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Posted By: MaaMaw In Response To: "All companies are MLM" - propaganda trap (POS-Andrew)
Friday, 17 December 2004, at 6:47 a.m.
> Careful, les you are falling into the scammers trap of lumping MLM in with
> legit companies.
No, I'm trying not to do that. In fact, as I was typing my post, I was thinking of Dennis and K&B and how he gets an "override" on sales from people he recruits but that's the extent of it -- there is no "upline" to get a cut.
> I know you've read over and over from MLMers about how
> ALL companies are MLM. IBM is MLM cuz when they sell something, everyone
> gets a cut of the profits from their salaries. The CEO gets the most
> because he's at the top.
I know that is absolute BS designed to brainwash the masses.
> It works the other way around too.
Yes, I have no doubt that it does.
> Watkins, Mary Kay, Avon, Tupperware sales reps should not be
> called "MLM" even though they can be technically called
> "MLM". It would be better to say you're a
> foot-in-the-door-salesman for Avon than calling yourself a rep in MLM.
I need this clarified -- that's why I called for Kelly Sutton.
I do know the difference between one person (the sponsor, the mentor, whatever) getting an override and MLM. But I know when I was in Mary Kay, we had "rah rah" meetings and the "area captain" or whatever she was (who had recruited me) presided over all her underlings. It was very high pressure -- and she pressured me not only to *sell* but to *recruit* so I assumed she had a downline and was not simply getting overrides on people she directly recruited. (For the record -- that was *her* thing; I have known Mary Kay people who were never asked to recruit anybody.)
Watkins is *not* high pressure, so says everyone I know who has been involved, but when I called it MLM, I thought it was *technically* an MLM because I thought the cut went right up the line -- not just in the form of an override to the person who did the recruiting, where it stopped.
That is why I constantly say I don't think *all* MLMs are bad.
If you're right, and those companies are like K&B and not MLMs at all, then I will take that back.
Luv,
MaaMaw
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