Worst Book About Network Marketing
Written: Nov 05 '02
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Pros: Some decent ideas on affirmations, scripts
Cons: Unpleasant taste that is left in your mouth after reading it
The Bottom Line: Skip it
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Mark Yarnell, long revered as one of the paragons of the network marketing industry, has done himself AND the industry he professes to love a grave disservice by writing a book that not only disavows the information he sold us in his other tapes and books, but also by spending half the book whining and complaining about his ex-wife and offering up bitter advice the pretty much amounts .
Yarnell, always contentious, appears to have written this unpleasant book while hung-over and cranky, because the tone throughout is very much "I've got a chip on my shoulder and a horde of adoring fans and I'm going to say my piece and to hell with all y'all!". He blasts many industry leaders, companies, books, websites and everything else you can think of, particularly the hallowed concept of "duplication," which he posits as being a myth, the product of the ghostwriting of an industry author who, although never named, can only be John Milton Fogg (who does bug me, but that's another story).
By far the worst part of the book are the three chapters spent vilifying his wife and tooting his own horn about how he just wanted to keep being a network marketing god while his wife wanted to relax and enjoy the fruit of their (or, according to Yarnell, his)labors. He then procedes to advise everyone to get a prenup, and to warn anyone who makes it big in network marketing to beware the attractive spouse who comes along in a timely fashion. Maybe if he said his piece and then moved on it would be okay, but he simply can't resist the urge to smear his ex on a national forum, including the career-ending slur "Hell hath no fury like a scorned spouse with $25,000 monthly residual income with which to express that scorn." Wow, classy Mark, real classy.
The author also completely repudiates every book and tape he's ever put out, initially stating that the information is dated, but eventually letting it slip that everything he said was flat out wrong, that following his advice lead to having a bunch of non=producing, uninspired reps who were going nowhere and making no money for themselves are their upline.
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