Friday, February 09, 2007

Moved On...

It's been a while since I sensed the cracks or jitters. My leg feels fine and seems stronger.

I tripped and sprained my ankle a few times in the past weeks, but it did not swell like before. It still hurts and the joint felt inflexible - tight and stiff.

I started working out again and hope that this time, it will be maintained.

I attended a BOS last night. BOS- Business Opportunity Seminar. This BOS was marketing an educational product - a disguised MLM scheme selling training and educational packages.
I was taken by its advertisement of making a difference in someone else's life and being personally mentored by an established "Young Millionaire Mentor". But, what a disappointment!

Nothing much was mentioned about their commitment to make life better. Instead, it was a sales pitch to recruit distributors in MLM lingo. Then I realised something... has it been bad for the company such that they need to market so profusely. If they had claimed that their programmes had benefited 120,000 students, parents, teachers, trainers, etc..wouldn't that track record make it cheaper for them to market by word-of-mouth? Perhaps at about $2,000 for a 5 days camp, its not easy to get participants.

And the claim that we can be millionaires in ten years... of course with this scheme, its possible. At about $2000 per participant, a reasonable camp of 80 participants will fetch $160,000. Conduct a few runs and you will be a millionaire in ten years!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

alamak, sad lah. even 'educators' have to resort to underhanded tactics to recruit more to fill the bottom of the pyramid. doesn't teaching always have that 'romantic', 'noble' feel about it; but i suppose business-is-business lah