My ex-wife was attracted by her sister to become Mary Kay in 2012. At that time, I was still young and had just gotten married. I didn’t know what this thing was. I thought my sister asked her to start a career. No. It will hurt her. I have been to their activities twice, and they sang and danced. You encouraged me, and I encouraged you. Kissing you is the best. It’s ridiculous to think about it now. I also travel everywhere, both at home and abroad. I’m lucky I paid all my salary for several years, and every time I couldn’t meet the staff, I used the money to buy goods. As a result, I stocked a room full of goods, which cost about 3,000 per set. I finished the 200,000 yuan in two years, and then they asked me for money every day. , I have no money and buy clothes every day, saying that I don’t support her career, and I don’t go to sell blood because of my own mistakes. The most annoying thing is that I can’t bear to draw clothes for two or three hours early in the morning. I dress up like a Chihuahua every day. Like a Japanese geisha, she would call her back at 12:00 p.m. and would either turn off her phone or not answer the phone. The most annoying thing was to tell her not to do this. She said she would rather choose Mary Kay than her two-year-old son. We ended up having a fight, which ended in divorce in 2014, and my life was wasted on her

I have to answer the question.

There are too many direct selling relatives and friends around me, including Amway, Perfect, Melaleuca, Nu Skin, Herbalife, and Guozhen. I only tell the facts:

My sister-in-law worked in the power grid system before graduating from Sichuan University, and then worked full-time at Amway. She started working at Amway full-time when I was in my second year of college. It has been 13 years since I graduated, so I can He said that this "career" spanned his entire youth after graduation.

When I was a sophomore in college, I participated in their class. The teacher came to his home to give lectures. To be honest, the teacher had a very charming personality. He talked about life and philosophy and basically didn’t talk about cases. I also fell in love with it. teacher. Later, I also applied for a membership card. Of course, I had no money at that time and it was all saved. I looked forward to becoming a DD, a director, a diamond, a crown, and becoming a winner in life as they say.

It is said that if you reach the DD level, you will have a domestic travel meeting once a year, and if you reach the diamond level, you will have a very luxurious overseas trip. I persisted in this ideal for half a year, and then I figured it out and spent all this energy It may not be as rewarding as my investment in the professional field, so I didn’t do it. During the period, my classmates bought a toothpaste, and that was it. The rest was consumed by myself.

Then I watched my sister-in-law work year after year, and finally had an income of 2,000 yuan a month after 4 years of work. However, my family and parents spent more than 6,000 yuan on Amway every month. Even the year before last, he was still telling me where he went on those trips, and I asked him if he had gone there, and he said he hadn't reached the level yet.

A dream that has persisted for almost twenty years has always been to be an audience, cheering for others and applauding.

It’s hard to evaluate, maybe they are very happy themselves.

I quit Amway last year and started selling small and micro loans when I was in my 40s. I didn’t dare to ask or tell.

I am an unfamiliar friend, a friend of a friend. It seems to be called D6 level in Melaleuca, which seems to be a very high level. There are dozens of membership customers under his name, and I am one of them. I often travel, often hold annual meetings across the country, often work as a sharing lecturer, often travel abroad with my family, and often post on Moments.

I bought their products and later started to tell me about the continuous income. In fact, it goes without saying that I also know a series of operation steps. After all, I have more than 30 years of social experience. I can't say I am disgusted, but I don't like it either. I won't do it.

But their family is really the kind of people who are at the top of the small pyramid in direct sales. They drive luxury cars, live in luxury houses, and play every day.

I don’t know if this is a very small number of people, or if it is really the direct selling life goal that they say they can achieve as long as they work hard. What can they do next when they reach this level? It should be that we will always be rich.

My mother’s friend made it and even got me a card.

The great value of direct selling is that it can transform even an old lady. After my mother applied for the card, she would tell me every day how many PVs I can make money, how many PVs I can get promoted, and drive a Land Rover. Live in a villa. You know, my mother used to read English letters in Pinyin.

My mother’s friend insisted on being perfect for eleven or twelve years, from his forties to his fifties. His daughter scolded him for eleven or twelve years from high school to working.

From Zhongshan to Guiyang, and then to Changsha, living expenses were more than ten yuan a day, renting in a group, from having no income to a few hundred yuan a month, and then a few years ago when I gave up completely and was in debt, my goal in life is The same thing has never changed, that is, I want Malaysia and I want to take a photo with one of their presidents to attend the annual meeting.

