What thought would cross your mind if an acquaintance, who has never bothered to advance the relationship to friendship, suddenly becomes nice and friendly to you, send few friendly email and then ask for your contact number? My answer, DIRECT SELLING!!! And after asking around a bit, I got it confirmed. Huh! No wonder! She has never been friendly with me at all. We're just polite strangers who happened to study at the same place, and sometimes involved in the same activity or served in the same committee. I'm wondering whether I should just give the contact number and have the satisfaction of saying 'No' or just ignore the request altogether.
What would a direct selling people normally say to you? One hour of your precious time can change your life forever, or give the financial freedom you've always wanted, or anything along that line. Well, if it doesn't, can I have my one hour back? These people, who are normally very difficult to get in touch with or meet, will suddenly cross the ocean, climb the mountain, or brave the fire to come and see you. I've given up a few of my precious one hours to these people out of politeness or because she's a friend, but I've decided not to waste another precious hour for their purpose anymore. I'm not going to let them make me feel as if I'm stupid and will be doomed all my life if I don't buy their products or join their program or their company. As far as I know, none of my friends and acquaintances has ever strike the pot of gold with direct selling.
I know I'm being unfair to all the direct selling people. But really, if the product is good enough, you don't need to blackmail people to buy or join the program or company. Some direct selling companies have very loyal customers like Avon, Nutrimetrics or Cosway for example. And some people look for the direct sellers instead of the other way around because they really believe in the product or it is highly recommended by a trusted friend. So if the product is really good, it will sell by itself.
My advice to people, don't get conned into buying or joining unless you really believe in it and you've seen proof of good result or consequences. Trust me, if it really has very good reputation, you'd have heard of it by now. Otherwise, if you become the victim because you're so gullible or don't know how to say 'No', you'll end up victimizing your family and friends to get something back for your stupid action or what the direct selling people would termed as 'investment'.
Sunflower gives the connotation of cheerfulness, bright, jolly, merry... you get the idea! However, if any content in this blog didn't fit the cheerfulness implied by its name, look at it this way... I'm putting down all the wretchedness, gloom, melancholy feeling in here so I can continue living up to the expectation of making the association to the sunflower.
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