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Networking Support,
By Chinmay Hota (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Network Marketing - The Way of Life (Paperback)
No other form of business or career option needs inspirational books to further its cause as much as network marketing, also called Multi Level Marketing (MLM), and often identified with Amway, the company that started it all. This is because MLM is frequently weighed down by the opinions of detractors, who have either burnt their fingers in this business or have been in the ringside. The swarming skeptics keep the murmur going with their multifarious charges, ridicules, doubts and woes. Janusz Szajna, a Polish immigrant in Canada and a high achiever in this form of business, sets out to block the progress of the avalanche. He uses all possible lines of arguments to take the wind out of the critics' sails, and all possible methods to convert the doubting Thomases: cajoling (`You will be the boss... You and only you!'); temptation (`see you on the beaches of the world'); greed (`many distributors make much more than $ 75,000/- per month or even per week'); threat (`Big corporations of today are soon going to be relics of the past'). He throws in bits of philosophy here and there, and a few nuggets of humour, to make his views palatable. The author directs all his efforts in refuting the umpteen charges, about which he is all too aware. The reader gets very little to know about the new technique from any direct analysis or explanation. If he hoped to further his knowledge about the intricacies of MLM, he has to infer them mostly from these counter-arguments. The main plank of the author's arguments is that people don't take the big picture about this form before starting their castigation. They only have information in patches, which distorts the whole thing. To drive his point home he cites the Indian (not Hindu, as he claims) story of four blind men touching different parts of an elephant and forming their ideas about the shape of the animal according to the part of the body they touched. The whole is more than the sum of the parts, he reminds us. Like the half-baked ideas, half-hearted approaches of the starters plague network marketing. The author prescribes 100% commitment and total dedication. A person, who was too afraid to show his starter kit to his wife and chose instead to run his network business from the boot of his car, was bound to come out bruised from the experience. Unfortunately such people spread the bad word and tarnish the image of MLM, laments the author. His guarantee is that `100% of those who want it, will achieve success.' Ergo: those who failed didn't want success as they should. That simplifies matters for the votaries of MLM. True to the spirit of the times, the author closes his discussion with a FAQ session, which is comprehensive enough to whet your appetite on the subject. Even if you've skipped the earlier chapters, you won't miss much if you go through this FAQ chapter: most of the ideas have been repeated here. All the criticisms that trouble MLM have been dealt with. To mention a few: Is this business for everyone? To these endless queries, I want to add mine: How can MLM make the distributors rich with such hopelessly limited range of products? These thoughts, and many more, cross the minds of those who think of MLM as a career option. From my limited-really limited-knowledge about Amway distributors in India, I can say that the network has many non-starters, false-starters, and a few braggarts: but all of them appear to be struggling. I haven't met one yet, who has struck it rich, I just read one.
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