I might lose some readers from this one, but sometimes you just have to say what you feel, and not give a damn what anyone thinks of you for it. Isn’t that what truly having ideals is all about?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think there is anything wrong with having a corporation; they can be a great way to keep some of the hard earned money that we make from the ever thieving hands of our greedy government. I’m talking about the problem with the whole damned system.
Big business makes bad decisions, and they get bailed out by the government. Who pays for it? We do. 85% of small businesses fail within the first year, by year five 95% of them have gone out of business(NOTE: It has come to my attention since I wrote this that these statistics may be somewhat off; see the ever enlightening remarks from “Egg” below, and my correction in the comments).
The little guy that is trying to forge his way out of the system is left to his own means, and they are either forced out of business due to lack of profit, or they get burned out from the massive amount of hours that it takes to run a typical small business. The big corporations making horrific business errors are being bailed out with the tax dollars of the masses, while smaller(and usually higher quality in my opinion) home-town businesses are being forced out by these same corporate giants. Is it better for an Employee to be working for big business?
If you have a good story that justifies your theory on this, please share it in the comments below. I could recap dozens of similar accounts of friends and acquaintances, but I’ll just let my personal experience tell the tale:
I worked a job for 4 1/2 years as a waiter for a high end restaurant at Turtle Bay, A Corporate Resort on the North Shore of Oahu. I was taught by my Father and Grandfather growing up that, “Anything worth doing is worth doing well.” I have lived my life by that principal, and will always continue to do so.
Honestly, I stunk bad when I first started waiting tables, because growing up we never really had money to eat out. My fine dining experience was trying not to spill the secret sauce from my Big Mac all over the plastic counter at McDonald’s.
That being said, I have always believed in working hard and doing a good job. I practiced and observed until I was the best server in our restaurant. When it came time for me to leave, I knew the menu, restaurant operations and the wine better than anyone else I worked with (Especially since I had been working there longer than every single manager on staff, and have considerable business experience).
After 4 1/2 years of service, I made a fairly stupid mistake at the end of my shift; I had a Jack and Coke from the bar a couple of minutes before I clocked off.
Granted, one should be reprimanded for such an action, but I was fired for “Theft.” I worked a job where I could have embezzled about $100 a day if I wanted to, but I 
didn’t, and in the end, nearly a year ago now, I got fired for about $3 worth of Jack Daniels. Would a small business owner have fired me for that? Only if they were an idiot. Only morons fire their best employee over $3.
How secure is your job really? People are getting fired for as little or less than I did constantly these days. The separation of classes is widening and many caught in the tail end of it all don’t realize that they have been a frog boiling in a pot. But hey, you’ve got the newest Ipod, so who cares, right?
Wake up America, it’s time to take back our lives and fight with a passion for our freedom. I’m not talking about the fake threat of terrorists that could really care less about us, but fighting our way out of the monstrosity of a system that has been slowing killing us for years.
Network Marketing is awesome. No Boss, no Alarm Clock (unless you set early appointments for yourself), and if you want to have a Jack and Coke at work you are more than welcome to. Hell, you can even grow an awesome, untrimmed hideous beard if you want.
So enjoy the rest of the holidays everyone, and thanks for listening to my ridiculous rant. If you happen to be vacationing on Oahu, please stop by the Turtle Bay Resort, order a Jack and Coke for me, raise your glass high in the air and say to yourself, “A Toast to Freedom; Fuck Corporate America! May we rise above the tyrant system that has enslaved us one rite at a time. Network Marketing Rules! Cheers!” …And After that you should steal their silverware because they deserve it!
Happy Holidays Everyone!
Aki Wood: MLM Genius
email: aki@akiwood.com
Phone: 858-345-4891
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Brian and Felicia White
508 days ago
Freaking hilarious post Aki! Had no idea you were a waiter, but WOW, what a bs thing for them to do to you, all over Jack & Coke! People really need to follow your advice and fight for their individual freedom!
Nate Forrest
508 days ago
Awesome, dude! I’ll raise a glass to that! Gotta go….for some reason, i have a craving for some Jack!! You rock, Aki!
Aki
508 days ago
Thanks Nate! Good to have you here.
Chris Rocheleau
508 days ago
Wow Aki, I knew it was stupid deal but I didnt know it was 3 friggin’ dollars. One word:
Corporate Morons
Just another number, a metric, a liability.
Everything that you are not in network marketing.
In network marketing you are somebody, people lift you up, they empower you, they support you, they tell you what is wrong with you if you need it because they want to see you succeed.
Not some corporation that intentionally adopts practices to hold you down, dis-empower you and keep you enslaved to a master.
Screw that, I think my lucky stars for this industry as a conduit to prosperity for the average person.
Til next time bud,
P.S. Pretty soon that beard could double as a broom, Love it.
Aki
504 days ago
Awesome, I’ve got a mop for a head of hair and a broom on my beard; now I just need a way to grow sponges on my feet and I can run my own cleaning business single handed.
