Originally posted by PatrickLTH:
I presume your "contacts" are your friends and relatives.
When selling products to friends and relatives, one has to be more
careful.
I believe not only have to make sure that the products we are
pushing are good, must also suit their needs, and must be [b]value
for money.
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I do agree with you on this point about. Cos most of the new
distributors will think that everyone need their company product,
which is a very wrong mindset, the leader that is his mentor will
need to correct his downline mistake.
Unless the leader/the company education system is "brought up" in
this way or the system emphasise (a lot)² on sales.
MLM is structured in such a way that we are not going to be some
super saleman, it is more of a team effort, how to educate them to
have a same vision as it.
Furthermore, when approaching friends and relatives, indeed one has
to be more cautious in handling, cos if not proper, you may ruin
the relationship. No point doing it to earn the bit of cash. Some
uplines or leaders will say "Wah lau, your friend cannot make it,
++ other sarcastic remarks, like dat also dun 1 2 support." <=
first step of inbuilding friend's mindset cannot make it 
Sometimes is you tell your friend/relatives for a no-obligation
presentation, then your friend/relatives go, but still kena
pushed/hard-sell. Chin Jia Lat <= second step of ruining a
relationship. there are many others reasons as well.
Cos i used to be like that when I was in NOP, luckily my current
partners in my MLM company, they corrected me and with their
methods, i am building my trust and relationship back for myself
and not for the sake of MLM.
MLM to me is just a stepping stone for me to build up my capital
for my ice-cream palour, relationship between friends and relatives
are more important.
Juz my 2 cents.
² This denotes that some of the
companies have a quota, quota in some way is good for goal setting,
but I believe most of the networkers start off with part-time. Some
of the companies marketing plan in the intial stage looks more like
for full-timer. Of course, there will be some bugger saying,
part-timer with full-timer attitude. ©