Some people just don’t get it…
April 17th, 2008I just read an email from a long lost friend - a college buddy, he was asking “how are you doing?”, “what are you doing right now?” and other normal stuff a long lost buddy would ask… After a few e-mails replied, and I’ve sent him the links for this website… then a question struct my attention and give me the urge of writing this article…
The question was “doing some MLM aren’t we?”… a simple question, but arises a deep question to myself…
Hmm… I just don’t get it… Whether he didn’t read my site’s content at all, or just that my articles / content are too confusing for a reader to understand??? - if this is the case, I would have to do something about it… But, I did highlight in the introduction page, and in article about pyramid and chain letter scheme…. I am NOT promoting it!!!
Hey, I’m not against people who joined MLM, pyramid or whatever get-rich-scheme out there, but I don’t want anybody connecting my site to these type of business. Yes, I have some ‘bad experience’ with those-kind, and in some cases I’ve just joined a scheme just because some friends insist on it, then I have even forget about the name of the scheme and the “investment” I’ve put on it… I just think of it as my “Introduction to Business 101″ course…
But after few of these experiences, I would rather stay away from those kind of business - no matter how big their check they’re showing off… and of course I would ask you and anybody I can reach for, to stay away from it.
Some people may still argue with me about this, some would say “their scheme are fair”, some says “this one is different”, “we want to help people”, some even use a religious figure/ a preacher to show how good their system, and how legal it is… Ok, actually I’m not the type of people who like to argue much, but I do stand for what I believe in, and I believe in something which I have studied and learnt from…
However, I just have to say this… no matter how fair a pyramid, MLM or these type of scheme may looks like, the upper level always have the upper hand, and the lower level is always get to be taken advantages from - even if s/he turned out to be successful in this type of marketing…
One thing for sure, there are some “Quality” in those people who succeed in this type of business, usually people with very convincing speech, people who don’t like to lose/tolerate in any arguments their involve in, having a lot of friends to follow what ever he’d be doing - “a men’s man”… and other characteristics which can be put to good use if placed in the right place… If you’re not one of it, just give it up man, or just consider yourself donating your money to your uplines..
So, is this site somehow promoting for MLM, pyramid, etc.? Just to be sure…
No!!… Some people have this narrow view of internet as “a cyber space full of porns, scams, viruses, free music/movie downloads (against copyright law), etc“.
I don’t blame them though, after few schemes and scams which have been largely publicized by mass media, and some states / countries have declared it as illegal, there are after-effect that peoples just see Internet Business and Internet Marketing as just another MLM, pyramids, and/or other illegal/unethical business programs…
Well, if you like to see it that way, it’s up to you… there are about 56 Millions of internet users in United State alone (2007 statistics), don’t you want to tap your hand in at least with Google Adsense??
