From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Newsgroups: alt.business.multi-level
Subject: Re: alt.business.amway
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:09:12 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article bvernon@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Vernon R. Blakes) writes:

>This news group should be titled ALT.BUSINESS.AMWAY.
>
>Who controls the postings in this group ?  
>Since the majority of posts are related to AMWAY, is it possible to create
>a separate group for just AMWAY related information/discussions ?


You bring up an important issue, that I've been careful to try to avoid (I'm
the crazy fellow who created this newsgroup).

The postings that have been made recently about Amway are in response to a
flurry of anti-Amway sentiment in other newsgroups.  As you are aware, Amway
is the most visible of the MLM organizations, so it also elicits the most
comments.  In addition, about exactly half of the readers of this newsgroup
are in Amway (by a poll I've taken), the rest are distributed among 20+ other
MLMs, so this also contributes to the Amway emphasis of this newsgroup the
last few weeks.

I encourage those in other MLMs to continue posting to this newsgroup.  For
example, I'd like to see a post entitled:  "The Recent Amway Bashing - a
NuSkin Distributor's Perspective" - you get the point.  I really do like
to get perspectives from fellow MLMers - I've found it useful in building my
MLM business.  We all have ideas to share which can be mutually beneficial
to our respective MLMs.  Again, I encourage distributors from all MLMs to
post to this newsgroup and share their perspectives, techniques, and ideas.

Now for the Amway distributors who are in the majority of this group:  let's
be sensitive to the other MLMs, and whenever possible, to try to generalize
our perspectives in a way that other MLMers can relate to.  We are all in the
best business concept ever created, and we are all in it together.  Though
we may feel that we compete with one another, in actuality those who are out
there building this business hard know that the field is wide open for all
the MLMs.

Anyway, if this plea does not help, and there continues to be an over
emphasis on Amway, I would be open to creating 'alt.business.multi-level.amway'
but let's try to make this newsgroup work.

Come on MLMers, let's post.  I especially would like to hear summaries of the
product lines and bonus plans from the lesser-known MLMs out here.  I'd also
like to hear what your MLM organization teaches as to what is required to
succeed (it'd be interesting to compare with what most orgs. in Amway teach).
We have a lot to share, let's do it.

Have a good day.

Jon Noring


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