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Other Added - Why My Aunt Thinks We Are MLM Gangsters in a Pyramid Scam!
Life, and change management, and people’s behaviors, are not linear. Excuse my language – I’m assuming the reader’s understanding of mathematics is similar to mine, which is that I just about get it, and I’m ready to go back to the textbooks if necessary. So don’t panic, bear with me. There is something about our education that assumes linear connections and the proportionality of cause and effect. After all, ideas such as ‘the punishment must fit the crime’ are deeply embedded in our culture. We praise measured responses and balanced reactions. ‘Proportional r
As my imagination simmered and we are walking out of the restaurant, she puts her hand on my shoulder and says “Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone.” Gee thanks I’m thinking in my head now I won’t have to “go on the lam”!
There was a time in my network-marketing career where I would have fought her question tooth and nail. Explaining in my most versed and prepared speeches about how network marketing is not a scam and going on in about all the reasons why – with references and foo
When someone comes over the border and is looking for a job, often they go to light manufacturing non-union areas to find work and of course there is always lots to do. Many light fabrication businesses hire the illegal aliens. I have noticed this in Houston, San Antonio, Baton Rouge, El Paso, Phoenix, LA, Memphis, Chicago, Sacramento, San Diego, Miami, Jacksonville and Atlanta. Actually other places too, but this is what comes to mind. I would like to discuss the trailer welding jobs done by illegal aliens in TX, I understand the need to by pass the OSHA laws,
The realization that someone is usually not the right person comes of course as the all-telling hindsight. Hindsight after we’ve spent numerous hours talking with and prospecting someone because we believe that they are the ONE! Hindsight making us question our sanity as to why we thought they were the ONE in the first place because if we really got down to it and were really honest with ourselves, they met none of the qualifications of the ONE. And in the most telling of situations, often times the ONE who we thought was the ONE was a family member!
When my husband and I were just starting out, I have to admit, I thought everyone was the ONE - We had the perfect business that anyone could do! The perfect products that everyone needed! And the easiest business model everyone could do!
But just like those MLM Gangsters who have walked before me down the network marketing path, they’ve all realize that some people just never get the vision and others to this day just think we are MLM Gangsters living off of illegally made money from one of those Pyramid Scams.
My first experience with the MLM Gangster lifestyle came after about two years in the business. With our network marketing success, we bought a home almost twice the size of our previous house, we were driving a vehicle paid for by our company, we had replaced our combined six figure a year incomes and my husband and I were working completely from home.
This gangster lifestyle had been going on for over a year when my Aunt says to me in the car when we are alone:
“Siggy” she says (this is what she calls me and she can get away with it because she is an elementary school teacher!)”Siggy, is what you’re doing one of those pyramid scams?” In her cutest, most sincere voice ever.
I am thinking, okay, I have explained this business to her a number of times. What doesn’t she get? And is it worth my energy any more to proceed and try to convince her again that what we are doing is legal?
I concede to her and painfully finally say, “Yes. Yes it is one of those pyramid scams.” For no other reason than to see what would happen.
Most surprisingly, she is overly content and happy with this answer as she smiles brightly like finally she understands after all these years what it is that we are doing which only makes me want to repute my answer and try, try again but I give in and keep my mouth shut to keep my own sanity.
Relieved in the answer she gets, we get out of the car and proceed into the pizza restaurant to pay for six large pizzas for the family with the money I got from my pyramid scam business. I momentarily felt like Al Capone. The Boss of Bosses! The Capo di tutti capi! The ONE! If the guy at the cash register only knew!
As my imagination simmered and we are walking out of the restaurant, she puts her hand on my shoulder and says “Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone.” Gee thanks I’m thinking in my head now I won’t have to “go on the lam”!
There was a time in my network-marketing career where I would have fought her question tooth and nail. Explaining in my most versed and prepared speeches about how network marketing is not a scam and going on in about all the reasons why – with references and foot
"There's no avoiding it. The eternal search for sustainable competitive advantage is leading us straight into the squishy softness of culture and character. Many business people won't like it. They won't be comfortable talking with colleagues about trust, honesty, purpose, values, and other topics out of the self-help section of the bookstore. They will have to face the fact that they will likely be eaten alive by competitors who confront these issues with relish." — Geoffrey Colvin, "The Changing Art of Becoming Unbeatable," Fortune MagazineAll organiza
When my husband and I were just starting out, I have to admit, I thought everyone was the ONE - We had the perfect business that anyone could do! The perfect products that everyone needed! And the easiest business model everyone could do!
But just like those MLM Gangsters who have walked before me down the network marketing path, they’ve all realize that some people just never get the vision and others to this day just think we are MLM Gangsters living off of illegally made money from one of those Pyramid Scams.
My first experience with the MLM Gangster lifestyle came after about two years in the business. With our network marketing success, we bought a home almost twice the size of our previous house, we were driving a vehicle paid for by our company, we had replaced our combined six figure a year incomes and my husband and I were working completely from home.
This gangster lifestyle had been going on for over a year when my Aunt says to me in the car when we are alone:
“Siggy” she says (this is what she calls me and she can get away with it because she is an elementary school teacher!)”Siggy, is what you’re doing one of those pyramid scams?” In her cutest, most sincere voice ever.
I am thinking, okay, I have explained this business to her a number of times. What doesn’t she get? And is it worth my energy any more to proceed and try to convince her again that what we are doing is legal?
