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They call themselves a "Network Marketing" comany - but it seems to be an MLM company. The product seems legit. If you're familiar with this company or the product - I'd love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

2006-12-11 07:10:36 · 3 answers · asked by liddabet 6 in Business & Finance Careers & Employment

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In regards to the company and marketing its products, all you need to do is ask any company rep one simple question...

Is the head corporation selling more retail products to customers who are not involved or to the reps themselves? (and of course ask for evidence).

This question is important because the dream of getting rich is always attached to MLM thus you have droves of MLMers buying the products themselves because they need to hit their minimums but continue doing so because they believe they will one day become rich. Its the perfect decoy and the countless naive folks in MLM eat it up and account for the bulk of all company sales (prove me wrong).

Of course, you will never get this answer for a couple reasons.

1 - MLM companies are set up to get as many reps selling small amounts but putting much more focus on signing people up rather than retail sales (see any MLM compensation plan as evidence since to move up you need to sign people up). This obviously useful information is never actually made available by nearly all the MLM companies because they don't want you to know this. If their product was so great, they would be able to do a lot better than the majority of their sales to their own reps.

2 - Nearly all MLMers (who really don't know this information themselves) tell you that you are either getting too mixed up in the numbers, that this information is not important (riiiight!, lol) or that anyone who buys the product suddenly becomes a rep themselves. The last line of course is the most hilarious justification! With that line of reasoning, any product that you really enjoyed would suddenly become something you also want to sell? I don't see Coke, Gatorade, Nike, Microsoft, etc having issues with all their loyal customers suddenly wanting to become salespeople as well.

As I said, any reputable company selling a reputable product will easily be able to show that they have far more retails sales to the public than they have sales to their own sales people. In MLM, they never do, and its because MLMers are the biggest customers because they are duped into a ridiculous dream of becoming rich by merely signing others up rather than focusing on their sales (again, show me an MLM compensation plan that focuses more on sales than recruiting if you disagree).

MLMers will try to convince you differently without ever addressing the point I just made, but they are the ones coming in here trying to convince you to join their business, not me. I am not making any representation about myself in that regard, so who do you think is going to be biased, me, or the MLMer whose business DEPENDS on signing people up?

2006-12-12 07:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by Marcello 2 · 0 1

The person who answered your question before seems to have no experience in MLM so he can't actually speak....I've been doing MLM now for over a year with different companies, however, what seemed to be extremely true for me is that a good network marketing company but have a history of 5 years plus behind it. I am not saying that a new company won't be successful but one which has been there for years will prove you that they have great marketing skills from which you can learn. I am now happily enjoying my business with a stable MLM company (19years old). If you wish to get your dreams back to reality dont give up MLM...Should you want further information do not hesitate to post back some feedback with your email or any other contact information. Regs, Chris.

2016-03-29 03:28:56 · answer #2 · answered by Patricia 4 · 0 0

Network Marketing is a great business. Please do your due diligence. Here is a great place to start. Get HBC, Home Business Connections magazine and read about what criteria a Network Marketing company must meet before you even waist your time looking at it.

Bless your heart, I hope you find what you are looking for.

2006-12-14 06:50:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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