February 2nd, 2010
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Would it surprise you if I told you that Xelr8 hasn’t refunded convention money yet? Not for hotel funds they collected ($440), not for convention tickets ($150) certainly not for plane tickets ($435). Fortunately, two of those items can be charged back. I guess I’ll give them till Friday. Don’t want to wait too long, after all, I’m already sitting here with $2500 worth of Bazi that they won’t buy back.
Greg Arnold
Tags: Bazi, Convention refund, Xelr8
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January 28th, 2010
Be aware, Xelr8 isn’t refunding money on product returns. I suppose I shouldn’t have expected ethical behavior from a failed company, but somehow I did. For every opportunity they have had to take the high road, they have done just the opposite. What a sad sad group of people they turned out to be.
Greg Arnold
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January 22nd, 2010
I had a short chat with Sandy Greenberg today. He is charming, but clueless. I told him that I felt bad for what he was going through. And I do. Losing your baby after all those years is very tough. But he mentioned we should all appreciate him more. He said he had worked the last four years without pay while he paid Tom Chenault $400,000 last year.
Well Sandy, you were the guy at the top and it’s your job to do what ever it takes to win. If you are wondering why Tom might not be totally thrilled with you it’s probably because of what you are going to pay him in 2010 after he brought you 12,000 distributors. We knew you knew nothing about mlm, but you were supposed to bring in people who did. With the exception of Tim Transtrum, you surrounded yourself with horribly under skilled management.
I really believe that if you gave a blind hog 24 million dollars, it probably could have built a successful MLM company. Sandy, I wish you the best as a person, but your company deserves to dry up and blow away.
Greg Arnold
GregArnold.com
Tags: mlm failure, Sandy Greenberg
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January 21st, 2010
So some of you may have heard that my previous MLM company, Xelr8, decided to shove me and 12,000 other loyal distributors off a cliff by terminating our pay plan. There is a silver lining, they offered to pay us 20% on our personal customers if we remain on autoship. Gee, how sweet of them. My advice is to return all your left over product and drop your autoship like a hot potato. These guys are villains in the worst way. I can’t tell you how many times I heard Sandy Greenberg say how committed he was to network marketing and how he would never start selling direct. I have it on more than one video. We ought to start a class action lawsuit. Not a bad idea. As long as they thought enough of us to put us out of business, we should return the favor.
What a crock. In the end, the corporate suits aren’t MLM people. They don’t believe in it, they aren’t committed to it and they will come back to bite you on the butt. So I created an infomercial. It’s generic. As late as last Friday, Dan Rumsey, the CEO, was giving me a ration of crap about getting him the scripts and such. These guys didn’t have a clue about how to run an MLM, they are headed down the toilet, and they want to lord their power over a distributor one last time.
Well fortunately, we built the infomercial totally generically. Interestingly enough I just told Rumsey in the email I wrote back to him that it was so generic I could take it to any company with a liquid nutritional product. Little did I know, I’d be exercising that option just four days later. I discussed more than once with Tom Chenault that these guys weren’t making good decisions. When I originally took the infomercial idea to them, they told me they couldn’t risk having their name on it because they would lose their athlete endorsers.
A month later they drove off their product guy who took his athlete endorsers with him. I simply cannot believe all the completely dumb decisions they made leading up to trashing us as distributors and essentially flushing a 24 million dollar investment down the drain.
Oh well, we have the infomercial. We’ll still bring on 50,000 new distributors this year, they just won’t be selling Bazi.
I have to say it though, those rat bastards…
Greg Arnold
Greg-Arnold.com
Tags: Bazi, Dan Rumsey, Sandy Greenberg, Xelr8
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November 25th, 2009
I saw this on Facebook posted by Christina Thompson. I liked it and wanted to take the opportunity to pass it on here:
When doing your Christmas cards take one and send it to this address: A Recovering American Soldier c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Ave NW, Washington,D.C. 20307. If we pass this on, think how many cards these wonderful, special people would get. PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
Just copy and paste to your blog or FB wall if you agree (and enjoy your freedom.)
Greg Arnold
http://www.greg-arnold.com
Tags: Christmas cards, wounded warriors
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October 27th, 2009
You’ve been involved in your network marketing business for a couple months. You’ve been to an opportunity meeting and now you’re at home watching NCIS. “I don’t have anyone going to the meeting, why should I go?” Well, its the culture stupid!
I know, you’re smarter than everyone else. You’ve got no one coming so it’s a waste of time for you to be there. Besides, NCIS is far more important to your future. Well my friend, you don’t know it yet, but you’re already toast. You’re gone, kaput, road kill. And it’s your own darn fault!
In an alternate universe, the one where you’re successful…you’d be attending all the meetings and functions. In that universe you know how critical it is to immerse yourself in the culture. There, you’ll know that no one has ever had a life changing epiphany while watching prime time TV. You’ll know the importance of being involved. You’ll know it’s good to be around excited, happy people who are all moving toward a common goal. In that universe you are a strong team player and you’re supporting others with your presence. In that universe, you aren’t selfish!
