Below is a snip from the latest Barry Minkow – Fraud Discovery Institute press release. I hope that what I am going to say does not come off as inconsiderate…if it does, I’m sorry.
There is not a person on earth that calls 200 leads per week and doesn’t sponsor anyone. PERIOD. Those kinds of numbers will overcome any lack of skills. I don’t even care what company you are with. Pick the company with the worst reputation, worst compensation and worst product line and you will still sponsor people when calling 200 leads a week.
SAN DIEGO/EWORLDWIRE/May 25, 2007 — In the first of a
two-part, new YouTube video release, the Fraud Discovery Institute
details the story of Steve Estes, former Usana (NASDAQ: USNA) Associate
(Number 2028731) from Temple, Georgia. Estes, who was born blind,
became a Usana distributor in December of 2001 with hopes of attaining
financial freedom and doing more than simply becoming a consumer of the
company’s product."Leaders in the company would
work to persuade me that I was one associate sign-up away from true
wealth," he said. "I funded minimum mandatory auto ship purchases in
three business centers every year for four years before I cut back in
year five to one business center."Estes was committed to the
opportunity presented to him: he poured his life savings, his time and
went as far as taking out a second mortgage on his home to build up his
Usana multi level marketing business. Despite regularly attending both
regional and national conventions, purchasing multiple training tools
and even leads – which required him to cold call potential associates
at a rate of 200 per week – Estes was unable to sign-up distributors.
Interesting sharing.
I think what Barry should have done is not just put full committment to calling leads but rather also visualize his ability to connect with them over the phone so comfortably and confidently.
It is usually tough for people to visualize their success before they see it. I experience this problem too. That is why I highly recommend to use Attraction Accelerator, a soundwave music that will tune our brain focus and visualization abilities. The creator of this pdt actually make a video to explain how he become a multi millionaire by also doing 1 step called visualization
http://secretofunlimitedprosperity.com/19/attraction-accelerator-a-word-from-the-creator/
Network marketers must not underestimate this if we want to succeed in this industry.
Cheers, Karen
Calling 200 leads a week. Ok, lets talk numbers. If you stretched that out to a seven day week you'd have to call 28.57 people per day. Stretch that out to a 24 hour day you would have to call 1.19 people per hour without a break. Now, provided you weren't well on your way to insanity about ten hours into your second day, what kind of conversation would one be having with all those people, one after another after another after…..you know what I mean?
The next question is, who in the world would buy all those leads and from what source could you possible get that number of qualified leads from? You have to let the source know that it's ok to provide you with names of people doing geological research at the South Pole…. you know what I mean?
Next issue…Who takes out a mortgage on their house to get the money together to participate in their MLM. You'd have to go diving in the deep end of the pool to even consider it….you know what I mean?
And, quite seriously, to take this man and stage prop him into the starring role of this type of sleeze-attack video has to be the work someone with absolutely no regard for this gentleman's humanity and dignity…you know what I mean?
I personally think that Minkow's unknown client(s) targeted USANA for reasons that we are not sure about. My feeling is that it may be profit oriented.
My main concern is that overall; USANA is a caring company with many great people and alliances. It's by far not perfect, but overall it’s a good company. They have a 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility that voluntarily manufactures its products to pharmaceutical standards. They do use a legitimate network marketing go to market strategy of direct sales.
If they just wanted to build a fake/farce product pyramid scheme, why spend so many resources on land, manufacturing equipment, labs, warehousing, IT systems, employees (1000 people work for USANA) and the list goes on.
If you look at companies that were brought down that “posed as legitimate NWM businesses”, you’ll see that most of their so-called products were manufactured by a third party, services were contracted out and the product was inferior. No high-end third party endorsement would be there even if you paid them.
I’m not sure if USANA paid an endorsement fee or signing bonuses to the US and Canadian Olympic Speed Skating Teams, Women’s Professional Tennis, Tennis BC, Bernice King, Christine Northrup, MD, SportMedBC or any other of the multitudes of high end third party organisations and professionals. What I can say is that if the product that USANA produces would have been inferior (because they do use three well respected independent labs to check their products), they would not have agreed to the terms of an endorsement. There is no price tag for integrity and honesty. If these organizations and people did not think USANA made the cut, chances are they would have said, “keep your money!”.
My issue here is that I think Minkow used the press as his method of prosecution, judge and jury, which is a blatant misuse of free speech. The FBI or any other law enforcement authority would never shoot first and ask questions later. Before the FBI issue any formal statement to the press, they along with the respected prosecutors office, would say that there was enough evidence to lay charges and pursue legal action. Barry and his FDI went to the press in a hateful and malicious way. With total disregard for the majority of honest and hardworking people that work with and for USANA. He used information that may have had some relevance, but twisted it in a way that went beyond the real truth. I call them half-truths, because he twisted the tidbits of information in a way that made the whole company look bad. This also hurt many shareholders of USANA. If you need examples I can easily put that list together.
Let the courts and jury decide who will win this battle and be done with it. USANA has a very strong legal team and I'm sure Minkow and his unknown client(s) are doing OK for legal representation. It will be interesting to follow this story, as it will have ramifications for the NWM industry as a whole. I'm sure there will be issues of external USANA stock manipulation as well.
You know, USANA isn’t even interested in getting money out of Minkow (he already owes 25 million dollars from previous criminal activity), you can see that in their suit against him. They simply want a public apology for jumping the gun and for listening to the small horde of anti MLM/NWM zealots who jumped on, or created this bandwagon. USANA want their good name back. They want their shareholders to be assured that they made the right choice investing in them. USANA want their preferred customers and associates to know that the last 15 years was a time to be a part of something greater then themselves. USANA want their stakeholders to regain confidence in them. By the law of the universe, this will happen and everyone on both sides of the equation will be better for it and hopefully will have learned something.
We live in free countries (Canada and the US) and have the ability to express our views openly. I just hope that these freedoms are not abused in a way that hurt others in the process.
All the best and thanks for the dialogue.
Sincerely,
Klaus