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March 22, 2004
Some people just love MLM
By QBlog in
The MLM du jour among many of our friends is Juice Plus. I don't know much about this business except that it's supposed to make you healthy and it incorporates some form of Multi-Level Marketing.
Most of the people my wife and I know participating in Juice Plus are women, so it seems to be some type of healthy Avon or Mary Kay. Our friends say they are really happy with it and view Juice Plus as a good way to make a little extra "spending money."
And that's probably all that most MLM-Lovers want. A way to make a few extra bucks at home with a "legitimate" business and without having to go back to school, leave the kids with a sitter or worry about start-up costs. I can understand that and I don't begrudge anyone who views MLM in that way. I'm just not an MLM kind of person so thanks, but no thanks.
But for those who are MLM people, there seems to be quite a few MLM businesses out there that are succeeding on at least some level. As I said, we have friends in Juice Plus but we also have friends in Quixtar, Melaleuca and Passport. For the most part they seem to enjoy the business and not one of them has ever professed (at least not to me or my wife) that it was anything more than a way to make a little extra money.
And maybe that's my biggest complaint about my experience with Quixtar. Most of what was presented to me was that Quixtar would make me and my wife rich. Quixtar would solve all our financial problems. If we worked Quixtar, one day we'd be as wealthy as Dexter Yager. Maybe we didn't hear those exact words but that was the impression given to us.
I guess it was partly those claims that made me suspicious of the business. Maybe if our group had just said, "This business is just a good way to make a few extra bucks" I'd be less resistant to MLM in general? I don't know.
The point of my ramblings here is that some people just like MLM and from my observations, it seems to fit their needs. I guess I'm just not an MLM kind of guy.
an education system that used amway but now quixtar ( as its "superstore" ) provided me with the gonads to call up one of my old high school acquaintances and offer him an opportunity to do anything with his life except waste it producing illegitimate offspring ( forgive spelling ) and watching tv... little did i know he had just got a girl pregnant at their ages of about 24 yrs... because of the education system they decided not to abort the child . . . how many abortions have been stopped by My efforts outside of Quixtar------NONE . . . . . . God forgives your trespasses ( writing stuff about other people's business ) upon your forgiveness of other peoples' trespasses against you....the education system i'm a part of surely forgives you if you mean any wrong.
Posted by: ben | April 4, 2004 4:11 AM