Who gets the Pyramid Quack award?
On our conference call the other day, people wondered how to talk and act so that people would stop asking “Is this a pyramid/one of those things?”
One way is to stop, forever, saying and doing the things that evoke this image in the minds of others – i.e. people “who abuse their friends and try to sell them stuff, and get them to sell and take a percent.”
For years, it’s been all about getting people to sell and recruit. That’s the reason countless people discouraged (and ridiculed) my customer-oriented students, “There’s no money in customers. All the money’s in the recruiting.”
I’ve taught hundreds of classes to those who prefer to amass customers. It’s lucrative in some companies, and many stayed in the business because they learned how to do that, instead of quitting.
But some companies pay you to act like you’re a pyramid type. We will bestow upon them the “Pyramid Quack” award. Yes, here. To encourage them to change their pyramid quacking ways which make their people look bad.
If it quacks like a...