Mimissor
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- May 5, 2014
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Honestly I've known people who were into the Avon/Mary Kay thing and some of them made decent money, but most of them had to work full time while they did it on the side with the dream that one day they could push these products they love and quit their day jobs for good. I don't know that any of them ever made enough to do that. None of them realized that the real money was in getting more people to sign up under them.
The thing here though, is that these companies target the gullible and the dreamers who love their product. I think they could actually be really profitable if someone with a marketing background took a crack at it. I never liked that they want you to keep product on hand all the time. It's not realistic for the average person with no marketing background to be able to move product at a steady rate. They have no idea what they're even doing, what the market is like, and how to get people to convert. Most of them try the whole door to door salesman thing and...well if you live in the States then you've probably turned away more than one Avon Lady desperate to make a sale.
I dunno, I'm just saying that running around screaming "SCAM!" and "PYRAMID SCHEME!" is sort of ludicrous because they really aren't either of those things. They are dishonest and they do prey on people who realistically can't make it to the top on their own. They feel like scams and schemes simply because so many people enter into it with nothing but their hopes and dreams and are willing to pay whatever it takes to have those dreams delivered to them on a platter. But in the end, anyone with business sense and a bit of a knowledge about marketing could actually realistically make some of these things profitable. And I don't just mean by preying on more poor saps who just want to sell knives for a living.
I'll bet if you treated some of them like you would any other Affiliate gig you could definitely bank off of them.
The thing here though, is that these companies target the gullible and the dreamers who love their product. I think they could actually be really profitable if someone with a marketing background took a crack at it. I never liked that they want you to keep product on hand all the time. It's not realistic for the average person with no marketing background to be able to move product at a steady rate. They have no idea what they're even doing, what the market is like, and how to get people to convert. Most of them try the whole door to door salesman thing and...well if you live in the States then you've probably turned away more than one Avon Lady desperate to make a sale.
I dunno, I'm just saying that running around screaming "SCAM!" and "PYRAMID SCHEME!" is sort of ludicrous because they really aren't either of those things. They are dishonest and they do prey on people who realistically can't make it to the top on their own. They feel like scams and schemes simply because so many people enter into it with nothing but their hopes and dreams and are willing to pay whatever it takes to have those dreams delivered to them on a platter. But in the end, anyone with business sense and a bit of a knowledge about marketing could actually realistically make some of these things profitable. And I don't just mean by preying on more poor saps who just want to sell knives for a living.
I'll bet if you treated some of them like you would any other Affiliate gig you could definitely bank off of them.
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they have qualifying volume, and one or 2 other metrics which are not the actual commissions amts paid - so every time I call to get to the bottom of it, I get the run arounds about how I'm supposed to be selling the $400 product to get the $100 commission, and then they get signed up on the autoship.