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A.c.n.technicalities 
I understand that ACN products and services are not yet available in the Philippines. However, from what I learned from my friends in the USA, ACN can be a good oppurtunity for me to look forward considering I am planning to retire from regular employment in the next 1-2 years.
in this regard, can you please help me get in touch with ACN or its authorized representatives to start me learning about the company, products and services and eventually be part of the TEAM when ACN comes to the Philippines.
Thank You.
Ruben G. Mendoza
Kabayang Ruben! maraming salamat sa iyong comment. I wrote a new post just for you, I hope it helps.
Hi I am a Filipino in Korea and a friend is inviting me to join ACN Korea. I read some of your posts and I find them helpful . I wonder though if you are still an ACN rep … it’s been a year since your last post so anything new… good? bad? about ACN?
Thanks Marie.
No, I am no longer a representative of ACN. I realized I just didn’t have the skill set and the stomach for network marketing.
It was an expensive learning experience for me. I learned my limits and what I am willing to subject my friends and family to in regards to hard sales, I learned that I couldn’t give the kind of customer service that I wanted when ACN’s support and website wasn’t that much helpful.(during the time I was there; I assume their website and support has improved by now.) I learned that there are other ways to distribute the same products without the yearly membership fee and the without buying any positions.
The company is legit, so do not worry about that. the question is not that if it is good or bad, the question is
“does it apply to you?”
Why are you considering joining ACN?
If it’s because your friend asked you and you don’t want to disappoint her/him. then go and sign up then apply for the refund after a week (check the fine print and the money back provision) this was what a friend of mine did for me. 🙂 smart move actually, I didn’t even notice that she pulled out right away
If you were sold to the dream, then put a plan behind that dream and calculate the cost.
Just as they say in the weekly trainings where they say the same stuff week after week, till the words are engraved in your head. they would even go as far as presenting you a home video of one of the RVPS giving his parents a new home complete with his fake tears to adhere to your emotions, which is actually the point of it all; you are not selling phones or cellphones, you are selling the “dream” the dream of financial freedom. nothing wrong with that, just make sure you are good at selling a vision and know how much you are willing to put into that dream and lay out a solid plan behind it.
this reminds me of a lady that was selling dirt in the desert here in california, plots of land that didn’t have any streets, electricity or plumbing. she was selling it by selling the vision of what it may become once the infrastructures are built. it may become as what she envisions it to be but the question is, when! and are you willing to tie up your money in a piece of undevelped land that MAY become a city someday? when? nobody knows 🙂
over here in california, i spent $500.00 to buy the first position in ACN then I bought another for my wife so that’s another $500 and between all the expenses of buying the website, dvds, attending the weekly trainings and quarterly pep talks, I spent about $2,000 more not to mention my time and effort and earned less than $100. I am not saying that that was ACN’s fault, I am just saying it didn’t work out for me.
If you want to try it out and still get your money back, make sure to understand every single detail of the compensation plan and work the system. they change this all the time, they say it is to help you get to your goals faster, which I highly doubt because everytime they change the required quotas it always leaves you behind and requires you to get a few more recruits or customers. so lay out the plan and execute it right away before anything changes.
the money maker in the ACN or in any other MLM (multi level marketing) is the recuitment fee. now, it is technically illegal in the US to run a pyramind scheme, so they had to call it CAB (customer aquisition bonuses) and put a product behind the scheme, which in this case are VoIP phones and mobile phones.
ofcourse there are quotas, so study the required quotas for recruits and customers, line up people who are willing to gamble with you and set yourself up to get at least 2 of the first so called bonuses in your first month.
this way, you can actually get back some real money, you might have to share it with those people that helped you out to work the system but at least you get back the money with which you bought your position and at the same time you get a feel of how things are done, at this point, if you were able to mange to get those bonuses and feel that you would like to gamble again, then stay in and if not then just do not renew your postion.
it is what it is, a network marketing, a multi level marketing scheme. it’s a game of who recruits the most or who thinks of the same kind of scheme first with a diffent product. nothing good or bad about it, just make sure you are cut out for it.
I should warn you though, that if you are thinking of distributing the video phone to filipinos with a sales pitch of sending the phones to the philippines, the internet connection in the phillipines up to now is still not sufficient to effectivley use the video phone. the video phones will work that’s for sure but it wouldn’t be consistent and would have to be sent back to where ever it came from to have it registered again, because when it looses connection the system fails to update and causes glitches, not to mention the frequent storms, power surges and high humidity that causes the video phone to heat up or its power adapter’s fuse burn out.
there are other devices out there and other ways to distribute the same technology, if you are just curios about the vidoe phone, then just sign up as a customer. although i am not sure if it is the same deal as it is here in the US where you have to sign up for a year or 2 year contract with disconnection fees, that is just arrogant business as far as i am concerned.
why should a customer have to pay a penalty if the provider’s service sucks!
might as well just get a mac or an iphone and use skype or yahoo messenger 😀