I don’t know about you, but I sure would be angry enough to sue people or companies who are using my name and influence to peddle their stuff. Well Oprah and Dr. Oz are to. Just because a celebrity makes a reference to a certain fruit or food doesn’t mean they endorse it people!
Here is a little tidbit I picked up from a great site for MLM news and changes to our fabulous industry.
From the very knowledgeable Rod Cook’s site MLM Watchdog
Winfrey and Oz have filed law suits against 40 companies (some of them MLM) selling açaí or other products, with their name endorsements on them. The lawsuit says companies are “fabricating quotes or falsely using Ms. Winfrey’s & Oz’s name about brands they never endorsed.” They don’t endorse dozens of açaí berry products claiming their seal of approval so it is lawsuit time!
Dr. Oz said on Good Morning America, “Many Americans have seen images of me, and Oprah and others supporting, it would appear, products that actually don’t work in the ways that are described,” Oz said in an exclusive interview Thursday with ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “And more importantly, when consumers trusting us try to buy these products over the Web, what they end up getting are fake products, pills that don’t really have what’s promised in them. They’re often duped into paying more than they should. If my picture is next to a product, endorsing it and supporting your purchase of it, I did not give them permission.”
If you were Oprah or Dr. Oz what would you do? Does your company or people in the company do things like that? Would you call that ethical practice? Would you consider that “good business”? I know more than most of you wouldn’t , but please keep your eye open for those that would. They are the ones that are giving our great industry such a bad name. Watch out if they do.
I recommend that you use Michael Dlouhy’s criteria for choosing a network marketing company. Through a lot of research and compiling the information, Michael Dlouhy has outlined 5 things YOU need a company to have, in order to be successful.
Let’s take a closer look at Pillar #1. Company Managment Experience with Integrity.
If you can’t confirm that your company has Pillar #1, you don’t have to worry about looking for Pillars #2,3,4, or #5.
So, how do you know if your company has company management experience with integrity? It’s actually quite easy. Are you ready for this?
Read your Policies and Procedures. You know the little contract you agreed to when you pay your sign up fees. Whether you sign an affiliate agreement and faxed it in or if you were to check a little “I agree” type of a box when you sign up online, you should have been given the opportunity to read everything thing you agreed to.
You may be surprised how many people do not read their Policies and Procedures. Most affiliates believe that the PPs are just a standard contract. Let me tell you now, they are not.
Each company will have its only stipulations and clauses that you are required to follow. They each outline their dos and don’ts. They explain what happens if or when you stop recruiting, or stop your autoship, explain the volume they expect you to have to earn your bonuses and ever other hoop you need to hop through in order to receive your cheque.
Now some PPs are 30 pages long, and there are many PPs that are much longer than that. Why do you think they need to be that long? Because the company and their lawyers know that most people won’t read more than 3-5 pages into it before their eyes glaze over and then they quit. What are all those clauses in there for?
Ask yourself, why would they put in the contract anything that they were not willing to use at some point? To protect themselves, not you the member. And to top it all off, you will find most of the “evil clauses” near the end of the PPs. So try reading them from the back to the front instead.
So when considering a new MLM company, ask to see the Policies and the Procedures. If you can’t read them, don’t join it. Save yourself a lot of future grief.
One last thing you can do is to Google the names of the company’s owner, and other management. Put their names, one at a time in quotations, and do the search and see what will come up for you. Then do a second search by simply adding the word “Scam” behind the name still in quotations.
So see, it really can be a simply hour or two to do but it can save you years of failure and frustration. Stay tuned when we next look at Pillar #2, Timing in the company, Timing in the industry!
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Oprah and Dr. Oz are to. Just because a celebrity makes a reference to a certain fruit or food doesn’t mean they endorse it people!
