[Editor's Note:
If you've been with HomeBizBytes for some time, you
already know John Counsel from the land "down under."  
He is one of the most pleasant, professional, yet 
tell-it-like-it-is fellows you'll ever meet.  I try 
to include a useful article for our subscribers who 
are network marketers every so often.  Since network 
marketing isn't my forte and John is, in my humble 
opinion, the king of network marketing, John has 
agreed to provide an exclusive article for 
HomeBizBytes every so often (our subscribers have 
permission to reprint these articles).  My goal is 
and always has been to provide our loyal readers with 
honest, useful and entertaining articles and 
information.  John fits our goals and style like a 
glove.  Furthermore, he dispels all the negative 
myths we often hear and teaches people how to make an 
honest, successful living in network marketing.  
Those of you who, like myself, are not in network 
marketing will garner tremendous insights from John's 
wisdom, no matter what your industry.  Read on. John 
is well worth every minute of your time...and mine!]


             The Morlocks of MLM
               by John Counsel

I've always been a big science fiction fan. There 
was a time when I'd read more than 200 science 
fiction novels a year... but that was before the 
Internet!

One of my all-time favourites is H.G. Wells' classic
"The Time Machine." In one memorable adventure, the
hero visits a far future time where he discovers the
human race has evolved into the Eloi -- beautiful,
serene, innocent men and women, all seemingly ageless,
living in idyllic conditions where all their needs
are taken care of, automatically, by unseen hands.

The longer he stays with them, the more disturbed he
becomes by their mindlessness innocence... their lack
of concern when one of their number drowns despite
being surrounded by others, their lack of knowledge
of who provides for them, their lack of interest in
anything but the immediate moment.

Then he discovers the appalling truth: humankind has
actually evolved into two streams -- the Eloi, and
an industrialised, subterranean race called the
Morlocks. And it's the Morlocks who provide for the
Eloi... because they breed them for food!

When these chilling, cave-swelling cannibals need to 
restock their larders, they simply set a siren 
wailing and the mindless Eloi come to them, without
resistance, and go passively to their awful fate.

In a discussion I was having a week or two back,
on the subject of scams and rip-offs in MLM and the
kinds of people who make up the two main groups
involved -- the perpetrators and their prey -- I was
struck by the similarities to the Eloi and Morlocks.

My friend made the comment that the scammers must 
have some way of seeing suckers coming and lying in
wait to ambush them. He even used the term "they saw
me coming." It's too familiar to far too many of us.

I made the flippant reply that, these days, scammers
don't need to see their victims coming... they send
for them!

That's when the Morlocks suddenly leapt from my
memory and the striking similarities hit me forcibly.

I was even taken by the fact that if you abbreviated
the name "Morlock" it would probably be "ML"... too
close for comfort!

But it's alarmingly true. On-line especially, it's
a now-familiar phenomenon for a new scam to launch and
then, out of nowhere, all the same people start 
sending out spam about this "newest, hottest, ground-
floor" opportunity that will make us all rich in the 
next 90 days by doing nothing because they'll do it 
all for us and spillover will run hot and banks will 
pay us to join and we'll have huge malls and make 
overnight fortunes, etc etc etc etc etc ad nauseum.

Notice how it always seems to be the same opportunists
who fall for these scams? Often, they're people from
our own downline organisations who just can't resist
this latest "opportunity" to lose money and damage
their reputations and relationships (if they have any
left by now).

Where do the scammers behind these schemes find them?
How do they see these suckers coming so unerringly?

They don't see them coming.

They send for them. Again. And again.

In the same way that these mindless junkies try to send
for you to join them as fodder for the Morlocks of MLM...
the amoral, manipulative, conscienceless troglodytes who
prey on the naive, the ignorant and the gullible, by
appealing to their greed, laziness and ignorance.

We all have a choice. We can be Eloi, we can be Morlocks,
or we can be neither.

Membership of each group is 100% voluntary.

Which do you choose?

Learn to recognise the classic warning signs of scams,
especially those counterfeits posing as legitimate MLM
programs. They're not. They're fakes, always. But MLM
has to wear the damage they inflict.

We need to stand up and be counted. We need knowledge.
We need facts. We need objectivity. We need reason.

There are four cornerstones to any success in life:

- Vision.
- Time.
- Effort.
- Discipline.

We need to invest time and effort to realise our vision
But without the discipline we draw from that vision, we
won't invest the time and effort required.

Here's the simple key to identifying most scams and
counterfeits in MLM...

They promise a FALSE vision built on a "foundation" of

- NO time needed.
- NO effort needed.
- NO discipline needed.

If you spot those appeals, you know you have a FAKE.

Beware of purely emotional appeals that target greed,
laziness and gullibility. It's always all three, but
never as obvious as this. They come with fancy names
and fancy packaging to mask the harsh reality of what
they really are.

If you appeal to greed, laziness and gullibility,
guess what kind of people you attract?

Do you really believe you can build any kind of long-
term financial security with people like this?

No way. When they realise the truth -- that this is
netWORK marketing, not NOTwork marketing -- they'll be
off at the sound of the first MLM Morlock siren call
that sends for them.

The question is... will you?

Learn to recognise those MorLock siren calls for what
they REALLY are.


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Note: You have permission to reprint this article
in its entirety with the author's credits below.

John Counsel, the author of this article, is the
founder and CEO of The Profit Clinic MLM Help Centre,
one of the leading on-line resources for network
marketers and small business owners, and author of
two best-selling books on network marketing. Visit
http://www.profitclinic.com/MLM to learn more.


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