If you're like me, you may live in a territory where services such as phone/internet/cable are offered in an all-in-one bundle. This type of service can save the customer a lot of money. It can also offer them the convenience of having all of their services on one bill, instead of having several bills lying around.
In my particular territory, the main company that offers bundled service is Charter Communications. Their big deal is that they offer phone/internet/cable all for the low low price of $99 a month for the first twelve months. There have been a couple of people who have been hesitant to switch to ACN because they don't want to miss out on the good deal they are getting.
When I first dug deeper, I thought that $99 a month was a good deal. After I did some research though, I found out that Charter also bundles internet and cable together for $50 a month. That means that they are charging almost $50 a month for digital phone! ACN only charges $24 a month.
Since Charter doesn't have their customers under contract, all I had to do was switch my customers to the internet/cable bundle offered by Charter, and to the phone offered by ACN. There you go...Phone/internet/cable all for under $80 a month! Who wouldn't by that?
later
DB
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Ten Reasons I chose ACN
There are many reasons why so-called “pyramid schemes” have a bad reputation. Honestly, I don't have a problem with pyramid schemes, as long as they are fair and legitimate. If there is a way to get to the top of the pyramid fairly and legitimately, I am all for it. ACN is basically a legitimate pyramid scheme. Here are the ten main I chose to try my luck with ACN.
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I (you) have nothing to lose. When I looked at the facts, I realized that I'd spent more than $500 in the last six months on shoes! Yeah, shoes....So, I realized why not spend some money on something worthwhile and try to make something of myself...Sounds reasonable, right?
1.Endorsed by Donald Trump! Now, I and many other people, think that Donald Trump is a complete Asshole, but there is one thing you can't deny about Donald Trump; when it comes to money, the guy knows his shit!
2. No items to keep in stock or any of that crap. The only up front fee is the $500 that is easily made back. The only thing you have to worry about is sales, no inventory or any of that crap!
3.Proven track record. ACN has been around more than fifteen years. While that isn't an extremely long time, I am only 18 years old, so it's been around pretty much as long as I've been around.
4. All of the sales you make stick with you for life! When you make a sale to someone, you get a monthly percentage of their bill as long as they are with the company. You can completely wash your hands of the company and you STILL keep all of your customers! Which brings me to residual income...
5. Residual income! Instead of receiving a one-time customer acquisition commission, you receive a monthly percentage of their bill. Considering over 90 percent of ACN's customers stick with the company, you will be receiving commissions for many, many years to come.
6. Video Phone! Currently, ACN is the only company to offer video calling in the home phone market. This emerging technology offers a ton of promise. There may come a day, in the near future, that video phones are in almost every home. ACN is the leader with this new and exciting technology. Which brings me to my next point...
7. Digital Phone. We've all heard of Vonage, ACN offers the same thing, only it's actually a little cheaper. Music went digital, Cameras went digital, Television went digital, and now, phones are going digital. It's pretty obvious why this market is a good opportunity
8. Room to grow! ACN is only a 500 million dollar company. That is obviously a large company, but as far as the Telecom industry goes, that is still relatively small. Also, ACN is expanding into other areas, I recently talked to a 25 year old who is already high up on the ACN chain... He told me that he would bet his home (a very nice home on the golf course) that ACN will become a television provider within the next 18 months.
9.Work when and where you want! With ACN, you can work as much or as little as you want. There is absolutely no obligation! The only real hard-core deadline ACN will ever put on you, is to get 8 “phone points” within the first 30 days...that also gets you a $50 check.
10. Recession Proof! Whether someone has a good day, or a bad day, they call someone to tell them about it. In the year after September 11, ACN actually grew 42 percent...
The first days as an ACN rep...
The first days as an ACN rep...
So, I paid my dues that happened to be in the form of a $500 membership fee. The important thing to remember, is that you make this money back immediately, if you can get two people to sign up for the business and get 6 phone points as well as getting 12 phone points by yourself.
“Phone points” are basically the points assigned to the scoring system that can reps live by. Examples- If you sign someone up for long distance, that is 1 point. Sign someone up for digital phone, that is 2 points. Local-1 point. DSL-1 point. So, basically I need to sign up probably around 8 people for the service to reach my 12 points. This probably shouldn't be that hard, but I hate calling people and asking them for “favors”. The nice thing is that this pretty much a one-time thing, and you aren't going to be calling people for the rest of your life. Also, the services are quite a bit cheaper than the other services I've encountered, so it's a pretty easy sell. The best part is that you aren't selling anything that people don't already use. It's not like you have to talk someone into using some new space-age technology!
The first thing I did was sign myself up for digital phone service. The phone service is just like Vonage, except a couple dollars a month cheaper. It includes unlimited calling to Canada, U.S., and Puerto Rico for $23.99 a month. I also purchased a digital video phone for $100 extra. It has surprisingly good quality for a video phone, and I will be able to use it as a major selling tool later. I will post an unboxing video later. ACN is currently the only service that offers video calling, and it comes at no extra monthly charge.
Next, it was time to start calling people and asking them for “favors”. The first person that I called was someone who I was almost 100% sure would buy SOMETHING from me. He was my sponsor for my catholic confirmation. My hands were shaking and I called him. I followed the script provided to me by ACN and tried to remain as calm as possible. He made fun of me for a while and asked me how much they were paying me and blah, blah, blah. The nice thing was being able to tell him that I was working for myself and that this was my choice to call him because I thought he'd be willing to help me out. Finally after 25 minutes on the phone with him, I got him to purchase long distance for $1.99 a month. Pimpin! Yah, 1 point for me! Only 5 more points to go before I'm officially qualified, and I got my mom to purchase digital phone service...so only 3 more points, and 6 six more points to get my initial investment back!
The important thing that you have to understand with ACN and other similar Multi-Level-Marketing schemes, is that you AREN'T going to make more than a small percentage of your money on the actual customers that you bring in!!! You could call people for hours every day, and sign up hundreds of customers, but you probably won't make more than $1000 a month off the customers directly beneath you. Obviously, I would love to receive a $1000 check every month indefinitely, but I would much rather have it be a $10000 one. Fortunately, my young and wealthy “mentors” in this business understand that, and they aren't trying to bullshit me (I'm pretty tough to BS anyway). The bulk of the money that you are going to make is by getting other people to join the business and have them sell to their warm market contacts. (Friends, family, etc.) At the same time, you need to share the “secret” with your newly acquired business partners. Make them understand that in order to make money, they need to bring people into the business. This will build their business, and build your business at the same time. It's a win, win situation! See my next article on the art of the Multi-Level-Marketers (MLM).
P.S. If you want to have a chat with me about the business I'm currently working with, I would be delighted to schedule in a chat session with you over the Internet. I can also do it on the phone in a couple weeks once my unlimited phone service kicks in. Also if you're interested in any phone service on the cheap just hit me up! Hope you enjoyed the article, there will be more to come.!! ;)
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