A friend of mine has recently introduced me to a company called ACN its network marketing. Yes I got the "hey you gotta come over and check this out" call. Who's heard of this and what are your thoughts....now I'm real interested in the opinions of the people who have already been at a meeting and/or who have signed up with ACN or their services.

 

IDK Roy, but at 1st blush it appears to be a pyramid type sales scheme.

 

i got lured into this kind of meetings.

You gotta invest first, saying that you need this type of membership.
Then you can use it, or make money.
I mean we all know how pyramids work, even though they never say it's a pyramid.

I actually made good money, 6 Years ago with this scam.

 

as Intgr8r said its bull sh*t

 

Just doing a research, ACN caught my eye, usually they have reviews of these types of MLM.

ACN, Inc, is a network marketing company that provides consumers low cost telephone service, internet, wireless service, as well as digital and video phones. They have built themselves into a well-known MLM company, and claim to be the worlds largest direct seller of communication products.

ACN has also gained much attention for their income opportunity, and there are some very real concerns about starting or participating in an ACN business. In this article, we will go through and give an unbiased review of the pros and cons of doing an ACN business, and see if ACN is a great business opportunity...or a great scam.

1. ACN - The Good

ACN was founded in 1993 by Greg Provenzano, Robert Stevanovski, Mike Cupisz, and tony Cupisz. They operate in 19 countries and have over 1,000 employees worldwide. The company itself has a pretty simple product line - low-cost telecommunication service, internet service (DSL, broadband, and dial-up) and other basic wireless services. They have experienced double-digit growth for the past few years, and claim to reap $500m in revenue annually. One of the more notable achieve of ACN is that they have gotten Donald Trump to publicly endorse them as a great business opportunity. So far, so good.

2. ACN - The Bad

Whether or not ACN is a good business opportunity, it is clear that Mr. Trump has no intention of starting an ACN business. Additionally, making RVP or SVP (the top positions in ACN) take considerably more work than finding 3 people...who find 3 people...who find 3 people...etc. etc.

The theory of growing an ACN business is that the representative will simply find a few people who are already using telecom service, and switch over to ACN because of the income opportunity. The picture is painted that the distributor can be paid off everyone in their neighborhood who has a telephone...which is most everyone. The problem comes with a marketing concept called positioning.

3. ACN - The Ugly

ACN, like many other MLM's, teach their distributors to leverage their "warm market", friends and family. However, when a new distributor comes talking to their friends and family about making a tremendous income with a business opportunity...and the distributor is not making any money...there is a credibility issue that occurs, and the distributor is positioned as a gopher for someone else's business.

Growing an ACN business can be a great opportunity. They appear to have a good service, but there are plenty of companies that have great products, and many people that market great products never make a dime. There are also plenty of terrible products that generate millions of dollars in revenue (anyone remember the pet rock?) The difference is the marketer, and their ability to target their market effectively.

In closing, I would say that starting and developing an ACN business is lucrative if you know how to effectively use the telephone, the Internet, and other effective marketing tools. It is not a scam, but like any business, success will be determined by the skill-set of the marketer. ACN is definitely not a lottery ticket or a stock option - meaning, you do not just buy in and wait for a payout.

If someone does not have the first clue on how to market effectively, then I would suggest they either learn how to be an effective marketer, or else just use ACN as a way to save a few bucks on your phone bill.

This article can be freely published on a website as long as it is not modified in any way including the author bylines and active hyperlinks.

Joshua Fuson is a professional marketer, and has marketed dozens of different products and services. He has participated in the generation of over $14 million dollars of revenue in network marketing in past 4 years alone. To find out how, you can go... here

To learn more about growing an ACN business, you can go to The ACN Success Blueprint

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couple of my friends in montreal and calgary is dealing with them. they were into phones with video calling feature. I have to ask them, but the thing is you kind of do everything, sell the product and they get their commission.

 

Boi thats a good article where did you find that? my thoughts are exactly what the article states basically you can make extra money doing this but you MUST work very hard at it to even see any residual what so ever. The right people for this job are people with a good knowledge on how to sell/market the services and recrute others the average joe like me who has no experience and doesn't know many people with good sales experience will NOT make the claimed money that ACN preaches thats why I didn't want to sign up, theres one more thing that people don't realize because ACN has been around for a while most people have either heard of it, been to a meeting and/or have signed up for ex. they gave me all the papers I need to get started even though I didn't sign up (not sure why they did), on the sheets they explain to you how to go about inviting people to your house so I did a little test with 10 close friends well 4 already knew what ACN was and shut me down before I had a chance to finnish my sentance wich makes me wonder with the amount of people you have to recrute to start getting a decent payout how will you be able sell it if almost half the people you know have already delt or heard of ACN?
the money makers are the people at the top who have been doing this for many years not people who want to start now.

getting rich off of ACN = Bull$hit

makeing a grand or so a month = do-able with allot of time and paitiance on your hands plus having allot of open minded friends

not making enough to justify even doing it = Reality

oh and don't forget the montly fees of I think $30.

 

LOL I just watched the 'Celebrety Apprentice' last night and they had to make a presentation to the workers for ACN about their product.

 

I just got invited to an ACN meeting today!!!

meeting is at Richmond hill! Yikes

 

GOOD FOR YOU YOU'RE GONNA BE RICH BIATCH!!

 

Few friends of mine did it, basically had to pay like $500 to get in and ended up making $600 haha so they only made $100, it's all a bunch of BS!!!

 

I was invited to the same company few years back by this really hot girl. she even went as far as picking me up and taking me to the meetings. she would also call and make it seem like she was my bestest friend, She was going to waive all the start up cost too cuz she saw great potential in me, but then i said nawww. and she stopped calling and never heard from her then, till this day i wonder what i did wrong? LOL

 

Today i had a close friend send me a text message like :"yo come over at 6pm their will be food and drinks and a good money opportunity" Come to find out he was trying to recruit me for ACN. I smiled and walked out the door.

 

Update.. my friend who said by now he would be making thousands per week isn't even making hundreds and he's running out of people to have over for meetings.

 

yeah, a friend and an acquaintance tried to get me to one of the meetings, once i got there, and realized what it was for (they didn't even want to tell me what it was about), i left.

got a call a while later, and effectively neutralized the marketing spiel, politely at least, tried selling the dsl as an alternative to my current cable, saying they could offer the same package for less, of course it was BS, and i politely explained how dsl cannot, offer 30mbps service, and that since they basically resell bell, i would have no business with either set of crooks.

it was fun, actually, he was speachless by the time i was done (: