This topic was very hot in the Kopitiam Forum.. i added my
views...
basically MLM is hyped up to be like the next BIG THING but then it
is just another mode of distribution of products. For example, milk
are distributed by retail stores, insurance are distributed by
personal selling by the agents, so these MLM people are just
DISTRIBUTORs of these products, they are merely salesmen.
Difference? Is that they make it sound like as though u OWN the
business. Bull. IF Astral Mag or Asayo or Nuskin or watever goes
bankrupt, DO U STILL HAVE A BUSINESS?? NO. So i guess you can call
MLM people Glorified Salesmen. Having talk so much, a salesman is
still a decent mode of earning a living. The irritating and the
bane of these MLM is the way they go about pushing their business.
They ask u come down to places to give u a 1 hr talk and they are
very pushy. You cannot criticise them, they get defensive, like a
cult sia. They keep calling u and telling u how u can get rich when
the fact is that only 5% of MLM people succeeded. Like any sales
job, its hard work i dun deny, but if such AGRESSIVE tactics are
used, sadly i would say, MLM is not gonna survive long. The worst
thing i ever heard them say, maybe i am a marketing person, thats
why i am very sensitive to such things, they said to me "I am not
interested in selling things, i just wanna improve your life." Ya
sure, but how? Buy their products. or they say "its ok u dun wanna
buy, i just wan u to understand our business concept, then maybe
you will see how good it is and then can join us." Bull. Not
interested in selling? So if everyone just joins them but no one
buys anything, what they survive on? NOT interested in selling?
worst nonsense and worst attempt at trying to con the consumers. As
much as advertising and marketing is trying to present value to the
consumers, i find what most MLM tell me is the lamest way of doing
it. To MLM people, we got brains, you sure you got yours?