Yeah, it’s pretty funny the amount of loyalty a typical corporate employer has for their staff. I wish I could say that I was a rare case, but unfortunately good people are singing the same tune all across the nation. Thank God for our Alternatives.
Jason Sims
507 days ago
Aki-
If only more Corporate America Slaves would realize their true potentials once one of these similar occurrences slaps them in the Face After pledging such Loyalty to the Bottom Line for so long like you have Aki!? Then the world would could be run by Entrepreneurs with Free Spirits clashing heads with our Type A personalities only to Live, Love and lavish in our own Creations…
Glass held High for you my Friend… They will Lose some Silverware when I Visit There!!
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Aki
504 days ago
LOL, I wasn’t serious about that(Well, not very serious anyways), but rock on man.
Chris RG
507 days ago
Funny,
I have the same feelings today,
I just had an email back from a company called one24 who will not operate with me as i do not live in the USA,
so i can see where your coming from,
best wishes,
chris x
Aki
504 days ago
Hey Chris, I don’t know if this will help in your case, but sometimes you can get around that if you have a friend with a United States Address. There is a lot of red tape associated with bringing MLM into other countries… Best of luck and Happy New Year!
Philip Blackett
507 days ago
Awesome post Aki! Hilarious and so true
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Benjamin Starner
507 days ago
I feel you big time on this one Aki.
I happen to be growing a hideous beard myself and plan on showing it off in the most uber, corporate controlled restaurants I can find… knowing that I can afford to pour the soup of day into my beard over and over again whilst I drink Jack Daniels… that’s just one way you can spend your new found freedom thanks to Network Marketing.
Here’s to Hideous Beard soup burden in the face of corporate America!
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Aki
504 days ago
I’m still trying to figure out how not to get food stuck to my face myself… but the beard is totally worth it.
Stephanie Deneke
507 days ago
You are my hero. Because you have the balls to just say what you’re really thinking. What really gets me pissed at Corporate America is that they have people fooled into believing a dream that if they work hard they will retire happy. What a bunch of bullshit.
I don’t like Jack. So I’m going to drink a dirty martini and say a toast to you and your epic beard right now…. and I don’t care that it’s 9:33AM. I’m not in corporate America.
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Aki
504 days ago
LOL, thanks Steph; Cheers!
Ted Hunsaker
507 days ago
Great Post Aki, What Turtle Bay did to you was BS. over $3? I have actually been to Turtle Bay myself back in 2004. Nice Hotel on the North Shore. Don’t know if you were working there then.
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Aki
504 days ago
LOL, I actually wasn’t there in 2004, and YES, they are an awesome resort. As far as a property and location go you can’t beat it; it’s isolated on 832 acres on the North Shore of Oahu. They could just use some serious help on the operations end. I wish them luck.
Egg
505 days ago
Great post. Funny how every MLM scammer seems to whine about the government ripping them off. Funny also how they all also seem to parrot those erroneous small business failure rates without ever considering verifying them.
Oh well, in your business you can’t let logic, math, ethics or the truth get in the way of making a quick buck.
Wake up America, it’s time to pay $99 for a $20 coin and the right to recruit an endless stream of suckers to feed the upline!
Aki
504 days ago
Egg, you are hilarious. I didn’t learn about the failure rates for small business from MLM. I actually learned those statistics from my business law textbook (and professor, who was NOT in MLM) while I was getting my bachelors degree in International Business Management. However, to be fair, I did over an hour of subsequent research after reading your comment to see what the Current “Buzz” is on those statistics (Hell, I finished college in 2003, so maybe I even remembered wrong).
There are good articles on both sides of the coin, but the most consistent and seemingly reputable statistics Online show that there is a failure rate of about 30% in the first year, and 70-85% between years five and 10, and many “experts” say that there isn’t enough documented information to supply an accurate figure. Sooooo, sorry, I guess the previous numbers I was quoting are likely a bit off, particularly via the failure time line. When I get a chance I’ll try and get my hands on a prestigious, printed business journal to look into it further; honestly, I’m curious.
The funny thing is that I’m not trying to scare anyone out of starting a small business. In fact, I highly commend the entrepreneur spirit in anyone that goes into business for themselves, and encourage anyone with the drive to do so; small, local businesses are my favorite places to shop. I love small business; I think it is way better than working in the confines and politics of Corporate America, and I would love to see more of it.
It’s funny Egg, I didn’t mention anything about my primary company in this post, yet you are yapping about people paying $100 for a $20 coin. Yes, since you mentioned it, I market for the Numis Network, and we sell MS70 Silver and Gold Coins. In your “Verification” of the value of our product, did you at any given moment find an MS70 1 oz silver modern issue coin for $20? Do some research, I bet you won’t be back with any more snide comments unless you decide to take a bunch of quotations out of context…
However, if you can find certified MS70 coins for $20 anywhere legitimate on the market, PLEASE let me know, because I will buy the whole lot of them! Personally I did my due diligence and researched the product before I joined, and I am proud to market collectible coins; they’re pretty bad ass, and their value is actually quite independent of the price of the Metal, kind of like a comic book sells for more than the price of paper.
