Our upline instructed Ambot and me to compile a list of everyone we are acquainted with. As a result, they provided us with a prompt sheet to utilise to assist stimulate our memories and realise that we know more people than we believe we do. All of our friends and acquaintances that we don't know but who we already know. Friends, family, the cashier at the gas station, the mailman, the garbageman, and other random people were on this list of prompts. I don't recall any of the suggestions that were on the list. Our Platinum used to boast that he had over 1000 persons on his mailing list at any given point in time. He also recommended that you use Facebook to meet new people and then snipe the friends of your Facebook friends and add them to your contact list. We came up with a list of over 200 people within the first couple of weeks of signing up, which Ambot then presented to the Platinum. As soon as Ambot joined Facebook and joined numerous groups, he began adding new pals left, right, and centre to his list of contacts. In reality, Facebook temporarily suspended his account because he had gone crazy by adding an excessive number of friends. He had gone over his daily quota of buddies to invite.
For one thing, it's one thing to come up with a list of a bunch of people who you might run into during the course of a month. But it's another thing entirely to really have their phone numbers or to know them well enough to inquire about their contact information. I'm referring to the number of people that approach the water metre reader and ask for his phone number.
I'm quite sure Ambot and I wrote down the names of every former coworker we'd ever had on a list together. These were people we knew but with whom we had not necessarily maintained contact over the years, and we had no way of knowing if these people are still employed by the same company or how to get in touch with them if we needed to.
As a result, we had a list of names. My guess is that these were people who were meant to be bugged into attending Amway meetings, and I imagine that Ambot glanced at the list every now and then and contacted someone to harrass them into attending an Amway meeting. The majority of the names on the list were those of persons we occasionally run into but do not have their phone numbers. Although we and other IBOs were instructed to compile a list of names and submit it to the Platinum as proof of completion, no one in our upline ever mentioned the list or referred to it again, nor did anyone inquire as to whether or not we were in contact with any of the people on our list after we had completed it.
In other words, one of the first things our upline required of us was to compile a list of names of people we knew and then categorise them as either hot or cold prospects. They didn't care whether or not we contacted these people to invite them to board meetings later on.
For the upline, it appears that badgering their downline to purchase additional items and equipment is more important than following up on their name list and what exactly they are accomplishing with their name list. Or, at the very least, in our LOS.
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