Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!

[James Joly]

If you are not a full time regular user of your product don't ask anyone else to buy it on any basis.

If you are not totally committed to your product and provider company sooner rather than later you will come completely unstuck both in your business and your life. Tomorrow's businesses have ethical and socially responsible core values.

Likewise if you sponsor people be prepared to show them your sales records or don't recruit them!

Do you disagree with these three statements?

[Tomoe]

My two cents worth:
Q1: If you are not a full time regular use of your product don't ask anyone else to buy it on any basis.
A1: I don't agree. I personally recommend people what I use but I also recommend people to things I think are good for them even though I don't personally use the products (I might have more knowledge about a product than someone else and I will recommend it to my colleagues if I think it's worth their try to check it out). My colleague who is a sales manager at Peter Morris - he does a lot of sales but doesn't use the products he sells. The medical sales people my mother works with, they sell tons of pharmaceutical pills which they personally do not use. I think it's a business decision. Is it bad ethics? I don't know.

Q2: If you are not totally committed to your product and provider company sooner rather than later you will come completely "stuck" (not unstuck right?) in your business and your life. Tomorrow's businesses have ethicsl and socially responsible core values.
A2: I agree. It's better to do something you love but not necessarily do people do this - a lot of people do work to put money on the table while loathing what they do. I think businesses always had ethical and social responsibility... it just became highlighted in recent years because of all the scandals.

Q3: If you sponsor people be prepared to show them your sales records or don't recruit them!
A3: I don't agree. Just because someone is doing bad or good doesn't mean you're also going to do bad or good. You have to make an educated decision by checking out other things rather than just put all decisions based on what one person is doing. I know many unemployed or poor students who are making millions now - but they weren't able to show their success when they were working up the marketing plan. Too many people miss an opportunity at the early stages of businesses because they have to "see it to believe it." It's those who "believe it first" will see the big bucks in businesses like network marketing especially in the early stages of the business (when people get legacy positions).

Just as a side note, people should make their decision on network marketing businesses based on 6 criteria: 1. the products, 2. the marketing plan, 3. the finances of the company, 4. the management of the company, 5. are they attracting the top level people in the industry, and 6. the timing of the company (launch, growth, or mature phase?). That should be the basis of their decision whether or not to join a company, not seeing someone's sales records.

[James Joly]

People have a way of believing what they want to believe and many companies know this .

It is a good idea to view the facts but clearly in the context of your 1-6 and not be put off by a beginner's slow start. If people further up the line will not reveal their sales figures be cautious. They should reveal them openly and explain either their succss and if they seem to be failing why they are continuing. Why do they think it is a good deal for you?

Of course, you can never know everything and what applies to one person may not apply to you.
But if you can establish 1-6 plus evidence of success it gives you a strong basis to believe the rest.

Saying that many people miss an opportunity because they wish 'to see it to believe it' is a little patronisiong. Many of these folk have also avoided being ripped off. It is the lack of credibility earned by 'sharp practice' companies that has made them uneasy with accepting hype.

The comparisons you draw about personal usage of your companies' products are true but I am alluding to products that MLM is used to sell typically of a very general nature.
It is suspicious when a salesperson never uses his own such products. I think we all know what I mean. Companies should encourage their distributors to use their products and for the same reasons that they purport that consumers should.