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.
