The Lemming Syndrome
During the past few months of my Online Marketing Experiment I have discovered some unfortunate and somewhat disturbing things.
I have stumbled across what I call the "Lemming Syndrome". It seems that many people involved in these programs seem to follow their leaders just like Lemmings from program to program.
What I mean is most people are already involved in a program, but a few weeks later a new program comes out so the guy at the top sends out an email telling everyone he has joined this new program and you need to quickly jump on the bandwagon to benefit from spillover or whatever. So like the Lemmings that we are, we all frantically jump on and wait to see if we get spillover.
Of course only those who can type at 40 words per minute and live by their computer day and night in order to recieve and respond to the email immediately can get in at the top. However, usually the top positions have already been hand picked by the "leader". The rest join and perhaps pay their first fee but then quit after a month or whatever after they see no spillover.
They do this over and over again as each new program comes out. So instead of picking one program and making it work, the Lemming Syndrome is creating a community of people who have joined and failed at almost every program available on the internet. This in turn creates a bad taste in everyone's mouth for those programs that they didn't make money at, but of course this isn't fair to the program itself as they just joined and quit after a month or so.
I had the unfortunate experience of meeting someone who has lost over $20,000 trying to make his fortune on the internet. I am sure he is a victim of the Lemming Syndrome.
I hope people will WAKE UP and stop being a victim of the Lemming Syndrome. Use your brains and only join a program if you truly believe in it and plan to work at it. No one will get rich off of spillover. If you sit around and wait for spillover I can guarantee you will fail. People who do this cause the matrix to implode ie too many people sitting around and doing nothing causes spillover to stop, which causes people to leave in turn causing the matrix to shrink as everyone loses their downline and then in turn leaves the program line by line in the opposite direction.
If it's a one-time payment program I guess that's the most you can lose. I too have joined a few of these one-time payment programs, but not because I am a Lemming but because I wanted content and experiences for this site. Or I wanted to expose some lie in hopes of preventing others from wasting their money. However, if someone emails me an opportunity that's obviously inferior to the ones I have joined, I will not join.
Of course the Lemming Syndrome is highly profitable for the people at the top, but I find it very annoying when my sponsors try to get me to join the latest "craze". My sponsor should focus on the program he got me into in the first place instead of trying to milk me for more of my money just to line his pockets. He should be spending his time helping me to be successful in the program we are already in. But instead we find too many of these type of "sponsors" who are making money off the Lemming Syndrome.
I had one sponsor that encouraged his downline to join a program that was OBVIOUSLY INFERIOR to the one we were already in. To my shock people actually did it, and that's when I disconvered the Lemming Syndrome was real. People just blindly followed him into the inferior program and I was in disbelief.
This isn't to say that I have never done something similar. For example I contacted my Work for $3 downline looking for people who are in GDI. I encouraged them to drop GDI in order to join me in Teamwork Revolution.
However, the difference with me is I ONLY encouraged existing GDI members to join me in Teamwork Revolution as it was to their benefit. I didn't ask members of my Work for $3 to join me in Teamwork Revolution just for the hell of it. I also admitted that any GDI members who are able to get 5 members per week and benefit from the bonus scheme should stick with GDI. Therefore, I am not someone who tries to cash in on the Lemming Syndrome as when I sell a new program to my downline it is with the intention of giving them something better than what they already have or trying to make them more money without asking them to spend more money. By heeding my recommendation of dropping GDI and moving to Teamwork Revolution, those people are only benefiting. They still spend the same $10 per month but they get more for it. Of course I benefit from them making such a move, but at least we both benefit.
My experience has shown me that there are many sponsors out there who give the impression they are "helping the little guy", when they are just really helping themselves.
Wake up people !
