July 27, 2007

MLM Junkies


Some weeks ago, I was contacted by an Australian friend (I don’t know if he likes me so much anymore), he really wanted to sell an MLM programme to me. He stumbled on me somehow online, an believed that I was the man. I followed on with him and was interested. What shocked me the most was after chatting with him for about 2 weeks, I discovered that their Nigerian office shared the same building with me. It was like, this was destined to be. He arranged for me to be seen by one of his directors from Europe. He actually came to Nigeria and dropped his card in my office.

I went to see him, to understand the program, and what he believed the potentials were. He shared with me how he was a diamond director, how he had never sold a product, but had built the network, how rewarding the program was, and what he saw as potentials in Nigeria. I told him my little MLM understanding and history. From FLP, to Tianshi, to Canadian Diamond Traders, to now Clubfreedom. He laughed at me, and told me that he thinks I’m an MLM Junkie. That was the close of that sale, he was being frank with me, I hadn’t heard the word before, but it sounded true. Reality is I will achieve a lot more by focused effort than by hopping from one scheme to the other. If you want to kill a vision, give the visionary another vision… once he has two, it’s called di-vision or better still, division.

Lately when I began to get signed up into different schemes (for some people actually took the liberty to pay for me and sign me up), I knew that people had been biten by the junkie bug. Have you heard of …….lol, yeah, I’m sure you have heard of them, very new, very exciting…

It doesn’t hurt to try your hands on new things, even I do, else I would never have stumbled on 6k4you, RT or Clubfreedom, but be careful that you don’t jump from scheme to scheme like a junkie, joining the numbers, but not getting results. CF for me is key, every other scheme is by the side.

Have a clip of some thoughts on MLM Junkies.

Like any addict, the MLM Junkie is hooked uncontrollably, except that there’s no foreign substance floating around his or her bloodstream.

Instead, they flit from one “latest, hottest” opportunity to the next in a state of constant frenzy, emotions yo-yoing up and down between ecstasy and terror… the ecstasy at having discovered the “ultimate” opportunity (usually involving “getting in on the ground floor”), the terror at the prospect of missing out on the next “red-hot” opportunity that’s just slipped past them while they were preoccupied with the current “big one”.

They seem incapable of grasping the self-evident fact that any “ground floor” opportunity is automatically doomed. After all, by definition, the opportunity becomes less attractive at every step. Nor are they swayed by the fact that persistence and personal relationships are the proven keys to MLM success and long-term security.

They’re convinced that there really is a pot of gold at the end of the next rainbow – if only the rainbow would stop moving away from them at the same speed as they approach it!

They want riches without effort (on their own part – they’re happy enough to recruit others to do it for them), not realising that such an opportunity can only ever be an illusion because it appeals mainly to greedy, lazy people.

Typically, the MLM Junkie ends up belonging to more than a dozen companies, spending a small fortune on starter kits, products, sales aids and literature, and making no money.

Is there a solution?

The only real answer for the MLM Junkie is a dramatic change in motives, attitude and behaviour. Because they’re driven by fear of loss – the lowest form of human “motive” (it’s not actually a motive at all) – they fail to comprehend that MLM success depends on a desire to share, unconditionally – the highest human motive!

Taking this analogy a little further, we can equate the true MLM Junkie with the promiscuous individual who flirts from one “relationship” to the next, in what amounts to little more than a series of prolonged “one-night-stands”, vainly seeking fulfilment in the wrong places, in the wrong ways, with the wrong people.

People who’ve been through a painful MLM “divorce and remarriage” – sometimes several times – often swear off the idea of “marriage” as being okay for others, but not for them. The reality is that they just haven’t yet found a suitable MLM business partner. One they trust and respect, and about which they can be sincerely and lastingly enthusiastic and committed.

So don’t despair. And don’t give up! There’s always hope. There are many, many worthwhile opportunities out there for you to explore.

The safest, surest course is not to take any “suitor” at face value. Check out everything to your complete satisfaction before making any kind of personal commitment.

Evaluate carefully.

List your personal priorities and preferences in detail, then see if the opportunity matches them. If there’s not a reasonably close score, keep looking. Don’t be distracted by “glamour”, “riches”, “charisma” or promises.

Get the facts.

Culled from John Counsel

I think the experts have said it all, I just felt it was necessary to make this available for all to read and make their own decisions. These are the thoughts that guide my own action. I have come to know some of the clubfreedom leaders (might even see them soon) and can say they have long term plans. I’m looking closely at a few I’ve heard about (I won’t be publicizing any), but my focus is retained by CF and ecash invest.

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72 thoughts on “MLM Junkies

  1. Please leaders don’t be too selfish,in as much as we would want to always join the next moving train,let us endeavour to look out for those that are still struggling to struggle out of one.most of your downlines look up to you,please do encourage… i mean allow them to join you at the top! even if it is once!!

