2023 0428 - AlwaysMarco - PHP - People Helping People

  • 2023 0428 - Always Marco - Debating A Member Of PHP  ----  [BonkNote]  --- [VIDEO-YouTube-02:05:27]
    • Alejandro Aguilar, 33yo, with PHP since 23yo, Bakersfield, Chairman of Distribution Office
    • ref: WFG Videos
    • AM: I am anti-mlm, networking marketing.  Scam vs Scammer. How did you get into PHP.
    • A: 60% I disagree with you, 40% I agree. You are not a troll, just saying this is crap.
    • 11 - A: My Dad always had Life Insurance. I bought a 500k Life Insurance policy at age 19 working in the oil fields.  I have 3 kids. Life Insurance. 
    • 13 - AM: Friend, WFG, getting Lured into MLMs
      • [Bonk: Affinity Marketing, Bernie Madoff, Lions Club, Golf]
    • 16 - A: Example - Woman, 36yo, couple of kids, NLG - 1,000,000 Death Benefit, $76 per month, National Life Group, heart attack - Living benefits, Can access 80% of the Cash Value. NLG gave her 800k.
      • State Farm, Farmers, AllState -
        • Life Insurance isn't their strength, they sell it like a side of chips.
        • Don't customize Life Insurance policies
      • Medical Bills
      • Nobody to teach them in their language
        • [Bonk: Connect: LC - California - Hmong?]
      • I failed my test for a whole year.
      • Insurance Retirement Plans, 
      • 401ks, 403bs, IRAs, - when they
        • WFG - PHP - more - we insure people's money. 
        • Example: Woman - lost 60k - then we insured her money.
    • AM: I believe that Life Insurance is a good thing, what I don't believe is - endless chain of recruiting.
    • 20 - A:  
    • AM: 99% of people will lose money in MLMs, Zoom Calls - Rags to Riches story, That pitch is misleading, doesn't show the reality of the situation - most people lose money.
    • A: Network Marketing is a distribution method. Wholesale, Resale, Digital Marketing, Direct Selling, email selling, cold calls,
      • Network Marketing - MLM - Not everyone company works
      • Elephant
      • WFG - Primerica
      • Beginning of Network Marketing - Amway, Primerica - Art Williams, 
    • AM: Ends with Buy Term and Invest the Difference
    • A: In 10 years Primerica was selling more than Prudential and New York Life.
      • WFG
    • AM: I don't think that is true.  -  not due to having a superior distribution system.
      • [Bonk: Disintermediation, 
    • AM: Recruiting, Training Process - 100% of commission for non-mlm life insurance companies.
      • PHP, WFG - Low Commissions - need to be the greatest sales person in history to succeed without recruiting
    • 00:27:00 - A: 30% vs 100% -
      • College - Stocks and Bonds, not insurance
      • Banks - Stocks and Bonds, not insurance
      • Most people in the financial industry are Stocks and Bonds
      • Example - 1,000,000
        • Stocks and Bonds - Lose Money
        • Insurance - Don't lose money
      • Hard to find a company that will teach the financial services and financial industry - Safe and best way for clients
        •  - have stockbrokers, high fees
        • My Clients - Protect money from Stock market, not paying taxes, money is insured - we are the ones who teach that
        • I make 40-50k per month
      • 31 - Recruits
        • I train them
        • 100% companies don't train
      • Selling isn't easy
        • need to pass a test
        • <MORE>
      • Insurance companies incentivize us
        • Beat company x
        • White, Hispanic, Indian, 
        • Recruiting
      • 34 - A: How many of your 10 friends are hard working?
        • AM: I don't know if I even have 10 friends.
      • AM - Supply and Demand - Value
        • More recruits = More sales
        • Company vs Agents
        • Insurance - Most people set it and forget it.
          • [Bonk:
            • Churning,
            • If I could show you a way.... 2x same amount of money.... Target Premium]
            • 199x - GOV - Consumer Reports - purchase is once in a lifetime.]
    • <MORE> - AM - MLM - Cannabalizing their own territory, McDonalds comparison, 

    • 42 - A: How much experience do you have in sales?
    • 43 - I have 100 licensed agents in my office that I train every Tuesday and Saturday.
      • People don't know about Life Insurance. People aren't looking for Life Insurance or to protect their 401ks.
