Why Our Team?
Q:
How can I identify a good
team Program?
Things you should
look for include:
Good products or
services.
Are they something
that LOTS of people need? Would you use the services?
Do they fill a real
need? Are they competitively priced, and can you make a profit selling them?
Strong and stable
company.
You don't want them
to go belly-up after you've worked to build a downline. How long have they
been in business?
What is their
financial situation? (A quick check with Dunn&Bradstreet and the Better
Business Bureau [if in the US] might be worth your time.)
What prior
experience, both in general business AND in our team, does the company
management have?
Good company support.
Are there good training materials, manuals, etc?
- Strong up-line
support. Ask your prospective sponsor what kind of help he can provide you.
Ask what sort of success he or she has had, or, if he's too new for that to
be a fair question, ask about his up-line.
If they're not
succeeding, they can't teach you how to succeed, and you don't want to have
to invent a system from scratch.
Things you should
avoid at all costs include:
- Inventory loading.
If your sponsor tries to pressure you into Buying thousands of dollars of
inventory (or ANY inventory, in my opinion), you should check to make sure
your wallet is still in your pocket and run for the door.
- High pressure in
general.
- Get-rich-quick
claims, promises of wealth without effort, etc.
Those are some broad
guidelines. The biggest determining factor, though, is YOU. YOU are the one
who's going to work or not work. YOU are the one who needs to stay
motivated, and keep plugging along when things get tough.
If YOU'RE not excited about the company, the products, and/or the
opportunity, you probably won't stick it out long enough to succeed. But if
you're pumped up about the company (and not just the initial "I'm gonna get
rich" excitement), you're much more likely to keep at it until you succeed.
Q: What will be the
most popular compensation plan in the future?
What
ONE
Thing Is Everyone Looking For In A
Business Opportunity, But Can't Find?
Of course it is the assurance that
one will make a profit and help them become financially independent.
What if there was a system that
assured your financial success and it wasn't dependent on the size of your
downline?
Now there is a system that allows
you to create multiple streams of income quickly and easily using your
current financial situation.
One technique will actually put an
extra $200 to $600 into your pocket within the first month.
You can now be confident that you'll
break free and finally become financially independent.
"Learn How to
Create Multiple Streams
of Passive Income and
Quit Your Day Job
for Only $100.00 A Year.... Will You Join Us And Sign Up
Today!!"
This New and
Radical system has made it possible for
YOUR PROSPECTS to get into profit quickly and easily.
A New
Concept:
The new relationship concept will
work concentrating on the concept of TEAM WORK. There will now be one
relationship company wide. All members will share the same relationship.
You will never feel alone in a network marketing company again. When you
join our team you will become part of a fast growing team. You see all
members will work on one downline and then share in the profits of the company.
We will work together as a team to advance our
mission of creating a financially free and prosperous world one person at a
time.
And we will all share from the success of the TEAM
working as a whole moving us forward to vast new horizons unseen by the
individualistic MLM past.
Depending on
the particular seervice, the our team channel may provide both word-of-mouth
advertising and distribution. The our team will revolutionize the
marketing and revenue sharing traditions of the past.
Q: Why would an
individual choose the our team route?
There are several
good reasons: - Low overhead. There are virtually no up-front advertising
costs. Unlike a typical company, the our team doesn't have to spend massive
amounts of money to "pull" customers in. Instead, it pays professionals to
"push" the service out into the marketplace.
In addition, the club
only has to pay the marketers for *results* -- that is, a percentage of
services actually sold. Our team company will use the money that
*would* have gone into advertising to pay its marketers.
- Low distribution
overhead. We use: a series of national, regional, state, and local meetings
and seminars to market our services. Each of these intermediaries
wants to make a living, and makes a profit from their enrollees.
- Rapid growth. A
well-managed our team company can grow at an amazing rate -- as much as 20%,
50%, even 100% per MONTH. (In fact one of the biggest reasons for our team
company failure in the past is inability to keep up with explosive growth.)
It would be difficult or impossible to generate this kind of growth without
online automation.