  2. ukamaka,akinolu,peegee WORD
    im really surprised at dipo and josh,now that you,ve been there and done that, i guess you dont care what happens to clubfreedom tomorrow and the thousands of people you have in one way or the other brought on board as long has you are making enough bucks to distribute to people like me and you’re being hailed a philantropist.now that you have taught us how to fish,you want to take the fishes out of the river,what will i be able to fish now?pls dipo and josh,i need an answer.

  3. @everyone

    I guess theres no need for emotional jibes. There are a lot of assumptions going on here. I know someone like josh (even though hes involved with CF) is still very much recruiting people for CF. If you make it to Elomaz hotel on sunday Im sure you will see him there still as active as we all know him to be. No room for excuses, lets all continue recruiting pple to watever programs we want to. Do you have an idea of how large the market for CF, DCC, GAC and any other can be in Nigeria? I’m sure we’ve captured only the surface of that market so, lets all continue spreading the word and stop feeling that someones involvement or non involvement will hinder continuity.

    My 2 cents. lol.

    I still have egold for sale o!

  4. Thanks for that response Babs.
    @There’s still enough room for everyone … CF, DCC & GAC just like there’s was and there’s still space for GNLD, FLP and Tianshi.

    So without much ado, Let the beef stop, and LET THE MARKETING CONTINUE!

  5. @ all,

    wow! Dis gr8. Most people here r aving there 1st experience wit MLM. well, am saying dis after much observation.
    One tin u will find out on d lungrun is wat would happen 2ur reputation if u keep jumping 4rm one MLm 2d other. Just as a commentator said, singleness of purpose is a must, FOCUS.

    A roling stone does not gather moss. Go read BUSINESS SCHOOL… By roberk kyoshaki

  6. Well, I agree with Dipo Tepede and Deolu bcoz there are chunks of truths in both write-ups even though they differ in opinion; however, my best post is #20 from Demi (IMHO).

    Let me use this opportunity to thank Deolu for the way he spoke to me on phone and assisted with my search for egold, Demi and Judy told me you are nice and easy going but i thot its not possible bcoz these values are not the forte of most successful guys.

    I was a late comer to CF and recently got to Traveler position but entered getawayclub very early during the pre-lunch period, I cycled to Platinum board in 11 days, earned over $3,000 in cycle payouts/referral % and my final target of $10,000 is now only 2 steps away.

    I formed a getawayclub team about 10 days ago and 2 of my downlines are now on Platinum board with me and 15 on Gold board about to cycle to Platinum. Everyone on Gold board has earned a minimum of $250 and those in Platinum $2,250. All u need to do is sign-up with $160 and bring 2 downlines and you are on your way to $12,250 and $10,000 per subsequent cycles.

    Josh, how are u?

    FAQ: http://www.getawayclub.net/jerome1/0/en/faq.html
    Homepage: http://www.getawayclub.net/jerome1
    Email: “obadaj1 @ gmail.com”

  7. @Akinolu,

    Call me a getaway advocate of a CF die hard what i know is what i have said. Am not sure you have downlines who are still circling out in CF as much as i do. neither do i think u serve your downlines as much as i do. only deolu can confirm this.

    I know of a downlines who pumped $2,000 from getaway on CF just to circle, what will you say about that?

    My point is let everyman choose this day whom he will follow. let people who want to serve both master do and let those who want to serve one do. Allow competition. C

  8. @Akinolu,

    Call me a getaway advocate of a CF die hard what i know is what i have said. Am not sure you have downlines who are still circling out in CF as much as i do. neither do i think u serve your downlines as much as i do. only deolu can confirm this.

    I know of a downlines who pumped $2,000 from getaway on CF just to circle, what will you say about that?

    My point is let everyman choose this day whom he will follow. let people who want to serve both master do and let those who want to serve one do. Allow competition. Competition brings improvement.

    See you at the TOP!!!

    Josh
    08034389504

  9. hello all, I have been on and off on this site basically because I often visit this site only to see word press error and i wondered if something was wrong with mr browser. happy to see that the site is up and running. Deolu, well done o. YOu are the Croned Mr Club Freedom. Congratulations on your franchise. More dollars to your elbow!

    Meanwhile, Deolu, dont you think you should help us talk to Club freedom? To find ways of making it less cumbersome for all those of us that are still left behind as the bandwagon don se corner to other schemes. This compulsorily carrying your dls to the main bod is what has made the system very stagnant especially now, ( definetely not for pple like u!). really its been frustrating. I learnt from a friend about a guy who cycled out unfortunately with no dl on club freedom but was not given anything not even the $200 he used in registereing! That totally unfair.

    As a result of this peopel are moving enmasse to scheme with less stress and higher yields. Look at Daimond cash for example, u only need your dls as far as the first bod and nothing more. The other scheme, getaway, promises exciting rewards especially from dls. So why would a new person want to join club freedom?

