Last week when my roomie and I were in walmart, we ran into an Indian guy. We just picked up the conversation. After all he was sounding a very genuine person, working for a software company, had come with his wife who is also working for another software company. He took lot of interest in asking what we (roomie and I) are studying and about our research and that. We exchanged numbers so that we could be in touch. Just in a week's time he already called me once and my roomie twice asking if we would be interested in a business opportunity that might fetch a great money and if we will be available for a seminar in the next week with very limited seats to listen to a guy who had successfully made millions of dollars out of this business opportunity. I exclaimed, "Oh no. Not again!!". Yes, this is not the first time it is happening. It happened 2 months ago. It happened 6 months ago. It happend 15 months ago and so on.For the uninitiated, I am talking about the network marketing people here and the way they operate their business. Few years back I had attended one of their meeting due to consistent insistence of my friend and ever since I hated it. Every time I happened to meet and interact with the people into this network marketing my hatred towards NM only got worse. While the people into the NM are mostly common people, nice and capable, like you and me, it is the attitude with which the NM business is carried about that I hate. Thats why I thought of putting down ten reasons or things why I hate NM.
1. In the very first meeting they tell you that you do not have to do anything and earn a lot. Isnt it the wrong way to approach life? While you might hear people say that you should work smart and not hard, nobody ever can claim that you can achieve or get something without putting some work and is by any standards the wrong attitude towards life. They lost me right there.
2. They say you can retire at 30--Give me one good reason why I should retire at 30 even if it means that I can eat on a golden plate. It is the demands of the day at work, surprises that come with the turn of a new day, coming back home to play with your pet and the like that keeps me going. So why should I retire at 30. In any case, retirement is not in that you quit work. It is more of a mental thing for me. It should happen to your mind more naturally and as a logical succession to your immediate past than as a sudden jolt
3. They say you can send your kids to hawaii/disney land--If only they had said that you can send your kid to better schools.
4. They make you look at even your close friends as potential customers --which in turn leads to behavioral changes in you towards the friendship eventually resulting in losing the very friend.
5. They made me suspicious of new people that I happen to meet--I start to think of the new people I meet that they may be a part of the "net"work marketting in order to protect myself from falling in the net.
6. Money-centric :: While money is necessary to live life- it is not THE thing in life. I simply hate anything that is primarily money-centric. I do not have to justify that.
7. From my interactions with the people in NM, I observed that NM actually takes your attention off your mainstream bread-and-butter job. You work all your life hard and smart towards that mainstream job and NM seems to only make you get off the focus rather than playing a complementary role.
8. They over-sell the product --Imagine someone giving you a 10sized shoe if your feet is 8sized? Can you take that? While we can endlessly discuss on this issue, a simple example of this oversell is selling a very concentrated dishwasher soap which is overpriced but claimed to be very effective. Come on dude! if you use a concentrated soap ofcourse it is going to be effective but is it desired? is it good on your hands? There is a reason why commonly used product is made to a certain concentrataion. To top it all, they claim that their product is the best in the market.
9. Every network marketting person that I meet is secretive about what he/she does and try to lure people into it without giving out much informatioin. I have never seen anyone in NM that had called me so far for a meeting to tell me little more about it when I asked them. Why should you get someone into doing something with misinformation?
10. I don't have one..I will let you know when I get one. But, I believe 9 reasons are strong enough not to look for the 10th one.
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As you said, the pity is that people in very good profession are also lured into this nasty business of NM. The tenth reason why I could hate them is because when they see you they neither see you as a friend nor do they have genuine interest to uplift you in your life, but only see you as a "resource that could be exploited" for their benefit. They see in you not "you" but an "opportunity to exploit"...
Good topic and good read buddy........keep it going...
Yes. I agree with you on that point. The way they carry about their business seems somehow to be mocking at the win-win style of networking by always trying to exploit you.
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