I hear it less often these days.
A leader trying to explain to me that ‘we dont have customers’, thus ‘we dont sell’. Normally followed by ‘people dont like selling’.
OK…this is how it works.
If you know people saying this, email this like…
Point 1.   if you have no customers, it means that everyone is a networker. [...]

‘Anyone can join’, we cry!
‘No discrimination’ we proudly claim.
What an AMAZING advantage we have where literally the barriers to entry and access to our biggest opportunity are so small they are irrelevant.
Not only is everyone allowed to join…. nearly everyone can create ’some’ results.
Yes, fantastic isn’t it!
Join, get a few customers, make some money!
Join, sponsor [...]

For 60 years, 99% of networking systems were based on the process of Join – Sponsor – Train, with hopefully a little bit of Retail thrown in.
Even the ‘train’ bit was ‘a little it’ thrown in.
Yep, it was pretty much, sponsor sponsor sponsor.
I dont want to be sceptical yet thats about it.
I know [...]