Beachbody coaches, I will not be 'friending' any more of you

Atlantique

...and have in fact deleted all of you that were in my friends list.

Why?

Because I am sick and tired of your little group CONSTANTLY soliciting clients here. Most of you are savvy enough to keep it off the forums, but are you aware that it is also in violation of this site's policies to solicit clients in your profile and your wall?

For those who abide by the site's policies and are not solicitation machines, I commend you. Maybe you should chat with your cohorts who see MFP as their own little free advertising site before your general reputation is ruined?

sassylilmama

I had to do the same thing this week. Some posts were encouraging but more of them were ask me about this, ask me about that.... If I am interested I will ask. Enough already.

Soupskin

Wow, I so hate MLMs

AngelaPowPowPOW

I have a few close friends on FaceBook that I had to "hide" because that's all they do. I never get to hear about their kids, their life...nothing but how to get Shakeology, Shakeology, Shakeology! Twice to three times a week I'd get messages on my wall about how to be in their pyramid scheme or them showing pictures of what their breakfast looked like, or why I should wear a BodyBugg. A..N.N.O.Y.I.N.G!!

1RippedChic

grrr im a beachbody coach but im not going to try and get you to join...im here for the goal. Dont hate us all! We aren't all arrogant pushers... sry abt ur bad experience... =(

hoosiermama100

I get it bad on my facebook because I DO wear a bodymedia fit and I post on their page sometimes, some beachbody coaches must troll their and try to get people because I'll get 5 requests a week. I turn them all down, if I don't know you I'm not going to friend you on my facebook anyway. But it's still annoying. I have 1-2 friends who happen to be coaches and they are supportive of my weight loss goals without pushing it but they must be the minority

DoReMiFaSoLaTiDo

...and have in fact deleted all of you that were in my friends list.

Why?

Because I am sick and tired of your little group CONSTANTLY soliciting clients here. Most of you are savvy enough to keep it off the forums, but are you aware that it is also in violation of this site's policies to solicit clients in your profile and your wall?

For those who abide by the site's policies and are not solicitation machines, I commend you. Maybe you should chat with your cohorts who see MFP as their own little free advertising site before your general reputation is ruined?

THIS!!! too bad this complaint will fall on deaf ears.... I have decided NOT to have MFP friends at all because among other things I got sick of the constant solicitations

deannarey13

This is percisely why I cancelled my Beachbody Membership and stopped being a Coach.

SoldierDad

I am a coach and have never tried to sell onething to anyone on here. :-) I only use this site to encourage, support and track myself.

ppiinnkkmmoonn

i just think the people are way to expensive and would feel guilty selling that high crap to someone where they can get the same results for cheaper. At the end it all hard work no magic in any of these must have products and their shakology is gross. and i perfer to be encouraging for free. my 2 cents. by the way i have a lady at my gym who sells it and she always raving about it. they are just as annoying in person.

FrenchMob

It's even funnier about those is most know nothing about health and fitness other than what their supplied literature tells them. The word coach in itself means someone with experience in the field they are coaching. It's pathetic.

binary_jester

I have quite a few friends and I don't think I have seen anyone push their stuff...at least anything different that someone saying they love a certain kind of peanut butter.

OMG I love Shakeology!
OMG I love Chobani yogurt!

Now if someone said msg me for more info...that's selling and that person would get the ax.

AngelaPowPowPOW

I am a coach and have never tried to sell onething to anyone on here. :-) I only use this site to encourage, support and track myself.

That you do. I had no idea you were even a coach.

focus2bfit

:glasses:

starboardzor

AGREED!! I love Beachbody products, in fact P90X has been the greatest thing to ever happen to me. But I can't stand their marketing ploys! It isn't a pyramid scheme, but it's almost borderline pyramid scheme. They say they're in it to help other people reach their fitness goals, but their primary goal is to create more of themselves. More beachbody coaches. When your goal is to make more distributors versus sell product? That just says pyramid scheme to me. Yeah, i did a little reading last night!

I 'liked' a couple beachbody products on Facebook and was bombarded with messages from coaches with the same peppy verbage. It's almost cult-like! It's the same way I feel when I get invited to those product-parties from girls at work... no, you don't want to hang out with me because you like me, you just want to sell me makeup!

I'd like to see it completely eliminated from MFP, as well.

fuzzymel

I guess I have been lucky because until reading this post I didn't realise people were like that.

I am guessing beach body is some sort of program (paid) they are trying to get people to sign up to?

Seems strange when this site is free and gives great tools.

Heather75

I am a coach and have never tried to sell onething to anyone on here. :-) I only use this site to encourage, support and track myself.

I had no idea you were a coach.

FearAnLoathing

I have someone like that on facebook but its mary kay and not beach body.But thats mostly all she talks about

BeLightYear

Shakeology, Shakeology, Shakeology!

I hate that "S" word!:grumble: :explode: :grumble: :explode:

ZebraHead

OP - I hear ya! But...

I have a small number of BB coaches on my friends list.

I have seen a very small amount of the 'pusher' action from any BB coaches here.

I think they serve a function (mentor, goalsetting, examples, etc...) but by and large they are not 'taking over' MFP.

They seem to (as a group) understand the rules here on MFP.

Plus the user community, while a great bunch of folks, will only put up with so much 'advertising' from other members before they go to the site admins (Mike/AL) and report said person.

