Insights into Mike Potillo the man and network marketer

I hope you have had a great weekend, mine was awesome.

As I sit here this morning, I started thinking about all the
negative junk I read over the weekend about Mike Potillo and
his involvement in a company called 360.

Let me start with a little background. I first met Mike in
the mid nineties at a convention right after he had joined
the company I was involved with. “Ignorance on Fire”
would be a good description of him at the time.

He was a very likeable young man with big dreams.

When I started my own company in 2000 Mike called our
office one day and said “I want to come to work for you”.
At the time I did everything I could to discourage him, but
about 8 hours later at $8.00 an hour he showed up at
my office with his car loaded down. He wasn’t going to
take no as an answer.

Over the next few years Mike worked in our office daily.
He loved the excitement. Many times I have wished he
could have been with me a few years earlier when I
could have had more time to provide direct business
building support.

Eventually, I decided that I did not want the responsibility
of a downline or owning a company and decided to semi-
retire and just focus on generic training, consulting and
seminars. That is what I have been doing for the last 8 years
or so.

Basically Mike, and my VP of sales at the time took the
company over and eventually merged it with Vita Mark
where Mike became the top money earner. I know that
Mike put his heart and soul into building his Vita Mark team.

From there he went to Ardyss in a corporate position and made
Body Magic a household name within the MLM community. Now
Mike is working in some corporate capacity with 360.

Let me say, that I basically have no opinion about the 360 comp
plan or product line. I have never had a reason to investigate it.
I know the internet is full of people that have tried to pick apart
the products and comp plan, but I have no firsthand knowledge
of either so I know better than to comment.

What I don’t get is how many network marketers don’t give other
network marketers the benefit of the doubt. I know, I know, I am
as out spoken as anyone about all the junk that “self proclaimed”
gurus propagate in the market place.

I have always said, “Do it, and then talk about it”. Mike
has done it. The only people that don’t have others trying to
pick them apart are the one’s that have never done anything!

I have said all of that to say this.

The highest compliment I can give any leader or corporate
officer is “They have a heart for the distributor”. This industry
is full of corporate people who feel the distributors are a necessary
evil and distributors with leadership titles whose only concern is
building a following, instead of other leaders.

I have known Mike for many years. I have known his wife Tiffany
and her parents Bill & Teresa since she was in grade school. I have
had dinner on multiple occasions with Mike’s parents.
THEY ARE ALL GOOD PEOPLE.

Has Mike said or done things in the past that maybe I have
disagreed with? Probably, and I am sure he would say the same
thing about me. I have also tried to live by the philosophy,

“Never try to explain yourself, your friends don’t need an
explanation and your enemies aren’t going to believe
you anyway”.

Give the guy a break! He is an only child, very excitable
person that grew up watching and loving Don Lapre infomercials.
He is not perfect, and MAYBE the 360 products and comp plan
aren’t either, so what?

Neither are you!

If you want to join, join, if you don’t…… don’t, but why waste
your time trying to make a villain out of someone whom you
don’t know that truly does have the best interest of his team
and the network marketing industry at heart?

It makes no sense.

Listen, I am all for throwing those people under the bus
that KNOWINGLY mislead and misguide people! I can say without
reservation that Mike Potillo is NOT one of those people.