Mix It Up With Marc

Earlier I was discussing business online, and after the tremendous response to my last post, I thought it was high time to continue with this subject.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN AN MLM

As you scout around online, another possibility to consider is new start up companies. Keep in mind that, It is a fact statically that almost all new MLM’s fail in their first year of business. If you feel real good about the business then go for it. But just remember that you will be going through the growing pains of a new business. There will be problems with payroll, shipping etc. But if you have the patience to weather these problems then your payoff could be considerable being on the ground floor.

So what are you waiting for find the MLM business that works for you and get started. One thing to keep in mind is that an MLM is a real business. They take time to build and you must work them like a real business if you want to gain any real success. So find one and get started and live life abundantly. Take your time and don’t let anyone pressure you. Do your homework and get started. Work it hard and life can be good. Just remember anything worth having is never easily obtained. It takes work and dedication. But it is so much better being your own boss than making someone else rich. Just remember is won’t happen all by itself you’ve got to work it!

There are many excellent MLM’s out there to choose from and a lot of not so good ones as well. The question is how do you choose which are the right one for you. The way to do this is research. My wife who is an accountant showed me how to do this. One of her responsibilities is protecting her client. Here’s some advice:

First you want to ask lots of questions. Then go to your computer and do background checks. Go to the city where the company is based and check them out with the better business bureau. Then check out the owner of the company. If he or she has had six businesses in the past ten years this is not a good thing. You should always check out the product. An easy way to do this is to just Google reviews on the product. You will always have negative information about everything out there. But if you dig deep into the information you should get a pretty good idea what people think. You should also ask the person trying to recruit you if they can show you proof of all that big money they are making.  Check stubs tell no lies. If you can show thousands of dollars of check stubs you will have that person’s attention. If they are new to the business they won’t have a lot of stubs, in fact they may hoping to sign you up to get their first one.

I have been writing about how to research for finding the very best online business. So far my research has always paid off. But sometimes no matter how careful I am I still get stung.

The other day I had a 6:00 p.m. telephone conference with a company that I just started up with. They were supposed to be calling for some one on one mentoring. I was fully expecting them to teach my wife and I better ways of getting my business up and running and I was looking forward to learning more information to start making some serious money.

When the guy called he started talking about the company. I won’t give their name yet unless they haven’t given me a refund - and if they don’t look out, I will write a scathing blog about them and pursue getting my money back directly. That truly is the beauty of a blog. It really gives you some power to fight back. I know that the last thing this company wants is scathing reviews going out to thousands of readers every month. Like I said I won’t give their name out but part of it is “The work at home_” and the last word rhymes with billionaire.

Well when the man started talking to us we were expecting some good teaching on how to market their products. Instead he said that what we needed to do was buy $15,000 worth of their products(!!!) and then we would have thirty days to sell them to make our money back and a good profit to boot.  He called this O.P.M. or other peoples money and said that banks do it all the time.

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. This guy wanted us to charge $15,000 of their product at our expense and at out risk on the hope that we would be able to sell enough of their product to be able to pay off the credit card in thirty days. Well let me tell you something fifteen thousand dollars buy a lot of e-books and the chance of out selling then all before thirty day was up was probably almost impossible.

Upon hearing this, my wife who is and accountant laughed and got up and left the room. What a load of B.S. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I asked the guy if he was serious and he said absolutely. I said do you think that we could sell that much product in less than thirty days and he said  yes. Well at this point I knew I was dealing with a scam artist. I fully intend on asking for a refund today. They said they have a 100% money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied. And I can tell you that we are not at all satisfied. If they don’t give us our money back I will write a scathing blog about them to say just what I think about them.

Hmmmm

Maybe I should start a web sit reviewing online businesses. I wonder if there is any money in that?

Well anyway. I just wanted to write this blog about what happened just to let everyone out there know that you can never be too careful even when you do your home work and research a company you can still get burned. Oh well live and learn I’ll just have to be even more careful the next time.