- Specialized and
motivated "sales force." There are hundreds of thousands of opportunities.
It's almost impossible for a new service to make a dent in the market,
unless the company spends megabucks on advertising. Also, many our
team services need more explanation than can be done in a 30-second TV spot.
A person-to-person word-of-mouth campaign can solve both of these problems.
That's the company's
perspective. For the individual, our team can offer an opportunity to build
a part-time income source that can, with enough effort, grow into a
significant income. With hard work (and a little luck) you can earn
incredible incomes.
How? The Relationship
Concept of our team and our team is all about "a lot of people doing a
little bit." In an our team you are rewarded for the sales you create -- not
only directly, but indirectly as well. You get profit for any retail sales
you make, plus you get a bonus on the sales made by people you enrolled into
the company, and people they enrolled, and people THEY enrolled, and... By
getting a small percentage of many people, your income can grow to a very
large number.
But wait. It's not
that simple. It takes a lot of time and work to build up a group (called a "downline")
in any our team. What's more, even if you're a real hard-working go-getter,
YOU can't do all of it. This is why the Relationship Concept of our
team will reward everyone working together.
You can't enroll the
90,000+ people in this group by yourself. Each person has to find 5 of his
own -- and the sad truth is, most people are not that ambitious. It's hard
to find the ones that will work. Yet, with the Relationship Concept,
everyone is rewarded according to the efforts they make personally and from
the efforts of the group. Major contributors are also rewarded through
rewards for training others to duplicate their efforts.
.It's almost
unheard-of for someone to actually build an idealized group. Some
"associates" in the downline will build faster than others, and some will
grow slower. If you work hard yourself, you will be rewarded. But
that's the concept: a whole lot of people doing a little bit each, and you
getting a small reward on each one. If you have the initiative and work
ethic to build that group, you can make a very nice income in our team --
maybe even get rich.
But our team **IS
NOT** a get-rich-quick deal. It DOES take a lot of work, and most people
won't put in the work it takes. The large majority of people will never get
rich; quite a few hardly make a dime. But the beauty of it is, as long as
you pick a good company with a good product or service, the size of your
success is up to YOU. With the Relationship Concept you will succeed
with our team, as long as you stick with it, and duplicate the efforts of
your sponsor.
Q: Is our team a scam?
Is it legal? Is it moral, ethical, etc?
The short answer is:
Yes. We offer a service that is valued and renewable.
This is the cause of
99% of the lamest arguments, and general disagreements about our team. Many
people contend Direct Network Marketers are irritating. Many Attorneys
General (who ought to know what they're talking about) say a properly-run
our team is perfectly legitimate and ethical. Who's right?
The truth is, our
team is not inherently good or evil any more than capitalism is good or
evil. Both can be done ethically, and both can be done unethically. It
depends on how a particular company is designed and managed.
Since the Multi-level
Marketing industry is very young (about 40 years old), the law is still in
flux. There are admittedly many MLM companies that are nothing more than
scams, get-rich deals for the owners and their cronies, glorified chain
letters, etc. Some of them even manage to skirt around the legal issues and
avoid prosecution.
There are other
companies that have legitimate products or services, and may have been in
business for many years, but which are run in such a way that many people
get burned -- old ladies investing their retirement funds to Buy a garage
full of products, and so on.
Most people would
agree these companies, or at least the distributors that do the questionable
practices, are not very ethical.
On the other hand,
there ARE many companies that are run legitimately, legally, and ethically.
They produce good products that are valued by customers, and give many
people the opportunity to improve their financial situation.
The anti-our team
people will often assert that our team companies and people sell unrealistic
fantasies of income potential, No Support "cannon fodder" to fatten their up
line's bonus checks. This view is understandable, but misses one critical
point: in general, the new person has the SAME OPPORTUNITY to build a group
as the fat cat up-line guy. The up-line has worked hard, maybe for years, to
build the downline that is now rewarding him so richly.
