People you refer have no clue about who you are and do not see you as an expert.
When someone joins your downline, his/her contact information is being given away to the Paying Members of the same site. So basically, your leads get spammed with messages from people they had no agenda coming in contact in the first place.
Everyone joins with the same damn agenda - to build a list. It means that most of the time, your emails are not even being opened.
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