What do you do when you realize
that you’re riding a dead horse?
 The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from one generation to the next,
says that when you discover you're riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount and find a live horse to ride.
However, in modern government departments and multi-national corporations, because of the myriad political factions, lobby
groups, vested interests and personal agendas in play, other strategies often have to be tried with
dead horses, including the following:
- Buying a stronger whip.
- Changing riders.
- Threatening the horse with termination.
- Appointing a committee to study the horse.
- Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
- Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
- Appointing an intervention team to reanimate the dead horse.
- Creating a training session to increase the rider's load share.
- Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
- Changing the form so that it reads: "This horse is not dead."
- Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.
- Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
- Donating the dead horse to a recognized charity, then deducting its full original
cost for taxation purposes.
- Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
- Doing a time management study to see if lighter riders would improve productivity.
- Purchasing an after-market product to make dead horses run faster.
- Declaring that a dead horse has lower overheads and therefore performs better.
- Forming a quality focus group to find profitable uses for dead horses.
- Rewriting the expected performance requirements for horses.
- Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position.
Similar arguments are also
advanced by network marketers who find themselves riding dead horses in
terms of their companies and compensation plans, but are unwilling to face reality
because of the immense emotional investment they've made in those companies and their
"dead horse" compensation plans. Their breathtaking creativity in making
excuses for staying in the saddle has to be experienced to be comprehended.
Some reliable
indicators that the network marketing "horse" you're riding is dead, but
it just won't lie down...
- It operates a binary
compensation plan, or any other type of matrix plan.
- The compensation plan has group volume requirements to qualify for bonuses.
- The compensation plan has downline rank requirements to qualify for bonuses.
- The compensation plan limits
the number of legs you can build (limited width)
- The compensation plan promotes
or requires building deep (the payout is distributed over numerous levels)
- The compensation plan encourages
the purchase of "Fast Start" product kits as a way for you to build
your bonus income faster.
These are just a few of the
deceptive, distracting, "smoke-and-mirrors" tricks played by network marketing
companies to rip-off naive, uneducated part-time distributors and reward themselves
and their "heavy hitter" cronies through their #1 secret weapon that
destroys YOUR chances of ever making a decent income in network marketing without
you even realising it...
BREAKAGE!
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If you suspect you're riding a dead horse, contact me for some
pointers in the right direction. It's time to clean up the MLM pool before it's
too late.
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