Arbonne, Never go to Friends and Family Again!
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Working for Arbonne is just like any other job out there. What you put in is what you get out of it. The bonus to all net work marketing companies is if I work 40 hours a week and the person under me works 40 hours a week it = 80 hours for me.
You are far from being limited to family and friends. I have done two parties for friends and none for family the rest are for people I have never meet and I would like to keep it that way so my family doesn`t feel pressured.
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@KirstenFenton How is Arbonne a legitimate company when you have? 1. Endless chain recruiting until infinity. 2. Most of the commission per sale going to an upline. 3. promotion is based on sales numbers unattainable without recruitment, rather than appointment- like in other sales settings. 4. You have to pay fees and purchase product to qualify for commission. 5. You have more than 5 commission levels, that serve to enrich those at the top of the Pyramid. How is this not a faux franchise?
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@KirstenFenton To profit at a recruiting MLM, one must work long hours and be willing to continue to recruit to replace dropouts. One must also be willing to deceive large numbers of recruits into believing it is a legitimate income opportunity. New recruits seldom profit, but are instead only fattening their upline's commission checks and enriching founders and the "first ones in." They are, in fact, being sold a ticket on a flight that has already left the ground.
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@MLMsellsSnakeOil Have you ever heard of being able to start a business without some sort of investment? If so, sign me up. Please give me an example of a 'legitimate company' that allows me to run my own business from home without purchasing product, with the opportunity to make commissions and overrides. Where I can write off my phone, a couple rooms in my house, my 'gifts', part of my utilities, the product, gas, lease, etc... I want to work for the company you know that is better than that.
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@sbohandley How are we losing money with Arbonne? Not getting it.
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@KirstenFenton It isn’t the shape of the organization that is important, but the endless chain of recruitment of participants as primary customers. Arbonne requires the climbing of a pyramid in order to make enough money to profit to any significant degree. But unlike a corporate pyramid, in MLM and other types of pyramid schemes, virtually all of those at the bottom (the "downline") lose money (some a lot of money), where in a corporation, those at the bottom at least get a minimum wage.
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@shananagan14 The reason these products are so expensive is because there are more than 5 commission levels in MLM's. The products are often overpriced and of poor quality. They would never survive on the coercion free shelves of the retail market, which is outside the MLM realm of high pressure, deception and exploiting your friends and family for money. In MLM it is never about the product- that is a front. It's about the faux franchise and the pseudo business opportunity.
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Research, w/ worldwide feedback, says that the more a person invests in an MLM the more they lose -- which is true of any scam. Committed MLM participants may invest thousands, and even tens of thousands of dollars, over years before running out of cash or giving up. In legitimate companies, sales reps are not asked to buy inventory or monthly purchases. But in MLM, incentivized purchases are merely disguised or laundered investments in a product-based pyramid scheme.
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great vid!! - wonderful commentary, just makes good sense.
i don't understand the hostility - the speaker is not bringing down anyone clearly stating "nothing against arbonne" per say - just making a thoughtful observation which is frankly quite true.
If you don't have something nice to say - keep it to yourself - oh brother!
Wow.. As a network marketer.. What you are looking at as a the glass half empty scenario. I absolutely love that I work the way Arbonne works (as I am very much a relationship person). Any product I sell I want to have a relationship with the people I work with. I also never judge another's network marking business. Yours is for you. Mine is for me. But I never recruit others by putting down anothers. You did it in a very wolf in sheep clothing way. let yours stand on your own Merritt .
ArbonneAlison 2 years ago 3
If these products are so great, why aren't they available through retail stores ? Rather than wait for the consultants to "hopefully" sell stuff, why not load up the retailers with product.......hell, even give them 60 days to pay, but this MLM stuff is crazy. I know one of the success stories in Ontario, driving her white Benz, happens to be the daughter of one of the executives of Arbonne. She forgets to mention that to you when she has you over for dinner and brags about how great her life is
shananagan14 2 months ago 2