So what's wrong with "direct sales?"
The multi level marketing industry has its critics
So why do this?
To earn a living. To make money. And to make money in a way that gives one more freedom to do other things. I did this once before during the Reagan Revolution and what came out of it was the Charity Awards and eventually Mercy Corps which has donated $2 billion in food and medicine around the world. The first sponsors of those Charity Dinners were successful networkers wanting to help people.
But you, yourself, will make money? Why should you, personally, start this?
I didn't know who else in the Liberty Movement could do it. I have had a lot of experience with this and there are many pitfalls. If you think making a profit is bad, you need to read again Atlas Shrugged. We in the Liberty Movement are against corruption, companies that get loans at zero percent interest from the FED, while the rest of us pay through the nose, or companies that feed off tax payers with subsidies, but we are not against free markets and free enterprise. The profit motive is what will make some people do the right thing. In networking it is the moral guarantor because you cannot succeed without helping others.
Why is this suited for the Liberty Movement?
They are young and some of the most dynamic millionaires in network marketing were young. John Crowe did this in his twenties and thirties. Same for Mitch Sala and James Vaghy. And the Liberty folks live online. The new network marketers recruit online. And they are activists. They don't sit still. And they want freedom. The freedom to volunteer for a campaign. Now is the time for them to make money before the next election cycle heats up.
Some say that MLM is tacky. That it lacks dignity.
So is being poor. The fact is that I have traveled the world for years and I have met more millionaires from network marketing than any other industry and they build it themselves, not with insider information or cheap, special loans. I think that this is one of the only ways an ordinary person can be exceptionally wealthy. It is a loop hole. It is a method that has slipped through the cracks. The oligarchy has everything else closed. You can't do it very easily in a retail business anymore. Try opening a hamburger joint and see what you are up against.
Some say that these businesses are scams, that they are evil.
People can be evil and their motives can be bad but MLM’s are not intrinsically, morally, wrong in and of themselves. Websites that purport this idea may be good theater but they are not logical. No free government in the world outlaws MLM’s. The laws that would be needed to do that would have ramifications far beyond the Direct Sales industry and some believe that they would cripple insurance, real estate, car sales and many other industries including a huge number of internet enterprises.
What? But aren’t MLM’s pyramid schemes?
No. They do not have infinite payout. A person can earn more than the one who recruits them. And people in the industry are always saying that the biggest earner probably hasn't yet been recruited. My friend Pat Petrini made a cartoon about it and it has this line.
“According to the US Department of Labor and the Direct Selling Association with the same time and effort I’m five times more likely to earn over $100.000 in Network Marketing [than in an ordinary job.]”
What about negative press?
Sometimes there are scandals. Yes. And there are companies that systematically defraud their own distributors. But there are problems with retailing too. Petland was accused of misrepresenting the origin of their puppies. Burlington Coat Factory was allegedly caught selling fakes.
Chinese toy makers were using deadly lead paint on toys that were marketed to the children of the world. An American peanut manufacturer was overlooking the issue of contaminated peanut butter to keep their profits flowing uninterrupted.
There are scandals with banks, hedge funds, NBA referees, Olympic ice skating judges, the medical system, the law, the courts, university admissions, and with governments.
To say that retailing is virtuous and networking is evil is kind of like saying that addition is good but multiplication is bad. Moving products through direct sales, with commissions for recruiting others to do the same is just another form of distribution.
What about the charge that the first ones in get all the money?
If that were true I wouldn't be getting into Isagenix. It is ten years old.
Now, what is true is that timing and your support team can be factors. Try to lose weight by yourself. Try to train for the Olympics by yourself. And we have a great team, with great coaches. And we are ready to invest a boat load of work and money building a new network. So the liberty people who get in during the next few months will benefit from all of that investment. And that wasn't available yesterday and it may not be available in two years.
And what about the charge that poor people get in, can't recruit anyone, never make money and just get stuck with products?
Ha. Well, that was one of the things we liked about Isagenix. A poor person can buy a milkshake from a fast food restaurant and get fat, or they can buy a protein shake from Isagenix, flush their body with vitamins and nutrients and lose weight. They will spend that money anyway.
And that's why we are here. To help them learn how to recruit. To speak up for them with their prospects. No one should have to do this alone. Poor people need to stop waiting for government to give them money and go after it themselves.