In order to get what you want out of the business, you have to give something in to it. You have to participate. You can’t do it by yourself, we all need to be a part of the culture to succeed in it. If you could do it by yourself, you would have already done it. When you’re ready to win, to really win, you’ll get committed to the process. Part of that process is showing up.
Immerse yourself in your team’s culture, it’s part of your road to success.
Greg Arnold
http://www.greg-arnold.com
Tags: greg-arnold, mlm, network-marketing, team culture
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October 23rd, 2009
A blog I ran across that I liked and thought I would share it with you here:
MLM Video Marketing Secrets Exposed.
Tags: video marketing
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October 20th, 2009
So you want to be a network marketer but you just can’t get the hang of it. You’ve read all the books, you’ve listened to all the cd’s and you’ve attended every meeting and seminar that you could. Have you tried going to see someone to tell them about your business? If you don’t know it yet, activity will create knowledge but knowledge won’t create activity…and it takes activity to build a network marketing business!
Time and time again I see people that never get started because they don’t know everything there is to know about the business yet. “What if someone asks me a question that I don’t know the answer to?” Well maybe you could say something like, I don’t know, let me find out for you. MLM is such a simple business. You go share the opportunity and products with people and they tell you if they want to join you or not.
You’ve probably heard that the answer is always no until you ask. If you are afraid to contact the people on your list because they might say no, your worst fears have already come true. Since you’re afraid to ask, they’ve already said NO! Want to over come your fear?…go see some people. Want to learn more about the business?…go see some people. Want to build a network marketing business?…go see some people. Want to make a lot of money?…you probably get the idea.
GO SEE SOME PEOPLE!
Greg Arnold
http://www.Greg-Arnold.com
Tags: greg-arnold, make money, mlm, network-marketing
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October 7th, 2009
Ok, I admit it, I’m going to sound exactly like Tom ‘Big Al‘ Schreiter here. Mostly because I stole the bulk of this material from him. Or at the very least he was a huge inspiration for it. So why repeat it?…cuz it’s true! No…it’s really true!!! What’s true? I’m glad you asked.
“We all do network marketing anyway, why not get paid for it?”…Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter.
When was the last time you saw a good movie and recommend it to a friend, who recommended it to a friend, who recommended it to a friend. You may have started a chain of recommendations that caused hundreds of people to see the movie, buy snacks at outrageous prices and make a lot of money for the local movie theater. Did you get an end of the month “word of mouth” bonus check from the movie guys? If not, you just participated in network marketing, but you didn’t get paid for it.
Don’t feel bad, most of us do just that everyday. We recommend stuff we like, to our friends and coworkers, who buy it too, and we get nothing for it. Probably not even a thank you from your friend. This caused me to think several years ago…How can I be so stupid! Frankly, I don’t have the stamina to tell you all the reasons for that, but hopefully you may get the point anyway. All network marketing is…is a network of people who know each other sharing things they like with each other.
So the question is, why are you still network marketing and NOT getting paid for it?
Greg Arnold
http://www.greg-arnold.com
Tags: greg-arnold, mlm, network-marketing, Tom 'Big Al' Schreiter, word of mouth
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September 29th, 2009
Getting there isn’t easy and it isn’t fast. But you can compress it all down into shorter time frames if you want to. Imagine for a moment that you want to mow your lawn. Believe it or not there are two ways you can do it. Let’s say it takes an hour to get the job done. You could do it all at once or you could mow 10 minutes a day worth. Both ways get the job done, but as you might imagine, with very different results.
Lets say you want to sponsor 12 people over the next year. You could do that by sponsoring 1 person per month or, sponsor 12 people in the first month and work to help each of them build their businesses for the the rest of the year. One of these ways will create excitement and momentum and a potential business explosion. The other will get 12 people sponsored, but not much else.
Take what you had planned to do over the next 12 months and make it happen this month. Take what you were going to do this month and do it this week. Take what you were going to do this week and get it done in the next 24 hours. By doing this you are compressing one year’s worth of activity into one month. Over the next 12 months after that you can collapse 12 years worth of accomplishments all the way down into one year.
It’s amazing what you can get done if you put your mind and your activity into it. Over the next 24 hours why not plan out your October to achieve your next rank advancement. It’s a perfect time to do this because October is traditionally one of the two best months in network marketing. After you have your rank advancement for the month planned out, after you have plotted exactly how many appointments and phone calls you must make to hit the next level in October…go get it done in the first ten days of the month!
YOU are about to become a network marketing machine! You’re going to be amazed at the results.
Go Get Em,
Greg Arnold
http://www.greg-arnold.com
Tags: collapsing time frames, compressing activity, greg-arnold, mlm, network-marketing
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