“These are your JV partners
The First Pillar is
Company MLM Management experience – with integrity
The MLM Management Company executives require to have had broad MLM building experience, they need to have been on the front line and really built and maintained a networking business or else they will have no appreciation or respect for what you have to do to establish a business, in fact their business as well.
A Fortune 500 executive will look at you as an expendable production unit, a commissioned contractor if you will. If the company is publicly traded, their first allegiance and legal responsibility is the shareholders and you come a distant second.
They will also look at you as a commissioned contractor or employee, an expendable production unit. If needed, they will acquire money from you to pay the shareholders. It is simple to do – they just have to modify the Pay-Plan.
How will you know if they have the experience?
Gather the name of the top executives in the MLM management team and search them in Google. Use your judgment because some of the posts there may not be complimentary, but that could be just people with sour grapes.
You can go back to Google and enter ‘name+scam’ and find what comes up. Be aware that there are a couple of sites that would have us believe that all MLM’s are an illegal scam which is patently false. Again use your judgement.
Doing business the old way
Some Companies will order who you can approach to advertise the business or the products, If the Company insists that you can only talk to family and friends, find another Company. Find one that will promote modern, automated marketing system.
Finding out if they are honest
But really the only way to discover if your MLM Management team has integrity read your policies and procedures and your distributor agreement. Yes. As terrible as it may be, READ THE CONTRACT.
Check it out with somebody who is able to discover whether all the cards lie in the company’s hand or perhaps you are left with some power as well. If it all lies in their hand, they can easily get rid of you at a moments notice and there is not one thing you can do about it. You must have a contract which gives you the right to your business.
Don’t accept the agreement until you are happy with your contract.
If you don’t have this Pillar in place, the whole business is built on shaky ground.
Kickoff Pillar is Company MLM Management experience with Integrity. ”
John GilbertGrant has been in the field of marketing management for a long time and have a website on lead management where you can get answers to the rest of your questions.