Tonight, I went to pakto with my girl friend at some place that crowded with Medanese and some weird stuff. It used to be our favorite pakto place, but it changed suddenly because too crowded. However, today the feel came back so we went there for a small dinner, at first we thought to have a better dinner night at the open air area, due to the environment and weather we choose to eat at McDonald’s because Pizza hut is way expensive than in Malaysia.

Well, let’s talk about what is the latest marketing we should follow up with…

Yes, the pad While we were finishing our meal, the girl next table looked at us and came for some introduction about herself and the “business” she wanna talk about. Then her upline came to us also and told us the latest marketing nowadays is the pad! Women pad is the most consumed goods on the planet. If you are selling this (Well, with benefit comparing with other brands of course), which women are gonna reject? And by the way, which women doesn’t need this! Right…

With the price tagging at Rp845,000 (RM280+) for 19 pack, I wonder with so many people having low income this days are gonna spend that much to put on their…

And again, this long time no see buddy come to me. Yes, some Orovo MLM freak that earns so much per month wanted to convince me to work harder with them again. Let’s break down by conversation, I think that would be better and clearer to understand how their persuasion works

Me: It’s just not my job, I can’t do it honestly.
He: Come on, you never try right? How you know you can’t do it? [Insert his own story]
Me: But it’s hard to start though…
He: Of course, you see, you want to suffer a bit now or next time? We suffer a little bit now and we get all the sweetness next time.
Me: Isn’t it same like if I’m working, until one day I open business as a boss?
He: Correct! But you have to remember, there are risks you have to take if you’re the boss, here you don’t have risk at all!
Me: Ok, open business also depend on my strength, I don’t have strength in this field though.
He: Same, you never try. You have your strength because you learn it, now you learn this field, you’ll have strength on this field.
Me: No, I can’t even start it off now.
He: [Insert a lot more about his story]

I got nothing against MLM, it’s a very successful marketing and business thing, but it’s just not for me, maybe now or forever. There are a lot of people make living by MLM, I honor them and I envy them, to follow their steps, I think it’s not me, I’m not a people-person and I do think that it’s way late to start nowadays, since there are too many MLM available in the world.