The #1 Reason People Don’t Join Your Business

We’ve done the comparisons now for weeks, looking at how Network Marketing compares to real estate, YouTube influencers, actors/entertainers, Amazon sellers, and more.  

Yet despite seeing the math, people are still cranking out excuses, and in this video I’m going to uncover why.

I know you’re going to enjoy this one.  A lot of thought (and about 30 years experience) went into making it.  

The art is in knowing when to respond to an excuse, and when to politely bow out. 

To begin, I’m going to do a quick review so that you can get the context of this just in case you haven’t seen the previous comparison videos. 

I did a bunch of comparison videos. You’re welcome to go back in the videos that I’ve done and see that in Network Marketing vs Real Estate, twice as many people Network Marketing will earn $50,000/year in Network Marketing compared to those in real estate. And 11 times more Network Marketers will earn $100,000 compared to those in real estate. 

In Network Marketing vs YouTube influencers, 145 times more people will earn $50,000 in Network Marketing, and 79 times more people in Network Marketing will earn $100,000 compared to YouTube influencers. 

In Network Marketing vs Actors and Entertainers, 19 times more we’ll make $50,000, and 14 times more will make $100,000 in Network Marketing. 

In Network Marketing vs. Amazon Sellers – It’s a different business model, but 2.8 times more people will earn $50,000 in Network Marketing compared to those who sell on Amazon, and twice as many people in Network Marketing will learn $100,000 compared to Amazon sellers. 

It’s also important to note that in the Amazon selling model, in that particular model, you’re not being the sales person, Amazon is.  You are manufacturing and branding products. 

So, that’s the comparison. And what we’re looking at today is why people still don’t want to join us in Network Marketing despite all of that evidence that it is a legit business model and in fact, I would say superior in a lot of ways. 

Responding to a Negative Comment

Someone left the following comment on one of my videos. He said: 

“It is amazing to me how you guys will do, say, anything to ‘justify’ the greatness of a platform/MLM where the 98% cannot even make a consistent MINIMUM WAGE….” 

So obviously what is the comparison? Minimum wage. Well, that’s like comparing a turtle and a rabbit. It’s not even a comparison. You can’t put it in the same category. Would it be a race? Or a race in the water? You see what I’m saying? In other words, you can’t do a comparison that way because the turtle would win in the water. 

The minimum wage age is a whole lot less than $50,000 and 7.5% of Network Marketers make $50,000. So mathematically, he’s wrong. 

Positive Minded vs Pessimistic Minded

I’m going to walk you through positive minded versus pessimistic minded. So here’s minimum wage, $7.25 on a federal level. (Some states have a little bit less, some more.) A person working at the minimum wage, 40 hours a week, would make $15,000 a year. ($13,270 after you minus out the tax.) 

That comes down to $52.60 cents per day working an eight hour day. 

Now in Network Marketing, that would be the equivalent of taking a $100 product and you have a 30% markup on the product. To make about the same amount as a minimum age worker, you would need to get two customers. You make $30 per sale, times two customers equals $60. So it would require you to basically get two customers a day to make this; how long would it take to do that?

Well, there would be a buildup period of time where it might take you several hours a day in order to learn the Pipeline, how to generate the leads and so forth. But after probably two, three weeks, you’d probably be able to do that. 

And keep in mind that this isn’t having anything to do with multi-level marketing. This is just affiliate marketing. The network marketing component would add a whole lot more. 

I estimate that it takes about 20 leads to get two customers. That’s a 1:10 ratio. So 20 leads go through the Pipeline: they see a presentation that has to do with the product. You get two customers out of it. That’s very logical math. 

Let’s go back to the comment where the guy says “98% cannot even make a consistent MINIMUM WAGE….” 

Is it “CANNOT” or is it “DID NOT”?

Could you walk next door and say, “Hey, would you like to buy this?” You could. 

What if you’re in a wheelchair, could you roll over there? Yeah. You could. 

Could you call them? Yes, you could. 

It’s not a function of CANNOT. It’s a function of DID NOT. 

This discussion will resolve confusion for a positive-minded person. This is really what I’m trying to train you on is, that there is positive minded and there is pessimistic minded. 

If you give a logical conversation and it is, “How does a person get one?” What would they have to do? The minimum wage person just throws out the CANNOT instead of the did not.  

And what is it that they cannot or did not do?  The person cannot or is not willing to do one (or more) of these components on the Pipeline. 

Now I have to be very careful in this conversation. I’m not suggesting everyone who doesn’t do Network Marketing is pessimistic, nor should they, because we all rely on people in other fields. That’s only logical. 

