Comment just posted for When a company gets bad press. Worthy of being elevated to posthood.
“What unbelievable timing for this blog.
This morning, I learned that the founders of my company were sentenced to over 2 years jail time for tax evasion. Neways founders story here.
I’ve already had a distributor say she’s going to drop out because she doesn’t want to associate herself with their company.
Despite having a mini panic attack, I’m going keep going using the niche prospecting techniques. Thanks for writing this article..it’s helped keep me stay focused.”
-Elaine…
Good you used it to spur you on. Here’s how another smart woman used bad news to her advantage…
How CNN Anchor Kyra Phillips turns bad press into a win…
Oh, how sad…
We feel with you, Elaine; we’re here to support you and “yours.”
Feel deepening commitment with integrity – individually, professionally and within our industry – assurred that we CAN make a difference, one KK New School student, at the time…
Carolyn
And that wasn’t their first time apparently…
Well if it’s just founder’s personal tax, then we can think it won’t affect the integrity of the product. Or maybe not?
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cac/pr2003/137a.html
And that wasn’t their first time apparently…
Well if it’s just founder’s personal tax it doesn’t touch the integrity of the product. Or maybe not?
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cac/pr2003/137a.html
If nothing else, this underscores the undeniable reality that the single biggest threat to network marketers is the company and its owners and management, always.
One bad decision, one greedy, thoughtless action, and the whole edifice can come crashing down around your ears.
That doesn’t mean that network marketing itself is inherently flawed, any more than Al Qaeda represents Islam or that the Mafia represents catholicism or Italians.
It does suggest, however, that we should be exceedingly wary of any company or organisation that cloaks itself in quasi-religious piety or association. This is BUSINESS, nothing more nor less, and should always be treated as such.
Strong emotional appeals to fear of loss, ignorance, greed, laziness or gullibility are never a sound basis for making rational, informed, objective BUSINESS decisions.
Tread warily out there, folks.
“Hi folks.
I’d like to share with you some thoughts on this subject that I first heard from John Tartol, a senior distributor in Herbalife. He was talking about negative press and how it impacts a network marketing company:
With two weeks the vast majority of the general population will have totally forgotten about any article or TV program they might have read or seen.
There are just two groups of people who will not have forgotten:
distributors from your competitor companies
distributors in your own company.
The greatest impact on the company will come from the effect that such press will have on the company’s own distributors:
it will tend to diminish their belief in the company, they might stop talking to people about their products or opportunity (or be less willing to do so), they might cut back on their lead generation , not book so many presentations, etc.
** Guys – this aspect is within out control, if we are leaders in the company concerned! We need to talk to our downlines about this and explain what’s really going on here. **
Though may not be immediately obvious, most negative press originates from your competitors, if you trace it back to its source. (Not the case here with Neways, I think.)
Andrew Khabaza”