To earn a living. To make money. And to make money in a way that gives one more freedom to do other things. I did this once before during the Reagan Revolution and what came out of it was the Charity Awards and eventually Mercy Corps which has donated $2 billion in food and medicine around the world. The first sponsors of those Charity Dinners were successful networkers wanting to help people.
But you, yourself, will make money? Why should you, personally, start this?
I didn't know who else in the Liberty Movement could do it. I have had a lot of experience with this and there are many pitfalls. If you think making a profit is bad, you need to read again Atlas Shrugged. We in the Liberty Movement are against corruption, companies that get loans at zero percent interest from the FED, while the rest of us pay through the nose, or companies that feed off tax payers with subsidies, but we are not against free markets and free enterprise. The profit motive is what will make some people do the right thing. In networking it is the moral guarantor because you cannot succeed without helping others.
Why is this suited for the Liberty Movement?
They are young and some of the most dynamic millionaires in network marketing were young. John Crowe did this in his twenties and thirties. Same for Mitch Sala and James Vaghy. And the Liberty folks live online. The new network marketers recruit online. And they are activists. They don't sit still. And they want freedom. The freedom to volunteer for a campaign. Now is the time for them to make money before the next election cycle heats up.
Some say that MLM is tacky. That it lacks dignity.
So is being poor. The fact is that I have traveled the world for years and I have met more millionaires from network marketing than any other industry and they build it themselves, not with insider information or cheap, special loans. I think that this is one of the only ways an ordinary person can be exceptionally wealthy. It is a loop hole. It is a method that has slipped through the cracks. The oligarchy has everything else closed. You can't do it very easily in a retail business anymore. Try opening a hamburger joint and see what you are up against.
Some say that these businesses are scams, that they are evil.
People can be evil and their motives can be bad but MLM’s are not intrinsically, morally, wrong in and of themselves. Websites that purport this idea may be good theater but they are not logical. No free government in the world outlaws MLM’s. The laws that would be needed to do that would have ramifications far beyond the Direct Sales industry and some believe that they would cripple insurance, real estate, car sales and many other industries including a huge number of internet enterprises.
What? But aren’t MLM’s pyramid schemes?
No. They do not have infinite payout. A person can earn more than the one who recruits them. And people in the industry are always saying that the biggest earner probably hasn't yet been recruited. My friend Pat Petrini made a cartoon about it and it has this line.
“According to the US Department of Labor and the Direct Selling Association with the same time and effort I’m five times more likely to earn over $100.000 in Network Marketing [than in an ordinary job.]”
What about negative press?
Sometimes there are scandals. Yes. And there are companies that systematically defraud their own distributors. But there are problems with retailing too. Petland was accused of misrepresenting the origin of their puppies. Burlington Coat Factory was allegedly caught selling fakes.
Chinese toy makers were using deadly lead paint on toys that were marketed to the children of the world. An American peanut manufacturer was overlooking the issue of contaminated peanut butter to keep their profits flowing uninterrupted.
There are scandals with banks, hedge funds, NBA referees, Olympic ice skating judges, the medical system, the law, the courts, university admissions, and with governments.
To say that retailing is virtuous and networking is evil is kind of like saying that addition is good but multiplication is bad. Moving products through direct sales, with commissions for recruiting others to do the same is just another form of distribution.
What about the charge that the first ones in get all the money?
If that were true I wouldn't be getting into Isagenix. It is ten years old.
Now, what is true is that timing and your support team can be factors. Try to lose weight by yourself. Try to train for the Olympics by yourself. And we have a great team, with great coaches. And we are ready to invest a boat load of work and money building a new network. So the liberty people who get in during the next few months will benefit from all of that investment. And that wasn't available yesterday and it may not be available in two years.
And what about the charge that poor people get in, can't recruit anyone, never make money and just get stuck with products?
Ha. Well, that was one of the things we liked about Isagenix. A poor person can buy a milkshake from a fast food restaurant and get fat, or they can buy a protein shake from Isagenix, flush their body with vitamins and nutrients and lose weight. They will spend that money anyway.
And that's why we are here. To help them learn how to recruit. To speak up for them with their prospects. No one should have to do this alone. Poor people need to stop waiting for government to give them money and go after it themselves.