Multi-Level Marketing (MLM), Network Marketing and Pyramid Selling

Snake-oil sales people have been around for centuries.. always convincing and always pressuring sincere hard workers to their cause...

Multi-Level Marketing

Why do some people dislike Network Marketing, Multi-Level Marketing / MLM with a passion? (Short Answer = It saves time!)

Intuitively, we sense MLM has flaws, but feverish supporters commonly shout down any argument that conflicts with their argument.  What is most offensive, of course, is their insistence, and inability to accept 'no' as an end to the discussion. Amway, Golden Products, Juice Plus, Ausway, Nu-Skin, the list goes on and on, and on...

Here is a typical example... Gbg Business Opportunity

The majority of people that get involved with MLM, don't think through simple arithmetic and misunderstand the achievability of the illusion of building a huge down line. Most multi level marketing agents recruited are not successful, regardless of how much help you, or the company you represent, gives them.

Those multi level marketing individuals that do make a go of it, would probably have had much more successful businesses if  they had directed their energies into traditional, efficient business models.

Most end up quitting within a 2 to 6 months time frame. This means recruit, recruit, recruit with very little chance of long term gain.  Even recruiting 30+ people per month retains a handful by year's end, but there are so many more reasons to stay very far away from any Network Marketing / Multi-Level Marketing - MLM business:

Most MLM participants fail because:

• Very High Attrition Rates - If Members are not making money in a reasonable amount of time, they quit. The average MLM business has a drop out rate of 80-95%+ per year.
• Friends and Family are obliged target prospects - Some deny the need but the implication is always there... insinuating players are not dedicated, or committed, if they are 'ashamed ' to involve those they know best... Friends and family should never be seen as financial targets - that's how you lose friends and family.
• Verbal Marketing Support with Independent Contractor Protection - The Company passes information down lien verbally, and down liners are independent contractors... so if you make claims you believe are true, and a buyer catches these out as untrue, the Company just says you made it up or misunderstood and they never said such a thing.
• Hype driven Business Training  - With a 1960's don't be negative, just sell, sell, sell attitude.
• Pie-in-the Sky Compensation Plan - If you are required to have generations of people in your down line before you see any real money for your efforts, but there simply are not enough people in the universe to be down lines for the number of aspiring participants that exist.... evidence the Company generates money form those that fail, not succeed.
• Over Priced or Under Performing Products - Products are priced high and claimed to be 'better' when they really are not.
• MLM can arguably be described as Pyramid Selling in disguise - Even the most complex channel management structures in business are rarely longer than 5 levels from producer to consumer... MLM dangles extended commission overrides.

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