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- From: aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman)
- Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
- Subject: Re: MLMs=Entreprenuers?
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 10:01:57 GMT
- Organization: Marsnet
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- Message-ID: <18ki2lINNrh2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- References: <1992Sep8.145548.25296@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> <1992Sep8.115806.18409@hellgate.utah.edu> <1992Sep9.190824.1@economics.adelaide.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Sep9.190824.1@economics.adelaide.edu.au> ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au writes:
- >OK lets take this paragraph first. Yes you usually here about the big earners,
- >that's only natural. Whena life agent talks to you does he discuss the funds
- >that came in at the bottom? No, he shows what he CAN POSSIBLY achieve. This is
- >the way life is my friend, we all market the best possabilities, MLM or
- >otherwise.
-
- Full discloser is something that normal companies do all the time
- it should be the norm for MLM too.
-
- >OK at least you qualify it with "in my experience", unlike our friend Aryeh
- >Friedman who speaks for the whole world without consulting us. I don't jump
-
- I thought most people had the common sense to take what I say as me
- and me alone saying it, but then again since MLM is a religon. Any attack
- on MLM is a attack by everyone no matter who does it. Besides when did I get
- promoted to the great anti-mlm being from hell ;-)
-
- >OOOHH goodie, sarcasm. None of this is flame but I'm sure that you will take
- >it as such. Maybe that will just reinforce everyones attitudes about people who
- >hate something and refuse to accept that others may find some merit init?
-
- Your actually making sense for once (god help me!!!!).
-
- >> The last question is this, is MLM a form of entrepreneurship? Yeah, it
- >> is a special case of entrepreneurship, one that requires little creativity
- >> and no original development of a product or service, but it does involve
- >> risk. Okay I'll grant that is is A form of entrepreneurship. For that
- >> reason, there has been a SPECIAL newsgroup created just for it. So go use it
- >> and DON'T crosspost. Maybe we should rename this group
- >> misc.entrepreneurs.not.mlm
- >
- >Separate group, good idea.
-
- You already have your seprate group.
-
- >You seem to think it's so easy, why not go out and makes a few million just to
- >prove how easy it really is for us MLMers?
-
- We do it all the time.
-