You Give MLM A Bad Name

You’ve probably heard or heard of the Bon Jovi song “You Give Love a Bad Name”.  I heard that song this morning and immediately thought of all of the multi level marketing / network marketing people spamming my email inbox and social networking sites on a daily basis.

I don’t care if you’ve got a product that will make me shrink down to a size 0, grow 5 inches taller and make me have the energy of a 5 year old overnight, I’m NOT buying it from a spammer.

You could have a free eBook that will grow legs, walk out of my computer and build my business for me - I’m NOT downloading it from a spammer!!

You give MLM a bad name.  You very well may have the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Most MLM companies have great products.  However, you’re probably wondering why you can’t build your business.  It seems that the harder you try, the worse it is.  You get more and more desperate and it shows.  It’s really not your fault.  Some silly upline probably told you to do it this way.  They probably don’t know any better either and are probably just as “green” as you are.

The emails you send to people who have never requested information from you are spam.   The comments you post with your veiled sales pitch on social networking sites are spam.  The phone calls that your auto dialer makes are spam (well…you know what I mean).

If you pique my curiosity even a little bit  about your product, I will go google it before I will buy it from you.   Maybe it’s just me, but I refuse to reward a spammer with commissions.  That just promotes more spam.

If you’ve got a great product put up a blog where you can talk about it.  Then work on getting targeted traffic to come to you.  You don’t need to chase people down and beat them over the head to buy your products or download your free ebook.  I have great products and a free ebook, however, the only ones that buy my products are people who are searching for a solution to a problem and find my other blog.   The only ones who download my free ebook are those who are searching for a better way to build their business or searching for a way to make money from home.  These people find my blogs and get my products or free ebook or blogging course.  I don’t EVER spam out emails to people begging them to join my business.  I don’t EVER jump on new people coming into myspace or facebook with “HEY - I’ve got a great free ebook - get it here”.

YUK.  PUKE.  EEEWWW.

Stop acting like a carnival barker “STEP RIGHT UP…COME ON IN…”  No wonder you send people running.  When you hear a carnival barker on the megaphone you know it’s going to cost you money and you’ll probably lose in the long run, but the games are fun.  When people associate spammers with carnival barkers, they run the other way because they are thinking that the stakes are much higher and the games probably aren’t going to be fun.

STOP the madness.  YOU - spammers of the world - give MLM a bad name. There are MUCH better ways to go about building your business.

YOU Deserve Success!!

Roxanne

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