Are you a good network marketing citizen?

This one's been on my mind for a bit and... it deserves to be a video, but I'm just not in the mood today (bad hair an' all).

Here's the deal: I'm sure there are as many elements to being a good citizen in mlm/ network marketing & direct sales as there are in being a good citizen of Charlottesville, Virginia (where I live) or the U$A (where my passport says I'm from). Things like don't litter or walk on the grass (when they ask you not to). You respect the police, and stop at stop signs & red lights, and keep the peace— most of the time. Not sure how any of those applies to being a good network marketing citizen, but you get the idea I'm sure.

The specific "act" of good citizenship I want to zone in one is this:

How many and much of the products and services you currently use do you buy from mlm direct sellers & network marketers?

Are you going to Whole Foods or Walmart or Harris Teeter for your super fruit juice, vitamins & nutritionals, essential oils, laundry soap and house cleaning products and toothpaste? Do you shop for cosmetics and skin care at Saks or CVS?

Forgive the accusatory tone but... Why aren't you buying from network marketers who represent Oxyfresh, Monavie, Youngevity, Mary Kay, Arbonne, Nuskin, Melaleuca, Shaklee? They ALL have superior products and some of them (the really hip ones) also provide competitive prices & high for-the-dollar value. Are you purchasing ALL you can from your brothers & sisters in OUR business?

Back in Eastern Europe (and perhaps many other places) members of the Jewish community would always seek out their fellow Jews and support them financially with their patronage. They were even known to walk (many) extra miles to buy from the Jewish cobbler, rather than the gentile. It wasn't "personal" or "prejudicial." They simply made the commitment to support each other. One result was the prosperity of those people. And please, Mormons, do it too, as well as many other groups and "ethnic" ex-pats living in foreign countries. Why do you think God made a China Town in every big city in the world?

Does it make sense to you that we (mlm, network marketers, direct sellers) put our money where our commission check is and do all we can to support and promote other members of our profession? Just imagine the impact if you simply transferred 10% or 20% of your "outside" buying and shopped with your Twitter mates and Facebook friends in the biz... what do you think would happen to (almost) EVERYbody's checks— AND the "industry" as a global whole? How many hundred billion...?

Think THAT would be a powerful "story" out there in the world?

Possibly even help you bring in a new person or three?

Okay, maybe it's just me on a wet, chilly Friday. Then again...

Thanks.
I appreciate you!

 

PS. Just in case you had the question... Yes! We, Katyusha & me, buy stuff from more than a dozen mlm companies, and yes, we are "wholesale consumers" with most of those.

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