Later I left and returned to my hometown to work as a warehouse security guard. Looking at the dilapidated life, I could only dream in dreams.

As for my mother, she keeps renewing her card every year and likes the Perfect Conditioner very much. Just last year, she accidentally started playing Pinduoduo and bought a 6-yuan Perfect Conditioner. (The direct sales discount price of Perfect in its own system is more than 20). After my mother scolded Perfect for being a blood-sucking machine, she burned the Perfect membership card and fell in love with Pinduoduo ever since.

It’s hard for me to say anything. After all, I still have to thank Pinduoduo.

I think, no matter what happens in the end, if we are happy on the road of pursuit, it is better than complaining in the workplace every day. After all, they are happy, and it doesn’t matter whether they go traveling or not.

When I saw this question, I would like to share it. In fact, in the early years, I knew about Mary Kay (cosmetics), Amway (dishwashing liquid), and later Herbalife (weight loss products). In recent years, I Learned about Melaleuca (household cleaning products).

In fact, I have never opposed direct selling, and of course I don’t agree with it. Of course, I only heard from friends and have never really participated in it. After all, I don’t know the system and policies very well. However, I have had close contact with and learned about Melaleuca for a period of time, so I will share with you what I saw.

In fact, this was also a direct selling brand developed by a friend of mine from the bank, and I didn’t think much of it at the time. When she introduced it to me at the time, she said that she had a middle school classmate who had uremia. She heard that drinking Melaleuca juice could improve immunity, so she bought it. The effect was indeed pretty good, because Melaleuca can just be a consumer. . Then, after drinking juice for a while, her classmate's health remained good, so she officially joined the organization, with the original intention of helping more patients.

Because of an introduction from an old classmate, my friend from the bank joined this organization, just as a consumer at the beginning. Melaleuca's system is based on the monthly premium payment system of insurance companies. It requires a monthly consumption of 340 yuan to maintain the highest product discount, 30% off.

I thought their concept was pretty good at the time. After all, it was to spread good products to people in need. I went to learn about it on the spot, and then my bank friend introduced the leader of her organization to meet with us. He was a Taiwanese. What he told me that day left a deep impression on me. Indeed, what he said attracted me.

The main thing to remember is that we are talking about passive income. Your current job requires you to work every day to have income. If you don’t work for a day, you will have no income. If you stop working, you will have no income.

The Melaleuca system is a kind of passive income. You can find 5 people to build an organization, and then each of these 5 people can find 5 people to build an organization, and then it can reach up to 7 levels. In other words, if you can fill this 5*7 matrix, you will have nearly 100,000 people working for you, and a 7% bonus will be almost a few million.

I remember that a Taiwanese teacher described this matter like this: You open a cafe by yourself, with 100,000 seats. Of course, you first have to invite 10 customers to drink coffee, and 5 of them will Personally, I think it is good to open a coffee shop. If you become your distributor, they will also invite customers to drink coffee. This will slowly spread and your cafe will have more and more people. How many people can sit in your cafe depends on your personal ability and team management ability.

Then, the teacher mainly talked about one point, (I work for an insurance company), how much does it cost to buy an insurance and get a monthly pension of 20,000 yuan after retirement? I did the math and it was about 7 million. Then the teacher said, if you don’t need to pay the 7 million now, you just need to find 5 people to drink coffee. Do you find it difficult?

I did think it was not difficult at the time. I just need to find 5 people and let them be Melaleuca consumers. Each person can spend 340 yuan a month.

With 5 people and 20,000 yuan per month after retirement, would you make such a choice? I think most people will find it really not difficult.

One thing the teacher said is that every invitation you make now is planting a small sapling. You don’t know which sapling will sprout and grow into a towering tree. Maybe it’s not you either. These 5 people, because they are invited by your friends’ friends, if one day they develop well, you will also do well.

In fact, let me tell you, this theory seems to be good and there is nothing wrong with it.

But after I became a member, I discovered the problem. If I didn’t need to take health supplements and just buy household cleaning supplies, such as dishwashing liquid, I wouldn’t be able to spend 340 yuan a month. I have been a member for about 7 months, and I have stocked up on a lot of dishwashing detergent, shower gel, etc. at home, and I haven’t used them all yet.

