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The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing is Tickin' Your Upline Off!

It's funny.  I've been focused on training people how to set up their Internet marketing.  Up until yesterday I'd pretty much forgotten about Ann Sieg's The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing report.  When I first read the report it didn't impact me all that much.  It was Sieg's Renegade Network Marketer that I fell in love with.

But for a lot of people, The 7 Lies hit a chord.  It didn't only excite a lot of burned out networkers and get them ready for change into affiliate network marketing and the funded proposal process, but it also ruffled the feathers of some of the old-school MLMers who feel threatend by the message.

RenegadeBookImage.jpgWell, up until yesterday I thought this was all old news and that it had become obvious by now that network marketing is a changin'.  Then I got this nasty email from a million dollar income earner who I have known for over a decade.

His biggest beef with Ann Sieg was that she used negative marketing tactics to stir things up and he said this was harmful.  What's funny is I happen to know he's used negative marketing tactics of over 10 years to scare poeple into buying his nutritional products (and invoking fear in our current health care model)--so I think something else is going on.

It wouldn't have bothered me.  I mean, isn't it understandable that people will feel uncomfortable with change.  Some don't handle it so well.  Fine.  But he said some things that borderlined crazy.

There is actually an organized group now who is attempting to get the DSA (Direct Selling Association) to put pressure on big network marketing companies to literally force associates to remove references and links and discussions pertaining to Ann Sieg's books or business strategy.  Now, I thought we were business owners here.  Moreso, I thought we had a 1st ammendment or something like that protecting us from this kind of nutso stuff.

I decided to create a series of discussions about the real danger here.  It's the controls that some of the high income earning MLMers have put on would-be entrepenuers who are being limited by this disempowering sytle of leadership.  Click Here to follow this discussion and to contribute your opinion about The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing controversy.

I'm not saying all successful MLMers are like this.  I know plenty of six figure income earners who are making the switch to the new way.  And I know plenty of millionaire income earners who may feel uncomfortable but they admit it... and they don't use control tactics to force others to do things their way (or the highway) sort of deal.

Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 07:29PM by Registered CommenterMike Klingler | CommentsPost a Comment

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