Today my beautiful wife gave her two weeks notice at the financial planning company she works for. She told all three of her boss’s that she was leaving and told them her reasons why. She mentioned the dreams and goals that we have set for our family and our life and that we have a side business going on that’s bringing in residual income. When asked what side business we had going on she said we build a Amway Global business. Two of her boss’s kinda nodded their head and understood, and one of them was totally oblivious and said “Really??, Really?, I would have never guessed it, aren’t they always pushy and ramming stuff down your throats?”. Just goes to show the old image our there or the image of people who build it with little to no integrity. Lindsay just smiled and said I guess I’ve changed your impression.
One of guys Lindsay works with is actually still an IBO and said he used to be a Platinum with an Emerald in his downline (which is not profitable) and he started to coach her and say a whole bunch of stuff to justify why he was no longer active and such. He was within the Network 21 LOA which I believe I heard has a F rating in the BBB. Not 100% sure on that just what I heard. [Post EDIT: I should have done better research when originally writing this article. Network 21 does not have an F rating, they don't have a rating yet as they are still under the radar of the BBB. Rating Here] Why wasn’t he profitable? Because he didn’t build the business with proper parameters to help secure and solidify his downline legs. It happens and is a lot of the reasons why people are unsuccessful from some of the failed organizations I’ve heard of. I don’t want to de-edify but this happens due to a lot of different reasons. We build our business with those parameters which is why to some it doesn’t make sense how we have a self funded business or how we are making money at lower PV levels. Build it right with a coach and mentor who have integrity and you can be profitable if you work hard at it.
I’m so excited for Lindsay and the next two weeks. She will never have to get dolled up for another man ever again which is pretty awesome. She can focus on what she wants to do in life and pick up some of the things she hasn’t been able to do because of the 8-5 day job. One of the biggest things we are excited about is when we start trying for kids in the next few months she can do it healthy and stress free. Not having to have a job that creates stress which isn’t good for the new baby. Sure there will be those life stress’s which for us have been reduced to a minimum since we have little debt left. That’s the big life stress right there we’ve been fortunate to get rid of. Once you do that, everything changes.
So two more weeks and Lindsay will become a free woman, a woman with a choice!
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BBB Report for Network 21 in Edmonton:
BBB Accreditation
This business is not a BBB Accredited Business.
BBB has requested basic information from this company but has not received a response. As a result, BBB may not have current information about the company.
BBB Rating
Based on BBB files, this business has a BBB Rating of NR .
Reasons for this rating include:
•This business is not currently rated. BBB does not have sufficient information to issue a rating for this business.
Here’s what the BBB did say about Network 21 out of Georgia:
BBB Rating
Based on BBB files, this business has a BBB Rating of NR .
Reasons for this rating include:
•This business has no rating because BBB has information indicating it is out of business.
Out of Business
According to information in the BBB files, it appears that the company is no longer in business. The BBB’s mail to this company has been returned as undeliverable. If you have an unresolved dispute with this company you may wish to seek legal advice.
BBB Accreditation
This business is not a BBB Accredited Business.
Congrats Linds! Welcome to the “I do what I want with my hours world”
ps I should add … congratulations to Lindsay! My fiancee finished up her job forever this week too
Shaun,
If you going to spread rumours about other Amway groups, you should at least attempt to check your facts. It’s easy enough to search the BBB site and you’ll find Network 21 has no registered complaints. In fact it’s so under the BBB radar that they have it marked it might be out of business!
That aside, this guy claims to be a platinum with a downline Emerald. Under the N21 system that should be quite a profitable business. It’s pretty clear from what you say though that this guy did not actively build a platinumship using the N21 system. How do I know that? Because, entirely apart from profitability, one of the strongest “policies” of Network 21 is “no crosslining”, ie you don’t talk about and give advice to other IBOs not in your downline, which is exactly what this guy is doing. There’s no way you get to platinum in N21 without having that in your soul.
There’s two possibilities you might consider. First is that until a couple of years ago, Network 21 did not have much of a presence in your part of the world. At that time another large Amway group merged into the Network 21 system. What might have happened is that this guy was active before the merger, so he built under another system but his LOS is now part of N21.
The other option of course is he’s like some IBOs that exist in all groups – they don’t follow their groups and upline advice and they don’t build with the proper parameters. Inevitably they fail or they build an unprofitable businesses.
So Shaun, I’d ask that you don’t spread unsourced rumours de-edifying other groups. It’s really more de-edifying to you than anyone else!
Otherwise, keep up the positive posts!
Your right I could have easily done a check on the BBB. I apologize for that and will update that section. I don’t mean to de-edify anyone and where I am wrong I will admit it.
Thanks!
I think I may have mixed up Network 21 with Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing WHICH does have a F rating.
http://www.lexington.bbb.org/commonreport.html?compid=14004419
We’ve run into a few people that have come in contact with them and said they were scammed. Not surprised.
Congrats Linds! If you’re ever looking for something to do during the day, you’re more than welcome over here for a play date!! RW got a slip n slidefor his birthday, bring over your bathing suit & we’ll have a go at it! (obviously this would be done before you start trying for an eggbert
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I’ll pass this onto Lindsay. I know she’d love to come over for a visit during the day.
Congrats to Lindsay…good for her!
One thing I did want to point out, Shaun. When James was talking about you sometimes talking in code…yeah, take a look at your entire second paragraph. lol You could be passing government secrets to the Russians in there for all I know.