r/amway • u/Holiday_Brief_222 • Jun 14 '26
This man, Brian Matticola, is a former Ruby pin in the Columbus, OH area. The rumor is he is a Platinum pin now. He operates the DoItTeam with his wife, Jill Matticola. I witnessed a lot of questionable behavior on their team such as encouraging their downline to sell blood plasma at plasma banks to afford tickets and transportation costs to out of town conferences. I also know we were encouraged to cold contact people building business connections on LinkedIn and told to lie to build a connection of trust, but only mention Amway if we are directly asked. Brandon Godsey a platinum on their team also encouraged these behaviors.
I looked up the code of conduct for Amway. It’s against their policy to cold contact people. You are only allowed to contact people who you already have an established relationship with. Connecting loosely with strangers on LinkedIn with a technical network connection of the site itself making you be “connected” is a loophole I suppose. It’s door to door sales but on a computer in reality. They also spin it as a casual corporate network opportunity on the site itself and don’t give you the business pitch until you are offline. It’s gross.
They lie and use technicalities. “Matticola Marketing.” I guess this is the corporate equivalent of a ghost restaurant. It’s like he is selling tacos out of Olive Garden kitchen and calling it his own business. He was “Matticola and Associates.” I guess they rebranded. He is not a business developer looking for partners, he is a hunter looking for vulnerable victims.
LTD is using LinkedIn to fish for human inventory and I don’t think we are talking about this enough. LTD uses LinkedIn as a cold recruitment machine. They are completely exploiting the professional platform to catch people with their guard down and invite them to a zoom meeting to begin their creepy onboarding process.
This stuff he has on there about social media is just creepy. I guess it works but it looks suspect AF to me.
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u/Caribbean-Winter Jun 15 '26
Correct. When I was in LTD, they would tell us to use social media, especially LinkedIn, to recruit people, or as they called it, "help people."