I have no problem with people talking shit in the comments, hell, I wrote this post to stir some controversy and see the different opinions and ideas that would come out of it… But next time, at least have the “Eggs” to post your own name to your opinions, and if you are going to blame me of not doing my research, please at least do some yourself particularly if you are going to challenge my ethics. I’m not in this for the quick buck, I truly believe in Network Marketing.
It’s like my Mom used to say, “The Pot can’t call the Kettle Black.”
Best of luck to you Sir (or Maam, whichever you ambiguously are) and may you have a Happy New Year!
Egg
504 days ago
Sorry for the snarkiness; however, I thought you may need a break from that steady diet of sycophantic sweets pouring in from your band of fellow travelers. That’s enough to turn the nimblest mind into an lethargic mass of inert egoflab (and perhaps explains your nom de plume).
Now I can agree with almost everything you said in your rant, with some quibbling over statistics*, but I wholeheartedly disagree with your conclusion — that Network Marketing is somehow a solution to the horrible state of affairs. I see it analogous to a 1917 Russian saying, “This serfdom sucks, we are exploited daily, we are at the mercy of a ruthless tsar — what we need is communism. Bring on Joseph Stalin, bread lines, gulags and the KGB!”
When you go on autoship with Numis, you are paying an inflated price for the “product” in order to grease the wheels of the “business”. I know you know that, as I know your brother David knows it and he’s said as much in an article he wrote defending his change of heart about the company. He wrote that he accepts as a priori knowledge that you massively overpay for MLM products, and gives examples from his past MLMs that include paying $250 for $50 of vitamins and $149 a month for info that was available free on the internet. But that’s just fine with him, for it’s all about the “business” and since you’re going to have a nearly unsellable stockpile of “product”, it’s better to have collectible coins than fruit juice or vitamins.
The future value of a collectible item is extremely hard to predict, and that’s why Numis doesn’t overtly promote its products as investments. An Action Comics no. 1 is valuable because it is rare — 200,000 sold to pre-pubescent boys whose last thought in the world was preserving it as an investment. What are the odds of one remaining in excellent condition 70 years later? Small. In contrast to that extremely valuable comic, I’d say 99% of all comics currently on the market are worth less today than their cover value. As you have training in business, you probably know that the consensus opinion, as one investment site states, is the following: “for the average non-professional collectibles investor, the market is extremely limited and slow moving–neither worth the time nor the effort when compared to the limited financial rewards.” It’s about supply and demand, and Numis seems to be bulging up the supply side. You can dream about the first issue of Superman, but don’t forget the reality of Beanie Babies and Franklin Mint.
So what is the business? Again, if we turn to David [How To Recruit 10 People Per Week], we see it is to recruit, recruit, recruit and get as many people under you as possible and help them do the same. So even if you are overpaying for that autoship product, you can profit from the overpayments of all those under you, and so can they if they do the same. Sounds great, but also sounds like a classic pyramid scheme (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme). In the end a few make a lot, some make a little, and a lot lose — it’s a mathematical fact.
I find you and your brother to be intelligent, charismatic and unconventional, a cut above the other Network Marketing people I’ve come across, so maybe you are on to something I’m not seeing. I would sincerely like to be enlightened on what part of this business you believe in. I hope you aren’t just being cynical and/or greedy.
*Regarding small business failures:
“Although many people believe that 80 percent of all small businesses fail within five years, statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal a different story. The Census Bureau reports that 76 percent of all small businesses operating in 1992 were still in business in 1996. In fact, only 17 percent of all small businesses that closed in 1997 were reported as bankruptcies or other failures. The other terminations occurred because the business was sold or incorporated or when the owner retired.” http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/ek00/small.htm/ A Dunn and Bradstreet study of 800,000 small businesses found that 70% were active after 8 years, with about 25% failing within the first year (or 85% of all failures happening in first year). So that 95% overall five year failure rate seems unlikely inflated. This information may be inaccurate or incomplete — please add anything you see missing or correct what’s wrong. My experience is that those in dubious MLMs (MonaVie, for example) exaggerate the precariousness of small businesses in order to lessen the impact of the fact that 98% of their fellow recruits will lose money.
One more thing — you are just as, or more, likely to be fired on the whim of the owner of a small business, no? Restaurant owners can be especially temperamental!
Thanks for responding.
Aki
504 days ago
Egg, I don’t mind you playing devil’s advocate, but are you here to gain insight, or do you just like the attention? The interesting thing about the human brain is that we find what we are looking for. It’s much like the concept of religion or politics; opposing beliefs or political views can be argued strong from both sides, and in the course of the argument both sides simply come out more convinced that they are right. Quite frankly I’m not complaining about the government, or anything else; whining about the whims of the world is a complete waste of time. I am simply stating my views based on my experience and observation.
