Myth about No Selling

Almost all of them claim you don't have to sell anything and still make money with their business system. But the basics say there's got to be product movement if there's going to be any profit earned. You can't change that. A product has to be sold in any business. And you have to do a little bit of selling even if they say there's "no selling" involved. Even salaries rely on selling to be sustainable.

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Even governments need to "sell" something to make money. I'm NOT talking about privatization, although they do that a lot to raise government funds. I'm talking about "selling" people better government services and infrastructures to make them happily file their income taxes annually. If they don't make good "sales," their "customers" (the public) may kick them out in the next elections. Something like that.

So, what are you talking about no selling?

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Referring or Promoting

Okay, the smart Alecks will re-phrase that and call it "referrals" instead of selling. You just have to refer your friends. A more updated term is "promote" it to friends. "You don't have to sell them anything. Just promote the products to them." This tactic is not really a scam, but it's a myth. Because anyway you look at it, you won't make a cent unless your referral buys. Someone has to sell and someone has to buy.

Okay. I'd agree that it's no selling and merely referring IF (there's a big IF) you make money by just referring, even if your referral doesn't buy anything. Your referrals all just visit the store or listen to the webinar and then buys nothing. And then you make big commissions (and even residual income) in cash! Then, yeah, it's really no selling.

It's precisely why any business, online or offline, needs a product to sell. Products need to be bought to make money. And if you do that business, you're selling something, overtly or covertly. You may not be selling directly to the prospect. You may just be referring him or her to the site or store where the product can be bought. But it's still selling--the company sells and it uses you as an affiliate to sell.

So there's selling involved, and like it or not (or admit it or not) you're part of it.

Sounds Like a Trick

People often ask me shocked how they thought there was no selling involved. They took the bait. Initially, it felt like no selling was really involved. They just had to refer people to the business and didn't need to actually sell anything to them. But eventually, however, the whole thing started to feel like selling, they say. Because unless the folks they invited bought something, no money is made. 

Some of them felt like they were tricked--tricked into believing they won't really have to sell or do anything that is connected to selling. Then they attended leadership seminars on the business and found out that you had to hit some goals and quotas. Sounds pretty much like selling, then. 

Thus, when I join legit businesses masqueraded as "no selling," I never buy the myth one bit. I gear myself up for some kind of selling. And when I share the business with others, I always stress that, yeah, you won't need to sell anything directly, but you won't make money unless people you invite buy the products. In that sense, you need to make a "sale." You're into indirect selling.

Because I don't want to make empty promises or spread around a myth. I want to be honest with people. Yup, you probably won't make big money with that kind of honesty, but your soul will be filled to the brim (and even overflow) with peace of mind. Clean network marketing and honest selling beat everything else, even big profits.

No Products

No selling in real terms means no product being sold. Then it's a SCAM. All businesses need a product to sell to make money. Even investments. When you invest on something--like a company or business--that company or business needs to sell good. Otherwise, you lose. Stocks and even forex trading depend on sales. If industries do not make products because nothing is being sold, the economy collapses and foreign exchange with it.

This is why money investment is a scam. What we call "pera-pera lang." No product movement, just money being rolled around and later becoming unsustainable. Soon, the perpetrators run off with a big sum. Even your social security or SSS (Social Security System) invests on companies that sell well to have sustainability. The SSS does not just keep your money in its vault and dole it out to all its members.

So, when joining a selling or referring or networking business, the first thing you ask is the product. Because you'll be into some kind of selling, directly or otherwise. Second is the company--how legit and stable is it? Then third is the compensation plan. Some companies won't even talk about the comp plan unless you join them. That's silly, even a possible SCAM. You need to know how much you'd be making before you do any business. That's a basic. 

So, what are you talking about no selling?