Here's my 2-cents:
For the past 5 years or so I have entertained the thought of becoming a pre-paid legal associate. Ive been to numerous meetings, listened in on numerous phone calls, and have done untold amounts of research on the company. I currently am the Gen. Manager of a company that works with close to 30,000 rental properties accross 3 states. Needless to say I already have a job I love and just like the rest of a lot of you... I am a very busy person. The owner of the company I work for and I are close on a buisness basis as well as a personal basis... And we are always looking for other streams of income to supplemnet money we are already making that we might be able to invest in together. Well we finally took the PPL plunge and decided to start up our associate memberships. Up to this point, our upline had told us many things about how we get paid, what we need to do to continue to make money and the best way to grow the amount of money we could make. Keep in mind also that I was and still somewhat am a firm believer in the PPL services... AS LONG AS THEY ARE PRESENTED TO POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS CORRECTLY!!! This is one key problem that I see with associates of PPL is lack of training and lack of knowledge of what is being sold&too much focus on making millions and not how to do it the right way. Anyway, the same night we became associates, we already had 10 other people to register under us in line ready to go so that we could jump into a manager position immediately and make the maximum dollar possible for the memberships and associates we brought to the company. Our whole purpose of getting into this was to gather a large number of people under us that we could train properly and have them selling for us constantly while we were tending to our current responsibilities, Basically making money from the training we were doing and not the day to day pounding the pavement. So yeah we wanted to get in make some quick money... Then let others do the work for us and make residual income off of what they did... This is the way our upline told us we could do it... So that it would not interfere with our current buisness and the time it requires. Now after the initial nicities and hand shakes and congrats... The whole picture started to unfold... Like that if one of the people you brought in gets to the same level or above you... You cease to make any income off of that person... So that means you have to constantly be recruiting, bringing in fresh meat if you will... So that you always have a new stream of people under you. We wanted to build a good solid team of about 10 people... Train them and stick with them so that any people they brought in would be trained by us as well and we all would make money off of each other. Lets face it... Thats all any MLM company is about... Making money... But if your going to present this as a part-time way to make a large amount of residual income, let it be known up front that if you dont constantly recruit, there wont be any LARGE in front of your INCOME. We feel that we were told half truths by our upline just so we could sign all 12 of us up so that she could get a quick buck. Not saying its like this everywhere but thats a lot of friends and buisness associates that I feel I screwed over because I didnt have the proper information from what I thought was a reliable source and I dont like being made to look like a fool.
I wont continue to put all of my issues out there because that would take a while. But this was the main one!
In closing I'll say this: PPL is not a screw-u-over, fly-by-night scam like others out there. Its a great concept and can work very well if you have the time to put in it. But please... To any current or future associates, managers, directors and above: TRAIN YOUR PEOPLE!!! Dont send out bad reps with bad examples!!! PPL IS what it is REPRESENTED by. And if your company is represented by foolishness and ignorance than that is what your company will be. Once I have more time to involve myself in the whole thing I plan to get back into it... But right now I have a seriously bad taste in my mouth that I wouldnt have if my higher ups would have just been honest.
J.
Shreveport, Louisiana
U.S.A.
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