Speaking of noni juice, I really don’t know whether it has any effect, but I think some people, in order to sell it, brag that it can cure cancer. That is deceiving customers. This is not true. I don’t know if it can be considered as a health product, but I guess it is at best a health food.

Although I think the product is okay. After all, all household cleaning products are 100% natural, and there are environmental protection labels and patents, but after all, they are American patents, and we have no way to do it. Query. I just asked my friends in the United States and they don’t seem to know much about Melaleuca.

A bottle of dishwashing liquid costs 49 yuan for non-members and 34 yuan for members. In fact, the price is acceptable, but you can’t use 10 bottles of dishwashing liquid in a month, right?

A middle-class family spends 340 yuan a month on household cleaning products and personal cleaning products. The price is indeed not a big problem, but the problem is that middle-class families need high-quality brands, and Melaleuca does not have a good reputation. ; But ordinary families will find this product expensive, and 340 yuan a month is also very expensive. So I think Melaleuca’s consumption and positioning are not consistent.

I’ve never heard of Melaleuca people traveling to other places and eating and drinking all over the place, but I saw some people who work for Melaleuca showing off on their WeChat Moments every day, saying that everyone drank juice and their cancer was cured. So fake.

Later, after 7 months, we quit the Melaleuca membership. The Taiwanese teacher came to us once and we explained the reason. What I want to say is that any industry that can survive probably has its own reasons for existing. However, it is basically impossible for anyone to get something for nothing.

If you want to have a monthly income of 20,000 yuan after retirement, then of course you must have 7 million yuan, or just work hard to make money now, and don't place your hope on anyone else.

Regarding the theory of creating passive income and doubling, I think it is generally good. After all, the Internet and self-media communication now have such characteristics. However, I hope everyone understands that what meets the regulations now is the secondary distribution system. , any system that can generate income beyond secondary distribution may be related to direct selling (pyramid selling).

My point is, try not to engage in direct selling, unless your personal marketing ability is particularly strong. Even if you do, you cannot stock up on goods. Stocking up on goods basically means that your marketing skills are not good. Of course, this is a paradox. If an individual has strong marketing skills and can make money in whatever sales he does, he does not necessarily have to do direct selling (MLM).

My sister did Amway.

It was probably around 2000. At that time, there were not as many direct selling companies as there are now. There seemed to be only Avon and Amway.

My sister used to be a music teacher. She has excellent professional skills, image, and temperament. She sang the high notes of Li Na's "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" effortlessly and was very professional.

It was such a person who finally embarked on the road of direct selling.

At that time, she spoke of jade and diamonds (emerald and diamond were Amway's business levels at that time). Either this person went abroad to travel, or that person earned as much money as possible.

When talking about the future, my eyes always shine and I am full of magnificent imaginations about the future.

As a direct sales person, she is as passionate as a well-oiled motor. She conducts product testing at home time and time again. She goes to group family gatherings regardless of rain or shine. She practices and shares her testimonials over and over again at home, and even buys special products. I bought an expensive professional suit, traveled thousands of miles and took the trouble to fly to Xiamen and Jinan to attend classes.

People with dreams are worthy of respect. But for those who dream of direct selling, their family and friends will suffer.

Her home is full of Amway products, with bottles and cans of all kinds, and a dazzling array of products. There is performance pressure in direct selling. If you don't stock up on goods, you won't be able to complete the task, and you won't get the so-called "commission."

It is useless to dissuade her. She will firmly say, "You don't understand at all!" Her brother-in-law and parents-in-law quarrel with her constantly, and they always shake their heads and sigh when they mention her.

Relatives and friends, more or less, have to buy some toothpaste, dish soap, protein powder, etc. out of sympathy.

That's all. The most unbearable thing is that she always talks about Amway's benefits to everyone she meets. Anyone who has objections will be very excited and very serious in her defense. Don't give up any opportunity, use every possible opportunity to develop offline, and in the end, everyone around you will avoid you.

In the end, I persisted for more than 2 years, losing money all the time, and finally gave up in frustration and frustration.

After she stopped doing direct sales, we, brothers and sisters, each helped her eat Amway protein powder for a long time because she stocked up too much. In the end, some of it expired and was thrown away.

