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I Need Your Network Marketing Advice…

Guest post by: Andy Acciaioli

Article Overview: When I see the term “I Need Your Advice” in an email, it always means “I want you to take a look at my business opportunity”. This is a method to solicit known network marketers into their business ventures. Perhaps this technique worked in the past but now having received so many of these solicitations, most of us simply delete them.

I Need Your Network Marketing Advice…

Whenever I see these words (or some variation) in the subject line of the opening sentence of an email, I get immediate palpitations. It is the subtle way of saying: I- want-you-to-look-at-my-network-marketing-opportunity-but-I-do-not-want-to- come-off-as-a-blatant-business-opportunity-spammer-so-I-will-subtly-finesse-you-into-looking-at-my-replicated-website-so-you-will-positively-want-to- immediately-join-my-business. Surely everyone will want to help me out by giving me their advice.

Wrong answer.

When I first started getting these requests, I would honestly review their opportunities and point out any potential flaws I would see either in the marketing, product or some element in the compensation plan. The responses to my frankness would range from "you don't know what you're talking about" to "I don't care what you have to say" to no response. And, there were a couple of thanks (but no thanks) replies.

Since I have written so many online network marketing articles, I now receive anywhere from 2 to 4 "I Need Your Advice..." emails each week from my various social network accounts and in the comment section of my blog. My response: delete.

If I seek to leave my network marketing company and join another, an email would not sway me to run to a business opportunity. My decision is securely rooted in the company's marketing, product and compensation plan. And,

most importantly, can I make money in it?

Over the past weekend, a friend of mine called me and asked me to critique a new business he had just joined. After briefly looking at his website, although it mentioned it being a business opportunity, it failed to present a compensation plan. When I told him about this, he explained that once you applied, they would email that to you. WHAT???

That being said, I have often toyed with the idea of replying to those "I Need Your Advice..." emails - and calls - with an email that I would be happy to review their business opportunity. But given my time limitation as well as my extensive network marketing experience, please prepay $$ into my PayPal account.

Needless to say I would expect that no one would take me up on that offer. My PayPal account has not shown any dramatic increases attributable to advice fees.

Were someone to pay a review fee for this sort of advice, I think it would be a service well worth the cost. It certainly would have saved me a lot of wasted money (and time) on some of the zany ventures I managed to get myself involved with.

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