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Cause In MLM Policies And Procedures

Don Standard — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:09:25 +0000

There are companies that tell you straight out in the MLM policies and procedures just how tuff they are going to make things for you. I guess they just figure you will never read it any way.

Several companies have statements like,

[Company] may terminate a distributor for any reason or no reason at all.

If you read that, I hope you are smart enough to run the other way.

But a lot of companies like to hide what they tell you. Put it so you don’t understand it when you read it. Like this.

[Company] reserves the right to suspend or terminate any Distributorship at any time for cause…

Usually they tell you right before this, lot’s of reasons they could terminate you. And those reasons usually make sense. Then they add the one above.

There is one word in there that you may not understand. A simple looking word.

Keep in mind that your mlm policies and procedures are a legal contract. What does that little word “cause” mean in legal terms?

From Black’s Law Dictionary, page 212 of the 7th eddition, says “CAUSE – Something that produces an effect or result”.

Now you have a little word that could be real trouble. When you sponsor someone, does that produce and effect or result? When you buy product, sell product, fail to sponsor someone, and on and on, don’t those things all produce and effect or result? Of course they do.

So the real result is that everything you do, right or wrong, produces an effect or result and becomes cause for your termination.

CAUSE doesn’t look so harmless anymore, does it?

Cause kind of means we can terminate you because we want to. Now isn’t that what the first statement I showed you above says but in words you can easily understand?

You don’t have to doom yourself to failure the day you sign up for a company. Do your home work. Reading and understanding mlm policies and procedures is just a small part. You only have to do it one time with your company. When you make the right choice you will have a home for life.

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Ooops, MLM Policies And Procedures, Gotcha

Don Standard — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:00:53 +0000

Ooops, do you have a problem.

Did you miss the gotcha on line one?

This little one.

All Independent Business Owners (IBOs) are required to read, understand and comply with ALL [Company] IBO Polcies and Procedures..

Do you really think they put it in your contract, your policies and procedures, for no reason?

Why would they want you to read and understand your policies and procedures anyway?

Well, they don’t really want you to read them because you might actually understand them and realize what a bad deal you are getting into.

Fail to read them and now you didn’t comply. They gotcha.

But if you agreed that you read them and understood them then when you show up in court, it is an open and shut case. You lose. Because you understood what a bad contract you were agreeing to comply with.

Really, you can’t see why they are setting you up from day one?

My recommendation is to stop everything you are doing. Stop wasting your money. Stop working to build something that they want to take away from you? Get an education. Find companies that have reasonable policies and procedures. Fair ones. Learn about The 5 Pillars To Success.

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Are You Already In Trouble?

Don Standard — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:47:52 +0000

Most network marketing applications have one or more boxes that you check right before finalizing your sign up as a distributor with the company. If you don’t check them, you can’t sign up.

Why are you being asked to check the boxes?

The boxes usually say something about you agreeing that you have done something. Checking the box is how you acknowledge that you agree.

The things you are agreeing to may be that you read your terms and conditions and agree to abide by them. Or it could be that they have multiple boxes. One for terms and conditions, another for policies and procedures and still another about the compensation plan.

I have found that most people check these boxes and continue with out even reading why they are checking them. If they do read the statement then almost no one looks at the document that the statement refers to so they have no idea what they are agreeing to do.

If you were to read the terms and conditions that your are agreeing to abide by then you would likely find a statement like this one.

I have carefully read and agree to comply with the [Company] Policies and Procedures and the [Company] Marketing and Compensation Plan, both of which are incorporated into and made a part of these Terms and Conditions.

So not only did you agree by checking the box that you had read the terms and conditions but those terms had the statement from above. I think it is pretty clear what they ask you to agree to do.

You have violated the contract with your new company’s contract on the day you signed up because you did not carefully read the documents. Did you?

And they tell you in your policies and procedures that if you violate any part of this contract that you can be terminated. So you just set yourself up for termination at any time in the future.

So, Are You Already In Trouble?

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The MLM Dream

Don Standard — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:51:04 +0000

The MLM Dream and Your Policies and Procedures. What do they have to do with your MLM Success?

