Generally in society you can tie your pay to the value you are providing. The more value you add, the higher compensation you generally get (negotiation abilities aside).
Someone who is merely a sales person earning commission earns pay for the amount of product they are effectively able to move, the more they sell, the more they get paid.
Someone who organizes a business, risks their own capital, and runs it successfully reaps the value of all these components in profits.
A cashier who works on a low hourly wage offers their time in exchange for a job that is easily replaceable, requires little training and virtually no education, hence the low pay since the value is relatively low.
In all cases the value is directly related to the compensation
Now what about MLM. What possible value is there that an MLM offers if they are selling minimum amounts of product themselves? It the view that merely signing up others is valuable? If so, how sad.
2006-12-01 04:17:00 · 3 answers · asked by Marcello 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Small Business
To fend of the expected answer comparing MLMers to sales managers earning commissions overrides from their organization, let me point out the obvious:
Sales managers focus their time managing their sales staff who SELL enough value to earn an income.
Signing up people and showing them how to sell things and sign others up is in NO WAY the same thing. Only in the mind of the very heavily biased MLMers trying to justify their value, which evidently doesn't exist (perhaps explaining the lack of respect the industry receives).
2006-12-01 04:20:06 · update #1
Many people in the MLM "business" have started from nothing and have everything they ever dreamed of. You are showing all of us that you were probably one of them who failed and so now you are just angry and bitter. It is a shame because there are companies out there called MLM that do truly help people!
2006-12-01 07:46:06 · answer #1 · answered by gatorgirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, when are you going to realize you have serious mental issues that need attention immediately?
Your hatred for an entire industry is immature, uninformed and annoying to all the people who have to read this garbage several times a day.
Do you really believe that a trillion dollar industry has no value?
Do you think that millions of people are all corrupt and involved in this world wide "scam" that goes unnoticed by the hundreds of governments that regulate industries?
Why is it so important for you to concern yourself to the point of obsession as to what each network marketer sells each month?
If it puts your mind at ease, I sell more product each month than you have ever sold in your lifetime.
When a person makes a choice to sell products and start their own business, you think that makes them an idiot? Spot the real idiot here!
Obviously, no amount of evidence is good enough for you, not that anybody owes you any kind of explanation, I'm just tired of you and your MLM bashing associates trying to convince people that there is anything wrong with the industry.
I am an educated business person, unlike yourself and anyone else who spews their hatred for an entire industry.
It just shows your small minds and poverty mentality.
So make yourself an appointment with a good counsellor and deal with this problem soon so you can become a contributing member of society. Make something else your strong suit besides slander.
2006-12-01 06:23:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Who said they add value?
Perhaps your tirade against MLM is getting a little old. Look, 99% of people know that this line of business is crap and made up of people who are looking for something for nothing. Great. Your point is made.
What does it say about you now thought that you have to keep stating it over and over again?
2006-12-01 05:53:46 · answer #3 · answered by mannix_mannix_mannix 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