WebProsperity - Realities of MLM
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Below is an e-mail exchange between myself and a member of my WebProsperity downline. I have deleted his name to protect his privacy, but let’s call him Jim for convenience. He joined the program originally under someone else, then re-joined with 2 positions under me in early January. I don’t know why he wanted multiple positions, with multiple monthly fees, but I have a theory. Greed. Expecting massive spillover, he could triple his income. Not a bad gamble, actually, but based on unsound principles. I’m a little surprised that WebProsperity allows multiple positions, other than the scenario covered in the comp plan, when one has maxed out the 15 level matrix.
Jim spotted one of my Google Pay Per Click ads that I was running during the pre-launch, and decided to create another position (2 actually) in my organization. He got my email address from this blog, as that is where I was directing traffic to at that time. I hadn’t had time to set up a lead capture page yet, and in this blog I gave out my contact information and asked sign ups to contact me. The ones who contacted me are shepards, the rest are sheep. In other words, that separates the doers from the dreamers and tells me who to spend my time on.
Jim has some marketing experience but not too much technical expertise. He had a sales page and a domain name, but had run into trouble setting it up on the hosting server. As everything was in a time crunch because of the impending Launch, I had him send it to me and I published it on my server. I even directed some of my PPC keywords toward it, and he ended up with 5 free sign ups by launch time.
Here is the email exchange which occurred the morning after the official launch on Jan. 30, when the free sign ups who hadn’t secured their positions were compressed out, and the matrixes were formed:
Judson,
Thanks for the help, but it didn’t help.
I expected spillover, but got none.
My 5 personal enrollees never upgraded.
I am personally glad that they didn’t upgrade for
they too would have wasted their money on false expectation.
So I ended up with none in my downline.
In my original WebProsperity account, I got two downline members, and $2.00 (that’s all).
So I will be cancelling out all 3 of my WebProsperity accounts.
Thanks again for your help!
I have my own hosting account now. Just $10 for a year.
I have used the service of xxxxxxxxxxxxx in the past.
So I am now sending traffic to (another new MLM) (consider taking a look at it).
Let me know if I can contact you for help with marketing in the future.
Live Long and Prosper,
Jim
I can image the quality of hosting one would get for $10 per year. Hopefully he meant per month. People buy fireworks from a tent, not Cadillacs. Anyway, my reply:
Hello Jim, I hope you won’t be too hasty to cancel, at least wait until just before your next payment is due, and think about keeping one account. I’m not sure everything is settled yet. I’m going to do some checking today.
Even if we didn’t get the spillover we expected, you will NEVER be in any other program with experience marketers in your immediate upline who are willing to work with you, and give you the personal coaching, that you will receive here. Network marketing is not get rich quick, it is for building a lasting residual income over a period of time. The team you are on here is going to build a huge organization over the next 2 years, and as an active General is that organization you will have access to Internet Marketing coaching that many people pay thousands of dollars for. There will be SEO and Advertising co-ops run by professional and successful marketers who know what they are doing. Of course, this will require some effort on your part.
I am currently building squeeze pages that will allow you to capture the names and e-mail addresses of your prospects. This will enable you to market to them even if they don’t sign up for WebProsperity, which is just good business. If you really want to make money online, you can’t have the mindset that you can make money just by joining a MLM, or that one feeble attempt at driving untargeted traffic to one sales page is going to do it. You need a complete and effective sales funnel and business model. You now have inside access to experts who can help you set these things up. It all depends on how committed you are to making money online. But you won’t ever find yourself in this unique situation again. This team will guide you along the way and teach you how to build an effective sales funnel while avoiding the mistakes and pitfalls. You just need to do what they tell you, step by step, and be patient. Good things will happen. Thousands of people would kill to get this kind of personal attention from established, successful Internet Marketers for a mere $60 per month! These types of courses sell for $3000.00 and up.
So just think about it, Jim.
Thanks,
Judson Lassiter
Team WebProsperous
Independent WebProsperity Team
I asked Jim to reconsider his decision for his own good, not because I need him on my team. My team will be just fine, I just hate to see someone with potential jump from one MLM to another hoping to fall into a pot of gold. As long as he has this mindset, he will never succeed in any program. The program does not make people successful, people make the program successful. Spillover is nice, but do not join a network marketing company expecting to benefit from the hard work of your sponsor and upline. You own your business, and it’s success rests on your shoulders. If you work hard, you will earn a spot on the team, and your upline will gladly help you any way they can. But don’t expect them to do everything for you. There is only so much time in the day, and they will focus their attention on those who really want to make their opportunity work.
I don’t want to sound harsh, but these are the realities of MLM, or Network Marketing. This post may dissuade some people from joining, but we don’t want to take your money for a few months and wave goodbye. We want to help people who want to be successful and will put out the effort necessary to realize their dreams. Most MLM’s will promise you the moon and show you pictures of fancy cars and huge houses, and tell you how easy it is to make $10,000 per month just by signing up for their opportunity. They will take your money for as long as you will send it to them. The fact that I’m telling you the realities of MLM shows you the quality of the people you will be working with if you join WebProsperity as a member of our WebProsperous team.
Many internet marketers would say that telling it like it is will result in business suicide, and no one will sign up. Maybe so, but I’ll sleep good tonight. So if you want to join a quality organization and become an active member of a great team, you can do it here! Or you can sign up for the next greatest thing since sliced bread, send them your money for a few months, then rinse and repeat. It’s up to you.
Comments welcome.
Judson Lassiter
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