If you want to hate network marketing you, or anyone else for that matter, can find about a million different reasons why it totally sucks. I for one can give you about a million different reasons why I love the industry, and what is good about it. Frankly the exact statistics as to how many small businesses fail is completely irrelevant to me, or to any of my points; the point my post is making is that the atmosphere created by the Typical American workplace SUCKS. CLICK HERE, or HERE if you would like to see some reputable articles on how much America likes to go to their job every day.
Do you like your job?
Yes, many MLM companies outright inflate the price of their product. A lot of leaders could care less about that… also true. “There are shady scammers in MLM,” True; Shady people are everywhere, that isn’t the industries fault, but the individual. All football players aren’t rapists because of Rothlisburger’s indiscretions(not saying he did it, but the example works).
As for Numis, their product is actually sold at market value, everyone else is selling it for about the same price, or more… The cheapest I’ve seen is about $85 on ebay; you can’t even buy bullion coins for $20 right now because silver is nearly $30 an ounce; CLICK HERE for SHOPNBC Pricing, or or CLICK HERE for Home Shopping Network Pricing on MS70 Silver Products.
There are “experts” that say collectible coins are a stupid investment, and there are other “experts” that think it’s the perfect thing to buy. I have a great article on that, but can’t find the source at the moment, but either way, scroll down CLICK HERE AND SCROLL DOWN A LITTLE ON THIS PAGE a little and look at prices for some of the past coins. Hell, I don’t know if the one’s I’m getting now are going to be worth that, but I do know I would sure as shit rather have my coins than a beanie baby, a box of vitamins, or a job. I don’t even know what “Franklin Mint” is either, but I’m pretty sure 10 years from now people are still going to know what silver and gold are.
Personally, I’m planning on passing my collection to my kids, and I could care less whether they go up in value in the short run; you can be damn sure they will 30 years out. Numis is hardly going to flood the market. There is already 100 Billion being spend worldwide in the Numismatic coin industry, and it would be a pretty impressive feat for us to reach 10 billion (in fact, it would be pretty damn impressive if we reached 1 billion) in annual sales; besides, we rotate the coin every month, we are using SEVERAL of the world’s leading government mints, we’re not just pumping out American Silver Eagles.
LMAO… You are making comic book comparisons to the wrong guy Egg, I happen to have 4,000+ comics bagged and boarded. Yes, most comics in print are worthless, unless the COLLECTOR Knows which one’s to buy. A lot of people collect certified and uncirculated coins that are made of the crap metals our circulated coins are being minted out of today. In other words 99% of coins are made of worthless junk; it’s like having a mint condition key Batman issue verses a mint Archie and Jughead. At Numis we sell Batman; not all of the issues are going to be key, but you can be damn sure we’ll stumble upon one as we collect the series, and a Mint Batman comic is never going to go below cover price, especially in the long term.
Speaking of which, did you know they grade comics too? Funny thing, the moment it gets a certified perfect grade, from one of the respected grading companies, its worth a lot more money than it was ten minutes earlier, even though it was in the same condition.
Some people think it’s pretty stupid that I’m 31 years old, have 2 kids of my own and I still collect comics. Just like You, and some other “Practical Thinking” individuals, might feel it’s pretty damn retarded to collect graded coins. We are all right in our own minds, but there is a 100 billion dollar a year industry that doesn’t give a shit about either of our opinions, and quite frankly I want a piece of it.
Numis is not one of the companies that over inflates their price. I’ll be the first to admit that many companies do, but the Owners did their research and developed the business connections necessary to deliver a quality product at fair market value. If you spend a great deal of time bargain hunting, you might be able to find it for a few bucks cheaper, but you sure as shit won’t make any money by referring anyone else to it, and at times you’ll find we have the low price on the market for our coins. They’ve even thrown some older Silver coins valued at over $200 into our autoship a couple of times just to say “Thanks for working with us.”
I quit a great paying job in the Financial business several years ago because I had issues with their ethics; I also have passed on many MLM companies because I thought the product was either over-priced or stupid. People can make money in the industry with high-priced, lame products, but from a personal standpoint, I wouldn’t represent them.
I am quite aware of the definition of a pyramid scheme, and Numis does not fall into that category. I frankly view “Pyramids” a lot differently than you do anyways; if you want a little deeper inside my philosophies, you should read my article, “You Dig Your Grave, I’ll Build My Pyramid.” …and for the love of God, please don’t nit-pick if I got a statistic wrong, it’s the driving philosophy that means something.
And yes, we are all aware of the “statistic” that 97-98% of network marketers fail. The reason for that is quite simple; they either quit before they learned the skills they needed, or they were hoping to “Get Rich Quick!” Anyone that sells MLM as a way to become an overnight millionaire is a liar or an idiot. It’s just like anything else; hard work, consistency and dedication will get you success… well… every now and again some numb nut gets lucky, but the chances of that are comparable to winning the lottery. That being said, the 97% failure rate is a jaded statistic being that most people quit well before they hit the one year mark, they never even really get started (not to mention the fact that you would have a lot of trouble VERIFYING that 97% stat as well).
