So unless you’ve been under a rock for quite sometime, then you’ve probably heard a lot of the nasty, negative, and derogatory things that have been said about the network marketing industry.
One of the most notorious and often brought up questions about network marketing and as a network marketer yourself you’ll hear it. People will ask you, “Isn’t network marketing just once of those pyramid schemes?”
A lot of network marketers are actually afraid of that question. They worry constantly that someone is going to bring it up, and if someone does they’ll just freeze, having no idea how to respond.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. There’s no reason to worry as a network marketer that someone is going to ask you if it’s a pyramid scheme or some other wacky questions.
So How Do You Respond to the Pyramid Scheme Question?
First of all you certainly don’t freeze. Nor should you try to work around it, or ignore it, or as I’ve seen some people do start bashing the industry themselves. Duh!
You simply have to remind people what a pyramid scheme actually is, and that it’s illegal. You tell them that back in the 80’s the FTC banned pyramid schemes and made them illegal, and that a pyramid scheme is actually a scheme where there was no product involved, only money being exchanged.
Network marketing companies are fully legal and actually run extremely ethically and by every law in the book.
Now that will usually do the trick, but if they don’t believe you, and if you don’t feel like they believe you (you know that uuuh-huh look) then you can go on to explain that the job that they have, if they work in the corporate world (which if they’re working for someone else they do) is actually organized in a pyramid fashion.
Except the difference is that in their job, they could never go on to out earn those at the top of their pyramid, where in network marketing they certainly could.
You can explain to them, that in their job, they can’t move up in the hierarchy of the pyramid unless someone above them tells them that they may, in the form of a promotion. They also can’t earn more money in unless someone above them, who usually has to clear it with someone above them, tells them that they can.
However you – in your network marketing organization – can move up the pyramid as much as you want, and can (and usually do) give yourself a raise, every month if you want.
So which pyramid model do you think that they’d rather belong? That’s up to them of course, but explaining it to them that way just might persuade them which is better.
Network marketing may look like a pyramid in its modeling, just like every other corporation in the world. But, it’s a pyramid model where I get to control my own destiny. I’d much rather be here.
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