Randy Gage is scared. Scared of web 2.0 and new media.
In his latest BLOG POST, he says the following:
"If you think you need a blog, your duplication will suffer…"
Seriously? Did Randy just tell me that duplication will suffer as a result of blogging….from his blog?
Can he get any more hypocritical?
Here is the problem with Randy Gage. He is working very hard to keep a duplicatable model in place that frankly doesn't work for the majority of people.
Rather than appease all of the old school croonies who are proud at the fact that they can't check their email, wouldn't it be wise to embrace the good things about the web?
I will be the very first to tell you that no one has ever built a long term residual income in Network Marketing strictly online without creating relationships. It's all about relationships. Randy Gage knows it's all about relationships and that is why he is blogging and using an auto-responder.
Why is he telling you not to use these tools?
I read that Randy Gage nonsense post too, even though I know where he's coming from about making things as simple as possible for better duplication, I completely disagree with him on not using autoresponder and blogs
Having read the piece, my mind went back to the date… April 1. Gage can be a smart guy, and this would be a good gag. But I think he's serious.
Perhaps paradoxically, although Gage is sharp most of his followers aren't. They leap around in some 'Randy says' frenzy, like Energizer bunnies with an extra charge. But isn't that the same with most MLM 'gurus'?
For a business that talks so much of leadership, there's an awful lot of following… in which people suspend rational judgment and latch onto the first thing that sounds an easy ticket to a fast buck. Oh well, c'est la vie.
The cherry on the hot fudge sundae though, is his close…
'The business is built in the living rooms and hotel ballrooms. It’s built with relationships. The people telling you that you can build a group sitting at home on your ass in your bunny slippers have never done that. That’s all just pretty talk to sell you their crap. Stick to the foundational things that have worked for half a century, and will continue to work for another half a century.'
Yeah right, good luck with that one. In an increasingly interconnected world, 'web wins'.
As things change – and they'll shift dramatically during the next couple years – I expect to see more dinosaurs defending their outdated stances. Should be a laugh – except for the poor fools who follow them though.
Whatever. Hey, maybe I should get my own weblog for this stuff?
randy gage just wants every body to buy his tools.
I think he was just saying that lot of people don't just want to use Blog as a recruiting of prospect for your business.
I might be wrong but Randy Gage has his own way of doing business and teachings.
Remember he is on Twitter, YouTube and who knows where again. He is the man of his own words and he knows better that we do.
When i read that Post from Randy i was shocked because it was coming from such a famous person in our industry. As much as I follow his teachings and have liked his contribution to this industry I have agree with Ty here.
Online tools just make your work so much more easier and not using it would be the biggest mistake especially these days.
Sorry Randy ,hate to disagree with you on this.
Well, since 2005 Randy by using his “outdated” system has built a huge team in AGEL (more than 100.000) and made more then 5 million dollars for 5 years. How many of “advanced” Internet MLM-ers may show such results?
Randy teaches: As more simple thing you should do in your business, as more people can duplicate it.
In his AGEL team Randy promoting very simple approach – showing to the friends the 30-minutes video “Cash Flow Class”. It’s simple. Everyone can do that, even a child, even a grandma.
But if Randy would say to his team: let’s everyone have his own blog! How many people from 100.000 would really want to do that? May be 10-20% would do, but what about others?
I’m a Randy’s team member, and I have my own blog, but I I will not recommend to have it for everyone in my team, because some old generation people even do not have their own computer! But they successfully build their business by just showing the DVD. It works!
Question: Did Randy Gage build 100,000 people from scratch or did he use his position as an mlm trainer and build his business predominately from other network marketers teams who where plugging into his training?
Perhaps it’s important to make the distinction between people who want to blog solely as a way to recruit and people who are using websites to put more of themselves out there.
What Randy is doing, I think, is that he is using his website as a complementary tool for putting more of himself out there. His main tool is personal relationships though and that’s why he says that new people should not start with blogging.
There is another important point with this is that blogging is not a direct response thing – it’s not like picking up the phone and calling someone – which means that it’s going to take you much longer to learn what to say and how to say it through blogging because the results will not be apparent until long afterwards.
With a phone call you can do the call and then right away digest what has happened and learn from it. With your mentor if you want. And since you get this direct feedback, you learn faster and so does everbody else who is on your team.
(I’m not doing network marketing btw, just writing something that I think is common sense :-))
Ty,
Great post. Lol – got to love Randy.
Here’s my thoughts – Randy didn’t say in that quote (I didn’t read the full post) to ‘not blog’, he said ‘if you think you need a blog, duplication will suffer’
THAT is a different statement, and I think he’s right in the sense that the thought pattern that you ‘need’ a blog runs into all kinds of mind-problems.
He didn’t say (again, I couldn’t find his post) that blogs aren’t useful, he was essentially saying that you don’t need one to grow a business, which is true – there are a lot of other ways of growing a team that also work, the internet being involved.
Ok, I just found the post in reference:
http://www.networkmarketingtimes.com/blog/the-internet-mashup-mlm/
I think you’re mis-reading what he’s saying here, Ty – he’s not knocking using these things as tools to create relationships, he’s knocking on thinking you need them to build a business.
And he’s right – for myself, even though I create relationships online, 95% of my downline recruiting is from non-internet related stuff.
I think the ACTUAL problem that he’s referencing is simply this:
There are a lot of people who get into online marketing, and stop talking to people and building a business waiting to be a ‘guru’ before they sponsor anyone. Duplication does suffer from that kind of a mindset, and it’s rampant online.
I certainly don’t agree with everything Randy says, but he’s got a point here, don’t you think?
-Dave Wood
Yes, I Agree David. Everyone wants to try to act like a Guru now days without the proper mindset that they need to succeed in Network Marketing. Lots of people are afraid to just get out there and open their mouth and actually talk to a real human being. I’m pretty sure that’s what Randy was talking about…The “I’ll create a blog and millions will follow without actually speaking to someone in person” mindset.