Why are so many people against Direct Selling / MLM / Internet Marketing?

Question

Do people REALLY know what they're talking about? And have all those against these means of creating an at home income, really have personal experience? Or is it something they have "heard" or "Assumed" ?

Is it that people want something for nothing? So who's fault is that? Are people basically lazy? Who's fault is that? Having your own business something that has to be worked at. If you were going to rent a space and have a store front, would you get that for no money? Do people think that customers are just going to flock into your store just because it's "you"? This is really a no brainer. Things are too easy for Americans. Always someone elses fault and they want something for nothing. What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

Wait... "the Net and Network Marketing"?? Catch-22??

Those two should go together, hand-in-glove. And yet, Network Marketers have struggled to realize the near-infinite networking, lead-generating potential of the Web.

How can that be?

Network Marketing (sometimes called "Multi-Level Marketing" or "MLM" or “Two Level Affiliate”) is all about...

* recruiting/lead generation/relationship-building
* sales conversion
* ongoing consumption
* replicating yourself through downline motivation and training.

How in the world could the Internet not be the best thing since sliced bread for Network Marketers? Because it's being done, all wrong, by all the wrong people.

There's no need to push (i.e., chase cold calls/prospects) when you can motivate potential customers and business-builders to pull (i.e., they want to call you to learn more).

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Answer 2

Whoa, you've lumped three distinct means of marketing and distribution into one question.

The one that most people object to is the multi-level marketing (MLM) model, for the following reasons:
1) Only those few that start the MLM up get the big dollars; those that join later make very little and eventually drop out.
2) Promoters of MLM position the business as just that - a business based on ones ability to sell. In fact, success in an MLM is not so much in selling, but recruiting others to sell. If you are not good at recruiting, the pricing structure and profit margin is so small that you are not likely to make any real money just selling.
3) Many MLMs are abandoned by the founding people after they feel that the plan has run its course. They sell it off to their downline and then go start another one. Those that buy the exhausted MLM network realize too late that they got taken and do not have the resources to keep it going. Everyone left loses.
4) A few MLMs are downright illegal and are called "Ponzi schemes" after the businessman that first came up with the idea. Ponzi schemes involve paying people downline with money from the downline - that is, it's not part of any profit margin, but rather as people sign up, the others in the scheme are paid with that same money. It all falls apart when those in the scheme exceed the number of people signing up.

Answer 3

Direct selling,Internet Marketing and MLM have all been abused.People are OVERLOADED with promises of quick wealth,but told its gonna COST them to get this information.Usually,when researching possible avenues to make an income from home,you end up spending a lot on garbage and junk mail(that you paid to get).Lots of scams and unethical people out there.You get bombarded with offers,one almost like the other,but one thing is common in all of them:They want Money.Still wonder why people are sceptical?The scams are getting more difficult to detect by the years..receiving good looking checks in the mail,for thousands of dollars,yes,thats nice,but you take it to the Bank and they say:Oh another one of these fake checks...makes you wonder ...it has just become TOO MUCH OF NOTHING.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

yeah i'm sure i know wat i'm talking about baby..coz nothing in these world will bring money so easily..and the key is still the same juz like traditional marketing..when you can sell a lot of things so you will get a lot of profits and you 'll be rich..
and also in MLM, it's all about the pyramid..so watever you do..you only make the owner become more rich..not make yourself rich..because in pyramid, the lower your level, the area become more bigger and bigger...
so i can say that all of that is SCAM..and only the FOOL who do it..coz i have prove that no one of my friends that already try is already become success...

Answer 6

It's called life experience. MLM's are a scam.

Answer 7

its just that they dont o or just tried a little gave up
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the trick is the first few months is hard then is easy people just can't wait

Answer 8

There will be no midle man making money,