The new person has
invested maybe a couple of hundred bucks and a few hours. It's only fair
that everyone starts out in the same place -- AT THE BOTTOM -- and everyone
has the SAME chance to build a downline of their own.
The major exception
to this is in the theoretical case of "saturation." In this situation the
company has grown so much that a large percentage of people who would be
interested in enrolling have already enrolled.
(NOTE that this does
NOT mean "EVERY person is enrolled"!) The new person has a much harder time
finding new recruits than the up-line person did X years ago. The new person
has several choices: go with the established company, and live with the
saturation; go with another company that has no saturation problems; or give
up. Or, go with our team and work together as a unified team.
On the other hand,
while it may be a bit harder to find new prospects when a company is mature,
the new person who joins the mature company has MANY more tools and support
mechanisms available to him/her than the "old hands" did back at the start
of the company. There are probably also many more products, more
professional literature, etc.
While those pioneers
may have had wide-open spaces to settle, they also got more arrows in their
backs. It works out pretty evenly.
In actual practice,
saturation is very seldom a problem. It may be easier or harder to find new
prospects for a particular company in a particular location, but there are
very few cases that are actually "saturated." The thing to understand is
that saturation is not a clear-cut, yes-or-no situation; one company may be
CLOSER to saturation than another, but neither might be actually
"saturated."
The argument often
runs calculations of exponential growth, and demonstrates that the entire
population of the planet will be enrolled within a short period. This is an
intellectual exercise rather like the example of "one pregnant mosquito
could carpet the earth in mosquitoes by the end of the summer." In other
words, in actual reality, it doesn't happen that way. The growth rate is
normally much slower than people realize (especially once a company gets
larger), and slows down as a company approaches saturation. It may get
harder to enroll new people in a large and near-saturated company, but NO
company in the history of MLM has ever grown fast enough to exhaust its
potential marketplace. More people turn 18 every year in the United States
than are enrolled in all MLM companies combined. So far, at least, the
growth of MLM hasn't kept up with the growth of population.
So, bottom line: In
the opinion of many people, our team *can* be done legally, morally, and
ethically. It can also be done unethically and illegally. Choose your
company carefully. With our team you will become part of a team that
contributes to one unified pool, draw from another pool for your personal
efforts, and a third for working above and beyond the call of duty which is
serving the entire group.
Q: But isn't it wrong
to keep bringing in new participants, rather than concentrating on selling a
product like "regular" businesses?
Many anti-MLM folks
think that the only purpose of ANY our team is to enroll new people, instead
of selling a product. What they don't understand is that ENROLLING NEW
PEOPLE *IS* HOW YOU SELL THE PRODUCT IN MLM.
If you focus only on
selling, it isn't MLM -- it's plain old sales. Nothing wrong with that; it's
just not MLM. While our team is personally making the presentation and
connecting to your downline.
The Professional
Relationship concept works with a DIFFERENT PROCESS than typical sales.
Rather than finding a few people who sell a ton, you find a bunch of people
who sell a little. (And, since each sells so little, self-consumption can
account for a significant portion of those sales.) Enrolling new people, and
building downlines, is how you find the people who each do the small amount
of sales.
(Note: EACH do a small amount of sales. NOT just the "suckers on the
bottom". In any legitimately-run MLM, ALL people, from top to bottom,
contribute to the sales effort.)
Product still gets
moved -- that's how bonuses get paid in a legitimate our team -- it's just
done in a different manner than in traditional sales or retail.
Our team works differently than traditional
methods, but just because it's different doesn't make it bad. It's just
DIFFERENT. Just like franchising was different from traditional retailing,
and was considered to be a scam for many years. But when properly
implemented, franchising is not a scam; it's a very effective way to do
business. Similarly, when properly implemented, our team is different from
traditional retailing AND franchising, but can be a very effective way to do
business.
Q: What's the
difference between the Professional Relationship Concept and MLM?
Most people would say
the terms are synonymous. MLM is an older term, and has taken on negative
connotations in some people's minds. Network Marketing is preferred by some
who are trying to avoid this stigma.
