You're too obvious! It's a marketing strategy!
By Theresaaiza
@Theresaaiza (10487)
Australia
August 7, 2010 12:04pm CST
I just hate networking. You know, that next-door food supplement salesman who tells you to let Person A recruit B and C. And then B recruits D and E, while C recruits F and G and then goes drawing a tree-like diagram of how we are supposed to earn millions after selling a box of that ground lemongrass root extract toothpaste or whatever as a cure for gouty arthritis?
I've had it with all those crap. They're just everywhere!
Okay, maybe some products are great! But that's besides the point!
Have you noticed some of these marketing officers of some networking company shaking hands with you and saying, "I think I've seen you before". And then unintentionally you just feel your cheeks burn with flattery, and your eyes sparkle like the stars, wondering how on earth could that one man remember a face like yours?
Recognize that gesture? Do you think that's just the first step of enticing you to sign up?
Does marketing or selling mean you also have to be less sincere about people?
Have I seen you before? I think you were one of those who responded wonderfully to one of my discussions!![](/Content/images/emotes/devil.gif)
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@GardenGerty (159754)
• United States
7 Aug 10
They have probably seen you someplace before, when trying to sell you their last gimmick. I am not a sales person, and I will never ask someone to buy some overpriced something when they cannot even put food on their table. The high priced nutraceuticals are all manufactured in one place, labeled with different labels and sold through MLM or at the health food store. (my opinion) If your success depends on a downline and not on selling product, it is skirting really close to being a pyramid scheme. I promise, I will not come knock at your door.
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@GardenGerty (159754)
• United States
8 Aug 10
Many of the same promoters seem to jump from one "hot opportunity" to another, and you are right that they carry their false friendliness and sincerity with them.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
9 Aug 10
I kinda learned some stuffs during those seminars. Like how to approach a stranger even if I didn't have to sell him anything. I sort of need to develop myself in those areas.
What I hate is how they talk about money, and how the people are supposed to earn millions in weeks and yet I could see how their shoes had seen better days, or how their clothes didn't look like they could afford.
I definitely can smell how fake they are from afar.
Truth is, even they could not afford the product they are pushing.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
8 Aug 10
I have sat down on many marketing seminars and I didn't find any difference at all. The only common thing I noticed is that these networking companies always end up in conflicts and disputes. Who would want to be involved in something like that?
And well maybe they have seen me before or someone with the same facial features. My face isn't very unique anyway.
I would have been convinced if not for hearing it many times from every speaker I have interacted with. So I connected the dots and realized that this must really be a strategy to catch your attention.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Aug 10
hi heresaaiza oh y es indeed thats all they want to entice you
to sign up. Ho I know insincere flattery when I see it and run not walk the other way. I will not do marketing or selling, its just too
full of insincerity.No you have not seen me before, but yes I have
responded to a lot of your discussions lol lol lol.
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
8 Aug 10
Oh do run at the sight of the next man with a tie!
And thanks Hatley. Yes I keep seeing you in my discussions. I truly appreciate it. I will try as much as I can to reciprocate the favor.:)
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
7 Aug 10
I cannot stand this activity, that is why I am not in sales. I make money by doing something not selling something, People hae told me I am a very good sales person but I really am not. If I have a product I like I can tell you about it, but if i want you to also sell it no way can I talk you into this. I will give youwhat you want but you must ask.
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
8 Aug 10
That is why I am also very poor at selling. In fact, I'm so poor at it that every attempt on selling I've had before always ended up like a charity work.
I can and will recommend a product only if I have tried it myself and saw its effects. Not do die-hard selling.
@lumenmom (1986)
• United States
7 Aug 10
I really hate marketing ploys,too. But I am a sucker for trying new things. I'd probably be dumb enough to try the box of that ground lemongrass root extract toothpaste
. That's why they use these silly gimmicks. For some reason they actually work!
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@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
8 Aug 10
I have nothing against the product. I have tried some really effective ones. I've seen people almost miraculously healed too.
It's the marketing strategies that I couldn't stand sometimes. Some just look so fake.
@aaronfyzeon (1920)
• Philippines
8 Aug 10
I remembered the times when I was still in the sales world. I am a vehicle sales consultant of brand new Mitsubishi vehicles. The only marketing strategy we do there is to give leaflets to some passers by and even talk like that to them that I have seen her from somewhere else. If we are assigned in the showroom of the brand new vehicles that we have then it's the people who goes there in the showroom and we dont even exert extra effort for them to like us or the car itself. there would just be some comparison to some brands but then it is just easy to convince them that our brand is the best and when it comes to durability, Mitsubishi variants are still on the top. What I am trying to point out is that if you have the best product on the market then you really don't have to exert too much effort to your customers, they will be the one who will always disturb you with numerous text messages asking for some things. Well it is really the nature of their business to lure people with their schemes so that they will have lots of recruits. I have a best friend who is now drowned with that. It is not now called Networking take not of this, it is now called MULTI LEVEL MARKETING. hehehe! different name but still the same process and schemes.
@Theresaaiza (10487)
• Australia
8 Aug 10
Honey, Mitsubishi sells itself. No need for jaw-breaking effort, or arm-twisting your clients to buy. A person who steps into your store is most likely to buy a car. NO need to over convince him or her.
MLM, Networking, Pyramiding...they are all the same to me.![](/Content/images/emotes/glare.gif)
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@Gerbera10 (58)
• Malta
8 Aug 10
One has to be cut out to do sales and marketing which I certainly am not. However sales generates a lot of money so if one has the ability to sell, that's just great. I also hate marketing strategies and I was conned into going for two demostrations of these pyramid thing. Thankfully I did not accept to do this even though in one of them, it cost me friendship with a friend dating back from my school years.
@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
9 Aug 10
You just described a pyramid scheme, sometimes called a Ponzi scheme. Don't get tied up in it.
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