Has anyone made money doing direct selling? Yes, but very few.

Is direct selling good? It's a matter of opinion.

From a business model perspective, it is assumed that direct selling can expand indefinitely, because the number of people on the earth is limited, and the last group of people who join are destined to have no downline to develop, and it is absolutely impossible to make money.

Moreover, direct selling products are generally very expensive, seriously deviating from the value of the product itself.

For most ordinary people, direct selling mainly relies on favors and starts by overdrafting the relationship limits of relatives and friends. Once the favor is exhausted, it is time to wake up from the dream of getting rich.

Why do people in direct sales like meetings so much? On the one hand, meetings are charged, and the organizers can make a lot of money through meetings; on the other hand, direct selling companies must continue to provide customers with "sharing", "tear-inducing", and "public commitment to sell as many goods as they want". Direct sellers are instilled with the dream of getting rich, and they are constantly "invigorated" so that direct sellers can maintain their passion and motivation for as long as possible.

In an era of closed information, people lack understanding and horizontal comparison of the direct selling industry and direct selling products, so direct selling can be very popular. Today, when information dissemination is fast and highly transparent, the direct selling industry that relies on the head-pulling model to make money is destined to decline.

But until now, there are many variations of direct selling industry, and many people are flocking to it.

It’s not that these people don’t understand the drawbacks and problems, it’s just that they are full of confidence in themselves and think that they are smart enough and will never be the last to spread the word.

For direct selling practitioners, I admire their fighting spirit of working hard for their dreams. This is positive energy.

But another feeling I have is that when you should be accumulating connections, you use connections in exchange for money. When you lose connections, you also lose opportunities for future development.

Life is a marathon. There are many paths to struggle. It’s good to work slowly and steadily, and accumulate more and more.

I have a relative who sells direct-selling products.

My relatives have always been in business, doing wholesale flowers. Business is booming, and we bought a house and a car in the provincial capital here. For a time, he became the most beautiful among all our relatives and friends.

When doing flower wholesale, sometimes when you encounter large goods (large trees), you need to hire a forklift, crane, etc.

One time when my relative was loading a large load, the rope was not tightened, the tree fell, and a branch hit my relative's foot.

Although it was not particularly serious, I still spent two months recuperating at home after being discharged from the hospital.

In the past two months, my relatives came into contact with a direct selling product: Moumei!

Knowing that my relative was injured, a friend of hers who makes certain American products came over to visit. I gave a few barrels of certain beauty products as a gift, and told my relatives about the various benefits of making certain beauty products.

Especially when it was mentioned that the business run by my relative was vulnerable to injury, it made my relative feel a lot.

On the one hand, my relative has been engaged in the flower industry for too long and is tired of it; on the other hand, he happened to be injured (many workers were injured before) and realized the dangers. In addition, she is indeed bored at home.

As a result, my relative began to frequently contact the friend who was a certain beauty.

After her relatives finished recuperating, they almost never went to the shop. They followed her to be a friend of a certain beauty and participated in various "brainwashing" conferences every day.

After I came back, I promoted it to my family, relatives and friends. They say things like "cleansing and replenishing", "if you don't maintain your health now, you will become a doctor later", and "all traditional industries will close down in the future, and only direct selling is the way out".

In the beginning, as relatives, we all would buy some of the products she recommended.

But as time went by, everyone began to feel a little disgusted. Every time we knew she was coming, all our relatives would make excuses for not being at home.

We have a group of relatives, and she pushes various links about health and beauty in the group every day. So much so that the entire relative group is less active.

If you want to "upgrade" in direct selling, you must sell enough goods every month. It's like being promoted from specialist to supervisor, and then to manager.

The higher the level, the higher the commission points; behind the scenes, the more goods you sell, the more your downline will develop.

My relative’s home has a lot of beauty products, ranging from health care products to daily necessities. She bought it with her own money and upgraded it for herself.

Sometimes we would tell her that this is equivalent to hoarding goods. If it cannot be sold, wouldn’t it be a loss?

She always answers, "Our certain Midea product actually sells not goods, but health. Besides, we also need to eat."

"We can't make money. Money, health." This is the mantra of all their beauties.

As I have been working as a beauty for longer and longer, my relatives have more and more goods at home. And the expenses at home are getting bigger and bigger.