Let the admins sort them out, but let's not paint them all with the same brush... :flowerforyou:

JesaGrace

I am a coach and have never tried to sell onething to anyone on here. :-) I only use this site to encourage, support and track myself.

So far, the few beachbody coaches I've talked to on here haven't hounded me to buy and have been very supportive....I have gotten a few messages but they have been responses to topics on the forum that I started or had a question on...like about protein drinks, etc....and they didn't nag me to buy....just gave the the info....If I ask about something that pertains to what they are selling, I can't fault them for trying to give me info on their products...I did ask...

RochelleBlack

I agree-it's too bad Beachbody gets a bad reputation because of people who behave that way. I like their programs, the Coach discount and a lot of the people I have met through BB. But I know a lot of "Coaches" who are just in it for the money and I too find them annoying :ohwell:

Beachbody's philosophy is that people are looking for THEM, meaning they are not in the market of convincing people. If more "Coaches" followed that philosophy, experiences like yours would never happen.

Everytime I "like" a BB product on Facebook, I get a friend request and email from a Coach somewhere. While I have met some encouraging and motivating people this way, I am also the type that does not like to be aggressively pursued. They quickly lose interest in me when they find out I am already a Coach.

focus2bfit

I agree with Zebra

binary_jester

I did get a msg once because I mentioned p90x. When I said I was "borrowing" the dvd's, she said if I was interested in anything, let her know. Very friendly and not pushy at all.

brendansmom1

It does get old, for sure...but, as a former MLM'er (not beachbody) it is very difficult to NOT talk about what you do. I agree that there is a time and a place for it though....and this site is NOT the place for them to come to solicit.

Hopefully, people will respect the "rules" and not go overboard. I simply tell them, no thanks, not interested...if they push from there, then that is just plain rude! I follow that guideline for ALL Direct Sales type companies though....

melissas77

I have not had that experience on MFP yet. However I had someone I knew in high school friend me on facebook. I accepted his request. Turns out he is a Beachbody coach and that is all he posts about. After I accepted his request he attempted to friend lots of people (possibly everyone) on MY friends list, people he did not know! I had my family and friends sending me messages saying "Who is this person? I don't know him but saw that he is your friend." How annoying! I now see that he has a ton of fb friends. He must friend everyone he has ever met and then everyone they know just to market this product. Delete!

lloydrt

these people sound like that cult like group called Amway..........man, I know this one couple and they are "brainwashed" with Amway

and theres nothing more irritating than "all of a sudden, bring up their products and get me into that pyramid"

I havent had your experiences, but thanks for the heads up about those people..........Lloyd

byHISstrength

I am a coach and have never tried to sell onething to anyone on here. :-) I only use this site to encourage, support and track myself.

So far, the few beachbody coaches I've talked to on here haven't hounded me to buy and have been very supportive....I have gotten a few messages but they have been responses to topics on the forum that I started or had a question on...like about protein drinks, etc....and they didn't nag me to buy....just gave the the info....If I ask about something that pertains to what they are selling, I can't fault them for trying to give me info on their products...I did ask...

I am one of those who has responded in a message to someone when they ask a particular question. I have sent one message and left it at that. I certainly don't like pushy people...no matter what they're pushing, so I certainly would not do that...not to mention, I am NOT a sales person.

therobinator

I agree that those selling any products should be banned from this site. I mean, it's one thing to simply be a BeachBody coach, or for people (coach or not) to say they used and liked (or didn't like) a product (BeachBody or otherwise), or for people to offer sound advice to one another....but when people are constantly saying "I'm a coach, therefore I know better" or "I'm a coach, do you want to buy a product from me" or "I'm a coach, blah blah blah" -- that's a problem.

I even had one person (who wasn't even on my friends list) contact me saying that they saw on the forums that I was going to do P90X soon and that she was a new BeachBody distributor and she would love my business. Not only did I reply to this person, quoting to her the parts of the Terms of Service she was violating, but I also reported her to Mike. I had another person who I deleted from my friends list a while back because he was constantly trying to sell stuff to me. Ugh -- all so annoying.

Perhaps MFP should not allow people to even state in their profiles that they are associated with any other websites or products. If people want to find BeachBody coaches, they can go to the BeachBody website and find them. Right?

Edited to add -- I do have people on my friends list who are associated with BeachBody and maybe even other companies, but these people don't flaunt it, and don't try to sell to me, and aren't annoying. And I am sure there are plenty of BeachBody associated people running around MFP who aren't advertising and aren't bothering anyone else, and actually are helping others with sound, non-sales-oriented advice. There *are* good people out there, it's just always the other bad ones that ruin it for everone else.

/rant

Alyshe

I love love BB products !!!! Because there the BeST !!!!

Christyp123

I'm a coach (and I actually do "coach" people through meal planning, fitness tips (P90x and non beachbody products), and calorie counting (referring them to MFP). I've never once friend requested anyone on this site and I won't either. I also don't push Shakeology here either. If you don't like the "S" word, don't drink it. If you don't like P90X don't use it. If you don't like seeing amazing progress pics, don't click on them. I'm sorry you had such a bad experience with these people but lumping us all into this group of money hungry maniacs is a little extreme. My team just started a "free" clean eating challenge for members and non members. We're not holding a gun to anyone's head to participate and not making money off of it either.