Questions About MLM/Networking

[ninjababez]

seriously, yup why not mapag-uusapan naman yan pwede ka rin if interested. si ninjababez daw sagot nya na ang chix kapag umabot sa quota.

quota san?

[akosidab]

I'll ask my Mom nga from what era our tupperware was :bwahaha: wow I didn't know Tupperware was used by students for baon.

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Im one of them. Haha. Naalala ko noon yan gamit ko na baunan kahit lalagyan ng sandwich yan din gamiy ko.

Saka pag mag outing kmi yan lagi dala dala ng family namin. Matibay talaga kasi until now buhay pa mga tupperware sa bahay. Mahirap lng linisin pag nagkaron ng cebo.

[kimbon]

quota san?

sales quota bro. di ba ang sabi mo sakin may bonus ka kay clavel pagna-hit nya ang sales quota? LOL

[ninjababez]

sales quota bro. di ba ang sabi mo sakin may bonus ka kay clavel pagna-hit nya ang sales quota? LOL

bro nasa metrowalk ako later, ayain natin si ... kung sisipot

[kimbon]

bro nasa metrowalk ako later, ayain natin si ... kung sisipot

ngek bat ngayon mo lang sinabi dito na ko sa condo. Grrrrr

[cast_no_shadow]

Panalo!


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[numbah5]

Unicity is also promoted by the Belo Medical Group. Dr. Vicki and her daughter Cristalle are members of Unicity also. EQ was able to convince me as well

[dreamur]

Panalo!


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Hehehe...hindi nagsisinungalin ang ebidensya!

[_Cathy_]

Unicity is also promoted by the Belo Medical Group. Dr. Vicki and her daughter Cristalle are members of Unicity also. EQ was able to convince me as well

I should have joined Unicity in 2015 and convinced the whole board

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[jut703]

Just sharing my musings about my MLM experience...

I. Introduction
I was fortunate enough to get invited to a Unicity presentation a few days ago, and I took the opportunity to experience first-hand what MLMs are all about. I was genuinely interested because quite a few people (high profile individuals at that) have claimed that Unicity is different from all other MLMs. The skeptic in me was excited to have all my preconceived notions shattered.

The meeting was held at the splendid abode of our speaker, located in one of Makati’s posh subdivisions. The guy was a young high flyer in the corporate world, holding one of the highest positions in one of the biggest companies in the country, no doubt an achiever and a tremendously intelligent man. He was definitely someone I’d listen intently to.

Our presenter began with the proposition that our efforts in life are all for the pursuit of happiness, an idea he called “Project Happiness”. Unlike the typical MLM cliché, he did not focus on accumulating wealth for the purpose of heedless materialism. Instead, our speaker equated happiness to three things – time, health, and money (as a means to maximize the former two, not as an end in itself). He goes on to describe three stages of our lives – 1) when we’re young, we have time and health, but no money; 2) when we’re middle-aged, we have health and money, but no time; 3) when we get to our senior years, we have time and money, but no health. Thus, throughout our lives, we don’t really get all 3 factors at their maximum levels, so therefore we never really maximize our happiness.

From here we see that what “Project Happiness” aims for is to have the lots of money and lots of time to enjoy it, while we’re still in good health. In other words, be rich while you’re still young, through work that doesn’t consume much of your time so you can spend your days enjoying your wealth.

Before I go on, I’d like to comment that I don’t completely agree with this idea of happiness. Yes, the scenario described is ideal, and it’s nice to aspire for it. But happiness isn’t maximized only when you reach this utopia – a poor, sickly man can be happier than a rich multi-billionaire. I’m not saying that the definition of happiness described in the meeting was wrong – just that there’s more to happiness than that, but I digress.

Moving forward, the speaker uses Kiyosaki’s famous Cash Flow Quadrant to describe 4 stages where people are, career-wise. Most are either employees or self-employed entrepreneurs that are dependent on active income (when they stop working, they stop earning). This obviously takes a toll on our time and health. To achieve happiness, we should strive to have passive income, either through investments (money working for you), or having businesses with systems set up so well that it will run and make you money even if you take yourself out of the picture.

Usually, it takes about 20-30 years to move from active income to passive income, says our speaker. However (and this is the highlight of this entire segment), with Unicity, it will only take you 3-5 years to achieve financial freedom through passive income. Quite a grand claim if you ask me, bordering on “too good to be true”.

At this point, it was becoming clear to me that the objective of Unicity isn’t all that different from other MLMs after all – “join us because you’ll get rich without taking as long you’d have to with traditional entrepreneurship or corporate slavery”. We began with discussions of happiness, but ultimately we’ve gone back to money. What sets them apart is that their spiel is much better by focusing not just on the easy riches, but on the benefits it brings (more time and less toll on your health).

Just like before, my questions still remain – first, how many percent of the MLM’s members have achieved this charmed financial freedom within the claimed timeline? I am interested in the averages, what the typical member will end up with, and not the best-case scenario enjoyed by a fortunate few. Secondly, if this MLM is indeed as lucrative as it’s purported to be, why isn’t everyone jumping on the bandwagon?

II. Getting to Know Unicity and Its Products
Going back to the meeting, our presenter proceeded to introduce the founders of the company in the Philippines. All of them were either corporate high-flyers, owners of successful businesses, or a combination of both. Curiously, none of them have a background in the industry of health and wellness, which is the focus of Unicity’s products.

The speaker claims that Unicity is unlike most MLMs, as it actually has a long and established history. The company originates from Rexall (merged with Enrich in 2001), which was introduced to us as a glorious pharmaceutical brand in the US, dating back to the early 1900s. He even claimed that the “Rx” sign found in prescriptions stands for Rexall.

That last claim was rather troubling. Thanks to my doctor-to-be girlfriend, I’ve learned that “Rx” comes from the Latin word, “recipe”, meaning to take (just as how your doctor means for you to take the medicine he writes down on his prescription pad). It has been used way before Rexall was even founded. I’m dismayed that Unicity had to make a false spiel to lend itself credibility. I guess it’s also worth noting that Rexall had declined significantly in the 1980’s and isn’t the American version of Mercury Drug that I initially thought it was.

Back to the talk, the speaker then describes Unicity’s products as “nutraceuticals”, combining the natural ingredients of nutritional supplements, with the efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs. True enough, the speaker’s claim that Unicity’s products are listed in the PDR (Physicians’ Desk Reference, similar to MIMS locally) are actually correct. This means that at the very least, their products have been subjected to regulation and aren’t likely to be shams.

There were 7 products introduced to us, ranging from from detox tablets, slimming teas, energy drinks, and probiotic drinks. From my recollection of the brief description of the products, my girlfriend told me that they generally make medical sense. There were just some weird claims, such as their probiotic drink being as good as 1,042 bottles of Yakult – that much probiotics isn’t actually good for your body. You can only absorb so much probiotics and the rest will most likely just go to waste, so it’s not necessarily better.

Their slimming tea is said to keep your body in the “fat-burning zone”, and they even offer a money-back guarantee if you don’t lose weight. I was just alarmed at how it was presented as an effortless substitute to traditional exercise – I am wary of anything that claims to be better than the good old proper diet and exercise. I’ve yet to research further about their products, but so far from what I’ve heard and read, it’s not really radically different from all other supplements in the market. Certainly, if Unicity’s products were as game-changing as our speaker claimed them to be, we’d have heard more about it, considering the company has been around in its current pharma-MLM form since 2003. I’m not saying they don’t work, but I strongly doubt that they’re miracle products.