UNDERSTANDING MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING NETWORKING 101 SERIES -III

A NEW ECONOMIC MODEL (PERFORMANCE BASED)

Over the years firms employ people for their time especially in Nigeria. An average office job is a 6am-6pm time frame. So irrespective of whether the day was productive or not, an employee is expectant of his S_omething A_lways L_ow A_nd R_idicles Y_ou (Peanuts) at the end of a time frame usually 30 days. But, permit to forsee the future, that productivity will be underlying factor to earn as one will be paid by one’s performance and not by one’s time. What this means is that,

·         A sales person would not get expected pay until he/she meet target sales.

·         An employee earning a steady salary let’s say N100,000 would have it slashed to basic pay like N20,000 and would be given a performance benchmark to meet up to earn additional pay. No, you have no option than to keep the job because there are several persons who will jump at the job. Moreso, the firm has nothing to lose but everything to gain. You are the one on the hot seat. Hit the target, earn more. Fail to do that; earn far less. Now, by the time you consistently hit performance target, guess what? It would be raised (a new target is given). Listen, that is what the future holds for every profession sooner or later.

Is someone saying it’s not possible? Ok. May I remind you, there are lesser jobs to do courtesy of technology and recession. Firms are cutting cost with immediate alarcrity. Thus, creating an under-staffed working environment with only the anointed few either by merit or by the opposite of it that were spared. These spared employees are over-worked and given expected targets. Check around in the banking sector, civil service, the oil and gas sector to come to terms with reality.

Still in doubt? if I may ask;

·         when was the last time you wrote a letter and posted it? When you could just make call.

·         When was the last time you bought/rent movies in a movie store? When you could just download away in a jiffy.

·         When was the last time you went to the bank to withdraw at the counter? When the ATM is a stone’s throw away.

Do you realize, technology and efficiency is taking away our every day jobs.The hand writing is well written on the wall. You can choose to read, acknowledge and begin to re-align or worst still ignore it. A new Economic model has come to stay and has brought with it the means to survive it (Network Marketing).