Wow... humbleness and humility must not be in your dictionary. I get that you may have had bad experiences with people from FFS or WLG or other pyramid schemes. However, that doesn't give you the right to speak of them - or anyone else - in this manner. I was a top-producing sales agent in my previous line of work and I can tell you that it is not easy to make cold calls. Of 100 cold calls you make, the average number of closings you will get is: ONE. That is a statistic. And FYI: REAL salespeople know that closings do not happen with cold customers. They take place with customers who are within your SPHERE OF INFLUENCE - that is, friends, families, neighbors, and colleagues!!!!
I assume Floyd Mayweather can read too with your statements.
100% incorrect.
Shady companies love guys like you because they can chew you up and spit you out. Because they use you to get to your friends, families, neighbors, and colleagues. And once you run out, since you can't cold call or prospect B2B, you're no good and wasting a desk space.
Never have I done what you've done. I relied 90% on new customers and 10% old/former customers. All cold calling on the phone or walking into their business with no appointment. Sometimes with shorts and flip flops on. Sometimes with a polo shirt and some ****ies. Only time I slap a tie on is when I'm head to a professional business like a jeweler, realtor, or attorney, etc.
My call volume is always 5-10 times less than the guy who makes the most call at any company I've worked. I've been reprimanded for making such low call volumes until they reviewed my sales numbers because I am a believer of not volume but quality. And pre-dinner time and pre-bed time, you should prep for next day targets at home. So folks go home at 5pm, I stay til 8 or 9.
So I seriously doubt MLM folks can outwork me. Nor do I believe you know what you're talking about in sales. Because I've seen the unconventional work and every tactic they teach you at every job does not work for everybody.
I can show you proof of recent work where I pulled clients over the phone in different states, as recent as last month, at a ratio way higher than you pulling off your friends and family because I diligently did my homework before I called, made sure the product I pushed out had my stamp of approval, and closed the deals personally and gave my touch to finish the projects.
I can even show you a list of clients in at least 20 states that I walked/called into their business and sold them things without knowing them in the last 3 years. In cities with very few Hmong businesses or folks like Cleveland, Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Oklahoma City, St. Cloud, Fort Wayne, etc.
And you're only an average person at things you do for a profession, if you think about being humble and having humility.
Never have I heard an interview where Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Floyd Mayweather, Rickey Henderson, etc. ever said somebody was better than them. And nobody ever said they was likable guys. Nor where those guys ever humble about anything.
And even when people never said a bad thing about them, they took the smallest thing you said as a slight to get the extra motivation to succeed.
So all I'm saying is, you need to reassess your frame of thought because if you want to just be average in the business world, you're wasting time and might as well parade yourself with the MLM Clowns.
Ray Kroc once said it's a Dog Eat Dog World. You better tell yourself you're the best and tell yourself ppl hate you because you're the best. And always keep an eye over your shoulder for whoever is coming for your job.
Because 2nd place = 1st place loser