      • I have to be educated about my product, know how to sell, Laws and Regulations, Insurance industry, paperwork
      • Friends are families are not the people who are buying your product.
      • Friends and families can send referrals
    • 50 - Chargebacks / Commisisons - 
    • 53 - Selling to family, Trainer vs Recruit - Appeal to Authority Fallacy, Herd Mentality
    •  57 - 3 types of Training
      • Hands On
      • Classroom - Tuesday (Sales), Saturday (Product-How the Policy Works), Laws and Regulations
    • 58 - MLM - Duplication
      • Personalities of MLM people
      • AL Williams (was in Amway, then started AL Williams (Primerica)
      • Patrick Bet-David (was in WFG, then started PHP)
      • A - Alejandro - 9th largest organization in  PHP, I was an oil field worker, who would get into fights, somebody mentored me, part-time = 100k, Woman = 80-120k per month, 
      • Duplicating people to do things that create harm
        • Example - new recruit - 30% commission, How much life insurance would I have to sell in a month to make $900 per month.  
        • Strong Assumptions - Aggressive
        • Why would I work for PHP for 30% when I could go anywhere and make 100+% without having to recruit. 11 levels
        • Alejandro - I feel like I am doing the Devils work.
        • How is this not a scam?
        • A: Freedom of Equity Group, FFL - 
        • A: There's math behind Insurance, recruiting, bonuses, incentivised to recruit, 
      • ⇒  A: Commissions for Life Insurance - State Farm, Farmers, AllState, Prudential - 5%
        • you just said other insurance companies get 100%
      • 11 Levels - How is that not a scam?
      • Commissions -
        • State Farm - Farmers - AllState - 5-10%
        • 100% = No Training
      • Pros and Cons
        • Pro - State Farm - Little Commission / Salary
        • Pro - PHP - 
      • AM: I make 500k per year, 100k overhead
        • Compared to his Dad - Real Estate, Restaurants
        • Develop and Mentoring agents
        • Non-Tangible industry
        • Teach how products work
        • Companies paying 100% don't train.
      • AM: Companies paying 100% do train people. Example: Experior-?? - Canadian-??
      • AM: People make money on the backs of others who lose.  you should go to a 100% Life Insurance Company.
        • A: I know that I would make more money.
      • 01:28:00 - A:  150k - Personal Sales, 350k-400k - Agency and Overrides. If I didn't sell anymore I would still make 350-400k.  I get paid 86%
        • <MORE>
        • A: More money in Recruiting than Sales
      • Real Estate / Franchising
    • AM: Equivocation Fallacy -
      • Drinks vs Shots
      • MLM - Recruits - Ranks, Titles, Commissions, purely a products of recruiting -
    • Saturate the Market - A: What do you mean by that? I've never had that happen.
      • A: Creating the need for Life Insurance.... [Bonk: Life insurance is sold, bought]
      • AM: Harm to Recruits, 19 year olds, most people live paycheck to paycheck. 
      • AM: The Life Insurance industry doesn't need more Life Insurance Agents.
      • A: Insurance Agents are in the 50s-60s and white
      • AM: Everybody knows what Life Insurance is.  Supply and Demand
      • A: The industry needs 500,000 more agents. 400,000 agents in US currently.
    • 01:49:00 - A: I am not going to be training after 2025.
    • 01:50:00 - Recruiting - 5x5x5x5x5x5x
    • 01:55:00 - MLM vs Pyramid Scheme vs Ponzi Scheme
      • A: Pyramid Schemes don't have products
      • AM: Yes they do.
      • A: You are full of shit. I agree with you 40% of the time. The things that make us us look bad.
      • FTC - consumer.ftc.gov/articles/multi-level-marketing-businesses-pyramid-schemes
      • Bad Apples / Bad Name
      • AM: That sounds a lot like what PHP does.
      • AM: MLM - shampoo - why would anyone buy from MLM when you can go to Costco etc.
        • A: I agree
      • AM: Why would I buy insurance from PHP when I can go online and buy it.
      • A: MetLife - in Store - Kiosks - Sell Life Insurance - Failed Miserably.
        • People have questions, they are not sure of what product. 
        • Big Accounts - Sikh guys - 250,000 into life insurance policy, taking out 150,000 loan, buy big trucks, company still paying on interest on it, Tax-Free and safe.
        • Agent Education, agent commissions
        • I'm not like the other companies, I don't get paid to recruit.