Telecommunications products and services through multi-level marketing. My friend, his wife, and three other guys met at a Mongolian Barbecue restaurant with a 'Top ACN Guy' who moved here from the East Coast to build up a Michigan team. It's interesting that they don't have a team already here, since their HQ was in Michigan for ten years. I know not one person who uses ACN products or services...
This morning I attended a training/recruiting meeting of 80-100 people in a very nice Marriott meeting room. ACN people were walking all around in their ill-fitting suits, front and back of the room.
The meeting started off with brand-new ACN recruits who are doing wildly well. All seven of them. They had put on suits for the occasion, too, although you could tell several were not regular suit-wearers. I could almost see the tags still sewn into the sleeves.
Then the Top ACN Guy we met at the restaurant got up and boy what a great speaker. Truly. Self-effacing, smart, funny, touching. His suit fit well, he got people laughing loudly, clapping, ooh-ahhing. He was very good.
He went into a lot of detail, but always lingering behind the PowerPoint slides was the smell of "this is easy and very very profitable". Say it loud, preacher. We want to believe!
You don't need a degree. You don't need any experience. Just $499, plus a $100 phone, plus personally paying for a trip to San Diego, CA for training, and you are in business, my friend! Oh, and friends and family. Or, people who you know that would like a chance to make more money. You do know people who would like to make more money easily, right?
Get rich quick. You coax a group of friends and family to come to your house one evening, say, 20-30 people, and the recruiting begins. If your friends and family ask you what's it about, you tell them you are evaluating an opportunity in technology and you'd like them to help you evaluate it. If they ask you what kind of opportunity, you are to say "I don't know". Don't lose them coming by giving them info - let the top guy fill them in once they're in your living room.
The Top ACN Guy explained we didn't have to do anything. He would come personally and do the deal. You pretty much had to open your living room up, along with a box of crackers and Cheez-Whiz (not food, this is business), put the soft music on, get rid of the dog and the kids, have plenty of pens and applications, and 'Top Guy' would do the rest.
And remember, turn the soft music back on after the presentation. Very important. Many recruits have been lost by forgetting to put the music back on. More than likely someone will fill in the silence with "I'm not interested", or "my brother-in-law lost his house with this".
We were told that's not the kind of response you want at the end of the presentation. The music will help, and if someone says no, get their coat and nicely escort them out the door.
Top Guy came to the right state. People in Michigan would stand in a mile-long line for a $40,000 job with benefits, and ACN is saying you have three people working under you, and in months you'll be getting a monthly check for between $3,000 - $7,000. And some ACNer's are getting a $200,000 check a MONTH! That's, let's see...that's... a lot of money a year!
My friend signed up, the two guys that were with me signed up. It's a billion-dollar private company. Attorneys general from several states supposedly support it.
And the clincher. In March, 2009, Donald Trump (who, we were told, tried to buy the company - he was told no thanks and nicely escorted out the door) is going to have the ACN products and services featured on his TV show "The Apprentice". We were told he has an audience of 28 million people.
That's a whole lot more people, in a lot more states, who will be off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of...
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