Network Company Stupid Tricks
The most incredible stupid tricks network marketing companies do is letting some legal department enforce their policies and procedures.
Think about this for a bit. If a network marketing company appoints a legal team to write the policies and procedures and administers the legalities of the company, the network company has generally spent about a quarter of a million dollars retaining this legal department.
So now the legal department has to justify that they just added a quarter of a million dollars overhead to the network company. So the legal team composes Policies and Procedures so complex, so confusing – it’s just mumbo jumbo.
And you have to read chapter 9, and remember section C. Then down in 14.D, they mention it again, and you have to apply those 2 together. They wrote a bit about it up there. Now they add the rest of it down here.
But if you don’t connect the two, you do not know what they’re talking about.
Legal representatives LOVE Writing All This BS!
For example: in some network companies, the P & Ps say you yourself are responsible for monitoring your downline organization’s activities. If THEY do something illegal, then YOU are responsible for it.
A friend of mine got terminated because one of his downline members enrolled someone who was in another opportunity sideline, which was cross recruiting. But they held the sponsor accountable, and they terminated him, so they could steal his check. Real simple. Real simple.
And your people on top signing the bonus checks must have built a downline themselves. MLM CEOs who never built a downline don’t know anything about MLM distributors.
Network Marketing Companies Are NOTHING Without Distributors!
CEOs who have built a downline know that. They know that companies would be nothing without the distributors.
Sure, they need a product. And yes, they have to ship this product. They have to send a bonus check, of course. But who is building the company? Who’s building the volume?
Answer: The distributor. And if the CEO understands that, then they treat the distributors like gold. They don’t have some legal department trying to terminate their distributors.
Stupid Trick #2
And the other stupid thing network marketing companies do is, they don’t listen to the field. The distributors are in the fire every day. Companies need to learn what their distributors see, what they do, what they hear and what they say.
We tell people all the time, “Read your Policies & Procedures.” A friend and team mate of mine got a phone call the other day from the co-owner of a network marketing company. Actually, his secretary called him to ask a few questions about why he was telling people to read their Policies & Procedures. Because they got a bunch of people doing it and it ticked them off!
This company, based out of Texas, has the most ruthless Policies & Procedures you’ve ever seen. They are unbelievable.
Want To Sell The Business YOU Built? Gobbledygook!
For example – if you desired to sell your downline, sell your business, you have a 10-page document that you have to fill out. And before you offer the business to anyone, you have to offer it to the company first.
And when you send your request for them to buy it, you have to include a $100 nonrefundable fee. And then they can say yes or no!
Next step is, when the company says “No”, they will then send you info about 3 upline members you can sell your business to. You have to offer it to each of them one at a time. And the P & Ps instruct that to buy YOUR business, they must resign their own business.
So usually, they say “No”. And after all 3 have turned you down, one at a time, then you have to offer your business to somebody in your downline. And they make it so clear – they say “if you circumvent any part of this procedure, you are terminated.”
So my friend told the secretary to have the co-owner call him and they could meat about the situation. But the secretary said that he does not talk to people directly!
And my friend said, “Well, he talked to YOU!” So she told me he doesn’t return phone calls, doesn’t talk to any distributors directly.
My friend was stunned, and as was I when he told me. I sat in my chair thinking, “Wow! This is unbelievable!” Now this guy wants to talk to my friend to find out why we are telling people to read their policies and procedures. That is unbelivable. what a trip!
P.S. – Have you read YOUR P & Ps lately?
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