Sometimes, its not about what we want, its about just who we are at the end of the day. Getting to the aim of what you want, but end of the day, one changed, and whats the point of it? You might be hitting the bottomline of ur aims, but your characteristics have changed.
So, is this what we want in the end?
Recently, I went to attend this event about this NM (Network Marketing) company XXX ,their so-called achievement awards ceremony cum talk. I would be impressed to say that their company are much more well established compared to other NM companies,, with advisors following the CEO as he take his seat. Anyway, those who knows me knows about my anti-ness for NM, and might be wondering why i attended.
Of course, like anyone, i was being tricked into going this talk, from the brilliance of my friend’s magic words. Anyway, i stood my stand strong, and listened to what they had to said or what was on the agenda for this moody afternoon.
Nevertheless, the talk lasted for like 4 to 5 hours, with a very good inspiration Malaysian speaker taking the time for close to 3 hours of the whole thing, (which i loved this part the most; shall elaborate later on) , with people proposing marriage to his girlfriend infront of a strong 500 audience
crowd and of course the whole thing about this company, family tree, products they sold etc.
Now, whats about this Network Marketing thing?
Networking? Marketing?
Nono. Network Marketing refers to a kind of method used by some companies nowadays, to sell their high-end products to the world, by using brilliance magic words and spread of networks contacts. Also known as MLM formerly, which was banned few years ago in Singapore, SLM is the word to be.
MLM refers to Multi-level Marketing, whereby, there are different levels of marketing strategies used in the company, to achieved certain sales target.
I’m sure you guys know how a pyramid looks like, whereby the peak of the pyramid is supported by different levels of the pyramid, descending, from the first block on the top of the pyramid, to probably 100blocks at the bottom supporting the rest on the top.
Same goes for the human pyramid, which is being implied in MLM, the boss is being supported by the employees bringing in sales daily/monthly/yearly, to support this whole pyramid system/their company’s sales. To put things straight across, the ones on the top, including the boss of course, are leeching on the rest of the pyramid below. This whole pyramid system can be also seen as the infrastructure of the company. If the bottom levels of the pyramid are down, the whole pyramid might colapse.
Below might be a picture i found online to let you understand clearly how it works.
As you can see cleary, first the boss will recruit the pioneers of the company, and teach them how to bring in sales, using their network contacts and asking them to do so too. Then as time passes, more and more people will joined this company , from the spread of the words about how attractive the pay scheme and commissions could be, by joining this company, and asking more contacts to join too.
One clear difference you can see from here, that as the bottom levels keep growing, the top levels can become more relax and more relaxing. So simply, they are just leeching your sales, when you bring person in, and do sales for you. By leeching 1% of ur sales profit, it is already enough, as they are leeching a 100 of you. All these things clearly, when one went to their attractive and wow interview talk, of course they will tell you every thing nice about this job. In short, it means , the boss is sitting in his office, shaking his leg, while his downlines is bringing him the sales.
This is one reason, why MLM/Pyramid Selling is banned in Singapore, the illegal marketing strategy used by companies once to attain no-pain-and-gain money for the boss and the toplines in a MLM company.
However, MLM din’t died just like that. Instead, they are converting to SLM, or Single Level Marketing, whereby once the new employee hit a certain target for that company, no more leeching is being done once you hit the same rank as your supervisor/toplines. Whats the difference of this?
And so as you are working hard, trying to get contacts, to buy your so-called beneficial products offered by the company, the boss and the higher levels one are leeching your sales once you clinch every deal of it. And oh, they will tell you, if you hit a certain target, you are being promoted. Why not? It is just to attract your attention and your aggression in making sales for them, and then they earned tons of money of it, and ranks doesnt matter to them. Why be stupid and let the bosses leech you while you are working /slogging hard like a dog outside there?
And one thing about NM companies is that they like to push car incentive schemes for you, let say you hit 100k for this company, you are entitled to any car of your choice be it Merces, BMW, Audi, Lexus etc. . But have you think, that the company is so stupid to buy this car for you once you hit them? No. You have to keep producing results to show them, to keep bringing in sales for the company.
This is only the pros of a NM company. But once, you stop producing results, thats a gg for you. Good Game.
Your car, they will take back, or might just leave with you with debts, stripped you of your post. And there goes your luxury life. Not forgetting your friends who once grew thick and thin with you whom you just abandon while you become richer and richer one day in this company.
Oh, reminding me of this, once you entered a Network Marketing company, there’s no more u-turn for you. You will notice that, to be aggressive in sales to hit your so-called whatever incentive or car schemes, you will need to bring in more sales. That’s when, you look into your hp contacts, and start contacting friends/relatives to start off with to buy your so-called beneficial products. You will go into a state of madness or ki-siao-ness to draw people’s attention into buying your products, no matter what, and then con them to ask to ask their friends/relatives too. This is normal, when you are working in a NM company, to keep on con-ing and con-ing. And thats when, your friends know about your main motives , as a NM agent, to psycho and asked them to do such things to get sales, sooner or later, one by one will leave you.
And one day, when you found out that you run out of contacts, thats the day when you realised, you are no-one anymore and just some beggar on the streets, begging for money and friends.
Below is a true story by someone who worked in a NM before.
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To think of it, i would rather live in a HDB flat , drive a normal car and be happy with my friends, than stay in private estate with a big luxury car yet no friends and no humanity at all. In fact, one of my close friend, his cousin broke up with his boyfriend, just because of this kind stupid issues. Ain’t that stupid? Just by joining a NM company, when you think you be rich in few days/weeks/months, but yet you din realise, you are lossing love, friends, and part of you everyday .
So, think twice again folks, there’s no free lunch in this world. You want money, you earned hard for it, not going against your conscience and selling so-called beneficial products to your friends/relatives to earn that money. If they are beneficial products, why wouldn’t they just advertise on the market, rather than telling you this is approved by some miscanllaneous/unknown companies standard approval?
At the end of the day, its not about what you want, its about who you are.
I would choose to be a poor guy with friends, loves and humanity, than someone that lost his/her conscience and loved ones, just for money.