What I’m talking about are people who need or want what Network Marketing provides,  but they have excuses that are illogical. So this pessimism has to do with excuses that are illogical and they will not look at reason.

The Horrible Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer

There is a philosophy and it is:

“I can’t win. Therefore the only victory is in refusing to try to win.” 

It really, truly is a philosophy, and you will witness it a lot now that I’ve exposed you to this concept.  You may need to pause for just a second and reread that a few times to get the idea. 

In other words, that person doesn’t believe he/she can win. And they actually get a victory in refusing to try to win. 

This quote is from Arthur Schopenhauer. He’s a philosopher of pessimism and saw the world as something horrific and bleak. He urged that we turn against the world. He said that art helps us to escape our individuality and thus the inherent suffering and meaningless absurdity of existence. 

If this is your belief, keep it. I’m not trying to change somebody’s belief. Trust me. I want you to be who you are and I’m going to be who I am. 

Victim Mentality in Business

Victim mentality has a very similar ideology. Victims cry unfairness when someone has amassed wealth. They demand redistribution of wealth, but here’s the catch, without redistribution of production and risk. 

I’m not joking. 

My mom was in the hospital and my brother and I were standing out front because they wouldn’t let us in for a period of time. And we were sitting out there talking. I lived in another state and hadn’t seen him in a while and so we were just catching up and somehow we weaved into a conversation and he said to me, “Well, yeah, Tim, you should give up some of your money for some of those who are less fortunate.”

And I said, “Like who?” 

And he goes, “Me!” 

And I’m like, “You’re joking, right.?” 

I thought he was pulling my string or something right then. 

And he says, “No, you know, Tim, it’s unfair that you have all that money. You got lucky, you got fortunate.” 

I said, “Got lucky!?” 

Oh my gosh, so right there is where I bowed out, because I realized he really did believe that. It truly didn’t matter that we came from the same womb. It didn’t matter that we ate the same food. It didn’t matter that we were in the same house. None of that mattered. And so I was like, he’s picked up some ideology that I am not in agreement with. 

When somebody takes on this idea of being a victim and they cry out an unfairness of some kind, then what often happens is that they’re not looking at the other side of it: the production and the risk.

I’ll give you another example. I did a stock evaluation. I looked at it and I thought it would go up. I didn’t overestimate it. I didn’t underestimate it. I didn’t look at it from a negative standpoint of saying, “Oh my gosh, what if it drops?” Or I’m going to lose this amount of money or whatever. 

Yes, I look at risk reward, but I didn’t make it more or less than it was. In other words, proper evaluation, it’s like logic. I placed my bet. I was down $347,000… not an easy conversation to have in my wife, right? 

Fortunately my wife has the same attitude as I do. And so she said, “You know, we could sell it. …Do you believe in it?” 

I said, “Yeah, I do.”  I did a reassessment of it, and today it crossed a million dollars. 

And so it’s like, would my brother want to do this $347,000 distribution with me as a loss? No, he wouldn’t. Nor would anybody else, anybody who’s crying an unfairness in income does not want the other side of what making money is about, which is risking money, or risking a lot of other things. 

So just to conclude on my brother, it was very interesting because, I’d say 10 years later, he called me and asked for some business advice. And as he began to talk he explained that he had moved up to Foreman and was talking about different employees that he had.

He described how sometimes some were just goofing off all the time and he’d have to fire them. And he was wanting to go into a business partnership with somebody. His whole attitude had completely shifted because he was no longer in that position of getting a job. He was in the position of having to hire and fire people based upon production. And so he had completely changed his direction and then we could have more of a conversation. 

The other thing about this victim mentality.  I know it’s like one of those trigger words, where people get upset if you don’t agree with their viewpoint of whatever that thing is that they feel victim of. 

I’m not saying that people don’t have the right to say that they’re a victim because I’ve seen it. I’ve seen collateral damage with bombs, with people who are in the area and they were victims – there’s no other way to look at it. 

But when it comes to having a victim mentality, it doesn’t do any good to be the victim. What happens there in that zone is that you’re trying to get sympathy from people. You’re trying to get people to feel sorry for you. And I’m telling you, that’s not a good position. 

It’s a far better position to find some kind of way to say, “I need to own this.”  

So a girl breaks up with me and I’m upset and I’m crying. And I’m like, “How could she do this to me after all I did for her, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”  I’m not getting anywhere. All right. I am not getting above this problem. I’m burying – like, with a shovel digging down below her.