The success rate increases dramatically with time spent in the business. Supposedly 95% of people that stick with the same company for 10 years hit the highest pay rank in their company, which is typically around $500,000. Though I don’t know the source of that stat, I can at least verify it in part by my own observation (you can ask my brother, I think he knows the source…maybe). The only company meetings I have ever been to where there were people that had stayed active in the business for 10 years without having any success was Amway (and honestly, I just think those guys treated it more like a religion/ social club than a business; they basically bought products and talked about wanting to talk to people).
I’ve met a lot of successful people in the industry, and frankly I can’t think of one person that has been consistently exposing people to their opportunity for 10 years that is not making a six figure income (most people I’ve seen have done it in 5-7). I even know some pretty un-intelligent people that are making 5-6 figure incomes just because they were willing to open their mouth over a consistent period of time.
Very few People “Fail” at network marketing, they get excited, buy a damn starter kit and stare at the box waiting for reps to pop out of it. These people fail to become a network marketer; they either treat their BUSINESS like a HOBBY, or spend too much time listening to trainings they have already heard, and not any time applying any of the principles.
Well, “Egg” it’s been fun, but I honestly have better uses of my time than trying to convince you that Network Marketing is Awesome. I will however, sometime in the next couple of days write a post concerning all the reasons that I love the industry. Something few people know is that I left the industry for 5 years because I didn’t like a lot of the ethics, mind games, and company hopping I saw running rampant throughout the industry.
I’ve found a home that has very little of those problems (there will always be some), and I am proud to be a network marketer; the business where you reach TRUE SUCCESS by HELPING others succeed. You see Egg, I don’t want to build my Pyramid from the backs of my people, but I want to lift them onto my shoulders so they can reach greater heights than I; THEN, I will be Truly FREE, and will have built a legacy to be proud of.
Where in Corporate America can you find a work atmosphere like that?
Happy New Year Buddy, like I said, I don’t really have the time for this anymore; if you ever get Serious about investigating the industry, we’ll talk, but it sounds to me like you’ve already made up your mind as I have mine.
Stay tuned, you might just find something that will inspire you.
-Aki
P.S. Where in the world did you get the name “Egg?” If I were going to pick a Pseudo Name for myself, I think I would go for something Kick Ass like “Wolverine,” “Batman,” or “Captain Awesome.” LOL, just a thought… or you could follow a theme to go along with your viewpoint and be “Captain Corporation,” “Super Government,” or maybe even “Professor Works too Hard While Taking Life really Seriously.” You could even make some really cool super powers for yourself like having the special ability to work in the same place for 40 years without getting sick of your mundane existence, and the power to make sure your hair is cut the same time every month so you will look “Professional,” and not go out of company grooming standards. I think I would also give myself the power to shave in 30 seconds so I could avoid being 1 minute late for work, because I wouldn’t want that to happen because then I would get fired and have to go for some shitty alternative like joining one of those Pyramid Scheme MLM Scams…. THE HORROR!
Personally, I think you should roll with “Super Employee,” Defender of the Workplace, General in the Cubicle Brigade, a Brave Soldier in the fight against the Evil “Pyramid Army,” a wicked Rebellion led by the Nefarious Wood Brother’s, 2 Curly Headed Renegades who actively damage the workplace by Planting seeds of Creativity, Hope, and Dreams into the Loyal Work-force as they sneakily sell them grossly over priced vitamins, juices, Silver Coins and Sex Toys (Yep there are MLM companies that sell those too; I recommend “Pharaoh’s Secret,” if for no other reason that it fits the Pyramid Theme).
Egg, I’m laughing my ass off over here bro, I hope you got a good sense of humor and your aren’t taking me too seriously… or even seriously at all… But I guess you have to have some kind of sense of humor or you wouldn’t be going by “Egg…” WTF?? Well, I’ve officially spent waaaaay too much time on this response, but I guess that’s what happens when you love what you do. If I did manage to offend you, I didn’t mean it, I’m just in a pretty sarcastic mood, just do us both a favor and don’t crack your shell over it. Peace!
…Enjoy your New Years Eve, pour a glass of champagne for me and give a toast to a government; may they big enough for all of us to be their slaves. 2011 is going to be a good year!
Egg
503 days ago
Thanks for taking the time to respond in detail, as I am sincerely trying to understand why Network Marketing would appeal to a smart person. If I have any questions I’ll email you.
Aki
503 days ago
My Pleasure Egg; I enjoy witty banter so long as people can take some shit if they are going to give it out
There are 2 good observations that you made, and I meant to commend you for, but inadvertently omitted them:
1. Your right; Network Marketing isn’t the Solution to the problems with our system. It is just one of a handful of ways out of the monotonous rat race, and most people are capable of taking
advantage of it if they put in the work.
