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Multi-level marketing is a fancy name
currently being used by some companies in an
effort to do two
things.
The first objective is to move products from their warehouses,
and thus increase their
sales volume. The second objective is to
recruit "an army" of commission-only sales
people.
Make no mistake about it!
After you've stripped all the hoopla and falderal away from
these
"super money-making opportunities", the bottom line remains the same -
you make
money from commissions allowed from the sale of
products.
Generally speaking, very few people have any "real" sales
experience, and thus, if offered
theopportunity to take a job as a
commission-only sales person, they'd run from it like the
devil.
At the same time, most commission-only sales positions are
"direct selling"
opportunities. And, the definition of direct
selling begins with an explanation of what a
door-to-door sales person
does.
Don't get me wrong... A lot of personal fortunes have been
amassed by commission-only
sales people... For sure, when you
attempt to sell by mail, you're almost always involved
in commission
selling, and direct selling.
What I'm saying is that most people are
"duped" into joining multi-level marketing
programs without
understanding that it is commission sales and at least a form of
door-to-door selling.
Worse than "duping you into joining their
programs..." Almost all multi-level marketing
companies subtly
encourage you to break the law, and run the risk of huge monetary fines,
long
terms in prison, or both!
This is done by at least, "inferring"
that if you will find a number of people to duplicate what
you're doing, and
in turn encourage each new enrollee to keep the system going,
everybody
will get rich!
No so, my friend! That's a "Ponzi Scheme", and if
you don't really understand what a Ponzi
Scheme is - allow me a moment to
explain: Such a scheme is any kind of money-making
opportunity where
you get paid by recruiting, enlisting or soliciting other people to follow
your lead and continue a chain of events. In other words, you'll be
paid a commission
from the people you recruit -1; form the people they
recruit -2; from the people they
recruit-3; and on into
infinity.
This is the "secret" impact that most multi-level marketing
companies use to induce you
to buy into their program. Such
practices are illegal, and subject to federal laws which
could destroy
you. So called, bi-level marketing plans are the same thing, as are chain
letters, and people-helping people clubs. They're all based upon
the Ponzi Scheme. If
you have any doubts, take your money-making
opportunity and sit down with your local
postmaster and discuss it's
legality.
These things are illegal because if - as in a dream world -
they really worked, by the time
one person had attained level number
five, he would have "signed" everybody on the face
of the earth with
only the first two levels receiving any of the money. There would be
nobody left for the third, fourth and fifth levels to sell
to...
Multi-level marketing companies get around the law by stating
within their by-laws that it is
strictly forbidden to promote or attempt to
sell the program by mail. Then, when the postal
inspectors come calling
on the little guy, the MLM company says: He did it - we don't do
such things - here, look at our by-laws.
The bottom line is as old
as the hills: you can do anything you want - legal or illegal - so
long as you don't get caught - but when you do get caught, you'd better be
prepared to pay
the price.
Besides the terrible mess
multi-level marketing has gotten a lot of normally law-abiding &
moral
people into, it has "foisted" upon these people personality changes that man of
them do not like.
To make any money selling a product or service
on a commission-only basis, you have to
have the ability to sell like
the proverbial "used car salesman". It's all hard sell, and more
often than not, involves "forcing" the prospect to buy whether it's good
for him or not.
Anyone who has ever attempted to succeed in commission
sales, knows that it takes a
product in great demand - a great deal of
sales calls, advertising and persistence - at
least a little bit of
failure - and a tremendous amount of "total business moxie" to make
any
money at it.
There's nothing wrong with commission selling - and if
you're good at it, you're good at it,
you can make a lot of money if
this kind of selling - but remember that multi-level
marketing is
commission selling - the way "distributors" are recruited is very illegal, with
the authorities closing down more MLM companies every day - and
it takes a special kind
of personality to succeed at it.
