MLM and Welfare
One of the few trainers in Networking who I feel is worthwhile is Tom (Big Al) Schreiter. When Tom first started in Networking, the first person he sponsored was a hippie. This hippie sold marijuana and vitamins. The hippie sponsored a woman, and then Tom had a downline of 2 people. Then the hippie went to jail. Tom’s downline was now one person. Tom didn’t know the woman, but she was his only downline, so he called to offer his help. It turned out that this was a single mother with 3 kids.
Oh yes, she was on welfare.
That was his entire downline.
The woman decided that this was her chance in life, and she decided to get serious and go to work. Since then, Tom has earned over $200,000 on the business that she built.
I suspect that if Tom had placed people under her, it would have destroyed everything.
She would have moved to MLM Welfare, where she became a non-worker, waiting for Tom to build her downline. Rewarding the lazy people does not work. MLM Welfare is where you reward the lazy people who don’t want to go to work. The truth is: placing people under non-workers creates laziness.
What lessons can we learn from this story?
1. Welfare does not put people to work.
2. You can’t build a fire under non-workers by placing people under them.
3. Sponsor everyone you can. You never know who will go to work.
4. Don’t qualify people. You never know who will go to work.
5. Some people will drop out. That is a fact of life.
6. It is also a fact of life that when people drop out, other people roll up closer to you.
7. When people drop out, it creates “orphans”. You must go to them and “adopt” the “orphans”. If you don’t, they will die.
8. You can either help the workers or the non-workers. Where would you prefer that your drop outs take place?
9. If you had to choose between losing a worker or a non-worker, which would you choose? You DO have that choice!
10. Work with the workers.
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