You will find intelligence levels all across the board in MLM, from extremely stupid, to intimidating intellect. The crazy thing is that you will find successful distributors on every level.
Intelligent are attracted to MLM for many reasons, but many of them fall into two categories. The first is that they get invited to a meeting or webinar by a friend and they hear a story about some redneck with the IQ of a totem pole spill his story on how he is making 15 grand a month working 20 hours a week (it happens), and they say to themselves, “If that Totem pole can do it, I’m ganna be RICH!” After purchasing the kit, they realize that Totem Man is a really hard worker despite his seemingly low IQ.
This is where they either quit and decide to complain about MLM as a scam because they weren’t willing to work, or they bust their balls like totem man and develop the skill set to achieve the wealth they desire.
The second main reason ties into the first one: Just because someone is smart doesn’t mean they like their job, boss, paycheck, home, car, or lifestyle.
Some of the best lifestyles that I have seen, Period, are those of Successful Network Marketers.
Time Freedom, a life outside the bull-shit of Corporate America, Tax Advantages, The ability to make your own schedule, making money on the efforts of many rather than just your own, a second chance(let’s face it Plan A of being an Astronaut or Professionally Athlete didn’t work out for everyone), and skilled people that will aid you in your journey to freedom with mentorship and coaching.
From Totem Pole to Einstein, once someone sees the big picture, Network Marketing is Fucking Attractive!
Honestly it is one of the most ethical business I am aware of when it is done properly.
2. The next good observation that you picked out of my article is this:
Yes, Restaurant owners, and all small business owners for that matter, can be temper-mental and fire you for any number of stupid reasons.
This is just one more good reason for people to get into a good Network Marketing, or find another Plan B.
Unless someone is already their own boss and has their dream lifestyle, why wouldn’t they try to make things better for themselves and their families?
As Einstein Stated, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.
When we want something more in life, it isn’t going to come tomorrow from doing the same damn thing we did yesterday.
Stop By Anytime,
-Aki
CGC
501 days ago
I apologize to all readers here; I came in prejudiced and belligerent when I should have been skeptical but open minded. I’ve a lot of info from Aki to digest, but I’ll be back (which may or may not be good for the maintenance of your current worldview).
“Real courage is risking something that you have to keep on living with, real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one’s cliches.” -Tom Robbins (Another Roadside Attraction).
Aki
501 days ago
Great Quote; like I said before, please come back often, your welcome anytime. I learned some things in the process as well, it’s much like Galileo stated centuries ago, “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”
…and just to be clear, I am by no means implying you as ignorant with this quote; I found your comments quite intelligent overall. I am just referencing the fact that all people are smarter than the next on one subject or another; therefore it is important to place our ego to the side so as to gain knowledge whenever the opportunity shall arise.
ken/mustachules
504 days ago
LMAO Egg?? Is that the name your moma gave you..It does fit the intelligence level of your post tho….
Do me a favor and if you happen to pick up any of those $20 coins on your way down to pick up your unemployment check give me a call.
I WILL BUY ALL THAT YOU FIND FOR THAT PRICE LOL….
It is true idiots like you that stand around and wait for someone else to fix your problems.. And problems you have!!
I would love to help more people like you in this broken economy to find wealth and happiness but not even Mustachules can fix STUPID…..
I bid you good luck in life with your dysfunctional thinking and will be happy to flip you a buck the next time you hand me my cart at Wally World…
Egg
504 days ago
Hello ken/mustacheles,
I’m glad that simple pseudonym put a smile on your dopey face. Now did you have something to say? Nope, I guess not, other than some unfounded assumptions and vacuous scam-speak about “wealth and happiness”.
ken/mustachules
504 days ago
I have plenty to say but refuse to spend much of my time trying to teach and change the ignorant opinion of the stupid and lazy.
Just curious there Egg what does your day consist of… Roll out of bed about 10 call dad and borrow some money for a pack of smokes.. open the box of 1/2 eaten pizza on the counter for breakfast and get on line and and spread your uneducated shit on a few blogs because they confuse you and it dosent relate to what your uncle Ned taught you.
When do you find the time to pick up aluminum cans along the road with such a schedule???
Al tho picking up cans would be more of an entrepreneurial skill than you seem to poses.
There are people in this world who strive to help the economy and the people around them.
And there are those who chose to drag as many people in to the infamous hole of denial and ignorance with them.
Do me a favor. Keep our hole to your self and shut because the diarrhea flowing from it…. Find a shovel and fill yourself in so as to only harm yourself instead of others around you..
Instead of just saying a simple word as SCAM.. throw out a few facts to back your self… LMAO that makes it tough for you dosent it….
Egg
504 days ago
Boy Kenny, you must be pretty insecure to feel the need to throw out so many aggressive ad hominem attacks.
