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Posted By: MaaMaw In Response To: Need some SMC anti-advice for self-defense (Rick K.)
Monday, 2 May 2005, at 8:51 a.m.
> I don't want to hurt her feelings, but I need some ice water to throw on
> her flames.
You won't change her mind about anything, so there's no point in bringing out the ice water. Just say you aren't interested -- or you'll wait until she's been doing it for two years and see how she does.
> Can you give me the skinny on SMC? I know that they provide cookie-cutter
> websites with duplicate content for 300 bucks or so.
Definitely NOT "Service Merchandise Corporation," as Alex said.
Specialty Merchandise Corporation.
The products are good, the prices are good (sure, you could import them yourself cheaper, but there a no minimums, no inventory, and they will drop-ship, so to me it's well worth paying a little extra). It's about 33% of retail across the board -- and unlike some companies, their "suggested retail" is realistic, not inflated.
Some people do well with these at flea markets, etc., but I never did. Then again, I have NO smarts when it comes to choosing products. I didn't specialize -- just loaded up on a litttle bit of everything and totally bombed.
Some people do well with home parties. (I was a walking disaster.)
Some people do well with catalog sales. (I left my catalog and was afraid to go back, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!)
I always see at least one kiosk in the mall at Christmastime -- and recently they moved out of the kiosk and into a regular store, which says a lot.
I do *NOT* recommend the cookie-cutter website!!
The internet is LOADED with SMC stuff. Some people do well with it on the net, but you need to talk to them. I don't believe they do well just by plopping up the website and waiting.
I was never able to succeed with SMC, but lots and lots of people do.
You can make money by recruiting other people because you sell to them at "wholesale" prices (obviously higher than the wholesale prices you're paying) -- in other words, you put them into the SMC business -- but it is not MLM by any stretch of the imagination, and I could be wrong, but I don't think most people go after their relatives like the typical vitamin-pusher.
Luv,
MaaMaw
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