Ann Sieg- WARNING!

“WARNING- What your Upline won’t tell you about (Company XYZ).”

My personal rant.  I am soooo tired of seeing Ann Sieg “warn” people about their companies.  Compelling advertising, and effective.  Certainly true in some situations. But it’s just another sales pitch to vulnerable people.  Just to be fair, she is not the only one, but I get so many questions about her, that I’m addressing it here.

When I was first exposed to funded proposals (through the Pay It Forward 4 Profits system) I was quite excited.  It thought that it did have answers for people. It made a lot of sense at the time.  I learned some good things that I have now incorporated (like blogging and article marketing). I tried several other systems, and yes, I explored Ann Sieg’s system. 18 months later, watching my business volume drop, and my downline quit because of the funded proposal, and I reversed my position.  As I explored other so-called “generic marketing systems”  I realized that they were in essence the same thing over and over again. Affiliate and downline building , traffic exchange, safelist, free ad listing, nonsense.

What Ann Sieg and the others don’t tell you  about their funded proposal programs is that they are designed to appeal to frustrated MLMers.  There is more money to be made in marketing to frustrated and disillusioned network marketers than they could make in their companies. So she created the Renegade System and the 7 Lies of Network Marketing to draw people in.  I’m not sure how different it is from “lying about how to make money in MLM” to making money off of people’s disappointments, without offering a real solution.  All you get from Ann Sieg’s stuff is well, more hype, and the world’s longest sales letter. A real solution, in my opinion, would allow you to learn from someone and build without their “tools”. If you are attached to their “tools” in order to build, then maybe the system itself is weak.   Tools are helpful and good.  But a strong business cannot be centered around a single tool.

Most people who created funded proposal ideas did so to offset crummy payouts in their MLM.  Affiliate marketing as part of your network marketing business can be very profitable.  It can also be a
major distraction and siphon off your energy from building a strong foundation for residual income. Downline builders often violate your company’s guidelines or rules because it is cross-recruiting and can be construed as being in multiple network marketing companies.   Many MLM companies do not want cross-affiliations for legal reasons.

And if you are fishing for leads in a traffic exchanges, returning emails with your advertising, participating in  paid “social networking sites” with thousands of other network marketers fishing for leads…..hello!  You’ve just been thrown into a feeding frenzy.  How many good prospect do you really get at a feeding frenzy?

If you have a strong company, with a good product or service that people would buy without making money
on it, you don’t need a funded proposal.  If someone’s training consists largely of their affiliates and how to use them, move on!

WARNING!  Following funded proposals could put your network marketing business at risk!

Here’s the truth:  the 80-20 rule still applies.
People still quit.
Most don’t make it.
Why?  It’s human nature.

No, not “everybody wants what we have”.  If they did, they would do it.
No, products “never sell themselves” . If they did, no one would ever need to promote them, right?

(permalink – http://mlmmaniac.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/ann-sieg-warning)

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Karen Miner Hurd has owned a home business since 1988 when she retired from her Public Relations career to stay home with her 5 children. Her secret passion is Foxtrot books. She and her husband Dale live in Virginia Beach, VA.  To learn more about partnering with her current business venture visit: The Freedom Project

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