[nabentre] Major Changes In Network Marketing

Tue Nov 24 19:31:25 UTC 2015

My big complaint with some of these companies is that the Back Offices have
accessibility problems.  Worse yet though is what KilambÉ Coffee did, which
is update everything including the Back Office.  The Back Office went from
completely accessible to inaccessible after the updates were completed, and
KilambÉ Coffee does not care that this happened.  This is the reason I no
longer sell their products.  I am also plugging the company, Kat's Coffees,
that I am selling for.

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Please also give a like to my page on Facebook, Independent Kat’s Coffee
Representative, Jordan Gallacher, to find out any news about products or any
specials that are going on!

Jordan Gallacher

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Subject: Re: [nabentre] Major Changes In Network Marketing

To Mary Ellen And Other Listers:

I am blind and the proprietor of a small, independent business that concerns
itself with financial planning and investments.  Before choosing the
financial services route, I and my wife familiarized ourselves with network
marketing and were involved on a small-time basis with Equinox
International, which sold an array of fine health- and cleaning-related
products.  Equinox International did not end well as a whole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox_(MLM) But never having grown up in a
small business or around family members who engaged in one, my wife and I
learned a lot about how business owners should and should not act when we
made this first foray into network or multi-level marketing in the late
'90s.  We did not stay with an MLM, but dipping our toes in the water with
an MLM was a great way to learn what we were made of.  Eventually, we
decided we had the skill and fortitude to be business owners--we just chose
a slightly different path.

What I came to understand through our Equinox International experience is
that the MLM model, if correctly executed, is just as valid as any other
business model.  And whether one is blind or not, network marketing and
other forms of small business ownership become a lot more appealing as we
get older and find it harder and harder to become employed for competitive
wages by companies who seem just to want younger and younger workforces
these days.  I am convinced that if you have the skill and fortitude to sell
things, the native intelligence to learn about what you're selling, the
passion to resist objections, and the ethics to resist evil, you'll never
have to worry about the prospect of earning subminimum wages in a sheltered
workshops; and you don't even have to earn a four-year degree or an advanced
degree to avoid that kind of hell-hole.  Those blind people who have
succeeded in the Business Enterprises Program through vending operations
have known this principle for years.

Mary Ellen, you mention the FTC's playing a much more active role in
policing network marketers nowadays.  In like manner, the U.S.
Department of Labor is beginning to play an increasingly significant role in
the regulation of investment companies' policies whenever IRAs are involved.
Like many other practitioners in my industry, I don't like this added layer
of oversight.  But on the other hand, if abuses hadn't been happening and if
brokers hadn't earned a lot of unnecessary commissions doing things outside
of the best interest of their clients, this kind of increased regulation
would never have gained enough traction to become politically expedient for
President Obama and Labor Secretary Perez to push forward.

Thanks for informing us all as to the subtleties in this area of business
ownership.  Thanks also for pointing us to the vision for what a good
network marketing organization should look like in 2015 and going forward.
This will be useful not only for others on the list, but perhaps for some of
my clients who are considering entrance into such a life and who ask me for
advice.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Kind regards,

Kane Brolin.

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