Is This One Of Those Pyramid Things? – MLM Objection
If you’ve been doing some prospecting for you’re MLM business, I’m sure you’ve heard this question/objection:
“Is this one of those pyramid things?”.
When I asked my upline how to address this objection, he taught me to say that every major corporation in the world is a pyramid. There is president of the corporation, there is a vice president underneath him and there are people under the vice president as well. The lower the level with in the corporate pyramid the more people there are on that lever that are getting paid less then the level above them. If that wasn’t convincing the prospect, I was equipped with another “awesome” answer, the real answer which delved into the core differences between pyramids schemes and legitimate network marketing companies.
I always used these answers, usually with no to little results. And then it hit me,
“Why address a question coming from someone who’s obviously ignorant” (especially since it gets me nowhere anyway). Additionally, the amount of time I spent arguing about this couldn’t be justified even if I was having a good time doing this (which I wasn’t)”.
The truth is, the answers to this question should be part of your general knowledge base about your industry, MLM . However, if you plan to explain all of this to your prospect before he joins, trust me, you’ll get burned out and quit before you achieve any success.
What I say when I get this objection is the following:
“No it’s not. Are you looking to get into one?”.
This answer gets the issue aside without me having to argue about it while waisting my valuable time and patience. Interestingly enough, I heard Todd Falcone give the same advice to one of the callers to his weekly training call titled “MLM Power Hour“. He also added that the people who get this objection more often then others are the ones who are thinking about too much; “Oh, I really hope that I’m not going to get the pyramid question again”. Often times we bring about what we think about, even though what we’re thinking about is not what we want.
P.S. even though I previously expressed my general dislike to to the huge variety of “how to products” that we are spammed and bombarded with on a constant bases, ToddFalcone is one of the best MLM trainers I’ve heard so far. If you plan on buying his training products, I assure you, you’ll get your every pennie’s worth.
A special note of thanks to Todd for everything he’s doing to benefit the network marketing community.
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Mona vie makes the claim that they do not hold spots within any of their lines of sponsorship. They obviously forgot to mention that they did exactly that when they let Orrin Woodward into the fold. He was not free of his injunction barring him from participating in another mlm at the time when roughly about 100,000 IBO’s from team were allowed to begin registering. at which point, I know for a fact that at least half of those people did go in at that time. Orrin and Mona vie had everyone believe that he was going in under everyone else, and that lines of sponsorship would remain the same as they were in quixtar. Only problem is, many people had their lines rearranged in such a manner as to benefit only labeled earners within the business at the time before leaving Quixtar. Now when I decided to inquire about the location of Orrin Woodward, I was given the run around by both companies, mainly they kept telling me that the other company (”Team” or “Mona vie”) would be able to answer m question. After playing mlm pong for the next couple of days, I asked my direct upline about it, and they had the audacity to get short with me and say, “You shouldn’t care where they are in the business, you should be thankful to them for giving you this opportunity to get out of debt. There are 10 year old girls out there having babies, and Team is going to change that!” Sounds like a case of a cult following if you ask me, because no matter what you ask people in this group, they all respond exactly the same. For a group of people that are trying to say you shouldn’t conform to the 95% world, these people fall into the very thing they say to avoid. Oh and by the way, Team does require everyone to be on system in order to make the types of profits they receive. That cam directly from farther upline than an emerald. Team office however, will deny any knowledge about the necesity of the very system it produces independently of Mona vie.
Samantha,
you hit the nail right on the head. Most cult leaders exploit their followers for maximum profit. And when questioned, they respond by criticizing the enquirer for asking irrelevant questions which have nothing to do with cult’s “holy mission”. A while back I made a video on YouTube in which I gave my opinion as to why I think Team is full fledged cult. The video was removed by YouTube because too many Team “missionaries” felt the video was offensive.
Thanks for the comment.
Thanks for the article. I’ve had quiet a few of these prospects. Todd Falcone’s conference call is awesome, thanks for helping me found out about it. I attend every Monday.