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Kim Klaver

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  • I don’t respond to them, but many do, otherwise they wouldn’t be used.

    Those that are uninformed or in denial will almost always fall for them.

    We’re a “right now”, “show me the money”, society. Greed is the fuel that drives many businesses. Many Network Marketers are no different.

    As long as the lines are blurred between legitimate, stable “real” companies, and outright scams based on greed, the abuse will continue.

  • Mea Culpa,

    I still repsond, yes, although I
    don’t buy into them anymore.

    Even MentoringForFree.com and
    magnetic sponsoring are a great
    way to attract people, I was
    disapointed by the lack of
    consistency. Both were good
    attractors and still are but
    haven’t found the leaders to
    be as described.

    I had started a meetup.com group
    for free for NMers who want to
    get together and leanr. Was
    great in the beginning but since
    the only day I could hold it was
    Mondays turnout was low and I
    didn’t have the patience to
    build long enough but participants
    really loved that I was open about
    what I did and didn’t achieve
    and that we can be a heterogenous
    group of marketers and still
    help each other out. I have kept
    contact with one couple who
    attended once and another guy
    who called me a few times and
    those relationships are evolving
    because they started out based
    on openness and honesty. nothing
    to hide.

    yves
    http://www.Sleepstamina.com

    PS: how do you distinguish between
    hiding something and privacy?

  • Yves: You write “Even MentoringForFree.com and
    magnetic sponsoring are a great
    way to attract people, I was
    dissapointed by the lack of
    consistency. Both were good
    attractors and still are but
    haven’t found the leaders to
    be as described.”

    The advertised “Free” programs and reports in our MLM and self-help business are a means to an end. Surely we all know this at some level.

    No one does them for nothing just to do them for nothing, even though they advertise “free”. It’s a marketing strategy, like writing a blog (although blogs don’t expressly pitch “free”), which gets a following and from time to time, the blog owners offer something of theirs to the readers.

    Some people are just taken in with the word “free”, and don’t stop to realize there is ALWAYS something to buy or join. They can always politely decline.

    Often these “free this or that” marketers are just not upfront about their agenda. They should be. Why not?

    That way naive people are not surprised when these people start calling trying to recruit them into a program or sell them a training program, because they signed up for something “free.”

    Folks, let’s get real ourselves here. If you really want that “free” eBook, or “free report” realize that you are now on someone’s mailing list – so they can send you info about their offerings. Isn’t that happening more and more online?

    Who ISN’T selling the “biggest secrets” or forecasting the end of old school marketing programs online? ALL kinds of marketing, network marketing being just ONE?

    All to get attention – your attention – for what THEY will be selling you down the road…if you stick with their serial “free” reports.

    But really, so what? You gave them your information…what do you expect them to do with it?

    It’s just some people who do this are not up front and it isn’t until you’ve given your information that someone pounces. Or you don’t realize it’s a multilevel affiliate program, etc.

    If it’s not what you want after all, unsubscribe, or hit delete.

    There are some pretty nice “free reports” I’ve read that are actually very useful.

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