Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Sad Truth about Leaders Club
Leaders Club has black-listed me and many others from our own organizations. As of Friday the 15th of June I have been unable to access my Leaders Club Members Area as well as many other associates. In addition we have been informed that they are withholding our commissions earned in May until further notice.
What this means is that I am no longer able to service my subscribers as their Leaders Club upline. If my subscribers look on their report they will see that I am still showing there but Leaders Club plans on terminating us on June 29, keeping the money we have earned. My email address on my subscriber's reports has been changed to molly at leadersclub. This have been done in order to keep us from accessing our organizations.
Now you may be thinking that Leaders Club wouldn't do that without reason, so I am going to give you their reasons here so you have the truth and you can decide for yourself what you think.
“Ann Sieg's Renegade Network Marketer program is a competitive program. Any CMC member involved or promoting this program is in violation of the CMC Agreement and Leaders Club's membership terms. “
First, this program was designed to help our people learn online marketing after or while learning the fundamentals in Leaders Club. This is a complementary program. None of the material is taken from Leaders Club material. This was never designed to compete against Leaders Club. Secondly, I am an independent distributor and Leaders Club has no right to determine what I can or can not promote. They are always telling distributors in other network marketing companies that it is okay to promote Leaders Club, and the subscriber's primary company has no right to prevent them from doing so, so this is hypocritical to say the least.
“We (LeadersClub) have found that the WorksTeam is offering training which is similar to Leaders Club, to persons not involved with Leaders Club. Additionally, the tone and language observed is indicative that this training is meant to dilute Leaders Club services. We consider this to be a breach of the CMC agreement.”
Now does that mean that if a Leaders Club subscriber learns things through their paid subscription in Leader Club they are not allowed to teach their downline any of these concepts? What is the point of membership then? The irony here is that the majority of the material in Leaders Club was developed by Jeff Zalewski, former National Director of Training, who LeadersClub just terminated May 30, owing him income earned as well.
“We (LeadersClub) have numerous complaints with supporting evidence that there is a concerted effort from numerous WorksTeam members to recruit existing Leaders Club subscribers into another multi-level company. Our evidence show this contact is both coordinated and targeted to the entire organization. This is a clear violation of the Leaders Club membership terms.”
What they are referring to is the fact that I and others in SendOutCards conducted a Webinar on how SendOutCards can be utilized in ANY business to increase referrals, retention and increase sales. The subject and content of the Webinar was to help people be more successful in their chosen business. My associates and I only invited the people we have direct contact with - the people we have personally sponsored into Leaders Club, our own leads, and those who have contacted us.
So according to this it is okay for distributors in other companies to join Leaders Club to utilize training and even earn referral commissions in this multi-level company, but it is not okay to offer services like SendOutCards to Leaders Club subscribers.
My goal has always been and still remains to help people become professional network marketers and to help them obtain the level of success they desire within their chosen company.
Fortunately I have stressed the importance of always developing multiple income streams because I have seen and experienced this before - people in control getting greedy or making poor decisions which affect the lives of the distributors in the organization. So I will concentrate on building my other businesses, filling the gap of no longer utilizing the training in Leaders Club, and help others get back on track.
I work with a lot of good people. These are strong leaders who will not just let Leaders Club steal their earned income, so Leaders Club will ultimately see the repercussions of their actions.
At the same time, we will move on and be stronger for it.
“Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.”
Friday, June 15, 2007
Ann Sieg's Renegade Marketer System Launch Causes a Stir
This is an advanced marketing system that people can utilize to generate leads and fund their marketing efforts, then after growing their business the principles taught in this system could really be applied to ANY business. So even though the ebooks are targeted to the Network Marketer, the principles could be utilized by any business person. In fact, Ann mentions that in her ebook, The Renegade Marketer.
The marketing principles are not new, it is how it is all put together that is unique and the fact that these principles are now available to network marketers. Unfortunately within the network marketing industry there is a tendency to mislead people that they don't need marketing or sales skills to build a successful business. This isn't always done intentionally, but it does cause much frustration for many network marketers beginning their businesses.
As Ann states in her ebook, The 7 Great Lies in Network Marketing:
"There’s a huge deficiency of proper sales training because if it’s not sales, then there’s no need for sales skills. As a result, people are thrown to the wolves totally unprepared to retail their products and their opportunity."
One of the things I found very interesting about this launch though is the stir it has already caused within the industry. In one of the emails prior to the launch we were warned that the ebooks and system would make people angry...very angry.
"Some (those TELLING these lies) will be angry because she is exposing them for what they really are. Other (those who have been lied to) will be angry when they discover the REAL truth that their uplines have been hiding from them all along."
Now I didn't think too much about it at the time, but what is interesting now is how true that statement is. I have seen sites and blogs that could easily give Ann justified reason to bring legal action against them for defamation of character, copyright infringement and more. The interesting thing about these heated torrents, blasting Ann and the Renegade system, is they just ramble on without really saying much other than hurl insults and lies.
The thing people need to be aware of is that all the sites I have seen that are negative and insulting toward Ann and the Renegade system have their own agenda and reason for their negativity - they don't want their own lies exposed and/or they are afraid of the competition.
Everyone I have talked with who has read the ebooks and gone through the system has had nothing but POSITIVE comments. In fact, I have heard so many people excited about how this information and system is going to help them and that this is the missing piece to the marketing puzzle they have been looking for.
I for one, am glad to have this information and system to help the people I am working with and have it as a resource to offer those who have been struggling or just beginning a business. I wasted a lot of time, marketing dollars and effort when I first got started. I know that if this information and system would have been available back then, over 6 years ago now, it would have made a HUGE difference in my success.
The great thing is though, you can judge for yourself. Just download the free ebook, The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing and see what YOU think.