I have 2 in-laws who have tried to explain to me how great this program is, yet from everything I can see, the prime focus is on recruiting members to sign up below you in the pyramid, vs. selling services or products at better deals then can be had retail.
Every time I ask about what the services are that I would sell are, I get names like Cingular, but no specifics.
My hunch is that unless you can provide a better deal to someone, all that will end up happening is the members of the Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing group will be selling themselves, and maybe family and friends, the services, and trying to recruit more downstream members who do the same. Great if you are near the top, otherwise not so good.
What's your experience been with the plan?
2006-11-15 11:12:36 · 2 answers · asked by Uncle Pennybags 7 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
First of all it is a Network Marketing company. Selling services and recruiting others to do the same is the nature of that type of business. That's what allows your business to grow without doing all the work yourself.
Fortune offers over 20 products/services. Two new ones came in this week to include Disney Mobile. Reps have access to all the info about the products/services because they are all listed on the rep's web site to include all details. If they have no specifics they are more than likely new in the business and haven't studied their web site.
Selling to yourself, your close friends and family is what it's all about. This is a relationship business. We don't knock on doors looking for customers. We sell to folks we already know and that are paying for the services already. We don't change their buying habits, we just have them switch to our services and they continue paying the same or less for the services they already have. Then we do recruit others to do the same. You're only required to have 10 customers and 3 recruits period! Then you train those three to do the same. 3 and 10 and do it again! It's easy. "Great if you are near the top." Well you are at the top of your organization. This company allows you to make more money then the person that recruited you. It's possible to out earn your sponsor.
We just recently got our 12th broker. This gives us a big jump in earnings. It's not a "Get Rich Quick" scheme. We are building a business that will generate lots of money within 3-5 years allowing retirement in that time frame. Our sponsor retired from management in the Walgreen company after just 15 months in the business.
If you really want to know more about the business I encourage you to visit our website and watch the 10 minute video that explains the entire plan. If you like what you see then you can join right from the same web site. It also shows all the products and services. You are invited to look around and see for yourself. It's a great company. We got to meet the owner of the company last weekend and found him to be very ethical and honest. That's what I really like about Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing.
Please visit: http://FortuneHeadquarters.com
2006-11-18 03:03:56 · answer #1 · answered by Paul L 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I just haven't talked to anyone that I trust that can provide honest detailed info on this. Everywhere I've looked folks are either clamoring on about how great the money is and how you need to recruit recruit recruit and very little about selling anything. Disney Mobile is all this one rep will tell me about but he doesn't seem to know anything more than the name alone. It's not like you will be the only people selling it anyway...and if you don't knock on doors then who the heck do you sell to or recruit? Why not just ask your family members for $299 rather than tricking them into joining your program? Personally I'd feel very guilty about conning a family member or friend, I'd have to face them every day knowing I helped light the match that burned their three hundred dollar bills.
I watched the whole recruitment video and only once in ten minutes was a product mentioned and that was only in passing. There weren't any specifics at all about what you sell. I've visited a reps website and the same thing....recruit recruit recruit. Really? Well shoot, I need to come up with my own scheme. Maybe we can sell butter and I'll teach you how for $400! WOW! You can sell more butter if you have folks working for you though so get them to pay you $400 and I'll give you some of that money for letting you share my butter selling secrets!
I think this is an investor beware type program. It's tempting but it's still a blatant scheme. It's blown up within the last year and I think it will crash just as quickly...as more people realize there really isn't all that much to sell besides the job itself....it's scary to think I almost wrote a check for this.....
The videos are awesome though....it's like tony robbins on crack...they really pep you up and make you believe you too can be a billion dollar con man...if only you can get your tree to have 6516 recruits in it...and that puts you at level 8! One step away from being in the presidents pool! WOW. So I hire 3 folks who hire 3 folks who hire 3 folks etc etc.....I don't think there are a thousand folks in my family/friend tree...so my growth is limited isn't it?
Truly...the quickest way to make money off this is to just get your friends and family to give you the $300 and forget the hassle of recruitment.
Check with the better business bureau...another poster on a seperate question stated that "any business that sells recruitment more than product is a business to be wary of" something like that anyway.
2006-11-20 10:19:05 · answer #2 · answered by Bonecrusher 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