A “Cool Aid” Drinker Report …
“OMG the email blasted at me. How could you so frivolously use a term that historically associated with such a dark day in history to describe the nonsense dribble being spouted by so many network marketing companies.” This woman CLEARLY had been drinking too much (company ommitted) blue cool aid as she was so sure that she would “one day” make money if she just believed enough. I asked her what was stopping her from believing enough right now to which she replied that she didn’t have enough money to market effectively because she had spent so much on buying event tickets (at $9K a pop).
So she believed enough to borrow money against her house but not enough to sell the idea of doing the same thing to someone else. What a shame I thought. She was definitely drunk on the blue cool aid alright. I had tried to help her, but she was belligerent. That cool aid can be pretty strong stuff. She believed that the only reason she wasn’t succeeding was because she did not have enough $$$ to buy the $15,000 ticket. Jim Jones would have been proud for sure. But then again, this lady is drinking cool aid laced with (DIRECT SALES COMPANY of YOUR Choice)’s non-sense.
Having drank that cool aid my self for a while (albeit while it was a bit weaker), I can see why so many people end up damaged in the high price point direct sales industry. It’s your fault that you can’t market. It’s you fault that you aren’t taking enough personal responsibility, and it’s your fault that you aren’t drinking enough cool aid. A classic case of a process draped in BS, hype-ium, hope-ium, and dream-ium gone wild. What a shame! Jim Rivas