{"id":371,"date":"2012-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/why-network-marketers-must-mind-their-ps-ps\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:38:12","slug":"why-network-marketers-must-mind-their-ps-ps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/why-network-marketers-must-mind-their-ps-ps\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Network Marketers Must Mind Their P\u2019s &#038; P\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why Network Marketers Must Mind Their P\u2019s &amp; P\u2019s<\/h2>\n<p>When I wrote about the controversial <a title=\"Why I\u2019m Saying Goodbye To Vi\" href=\"\/viralblogging\/blog\/why-im-saying-goodbye-to-vi\/\" target=\"_blank\">termination of top leaders in ViSalus<\/a> last week, I believe that I may have failed to look at things from a \u201ccorporate\u201d perspective.<\/p>\n<p>I later thought that there will be people out there who might think that my decision to call it quits was solely based on the decision that ViSalus made.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it is and it isn\u2019t\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I actually had been dabbling with my decision for almost a year now.\u00a0 Long story short, I had never took the massive action which was needed to really build a team in ViSalus.\u00a0 No challenge parties, no webinars, no videos, nothing.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Well, that is a story that I will reserve for my up coming book\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I will be focusing more on writing and blogging from here on out, so make sure that you stay tuned as I document that journey as well.  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, getting back to ViSalus.<\/p>\n<p>If you tend to follow whose who in the <a href=\"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/courses\/team-building-formula\/\">network marketing<\/a> and internet marketing industry, it is no secret that the marketers who were recently terminated from ViSalus were also in <a href=\"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/what-happened-to-empower-network\/\">Empower Network<\/a>, which sadly has unfairly received a bum rap from traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/blog\/category\/marketing\/\">MLM<\/a> leaders and affiliate marketers in the past, and even now with certain social media websites like Facebook and GooglePlus.<\/p>\n<p>Empower Network<\/p>\n<p>It is also no secret as to how quickly the marketers achieved high ranking positions like 1 Star and 2 Star Ambassadors, literally within weeks of joining ViSalus.\u00a0 In fact, one of the leaders boasted that he became \u201cbimmer qualified\u201d in like 23 minutes!<\/p>\n<p>Naturally \u201ccorporate\u201d would definitely want to know what was up with that, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n<p>Also, I was recently informed that ViSalus had already begun its \u201cinvestigation\u201d into the matter once they became aware that these marketers came on board with dowlines pretty much already built.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you are not in a high ranking position with an MLM, chances are that your \u201cside businesses\u201d will most likely go undetected.<\/p>\n<p>Also, lets not forget that ViSalus is now a public company, and its primary obligation is to its stockholders, NOT IT\u2019S DISTRIBUTORS.<\/p>\n<p>Once you reach highly visible, top <a href=\"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/blog\/category\/leadership\/\">leadership<\/a> positions, most network marketing companies would prefer that you not be involved in any other companies and may even have you sign an agreement to that effect when you achieved that level of success.<\/p>\n<p>Top leaders in network marketing companies are expected to carry the \u201ccorporate brand\u201d in public always \u2014 they are the \u201cface\u201d of the company, whether they think so or not.<\/p>\n<p>Back in my hip-hop journalist days, I remember an industry \u201cwatchdog\u201d telling me \u201cLabels Never Lose\u201d (meaning record labels are always going to make sure they receive a substantial \u201crate of return\u201d on any artist they decide to sign).\u00a0 BELIEVE THAT.<\/p>\n<p>Like the major record labels, it is safe to assume that major MLMs will no doubt take whatever precautions that are necessary to protect their \u201cinvestment\u201d, and in this particular case, their \u201cimage\u201d in the public eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Network Marketers Must Mind Their P\u2019s &amp; P\u2019s When I wrote about the controversial termination of top leaders in ViSalus last week, I believe that I may have failed to look at things from a \u201ccorporate\u201d perspective. I later thought that there will be people out there who might think that my decision to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empower-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/viralblogging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}