I constantly use the term “sectarian” to address the victims of network marketing. We can assume that this is a colorful comparison, which gives the texts a colorful appearance. But the specialists of the goal do not put anything on and do not joke. Experts speak clearly and on business.
So, we read the materials of the information and advisory center on the issues of sectarianism, find out our wonderful company and send her greetings:
A commercial cult is a destructive cult without a pronounced religious orientation, but with all the other characteristic features and features of a destructive cult.
Characteristic signs of a commercial cult:
1. excessive unreasonable closedness of the firm: the firm actively works, but at the same time tries to be “invisible”; there is no open advertising of the company’s products;
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2. the network of dealers of the firm is constructed similarly to the distribution network of drugs, in both cases the distribution of the firm’s product goes from hand to hand and for cash;
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3. Strict graduation of the firm’s staff by levels of dedication to objective information about the firm and its purposes;
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4. extraordinary forms of contracting the firm with its employees, for example, a contractor with a firm is not its employee, but only cooperates with it, buying its products for its own money for distribution; while the firm is organized on the principle of a financial pyramid, at the top of which are the company management itself and a limited circle of high-paid middle managers, and the grass-roots structures receive very limited revenues;
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5. application of consciousness control techniques to create a “cult mentality” among the employees of the firm and the formation in one form or another of the belief that “the ends justify the means” and that any action is acceptable to the extent that it contributes to the objectives of the firm;
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6. has all the characteristic features of psychological-therapeutic cults of self-help;
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7. Active proselytizing of the company’s employees: the presence in the state of employees of employees whose wages are not paid for the quantity of the product sold, but for the number of “trained”, that is, for the number of people involved, recruited; fraudulent recruitment of new employees;
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8. active propaganda of the cult of personality of the founder (manager) of the firm; the proclamation of the special wisdom of the founder (manager) of the firm and the demand for unquestioning recognition of his power and privileges;
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9. concealment of true goals: mercantile goals are hidden behind the screen of spreading methods of weight loss, familiarizing with health and other good purposes; the firm aspires to work only abroad if there is in the country its wide internal sales market for the company’s products;
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10. Hiding the true consequences of their activities: the creators (founders) of the firm do not have a proper education in the field where they “made a revolutionary revolution in technology”; the product does not really have the advertised qualities or is not at all what it is; when advertising a company product, lies, omissions, allegories are actively used; Negation by sellers of the need for professional medical control over the course of “treatment” by the firm’s product.
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