This week I happened to be back in Sioux Falls doing computer support over Spring break. I was once again staying with one of my good friends who happens to be involved in Quixtar. I decided that just for fun I would go to another one of their recruitment meetings to see what other interesting tidbits I can gather. What I found was a lot more of what I had heard about at my previous trip to a Quixtar recruitment meeting along with a few new juicy tidbits to share.

The meeting started at 8:00 PM, and we arrived around 7:45. There were a couple sitting at the door collecting checks, so I asked my room-mate what they were there for, and it turns out that Quixtar IBO’s had to pay $10.00 each just to see the “business overview” that the speaker was presenting. They already know about the business, why would anyone pay more money to hear about the very basics of a business they’ve been involved in for months? It wasn’t really any amazing new information that wasn’t at the last meeting either, yet they continue to write the checks.

For the entire first half hour of the meeting, the speaker focused on getting the crowd excited. He asked us what our hopes and dreams where, what we wanted more of in our life, and what we wanted less of in our life. He talked about all the great things that we could do if we had the money to do it. He was more interested in getting people excited than talking about very many specifics of the business plan.

After getting people excited for thirty minutes, he talked about Kiyosaki’s cash flow quadrant and that in order for us to have the time and money to do the things that we need to do, we need to move from the E and S quadrants and go over to the B and I quadrants. For those of you unfamiliar with Kiyosaki’s book, essentially it’s the idea that in order to be wealthy, you need to have business systems that work for you so that you don’t have to do work and can then do whatever you want with your time. The speaker then suggested that their “project” would be a great way to move into the B category and allow us to become financially successful and be able to do those things that we want to do if we only had the time and the money.

The speaker then moved on to talking about how now was the time to get in on it. He asked us if we could invest in Microsoft 20 years ago, would we do it? Of course! Any one would, considering the gains that the company has seen. He then insinuated that online sales are going to increase exponentially in the next decade and that by getting in on “the project” now, one would be able to realize similar gains.

Finally, fifty minutes into the speech the speaker finally mentioned the name of the business, Quixtar. He talked about how we could become electronic retailers and receive the gain for redirecting purchasing power through their web portal. The speaker showed us how much money we could earn by “helping others” and having a varying amount of sales.

We took a ten minute recess and then a couple spoke about the 4 steps of recruiting team members, which included writing a list of names, setting up a meeting, presenting the plan, and providing follow through. This went on for a good twenty minutes, and then a group of people who recently went up to a conference in St. Louis were invited up to share the best piece of advice they heard at the conference. They were all asked to introduce themselves and share what they learned. Oddly enough, every single person up there was a service worker, no business or educational professionals. They each shared a quote or two that they heard over the weekend, and that ended the meeting.

There was a big focus on the training program that they had setup. They talked about the monthly seminars they offer, the book of the month, the major national conferences that they have and whatnot. It seems that a lot of people go to the business training things and never actually spend much time growing their Quixtar business. It’s almost as if it’s more of a club than a business plan.

I was a bit disturbed about the statistics and information that the speaker was presenting. He gave a lot of data, but never mentioned where any of it came from. A lot of the math presented seemed very fuzzy, and the speaker actually said that by working six to ten hours a week, people could make $50,000 a year with Quixtar.

Overall it was a very similar experience to the first Quixtar recruitment meeting that I went to. There was nothing new or ground breaking, just the same fuzzy math and misrepresented business projections as last time.

Read about my experience at the first Quixtar Recruitment Meeting I attened