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Monday, January 11, 2010
Ignorance is bliss
I was really naive when I started my Shaklee business. I didn't know back then that MLM was a dirty word - at least to some. I just loved the products and the company and knew I wanted to tell people about them. Plus, I had been a stay-at-home mom (aka sahm) and my nest was suddenly empty. I knew I didn't want to go back to the corporate world where I would have to answer to someone else. After all, I had been my own boss (in a manner of speaking) for 21 years and had enjoyed the freedom of coming and going as I pleased. A 9 to 5 job didn't sound too exciting. Okay, so I had been using these products for awhile and really liked them. They had helped me overcome allergies and I stopped getting sinus infections. The friend who had sponsored me kept telling me that I should start my own distributorship, and I kept saying "no." But suddenly, that started looking like a great idea. So Health By Design was born. It was so easy...I just said I am going to do this. So anyway, back to this MLM stuff.
When I started talking to people about the products, often the response would be "I just want to use the stuff; I don't want to sell it." I really didn't know what that was all about until finally one day I asked a prospect why she had said that. Well, she had been involved with another company at one time and they just expected her to sell as well as use their products. I also would get the response, "No thanks, I don't want to lose all my friends and family." It was then that I started to understand that there were a lot of people walking around without a very clear understanding of what MLM really is. Did I even clearly understand what it was?
I certainly knew what it was not...It wasn't/isn't "one of those pyramid things." (They are illegal, by the way.)I decided right then and there that I had better educate myself about Multilevel Marketing....and thus my journey began.
When I started talking to people about the products, often the response would be "I just want to use the stuff; I don't want to sell it." I really didn't know what that was all about until finally one day I asked a prospect why she had said that. Well, she had been involved with another company at one time and they just expected her to sell as well as use their products. I also would get the response, "No thanks, I don't want to lose all my friends and family." It was then that I started to understand that there were a lot of people walking around without a very clear understanding of what MLM really is. Did I even clearly understand what it was?
I certainly knew what it was not...It wasn't/isn't "one of those pyramid things." (They are illegal, by the way.)I decided right then and there that I had better educate myself about Multilevel Marketing....and thus my journey began.
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