Usually buying a tube of toothpaste may cost more than ten yuan. As for certain toothpastes, the prices are often in the 40s, 50s, 50s or 60s. Shampoo is also ridiculously expensive.

When a child falls ill, relatives do not send him to the hospital immediately, but instead take Midea products.

Gifts given to the elderly at home during the holidays are also some of Midea’s products.

The expenses are high, and the relatives don’t care much about the store, so the business is getting worse and worse.

On the one hand, my relative’s husband is recognized as a “lazy person” by us, and he never cares about the store. Suddenly he came to take care of the store, and after taking back the money, he used it to play mahjong. Therefore, business is getting worse and worse.

On the other hand, those customers who used to do business with my relatives were sold a certain American product by their relatives every time they came. Gradually, there are fewer and fewer customers.

In the end, my relative’s original business was transferred, and the goods and shop were transferred to another colleague.

The family’s source of income was cut off, so the relatives devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the direct selling business.

When I went to her home some time ago, I saw a lot of Mei products.

Every time this matter is mentioned, all relatives can only shake their heads silently.

PS: As far as I know, my relative still owes a large loan. Some are borrowed, some are purchase payments owed from previous business, and some are credit cards. Anyway, their family is living in an extremely miserable state now.

Direct selling can also be called direct sales by manufacturers, which refers to a distribution method in which direct selling companies recruit direct sellers, who sell products directly to final consumers outside of fixed business premises.

Direct selling is originally a new type of marketing method. It has the advantages of low investment, free time, more work and more gain. It is favored by many office workers and entrepreneurs. At present, there are nearly 100 formal companies in China that have obtained direct selling licenses, such as Avon, Perfect, Zhongmai, Infinitus, etc. Products also include health care products, daily necessities, cosmetics, etc. There are many kinds, and they are very practical whether for personal use or for sale. Therefore, many people are willing to invest for their own use and work part-time to make money.

However, people nowadays put interests first because of their greed for profit. They no longer engage in direct sales just to sell products, and they also feel that it is slower to earn money this way. In addition, many direct selling courses now teach you how to start a business, how to make a fortune, how to buy a house or a car, and how to change your life. The essence of this matter has changed, and it has become a matter of attracting people for direct sales. Some even turned into pyramid schemes, and the products no longer mattered.

And in order to attract many people to join this industry, they show off their food and drink, their houses, their cars, and their travels.

Tell the people around you that you can live this life by joining their direct sales team. However, as a result, their focus was in the wrong position, and many of them were superficial.

Speaking of direct selling, my sister did it, Mary Kay, which was just starting out. At that time, I was just in college and had nothing to do, so I followed my sister in and out of the studio every day.

(That was in 2003 or 2004, so I don’t know much about the current situation.)

At first, I was disgusted with such beauty consultants. They were too enthusiastic and weird. Weird, there are also free beauty classes, but I always feel that there are pitfalls behind it.

However, at that time, because I had constant acne on my face, I tried everything but couldn’t get rid of it. So my sister took me to a beauty class, and I entered the world of direct selling, which changed me. Quite a lot.

Now that I think about it, nothing can be killed with one stick. Since it can exist, there is always a reason for its existence.

First, let’s talk about the good aspects.

In terms of beauty and skin care: I am a female man. I usually know how to use skin care products, but I don’t know how to use them. The Internet is not as developed as it is now, and I can look up everything.

So, I know how to identify my skin type, how to choose the right products according to my skin type, how to identify the product application by looking at the product ingredients, and how to use the product correctly. I also learned how to wash my face and use eye cream.

I discovered how to be good to myself, for example, making regular hand masks, lip masks, etc., and using perfume was also popular at that time.

In terms of thinking transformation: What I have gained the most is some changes in thinking, such as being self-reliant, being grateful, being tolerant, respecting each other, etc. It can be said that Mary Kay's thinking has made a big difference in my thoughts and many subsequent life choices, for which I am very grateful.

Personality: In the past, I was not willing to communicate with my classmates and teachers. I thought that just studying would be enough, and I wouldn’t have to worry about so much. This directly led to me being very unsociable. In the studio, I was forced to go on stage to share several times. The first time, I was so nervous that I couldn’t say anything. Later, more and more times, I started to open up and relax, and then, now I have become chatty and proactive. .

