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We had a workshop recently. One of the activities is to write about others. Each of us were given a big piece of paper to be placed at the back of us and we were are given a marker pen to write about the good points of our office friends.

The photo above shows all about the lady. She is "peramah" (Talkative or Approachable), Hardworking, Helpful, Good Leader, Teamwork, a Thoughtful Person, etc.

After about 20 minutes of music and the fun going around writing on as much as possible about our office staff, it's time to get back to our seats and look at what our friends wrote about us.

How does these words make you feel? These words really make you feel good.

Whether you know it or not, these positive words either make you realize about the good things that you possessed or make you change the way you look at others. (that is to look at others in a positive way – Look at the good side)

This photo reminds me of those days when we were in Indonesia building our MLM business. Most of our downlines are youngsters and they are very attentive and showing the eagerness to learn to start the business of their own.

We travelled on motorbikes that night to a village to see a prospect. I can still recall. There are about 8 bikes all together, all young people. We showed the presentation to their prospects as they look on and learn to duplicate. We also emphasize on how teamwork is very important in this business.

You and anyone who are in MLM business or any sort of marketing, should get themselves ready with their tools to do a business presentation to their prospects. This is the most important thing in making that deal or closing a sale, the tools.

The first impression is always the image that you show to your new prospect. Punctuality is one of the most important criteria. Please be there on time, and if you are staying far, you should leave your house early to reach your destination on time to see your prospect. Be clear by being transparent about the purpose of the appointment.

If you were invited by your friend for a drink out of a sudden, there is something he/she wanted to show you. No matter what it may be, some people just don't want to reveal what MLM company they are representing.

Recently, my friend tried to make an appointment with me for his business presentation. He won't tell me what company and what kind of product/services he is dealing with. He insisted me to meet at a certain place and then go to their office. He said " he wanted to show me the office ". I tried to negotiate with him to meet somewhere nearer and more convenient for me because I 'm bringing a friend along with me for that appointment.

When one feel uneasy about the appointment arrangement, one may not go for it.

I sat on the table with a newspaper lying on it after ordering my breakfast.

The heading "RM31 Million Return" on the front page of the newspapers caught my attention!

Investors of the Get Rich Quick Scheme Swisscash who lost their investment will get some of their money. Security Commission (SC) managed to solve the scam involving RM31 Million and those who entitled for the returns will have to fulfill certain conditions including the proof as a principal investor and not involving any recruitment of other investors.

There are about 3,000 investors lodged reports and claimed their lost is because of their involvement in the internet investment scheme.

About 80% of the victims are male professionals.

Swisscash Internet Investment scheme was banned by the government and its website was closed in 2007.

In 2006, you can see many people in the coffee shops with notebooks explaining to their friends about doing some investment through the internet. We could name it as an Internet Investment with very high returns.

People are looking for fast returns and without a doubt many turn to this kind of investment promising daily interest. Moreover with the help of so called "investment agents", mostly comes from MLM background, the news spread even faster. The daily interest depends on the amount invested. The bigger amount you invest, the higher percentage of returns.

The above print out shows the statement and as you can see, the "Earning" is the daily interest of 1% paid from Monday to Friday, No interest for Saturdays and Sundays.

There are also commission paid for every investor you refer to join this program. This is where the MLM people comes into picture.

The websites providing this HYIP (High Yield Investment Program) is called piclub.us and forexcapital.us to name some. There are many others appearing like mushrooms out of nowhere. Internet Investment was extremely a hot topic and this phenomenon disturbed the growth of many MLM companies.

Today, the government has put a stop to this schemes.

Let’s talk about people.

When it comes to this topic, most of us call it gossiping. Its a norm. Nevertheless, it is important to know too.

You know your friends very well. No doubt about it. Before doing your presentation to your friend / prospect or sometimes, while you are doing your presentation to share your MLM business, you will notice very clearly the type of person you are talking to by the way they present themselves, their responses.

MLM people will be able to notice whether their prospect can be named as Mr. Security, Mr.Recognition or Mr. Achiever or combination of some of those personalities.

You can observe from the way they speak, the lifestyle they lead and their perception about business. 

Let’s see a few of the characteristic of :

Mr. Security

- scare of losing their job, feeling of contentment, loyal to their job, in a comfort zone, not used to doing business, never try any venture, give up early and never want to try anymore, hold on tight to their job, work in the office is their priority, don’t want any headache, heartache to manage business, etc…

Mr. Recognition

- want to be well known by many people, want to be famous, glamourous, status is important (can see from name in their call cards), no financial gain is alright for these guys as long as they got the name, they want to be the center of attraction, etc…

Mr. Achiever

- they have goals to strive, if they are not known to many, it doesn’t matter at all, focus and self-driven, dare to take calculated risk, taking chances, look for opportunities and act, etc

Nothing is good or bad about these people. They are who they are. You and I can’t change that. It will be insane.

But, one thing is for sure, people can improve.

They are Mr.Security and after a few years, you are surprised to know that they have become Mr. Achiever.

Source : I got this information from my dad. Hopefully, I deliver it well to you all.

There are so much that has happened in the MLM industry until today. One thing is for sure, we learn and grow through our past experience, from how the company operates to how they interact with their distributors. Its all about the people running the show.

In fact, MLM is a wonderful industry, if we could just spend some time doing some homework and look closely into it.

Perspective is an art on how you look at things in life. Not only in MLM but also in everything in life. It is how we could judge and make proper consideration to every problems and situations.

In other words, learn the truth and face facts and not only to absorb totally from people who just wants to fulfilled their own needs.

I believe many will be able to make informed decision by searching and keeping informed through readings and looking for information, talking to people who are fully involved in MLM.

Different people have different perception of MLM. One of my colleague said that its selling “dreams” to people.

Here are some of peoples’ perception towards MLM:

- You have to keep on selling to earn money
- You have to spend a lot of time to do the business
- MLM people have no time for their family and friends
- MLM is for housewives, school dropouts
- This business is for the jobless
- MLM is not a business, start a real business!

This is the question that I often faced when I do my MLM presentation to a prospect. And my answer is always yes, we have to look for people.

If I join a MLM company and it doesn’t need me to look for people to make money, then something is wrong. I don’t feel at ease.

There were once I did a so call MLM company, which I don’t have to look for people to join me. I can do so, but it is not a necessary. If I do bring people into the business, I will earn more. And if I don’t, I will still be earning money.

I believe you will understand what I am talking about if you have experienced it before. Anyway, MLM is people helping people business and I think I can’t do it alone and there must be a team working together in this kind of business.

I always remind myself not to be surprised if I happen to meet with friends, relatives and neighbours who shows their enthusiasm to talk to me about MLM.

Don’t be surprise if someone whom you know very well, come to see you on MLM business too. I personally have seen many of this situation happened. My neighbour just started her MLM journey. My relative consumed a MLM product and tried to sell to me. Hey, I bought the product! My ex-collegue who has just retired join a MLM company and came to the office to see us. All this scenarios gave me more encouragement to see more people and share about my MLM business.

Don’t be surprise, if your son came back from his studies and became a member of a MLM company. This may happen.

I believe in both, since we are living in an Information Age, the Internet has become a necessity to each of us.

There are MLM online and MLM offline, but most of the results come from 95% offline and 5% online, because I think it takes eye to eye and belly to belly to make it work effectively. I think we need to see our downlines personally. I feel that we need to give them the confidence that we are there whenever they need our help.

MLM is about human touch, it is a People Business.

I tried to see how MLM is going to work 100% online. Perhaps, I have not discover it yet. Or may be it takes much longer to make it work online than offline.