Get Paid Today - MLM is Dead

Beelzebub asked:


Literally, you cannot post a question in small business or careers & employment without getting one of them spamming you with their business opportunity, yet these are the same people who supposedly are making money hand over fist? What is the deal, and do any of these people actually think decent people want to get into a business that requires nonstop spamming? Why is it only people in MLM feel the need to announce they are making all this money…no other business does that.
***Rich F, LMAO!

You are a spam artist spamming about Melaleuca!!!

Is there a worse MLM company out there than Melaleuca? Oh please.

I love how in one of your answers you profess it involved “no selling”. Priceless! No selling, so what, you just are a pure pyramid or its just morons like you buying?

No sales…please. LOL. That is the problem with MLM you dolt…no one is good enough to sell the product on their own so you need to sign up others to get paid. Man, I pity your mentality.

Gil

www.blingsityauctions.com asked:


Thank you for you participation. I am currently doing a report and would love to do a phone interview with you and feature you answers in the report.

Nanci

Jackal asked:


I am looking into getting involved in a new MLM deal. What are some of things I should look for? I will be at the top levels. That I know for sure.

Lyman

Marcello asked:


Even minimum wage sales jobs that high school students are doing require realistic volumes of sales…at least 3000-4000/week.

If MLMers were required to actually sell the equivalent of even the minimum wage sales people they would quit in droves.

So essentially MLMers are doing less personal sales than minimum wage salespeople yet they will tell you MLM is about sales and not making money by recruiting people. Well, if they are not doing real sales volumes, then they are making money recruiting. HMMM.

How do those in MLM justify this?
Brad H - the question was clearly addressing the money made by recruiting versus sales. Thanks for completely avoiding the heart of the question.

What could I have expected though, this is normal MLM mentality; when confronted with a question you don’t like, change the subject. Nice work.
Laura J - A+ for your long and seemingly educated answer. However, a few points I want to bring up. A good portion of your answer describes the benefits of building a customer base. If you have a large customer base providing you residual income that is terrific, but if that was the norm in MLM than this question would not need to be asked.

The clear point is directed to bulk of people making (or trying to make) money by building a downline. Surely if everyone built a massive customer base first, then it would indeed be about sales, not recruiting. But the fact that nearly all MLM compensation plans reward recruiting over sales speaks volumes.

If you are making more money from your customers than you represent an extremely low percentage of MLMers. If you want to suggest that everyone be like that, then bravo, but we know the reality is people try to make money on recruiting instead of sales in MLM.

Thanks for your answer though.
Edi - Thank, but you clearly missed the point. If you are recruiting and not selling, what value do you offer to the company?

You admittedly don’t know how to sell, so your value is not in teaching anyone. The difference between a bank or any other company that recruits sales people is that the people being paid to recruit and train them have clear value else they would be out of a job.

Merely making money recruiting is the very definition of a ponzi scheme.

Sorry to be harsh, but what you described IS the exact problem with MLM.

Artis

Beelzebub asked:


It would seem if MLM is such a great vehicle for earning money, and being that it has been around since the 60’s, that someone would have finally earned their way to being super rich. But there is not one MLMer famous outside of MLM that didn’t make their money selling books or something, nor is there an MLMer that is a billionaire.

It is because MLM really doesn’t grow like they all tell you it does? Is it really just a load of crap like most people tell you it is? What gives?
The question evidently goes right over the head of domers13. No one is saying that people in MLM don’t make money…the point is that no one in MLM has ever made BIG money. Don’t give me the “time” reasoning either, MLM has been around long enough for at least a single example of someone who would make it big. After all, isn’t the whole basis that your downline grows exponentially? Wouldn’t it makes sense than that someone by now would have a downline so massive as to be making BILLIONS?

Philip

Marcello asked:


Mexico4me - good to see you are back. Weren’t you going to message me? Don’t you recall, you need to bring your sense of humor when answering my questions.

Tena

Marcello asked:


D - post the question about franchising and MLM yourself and I will happily answer it. Or, search it on google, OR search through my Q&A as I have discussed it before.

As far as this question, it was clearly satirical. Anyone offended had it go over their head.

As far as real estate being down in areas, its always up and down in areas. Its never up or down. Smart investors make money when the market is up or down. It merely means its a buyer’s or a seller’s market, both are profitable if done right.

Judson