  10. @All,

    Now this is totally remarkable, i joined getaway club precisely August 24th and as at August 8th i had cycled through the four boards and made a total of $12,250 from the boards and over $500 being referral bonus.

    I was paid immediately, and i requested for the funds to be transfered to my egold account and in less than 2 hours it was done. It was like a dream I must confess am so glad am an early riser in this particular programme.

    The most interesting part of it is that i cycled back into the platinum board! You know what that means? Another $10,000 in a very short while :)

    See you guys at the TOP!!!

    Josh
    08034389504
    http://www.getawayclub.net/voltron

  11. Clubfreedom has to wake up to the fact that it now has competitors and somethings have got to change i.e. what stops them for paying back your cash when you move from feeder to mainboard even if it is $100 or say allow people with one downline cycle out rather than this heart ache of 2 downlines

    In DCC I have cycled out 4 times in less 31 days and in Getaway without marketing (apart from the email I sent just like Deolu) I am on the platinum board, my point is I didnt go through the same stress to achieve this like in CF

    Deolu as the CF man in Nigeria, you simply have to let them know the truth except you would market e-cash invest more than CF itself, that is the only way CF can move in its current stage.

  12. @all

    I would have loved to tell you that i’m actually not the CF rep for Nigeria… I am rep for Ecash Invest and prefer to be. Even though many will argue with me, i’m not CF rep. I think it’s a good thing that there are options to make money from, I only think a good place to invest the monies in ecash invest.

    I tried raising a number of issues with my contacts in CF, some of these great ideas that you are talking about… and they were all flawed/floored. I’m a little intelligent too, so trust me. It made sense that you endure to the end to get paid. As of yesterday clubfreedom got it’s highest number of signups in Nigeria since inception, people may wonder away, but they still know they have a slot on the boards and need to support their downlines to succeed. With other schemes once your initial capital is retrieved, you can go and join the next best thing… and expect to invariably cycle. Watchout for http://www.billionairesclub.com/billion... ;)

    I know about cycling out of all the programs, not by hearsay, from multiple experience (all). My analysis still shows me that CF provides the best deal in terms of percentage of cyclers to breakage ratio… with ecash invest, CF moves to another realm.

    Not saying don’t leap… but look properly before you do.

  13. By this time Fhreedom as cycled and is back on the platinum table, and yet clubfreedom is still there and giving us headches on how to carry our dls to the main bod. Something had better be done.

    On getaway its getting more exciting and more rewarding. Life could nt have been better!

    Anyway so much said lets get it going.

    Join at http://www.getawayclub.net/dchuksy2

    Ever wondered what $1 can do to ur life??

    Well dont wonder too far, just join this link with $1 in egold and see what happens

    http://www.easy2earn.biz/?id=chuksy

    You can turn this $1 to $100,000 in 4 weeks. Do not say I told you but join first afterall, $1 is no risk!

    As much as you can. The sky is the limit here… These are a little
    calculations on how much you’ll earn with number of downlines at
    each level
    4 downlines, you’ll earn $1,024
    5 downlines, you’ll earn $3,125
    6 downlines, you’ll earn $7,776
    8 downlines, you’ll earn $32,768
    10 downlines, you’ll earn $100,000

    see you at the top.

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    For example, we have started with Diamond Cash Club.
    Team A has members all ready
    Team B is also on.
    When ever a member say in Team A cycles out the whole members of that team will share the $8,000 i.e each member gets $800. And this will continue for other teams as well. This means that we don’t need to go looking for downlines any more. Just pay your weekly fee and watch the network grows.
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  15. @deolu,are u saying Kim of CF is wrong??she/he sent a mail to me stating categorically you are thr exchanger for both programmes??i agree with fhreedom4 real,CF is jus too damn difficult and there is no motivation midway at all.with all the others,even when u are a bit discouraged,there’s a reason to move on.
    i understand if u say they floored u sha,there’s little you can do really but CF too hard jare!DCC rocks,as 4 getaway,na there people money go hang pass!but considering most people would have collected thr $250,it wont pain dem too much.

  16. why follow the whole crowd into sumthin or some kind of mlm u mite get stock in the middle of the of the board.I have taken time out to study all popular mlms in Nigeria and found out that only Diamond Cash Club(DCC) is most customer friendly.It only requires some effort to get to the main table and afterwards all you have ton do is sit wait to cycle cos the main board is a “first come first serve” stuff…I have a team that is working crazy.we r just a month and half old and 5pple have cycled out with ova 13pple on the main board.U dont want to be anywhere else….u can reach me on 08038218484 or ,mail me on ifeis@yahoo.com

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  17. sir, i would have wanted to know more about club freedom and how i can be a member if it is not too late. thanks a million.

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