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Mar 30, 2015 14:11:04 GMT -5
Post by mightythorgi on Mar 30, 2015 14:11:04 GMT -5
I recently started selling Advocare because I like the products and have noticed a huge benefit from the products marketed for fitness/workouts. I have NO desire to SAH and that isn't why I got into it. I like helping people get healthy and the financial perk for us is that we can start to pay off some of the crazy medical bills that my family has acquired over the past 6 months. I don't have a problem with MLMs that are used ethically and improve the quality of life for the independent distributors. Extra money for selling products I believe in? Why not? I probably won't be super successful because I respect people's beliefs and I won't try to be pushy with someone who thinks it's BS. I just wanted to throw this in here since it sounds like a lot of people have a bad taste in their mouth as soon as they hear "advocare".
Ten or eleven years ago an old friend from pre-school/elementary school reached out to me and I was so excited to re-connect and hopeful to develop an adult friendship. We got together a few times and she was essentially trying to recruit me to sell Mary Kay like it would be my life's career (I was in grad school at the time). So every time, ever since that incident when I meet another potential mom friend and she quickly reveals that she sells jamberry, cleaning products, shakeology, etc. I'm bummed out. I think, for me, it is so disappointing because one of the not-so-often-talked-about things about becoming a SAHM is how truly isolating it can be. Finding your "tribe" as it were, is tough and it is hard not to take it personally when you feel targeted as an easy sale instead of potential friend.
Part of it may be just the having toddlers and babies, too, in so far as it is difficult to cultivate adult friendships because the time just isn't available. I'm just speaking to what I have been going through lately and it just seems to come up a lot whenever I do try to meet new people.