Kenny
503 days ago
Perhaps to true. You picked a day of frozen pipes and hot temper to throw verbal mud at my family. A day where I would have felt better throwing something threw a dirty window as appose to Windex and a rag to view the outside.. Opinions very in every realm of life.. Captain Marvel Egg may the holiday season find you and yours safe and happy///Kenny
David Wood
504 days ago
Egg,
All I can say is – you have got to be an absolute idiot if you’re going to come and leave a comment like that, unsubstantiated on a pro-network marketing blog.
Lol – but even the case – YOU are calling Aki a scammer? What the hell do you do for a living?
My experience is, comments like this are written by people who consider themselves smart, don’t make very much money, and make a hobby out of being negative and complaining.
Let’s look at what you probably do for a living – which is work a job for a corporation that will discard you the second they can hire someone for cheaper.
YOU working a job = living your entire life off of a pipe dream of retirement. Never doing what you want, never living to your full potential – always at the whims of the stock market and the economy -and what do you get for all of you hard work?
NOTHING. Nothing at all – you get poverty, being broke, and a life where you never, ever get to live the way that you want to live.
Stop being a fucking idiot – and do something productive with your life other than complaining, maybe it will save you from poverty when the middle class in North America is wiped out by taxes and inflation.
When that happens, Aki and I will be in a hot tub with our gorgeous wives, sipping out of a coconut, laughing at you and all of your friends who are now laying in a cardboard box on 22nd st, complaining about how the government ‘scammed’ you.
-dave
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Egg
504 days ago
Gee David, seems I overestimated you. Are you really so thin skinned that a little negative bump on this Network Marketing self-love-athon can send you into such “unsubstantiated” ranting about my monetary worth? And are you really so shallow that you measure all things by that standard?
If pointing out the faults in something is “being negative and complaining”, then what do you make of Aki’s post? Is that whining or justifiable criticism? Did you say to him, “do something productive with your life other than complaining”? If I suggest this Numis business is a pyramid scheme that will end in financial losses for most who venture in, is that any less justified?
Is your business so fragile that it may collapse if questioned? I think it is exactly here, a pro-network marketing blog, that such ideas should be aired. And if you have the high ground, you and your supporters should be able to muster plenty of facts to counter them.
David Wood
504 days ago
1. Numis, along with any MLM company with a good product, doesn’t end in financial losses for anyone. People who come on board are paying for product – paying for a product and getting it is not a ‘financial loss’, it’s buying a product.
Second on that, suggesting that Numis is a ‘pyramid scheme’ is a statement of profound ignorance, not based in law – the term ‘pyramid scheme’ is legal language that has definitions and boundaries that if you researched, you would see have no reflection on Numis.
2. Aki, unlike you with your character assaulting – is doing something positive with his life other than complaining, he’s making something happen – whereas you are just…
…complaining. For no reason I might add, other than to be a nuisance.
2. Yes, you deserved it, you came on to this blog not with an intelligent question – but immediately call the author a ‘scammer’.
Let’s take this and flip it back on you here really quick.
1. Let’s take a look at an alternative you’re suggesting? Anything there? I imagine you would rather everyone get out of MLM, and work a stable, secure job or a traditional business.
I find no fault in any honest entrepreneurial-ism, however, I find fault in accusing this industry as a ‘scam’ when the corporate / American model is based off of a ‘retirement myth’ that doesn’t work for 98% of the population who try it.
(and that takes your entire life to fail at, and by the time you get there – it’s too late to do anything about it for most people)
Buying product from a business that you have to work to profit from isn’t a ‘loss’. However, being told that if you invest $100 per month and do nothing, you’ll get an average return of such and such and retire to live a great life IS either flat out lying, or a statement that isn’t looking at basic research you can do in five minutes with Google.
(you would have to be absolutely lucky with the time you were born, the time you retired, and the time you started investing for that to work, and the averages to play out in your favor)
If you’re going to call Aki a ‘scammer’ – at least be fair and do a cross comparison between MLM and the American ‘system’ who’s alternative you are promoting.
If you want me to muster ‘facts’ on that, (unless you have a better alternative that you are ACTUALLY DOING – hell, I’d love a better alternative with good REASONING, rather than just criticism), we could write 5000 pages on the brutality, dishonesty, lying, cheating, and stealing that the government, public school system, corporate america, and the entire financial empire has been a part of since the industrial revolution.
I have no problem with honest questions, I do, however, get annoyed with idiots who complain without doing anything about it, who attack characters with no reason, and who are so ‘bored’ with life that they have nothing better to do than attack an industry that the people therein love.
Here’s the thing, Egg, everyone in Network Marketing who is in for more than 5 days is aware of industry statistics, failure and success rates, product price issues (if there are any), etc – yet they continue forward because of the positive statistics that back long term effort.
People who have jobs, however, are not generally aware that the average worker in the loving USA will work 26 jobs by the time they reach age 65, and that 98% of the nation retires broke.