By the way, because they also have many motivational activities, and then teach you how to make plans and set goals, which is the most basic kind.

I am really happy to see my sister win various small prizes and recognition from everyone through her own efforts, and then go out to travel through her own efforts.

At that time, I really felt that the company’s philosophy was very friendly to women.

Then, here’s what I don’t quite agree with.

In a company, there are different levels, such as supervisors, red coats and ordinary beauty consultants. Sometimes there will be situations where people are trying to steal consultants and then customers, which is quite far from the company's purpose of "I will treat you how I want you to treat me."

In particular, some supervisors say one thing and do another, and are not recognized by everyone.

Some beauty consultants often go around asking people to borrow goods, but they are unwilling to return them or return some items that are about to expire.

My sister once encountered someone who asked him to borrow goods worth nearly 5,000 yuan. He said that the results would be returned to him the next day, but no one could find him later.

There are also some supervisors who, for the sake of their own performance, will try their best to ask the beauty consultants below to stock up on goods, and they won’t care if they can’t sell them.

Of course, this is a matter of personal character and the purpose of the company is different, because as far as the company is concerned, beauty consultants are independent individual companies. There are regulations, and there is nothing you can do if you don't comply.

Anyway, my sister stopped doing it later because she worked part-time and couldn’t adjust her schedule, so I didn’t know.

I only occasionally heard from her that some people have become bigger and bigger and opened their own studios, and some, because of discord, even if they have great supervision, they can’t do it. I’m not going to change my career anymore. There are both good and bad.

Actually, I think that direct selling may not be suitable for Chinese people.

And you can’t generalize about good and bad. In fact, this is just a way of life that everyone chooses. Even if you go to work in other units, you will have good endings and bad ones. It depends on what kind of eyes you use to look at it and what kind of thinking you have.

My sister has been working in Nu Skin direct sales for 3 years and has invested a lot of time and energy. The company brainwashes them every day and calls them salon meetings. She also developed a small team of 4 people. At present, she can earn around 4,000 to 6,000 yuan per month. I don’t want to discourage her, so I can only silently wish her success as she said at the salon. . . . . . I am in the industrial industry myself. If I use their model and energy to engage in traditional industries, I think it should be more direct benefit than the pie they draw, not to mention how much it will cost? Just say that you have been serving your own products for 10 years, which is still a brand to some extent. If you serve direct sales, it is still someone else’s brand. What does it have to do with you? Most of the brainwashing in the direct selling system is developed for housewives who have no ability or brainpower. But on the brighter side, you can get paid and make yourself beautiful. Of course, there are also very high-quality people engaged in this industry. Only these people are more likely to succeed, and then they will be widely publicized by companies and successful people. Taking a typical case, mediocre people think that one day they will also have such a day, and they don’t want to wake up from their dreams every day. Why don’t they think of themselves as Jack Ma? It can also change the world, actually! Have a good attitude! Wouldn't it be better if you just treat yourself as a skin care product seller and don't make so many promises to others that you and others can't fulfill?

Cousin, when I came back from traveling to Bali, my boss left and I owed a lot of debt. I went back to my parents’ house to borrow money, but our circle of friends blocked us

I have a friend who works for Infinitus. My husband and I were involved in it for a while, and we were brainwashed. During that time, we were also very active. Later, because the store was busy and we couldn't find time to do it, he and his wife advised us that it would be difficult to build a physical store and not spend too much. Thoughts, it was more profitable to concentrate on Infinitus. We also invested money in an Infinitus store. Later, when we promoted Infinitus to people around us, we were really looked at with suspicion and disdain by others. We felt that we were not suitable for this, or Returning to industry, after all, the store invested hundreds of thousands, so it was impossible to just give up. Although it was true that we were losing money for a few years in the beginning and it was very hard, four years have passed and our store has now started to make money. My friend’s wife also ran away with him. He is still with Infinitus and asks my husband to borrow money every day. , what about the salary of 10,000 to 20,000 a month that was mentioned at the beginning? Isn’t it enough to spend money? Now, if something really goes wrong with Infinitus, he is already in his forties, and he is divorced and has no fighting spirit. My husband no longer wants to lend him money, and he never repays what he borrows. He is a very honest person. As a friend, I am really worried about him