I concede to her and painfully finally say, “Yes. Yes it is one of those pyramid scams.” For no other reason than to see what would happen.
Most surprisingly, she is overly content and happy with this answer as she smiles brightly like finally she understands after all these years what it is that we are doing which only makes me want to repute my answer and try, try again but I give in and keep my mouth shut to keep my own sanity.
Relieved in the answer she gets, we get out of the car and proceed into the pizza restaurant to pay for six large pizzas for the family with the money I got from my pyramid scam business. I momentarily felt like Al Capone. The Boss of Bosses! The Capo di tutti capi! The ONE! If the guy at the cash register only knew!
As my imagination simmered and we are walking out of the restaurant, she puts her hand on my shoulder and says “Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone.” Gee thanks I’m thinking in my head now I won’t have to “go on the lam”!
There was a time in my network-marketing career where I would have fought her question tooth and nail. Explaining in my most versed and prepared speeches about how network marketing is not a scam and going on in about all the reasons why – with references and foo
What I am about to tell you may seem very obvious - you may even say DUH!!! but the fact is, - many company’s forget the 3 R’s of good customer service- Respect your Customer, Take Responsibility for Your Actions and Products and give your Customers a Full REFUND when it just isn’t right. I promise you that if you follow these 3 simple rules you will never have to run after the same customer again!Respect the customer! Just about as plain as the nose on your face Right? Wrong!How many times have you been greeted in a less than courteous manner or
This gangster lifestyle had been going on for over a year when my Aunt says to me in the car when we are alone:
“Siggy” she says (this is what she calls me and she can get away with it because she is an elementary school teacher!)”Siggy, is what you’re doing one of those pyramid scams?” In her cutest, most sincere voice ever.
I am thinking, okay, I have explained this business to her a number of times. What doesn’t she get? And is it worth my energy any more to proceed and try to convince her again that what we are doing is legal?
I concede to her and painfully finally say, “Yes. Yes it is one of those pyramid scams.” For no other reason than to see what would happen.
Most surprisingly, she is overly content and happy with this answer as she smiles brightly like finally she understands after all these years what it is that we are doing which only makes me want to repute my answer and try, try again but I give in and keep my mouth shut to keep my own sanity.
Relieved in the answer she gets, we get out of the car and proceed into the pizza restaurant to pay for six large pizzas for the family with the money I got from my pyramid scam business. I momentarily felt like Al Capone. The Boss of Bosses! The Capo di tutti capi! The ONE! If the guy at the cash register only knew!
As my imagination simmered and we are walking out of the restaurant, she puts her hand on my shoulder and says “Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone.” Gee thanks I’m thinking in my head now I won’t have to “go on the lam”!
There was a time in my network-marketing career where I would have fought her question tooth and nail. Explaining in my most versed and prepared speeches about how network marketing is not a scam and going on in about all the reasons why – with references and foo
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I concede to her and painfully finally say, “Yes. Yes it is one of those pyramid scams.” For no other reason than to see what would happen.
Most surprisingly, she is overly content and happy with this answer as she smiles brightly like finally she understands after all these years what it is that we are doing which only makes me want to repute my answer and try, try again but I give in and keep my mouth shut to keep my own sanity.
Relieved in the answer she gets, we get out of the car and proceed into the pizza restaurant to pay for six large pizzas for the family with the money I got from my pyramid scam business. I momentarily felt like Al Capone. The Boss of Bosses! The Capo di tutti capi! The ONE! If the guy at the cash register only knew!
As my imagination simmered and we are walking out of the restaurant, she puts her hand on my shoulder and says “Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone.” Gee thanks I’m thinking in my head now I won’t have to “go on the lam”!
There was a time in my network-marketing career where I would have fought her question tooth and nail. Explaining in my most versed and prepared speeches about how network marketing is not a scam and going on in about all the reasons why – with references and foo
Based on my experience in helping dozens of companies create performance appraisal systems that actually work, here are ten tips that will help any company create a new performance evaluation system that will provide useful data and be enthusiastically supported by all system users.One — Get top management actively involved. Without top management’s commitment and visible support, no program can succeed. Top management must establish strategic plans, identify values and core competencies, appoint an appropriate Implementation Team, demonstrate the import
As my imagination simmered and we are walking out of the restaurant, she puts her hand on my shoulder and says “Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone.” Gee thanks I’m thinking in my head now I won’t have to “go on the lam”!
There was a time in my network-marketing career where I would have fought her question tooth and nail. Explaining in my most versed and prepared speeches about how network marketing is not a scam and going on in about all the reasons why – with references and footnotes to boot.
But in that afternoon with my Aunt, I was once again struck with the affirmation that some people just won’t ever get network marketing and will be happier in believing what they want to believe about the network marketing industry. And, from my aunt’s point of view, there may be some real reasons for believing what she want to believe that it is a scam.
Maybe it’s because my Uncle is a very successful, educated and talented architect and she is a school teacher and thinking that we could do so well knowing educationally less is just too much to consider? Maybe the comparison between them working full-time, non-stop, to earn a "decent" income and us making more money than they do by actually do less is just too far out of her thinking.
We may never know.
Sometimes it’s just better to walk on by, let these things pass, keep the books closed and keep it Cosa Nostra or all in the network marketing family.
Signe “Siggy Baby-Face" Nichols
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