I was a PPL associate for more than two years. I worked parttime trying to build the business, make it big, etc. It was an observation I made while at the convention in Oklahoma City. I had some materials that had been given to me by my mentor from several years previous at the time claiming that PPL had 100,000 associates, that was 5 years ago. Today they still claim to have the same number of associates, hmmm. Zero percent growth?
As I looked around the convention center room at the 33,000 reps present there I counted the number of people on stage receiving awards for "making it big". It was the same one hundred people every night. But let's be generous and give them 300 "successful" people. That's still less than one percent of them who are successful enough to make a full time living at this.
That isn't counting the missing 67,000 reps who apparently didn't make enough money, "building their business" to make it to the convention. I spent way more money on this business than I ever made. And I was out every weekend and some nights after work trying to "generate leads"
I had every tape I was told to get, and then some. It always seemed to be that there was always one other thing that I could do this business without that always seemed to put money into PPL's company. I did the two tapes a day every day for a year, I didn't miss one meeting, I invited and had dozens of people to these meetings and special events and still lost hundreds of dollars on televox, the internet site for marketing purposes, books, tapes, signs, a PPL schedule book, and all the while attempting to simply get to some kind of steady income. It never happened.
When I actually used my membership it did little for me as people seemed to know that with PPL the first letter of complaint is free and chances are little to none that there would be a follow up as that wouldn't be free for the member to try. So even after receiving letters from "my attorney" I still ended up being responsible for a bill that wasn't mine and still didn't receive a paycheck for work I was doing. It was a joke.
I tried all the positive thinking crap they spewed but it's hard to keep grinning as one after another of my paid members cancelled their plan leaving me trying to sell memberships just to keep up with the charge-offs. The law firm in Orlando was known among the top associates as providing pretty poor results, and worse customer service.
There were several very influential people in the company who confided in me the struggles they were having and I learned that all the talk of successful income was just that, talk. Most of the associates must lie in order to get people interested in the business believing that one day the lie would come true like it did for those two guys up front. It's also sold well and they will always pull that "why work for someone else's dream" crap.
This is what I have to say to that. Your boss at your job cannot come back to you a week or two later and claim to be unsatisfied with work already done and make you work for free for a week just to make up for the work that he didn't like. And that's exactly what happens when someone (50% mind you) cancel their plans within the first year.
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