor.
Someone once asked me, "Is there anything, you haven't done?"
Well, yeah, lots of things, but these are the things THAT I HAVE DONE.
Lawn Mowing
Busboy/Dishwasher
Shaklee products distributor
Roof Sealant Salesman
Dog Catcher
Amway products distributor
Movie Theatre Manager
Security Guard
Sears Associate (Outside sales)
Comic
Radio DJ
Newspaper Reporter
Video Producer
Safety Consultant
Public Relations Consultant
Construction Laborer
Construction Foreman
Handyman
Quixtar Independent Business Owner
Home Medical Equipment Technician
While, I may never achieve that dream job of "Tonight Show" host, or even the lofty position of Crown Ambassador IBO in Quixtar; I think my variety of employment will always provide some inspiration in both my comedy career or my Multi-level Marketing career.
If not, I'll still have some good stories to tell.
