Beware of Loved Ones Peddling Products!

An Excerpt from: Street Smart Network Marketing: A No-Nonsense Guide for Creating the Most Richly Rewarding Lifestyle You Can Possibly Imagine
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Back in 1996, in the Toronto Star newspaper, a lady by the name of Rita Smith wrote a nasty anti-Network Marketing article with above title, "Beware of loved ones peddling products".

In it, she cried foul about networkers approaching friends and family with their products and opportunity. She seem to have refered to it as a despicable concept.

This was the reply of reknown network marketer, John Milton Fogg:

"...If you were to open a traditional business, say a shop of some kind, wouldn't your first customers likely be friends and family? That's only natural. With the exception of some dysfunctional relationship problems, who's more supportive to your success than the people who love you? Why would it be any different in Network Marketing?

Do some MLM people abuse their close relationships? Of course, but that is not the fault of Network Marketing any more than the institution of marriage is to be held responsible for the heartbreak of child abuse.

It is unfortunate that Ms. Smith has chosen such a one-sided view of Network Marketing.

Whether you are approached by a loved one offering a great product they have thoroughly enjoyed - perheps even one that has changed their life in some dramatic way - or, a dear friend encourages you to earn some extra income by joining him or her in a fun, easy, creative and enjoyable business adventure, please, be open to what's being offered. Profitting from our relationships - both giving and receiving - is one of the most rewarding and worthy of all human endeavors. To have that profit be expressed in the form of cash money as it is in Network Marketing...well, what a nice innovation!

Perhaps you could look at money as simply a symbol or measure of genuine value. When you do that, you might easily see that giving money to another person is an exchange of something more than dollars. You might even be able to see it as an expression of love. Looking at it that way, Rita Smith, if you were my sister, I'd do all I could to involve you in Network Marketing and make you a millionaire."

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Interesting how when the circumstances of traditional businesses are applied to network marketing, many people respond differently isn't it?

That's for another topic, for another time ^^