What’s happened is that I failed to take any ownership, no responsibility whatsoever. And it’s that moment where I go, wait a minute now. I chose her. That was my bad. I didn’t see all of the picture. So man, I’m glad, I’m glad we ended quick, you know? 

And that brings you up and you have power over it, as opposed to wanting sympathy from all of your friends. 

When People Produce, They Earn

Now I think this is a big deal.  If you want a “no discrimination zone” then come to Network Marketing. And I say this really, truly because we have no discrimination against race, color, national origin, religion, gender, pregnant or not pregnant, age, disability, et cetera.  

Network Marketing has what’s called a meritocracy philosophy, and it’s based upon merit. In other words, production. “What do you get done?” Think about the concept of a merit badge.  

When people produce then they earn, when people don’t produce, they don’t earn. 

And that is the only fair system there could ever be. 

The #1 Reason People Don’t Join

Why would a person post a negative comment on Network Marketing Power? Clearly who we are is evident. It’s not a mystery group, right? So they have the belief of, I can’t win. Therefore, let me get others to refuse, to try to win. 

They feel they earn military medals, merit badges, more ribbons – by getting others to refuse, to try to win, as they hide behind sock puppet accounts. 

The person who made that comment, used a fake account to comment with – his YouTube Channel had no name, no picture. So that’s the way that I have always witnessed it because I’ll show, I’ll explain in the next section here, but when a person comes into a zone and, and just like tosses something out, what’s he trying to do here, right? He’s trying to get others to refuse, to try. 

I really think that, what he’s going to tell you is, “Well, I’m trying to get you to not lose money. I’m trying to get you to not lose time.” No, no, no. They put you at victim and now they are giving you excuses. Right? 

When Should You Argue?  When Should You Back Down?

Not everybody is pessimistic. Some have been exposed to a pessimistic person, but when shown logic can see it and change their view, and then there are others where someone is shown logic, yet they keep generating excuses. That’s your clue. 

They (excuse generators) are like 10 miles of bad road; that’s a Tennessee expression.  So this man, he was in my church and he was listening to me and he goes, “Uh, you get wrapped up in that girl. She’s 10 miles of bad road zone.” 

So that’s the way I always think about it from this standpoint is, that if you get into a discussion with somebody and you figure it out, it’s best to not engage in an antagonistic conversation.

Remember the conversation with my brother when I realized that he really did believe, that I backed down and, I just said, “Well, man, it’s an interesting perspective.”

If I’m talking about Network Marketing and then somebody says “most people fail in Network Marketing” that’s when I go back and say, “Well, let’s take a look at what it does take to succeed.” 

And then I show them the Pipeline. And, then they generate another excuse, and another excuse, and another excuse, and another excuse. That’s when I know this isn’t going to go anywhere. And in a nice way, I bow out. I’m not trying to convince that person because I don’t want 10 miles of bad road, even if they did join. 

And doing it this way is not putting the person down. I want them to believe what they want to believe and keep on believing.

I’m not going to try to change their mind on it. I will show them logic and if they can’t see the logic of it, then I have nothing else to do. 

Good Excuses vs Bad Excuses

And the other thing is that I just want to end on this, which is: Everybody has excuses.

Optimism is having a good enough excuse to win. In other words, you dig in there, inside of you and figure out a good enough excuse to win. 

Pessimism is having a good enough excuse to fail, quit, or not try. And so what’s the end state? I have created this difference between optimism and pessimism, right? I’m not trying to generate a fight here.

Think about a calendar. It’s plotted day one, two, three, five, etc. And you schedule things in advance on this calendar. You start by putting the first event on your schedule, that you’re going to go somewhere and need to fly to get there. Then you  need to put a date here that you want to get your airline ticket. Then, you want to prepare your presentation or whatever it is that you’re flying for, and so you put a date on the calendar for when the presentation should be done. Then, there’s a reminder that your son’s birthday is on this date. You’re plotting out in the future, right?

It’s like, you throw a football out ahead, and then you drag your body over to the football to catch it. And then you throw the football out again and you drag your body off to catch it. 

A pessimistic person doesn’t realize that’s what life really is. You can make it a very enjoyable life. You can really enjoy life. It doesn’t have to be negative. It doesn’t have to be that everybody’s trying to steal your money. It doesn’t have to be any of that.

It’s all in the way that you want to look at it. 

And so do me a favor, please, leave a comment down below and let me know how you feel about this. How do you deal with pessimistic views of Network Marketing? I’m just wondering if anyone has a more effective strategy at dealing with people who have a pessimistic view of Network Marketing.  

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