Marketing? Franchising? Bullshitting?

Wtf is up with all these MLM thingy nowadays? Ada lagi orang buat bendalah yang mengarut lagi membazirkan masa ni? For those who doesnt know what MLM is, its short for Multi-Level Marketing. Where their main market is to sell agents, not products. Contoh2 company are Luxor, Hai-O, Rafa, Shamelin Perkasa, Uptrend, Lampeberger, etc. Google it up if u wanna know more.

The thing i dont understand is, there are still a shitload of mafakkas out there still buying this crap. Just a few days ago, was having dinner at a Kopitiam(Halal Jakim btw) in sunway dsara. Datang2 je, theres this big group, around 10 ppl, with a laptop on the table. Tgk screen, ada benda bulat2, in a pyramid form. In my head was "Damn these people, i pity the new guy." Initially buat tak port je, tapi sampai je makanan, this guy said out loud something yang tak boleh blah. "Kalau abang masuk je, abang jangan risau, ada 200 orang yang akan backup abang. Kalau abang segan xkenal pun takpe kitorang ada." Typical janji manis caramel . I wanted to say "Abang masuk la bang, pastu try la carik 200 orang tu, saya jamin sorang je yang datang, tu pun sekadar call je."

Im not talking bull, aku dah masuk 3 company so far, ada yang boleh buat duit, ada yang rugi, ada yang kena tipu lagi. If ye pun yang buat duit tu, the outcome of it is so no worth the time, effort and small expenditures(duit minum, minyak, topup, etc) I paid a capital of RM1250, i got back RM1580 in 2 months. But guess what, i found that i have less friends, completely wasted my time, and no life.

The thing that pissed me recently was because of the FB thingy. "Modal RM100 jer, pulangan lumayan." Orang tgh best2 mengusha FB tetiba keluar status dia, tak menyiarap rasa? Haha. Here's a pic, click for better resolution:

No offense guy, just making you an example for those who doesnt know. :P So back to the story, no one commented his post, and what makes him look so desperate he even liked his own status. People register Facebook just to get in touch with people, how do you think your marketing business can work? And they come out with facts "74% jutawan dunia datang dari hasil bisnes" tapi tak pulak cakap "Semua bukan dari membuat bisnes seperti saya."

Okay, lets define the word business.

"Economic system in which goods and services are exchanged for one another or money, on the basis of their perceived worth. Every business requires some form of investment and a sufficient number of customers to whom its output can be sold at profit on a consistent basis."

From this website.

The main words to me are, worth, and consistency. Number 1(Ceh macam lecture plak), worth. No its not worth it, even if its RM100. Id rather isi minyak kete aku penuh2 pegi jalan2. Thats just my feelings, but the fact is i can do other business with that RM100, that i can really see the product/service, and everything really is up to me. 2nd is consistency. Now this is the main point here, do you see any consistency? Luxor, initially deemed successful, now nothing. Uptrend, ditto. Lampeberger, the same but later found out its a hoax. The main company doesnt even sell air purifiers. There are NO CONSISTENCY. If id combine both worth and consistency, id rather sell otak2 kat mamak. Its worth it, where one i can get for 29sen, im selling at 60sen. Its quite consistent, as every week i can sell around 600 at least, and that doesnt include weekends or football nites!

My conclusion is, for those people out there who is doing this, please do something else. The main profit is to find agents/people to pay a sum of capital for the business. Ive asked a guy doing this before "What happens if all the people in the world dah masuk? Aku nak tarik siapa?". Most of them kantoi kat situ, but got this one guy answered "By then we have the capital and asset advantage, so we would concentrate on the products." Dengan selamba aku balas "Why not concentrate on the products now? Kenapa, tak laku ke? You have the capital advantage the way i see it, capital dah juta2 tulis kat kertas A4 tu. Banyak tu." Kantoi jugak. Its just the fact that people has already set their minds to stay away from this. You'd better do the same.