Hmmm… maybe that’s because they’re being scammed…
You criticized our product, saying you can get a MS70 silver eagle graded by anacs for $20, when you did not do enough research to realize that the price of the silver in that coin alone is $30, and you can’t buy an UNGRADED silver eagle unless in mass bulk for under $32. (really, it’s most likely going to be around $33-34 from most places)
You also didn’t state your reasons in saying that you think the product is overpriced – or give an objection to the fact that one of our partners does $100 million in RETAIL SALES to customers for this product OUTSIDE of network marketing, you instead suggested that we were ‘scamming’ people.
You didn’t point out how tax-payers in the USA are ‘scammed’ (by your own logic) and are ‘an endless stream of suckers to feed’ in your case – the government and the stupid corporations that keep America broke.
Rather than giving intelligent information, presenting an argument that favored your way of thinking, thus creating influence, you stopped in, called Aki a ‘scammer’, related him to unidentified other ‘scammers’ and questioned his ethics, all without dropping your name, credentials, links to references, or a way to contact you.
Under a name, Egg, that probably isn’t your name.
Why? Because unless I’m missing something, you’re an idiot.
If you’re going to create INTELLIGENT responses to things – go for it, but unprovoked character assaults? What’s the deal man? Are you seriously so bored you have nothing better to do?
Just wondering – because if you’re bored, I’m sure that there are some good shows on TV.
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Egg
504 days ago
I’ll email you David, and hopefully we can clear the slate and have a civil, constructive discussion.
Happy New Year.
David Miller
505 days ago
I couldn’t agree more with the statement that no one’s JOB is secure. I always worked to be one of the best Team Leaders at Green Tokai in Maysville, Ky. I had perfect attendance (and all my vacation time from the previous year) while team leaders on the other two shifts attendance sucked to say the least, my seniority was in the middle of the rest of the team leaders, and yet I was the 1st one they got rid of and it absolutely had nothing to do my work ethics.
Corporate America is to busy looking out for their friends rather than whats best for the company. I left there on the best of terms and asked if there was any job openings to give me consideration. In all there was 3 or 4 team leaders let go and they recently hired two team leaders who knew nothing about the plant at all without giving any consideration to those who they let go due to down sizing because of the economy.
To Your Network Marketing Success
David Miller
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Aki
504 days ago
I’m sorry to hear that David, unfortunately your story is becoming an all too common tale anymore.
john
505 days ago
You seem to be very intelligent-are you really genius IQ? And what about your EQ? I think you could be more tactful in your rantings, bc corp. america(the living dead) controls the cops, FBI, and military, and I know from experience what they can do to those who dare suggest that there may be something wrong with their behavior. I have been tortured for more than 5 years by guirilla warfare activity. You had better be self sufficient(food, water, weapons, medicine, shelter, clothes, shoes, etc.,bc they delight to cut off those they don’t like. Also have ear protection, since they will make terrible noises day and night. They will follow you anywhere, and will spend any amount of the tax payers’ money to torture you. One way or the other, they will destroy you if they can. Make sure you’re willing to pay the price before you exercise your right of free speech.
Aki
504 days ago
Hey John, I used to be pretty close to Genius IQ, but I think that a few years of poor discretion took me down a notch. LOL… With any luck I won’t get tortured, though I disagree with a lot of how the system works, I’m not actively trying to fight them. Quite frankly, I agree with you, they are waaaaay to powerful.
My only intention is to let people know one of the many ways out of the system, and to give those who have been displaced by it some hope. That is still the beautiful thing about America; even though many of our rites have been stripped from us, we still have the ability within ourselves, and and within the system(broken though it may be) to truly be free. Some people love the system that has been put in place for us and are happy to live within it, I’m simply offering a perfectly legal alternative that I happen to like a lot better, and ranting my opinions in the process.
…If someone comes after me for that we are a lot further gone than I even imagined.
Aki
504 days ago
P.S. Of course I could be more tactful, I wasn’t even trying to be. I was laughing when I wrote this article, not angry. There is a bit more science to what I do than is on the surface. I haven’t taken an EQ test, but I am in pretty good control of my emotions. I just don’t like to hide who I am and what I stand for. I’m sorry to hear about your unfortunate experience. -Aki
Stephanie Deneke
503 days ago
aw hell…. I didn’t know we were in a pyramid! I thought that’s what I got out of. There was only one CEO at the top and then it branched out from there and I was pissed because I didn’t have a chance of reaching the top. Dammit.
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Benjamin Starner
502 days ago
I think Egg is an intelligent guy and enjoyed the fact that he commented. I think it’s healthy to question or be wary of how people spend their money. Nothing wrong with that at all. Perhaps Egg got burned or had a bad experience in mlm… don’t think that he deserved the ridicules insults… my goodness people.
I love network marketing and think it’s a great way to make a living if it’s done right with integrity and honesty. Just because Egg wants to insult it is fine with me… in fact, let me thank you Egg. Your initial comment incited an entertaining read. This was great comment bickering and whining – loved it.
…I love Eggs. Usually over easy, but also hard boiled and sometimes poached… with some raw onion. Delicious -
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