Part of the guide: Personal Brand
Well here I sit down at the neighborhood pool. It’s 4:30 in the afternoon on a Wednesday. The weather is perfect. It’s 85 degrees, sunny, and a breeze is blowing. The water is a comfortable 80 degrees and crystal clear. There is only one thing missing: people! It is empty—no one, zip, nada, zilch. It’s as if someone had snuck a Snickers bar in the pool and everyone ran for their lives!
Caddy Shack
If you don’t understand the Snickers reference, watch the movie, Caddy Shack. I’ve never seen it totally empty unless it was closed for the season. There’s always someone here, maybe a mom with her young kids or a dad that took the day off to be with his family.
It made me think of a parallel to traditional multi-level Network Marketing. What if I was some poor schlep in traditional, old-school network marketing MLM. You know the guy—he shows up for Thanksgiving and his own family won’t start a conversation with him. He goes to a party and everyone avoids him like the plague. Or maybe the neighbors hear he is heading for the pool, and they all run home before he gets there. Ya know, it doesn’t have to be that way. You don’t have to sell life insurance to your mother-in-law or stalk strangers at the grocery store.
Times have changed, and you have tools at your disposal that are so much more effective. You can build a business from the comfort of your home, at your own pace, and without the pressure of bothering your friends and family. The internet has made this possible, and it’s time to take advantage of it.
So, if you’re tired of the old-school ways and ready for a change, consider this your sign to dive into the new wave of network marketing. The pool is warm, and there’s plenty of room—just leave the Snickers bars at home!
P.S. Leave me your thoughts, comments, and questions below.
In prosperity,
David Wood
Comments
James Brown, December 27.
I completely agree with the points made in this post. It’s refreshing to see a modern take on network marketing.
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You have watched the number on the dashboard not match the number in your account. What is different now is simple: it settles on a public contract you can check yourself, not a dashboard I control.
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William Rodriguez, August 03.
I’m skeptical about the results mentioned. Do you have any evidence to back this up?
Robert Brown, December 21.
This post was really informative, but I’m curious about how you managed to achieve such results. Can you share more details?
Nancy Johnson, June 28.
I think this post oversimplifies the challenges of network marketing. There’s a lot more to it than just switching to online tools.
Nancy Johnson, March 08.
Hey David, it’s been a while! Great post as always. We should catch up sometime—maybe over a coffee?
Robert Garcia, November 27.
I had a similar experience with traditional network marketing, and it’s great to see there are better options out there now.
Nancy Taylor, October 27.
I found a tool that works similarly to what you’re describing. It’s called XYZTool, and I highly recommend checking it out.
Robert Anderson, December 02.
This post taught me so much about modern network marketing strategies. Thank you for sharing your insights!
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Empty pool at 4:30 on a Wednesday in most neighborhoods just means people are still at work. What’s the actual before/after traffic number behind the “new wave” claim?
Yuki’s asking the right question but there’s a character one underneath it too. The post treats being avoided at a family gathering as an old-school problem solved by better tools, when really it was always about whether people trusted what you were asking of them. Tools don’t fix that. Honesty about what you’re actually offering does.
To sum up what’s actually being argued here: one, the post claims new tools remove the old awkwardness. Two, several people above are pointing out the tools don’t touch the actual cause, which is trust. Three, Hollis’s point is the sharpest version of that — it was never about the pool or the doorstep, it was about what you were asking someone to say yes to. What’s missing from the original post is any acknowledgment that the discomfort might be a signal worth listening to.
Look. An empty pool on a Wednesday afternoon isn’t evidence of anything except that most adults have jobs. Yuki’s right. This whole post is a metaphor standing in for a number that doesn’t exist.
We used to call this “taking the business social.” Different platform, same instinct — find a way to reach people without the awkward face-to-face ask. It worked about as well then as the post implies it does now, which is to say: for some people, some of the time.
The post frames “old-school MLM” and “new wave network marketing” as though the second one solved the trust problem, but nothing here explains the mechanism by which building from home online avoids the same recruitment dynamics that made people avoid the pool guy in the first place. If the product still has to move through the same tiers, the discomfort at Thanksgiving doesn’t disappear, it just moves to a DM inbox instead of a doorstep.
Raj is onto something. Out here the “pool guy” problem never went away just because somebody moved their pitch online — I know everyone in this town either way, and if I start DMing my neighbors the same way I used to corner them at the feed store, they’ll block me on Facebook the same way they used to avoid the pool. The tool changed. The thing that made people uncomfortable, being pitched by someone they trusted for something else entirely, is exactly the same. Nobody in a town of four thousand escapes that by moving to a laptop. You still see these people at church on Sunday.