Some companies, such
as Amway, consider "Network Marketing" to be a specific form of MLM: namely,
combining a "network" of outside suppliers (AT&T, Coke, Reebok, etc.) with a
network of "marketing" folks (the distributors).
Q: How can you
succeed?
Short answer: Work
diligently, work consistently, and don't give up.
Long answer: all
companies are different, and what works in one company might not work in
another. You should learn from your up-line-- ask them what works and what
you should do to succeed.
Draw on them for
help. They've found out from experience what works and what doesn't, and
they're interested in your success. The fundamental ideas, though, are the
same in any company.
Do what a
distributor/associate/whatever is supposed to do in your company -- retail
products, sell services, consume products, whatever -- and find others to do
the same. Teach them to do what you do.
*Duplication*
and personal relationships are the key to success in our team. You're not
supposed to go out and enroll the world, or sell something to everybody on
the planet. You're supposed to find a FEW people who want to build a
business, and help them do it. More importantly, teach THEM to do what a
distributor does, AND go out and find a few people to work with, AND teach
those new people. Until you have "taught your people to teach their people
to teach," you have not really duplicated yourself.
Keep plugging away.
Unless you're incredibly good at this, it will take time to build a group.
It takes time to find good people and teach them what they need to know.
Sometimes your best people will give up and drop out. Sometimes it can be
very discouraging. Sometimes you may be tempted to give up.
(And if your company
isn't working very well, maybe you should. But if the company's working
well, and others are succeeding, you need to take a look at what YOU'RE
doing that isn't working. It may be that you wouldn't do any better in
another company, even if the grass looks greener, because you're doing the
wrong things.)
It is a sad fact that
a very small percentage of people who enroll in any particular MLM will
succeed big. This is NOT, however, a fatal flaw of MLM; it's a reflection of
real life. 90%+ of small businesses fail within 1-5 years -- and the owners
lose a whole lot more than the few hundred dollars a MLM person typically
invests. It is true, 98%+ of corporate employees will never achieve
executive levels; 95% of 65-year-old retirees in the US (according to
insurance & Social Security statistics) are dead or broke. The sad fact is,
very few people succeed big in ANY endeavor. Most people simply will not do
what it takes to succeed. The Professional Relationship Concept is working
to change the way networkers get paid and do business from a unified team
concept.
However, many people
get into a Network Marketing Program with the idea that it's some kind of
"easy road to riches". It's not. It takes work. It takes time and
dedication. But most people don't see that, either because their sponsor
misled them with rosy predictions of instant wealth, or because they chose
to hear the easy story. People like this enroll and don't do anything, or
give it a try but give up after a few months. This is where the vast
majority of "MLM failures" comes from.
The biggest problem
with MLM is that it's "too easy" to get into it (usually no more than a few
hundred dollars), so it's "too easy" to get out. With only a few hundred
bucks committed, it's easy for someone to say "Ah, heck, I talked to 4
people and none of them were interested. This doesn't work! Guess I wasted
$200."
You should approach
your business as if it was a "real" business, one that you had invested your
life savings into. If you had sunk $200,000 into your MLM business, would
you let 4 "no"s stop you? Hell no!! You'd get back OUT there and KEEP
working until you MADE it work, because you had too darn much money in it to
give up! Well, guess what? That's what makes our team work too -- that
dedication to keep working until you make it work. Your personal
efforts are rewarded magnanimously.
If you work
consistently, and effectively, and build your group faster than the
faint-hearted people drop out, your group will slowly but steadily build.
And if you've taught your people the correct ideas of "work consistently,
work effectively, and teach your people how to duplicate your efforts", you
should see a consistent rate of growth. It will probably take longer than
you'd like (hey, that's the way life works!), but as long as you keep
working at it, your income will eventually build to the level you want.
The problem is, most
people don't do this. Most people who get into our team give it a
half-hearted try, then give up the first time they get a "no" and complain
that "It doesn't work." Only the people who determine to put in the effort,
and actually DO what it takes to succeed, will stick it out and end up on
top.
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