Throughout the world of MLM, there is one dream that almost everyone has in common. They have the dream to build a big MLM team with a big income and then retire from their MLM responsibilites and continue to earn that big check.

Does that sound like you, or people on your team?

In the almost 30 years that I have been in MLM, this dream of retiring with a big MLM income has been a big selling point for bringing people into the business. Thirty years ago it may have been true. But is it still true today?

Check out this example from a company’s policies and procedures. In this policy, IMC is the company’s designation for their distributors.

IMC Supervisory Role. Any IMC who sponsors other IMCs must fulfill the obligation of performing a bona fide supervisory role in the sale or delivery of product to the ultimate consumer and in the training of those sponsored. Each IMC must have ongoing contact and communication with their sales organizations and also provide management supervision. Examples of such supervision may include, but are not limited to: written correspondence, personal meetings, telephone contact, voice mail contact, electronic mail contact, providing training sessions, accompanying individuals to Company training, and sharing genealogy information with those sponsored. Each IMC should be able to provide evidence to the Company semiannually of his/her ongoing fulfillment of sponsor responsibilities.

I see similar statements in almost every company’s policies and procedures that I read. They may be worded a little differently each time but all say the same thing that you don’t want to hear;

YOU CAN NOT RETIRE AND KEEP YOUR INCOME.

Let’ start by looking at the word “ongoing”. It means current, staying current, being actually in process, moving forward. With the word “ongoing” in this statement then you can’t ever stop doing what they are saying you must do. How can you retire and still keep doing all of this? For that matter, how can you get sick and keep doing everything?

Do companies actually enforce a policy like this? Don’t ask your upline, they will always say of course not, don’t worry.

Why did the company put it into their policies and procedures if they don’t intend to use it? Give the CEO a call and ask him to remove it since they say they would never use it. They will not do that for you, because of course, they intend to use it. That is why they included it.

The young lady I met last year found out the hard way. She was pregnant. And half way through the pregnancy her doctor prescribed bed rest. No activities. No going to meetings. Ninety days later the company invoked a policy like the one above. They terminated her and she lost the team that she built.

Now if the company is going to steal your dream of building a big income and retiring, right from the beginning with your contract, then why would you bother to build the company? The only answer that I have is that you didn’t read your contract, your policies and procedures. You don’t even know the rules.

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MLM Policies and Procedures – Famous #9 Enroller Policy

Don Standard — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:28:07 +0000

This is one of the worst policies ever included in an MLM company’s policies and procedures.

The Famous #9 Enroller Policy!

As far as I know, this policy can only be found in one company’s policies and procedures. So there is no need for me to name the company. Just look in your company’s policies and procedures to see if you have it. Do be aware that they may move it from the 9 position to another position which they have done at least once already. I have removed the company name and replace it with [Company].

9. Enroller Policy
Should an individual personally enroll someone and place that individual under another person in their downline, [Company] reserves the right of the personally enrolling individual to later regain that placed individual for other placement options should the situation deem necessary. This policy is enforced at the discretion of the [Company] Corporate Sales Manager.

Let’s take a look at this policy. First you should know that the company encourages distributors to place personally sponsored people somewhere other than their first level. There is nothing wrong with doing so in my opinion as long as the person being placed agrees to it.

Now notice that the policy is talking about these people that have been placed in the distributors downline. Now the really bad part. Later the company can take those people and place them somewhere else should the situation deem necessary.

What I know from watching the company, is that placing them somewhere else means outside of the distributors downline. That means the distributor loses this personally sponsored person and those in the personally sponsored persons downline. They have been stolen from the distributor and possibly legally since he agreed to the policies and procedures.

Should the situation deem necessary must mean when the Corporate Sales Manager wants to make more money because they always get moved to help the income of the Corporate Sales Manager.

Then the final sentence let’s you know who gets to decide how this movement of distributors will work. You guessed it, enforced at the discretion of the [Company] Corporate Sales Manager. No wonder everyone that gets moved ends up under him.

It probably wouldn’t surprise you after seeing this to learn that this company makes the new news often at sites whose mission is to protect distributors from companies like this one. And most of the news has nothing to do with their policies and procedures.

It sure wouldn’t take much research to avoid a company like this one.

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