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Fabricio Di Monaco"What goes unnoticed to the MLMer is that when the neighborhood is turned into a marketplace, something precious is lost... which is not easily regained."
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An MLM is a human "churning" machine with no "off button." Out of control by design, its gears will grind up the money, time, credibility, and entrepreneurial energy of well-meaning people who joined merely to supplement their income. Better to just steer clear of this monster to begin with.
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The product is not the incentive to join an MLM. Otherwise people might have shown an interest in selling this particular product or service before in the real world. The product is the excuse to attempt to legitimate the real money-making engine. It's "the cover."
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In the real world, the profit of a company is directly related to the skill and prescience of the "hand" on the "supply knob," so to speak. In the USSR, that "hand" could not react fast or accurately enough to market realities through the best efforts of the bureaucrats.
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the MLM is set up by design to blindly go past the saturation point and keep on going.
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The question for would-be marketeers is... what is "X," and how can it be predicted to maximize profits?
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How could you possibly know at what point you will become the liar in an MLM?
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If this product or service is so great, then why isn't it being sold through the customary marketing system that has served human society for thousands of years?
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This is why real-world distributorships and franchises are contractually protected by territory and/or market.
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Better to just steer clear of this monster to begin with.
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If a company chooses to market this way, it will eventually "hire" (with no base pay and charging to join) far too many people.
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"con"fidenced
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Do you want to be involved in the blatant promotion of values contrary to your belief system?
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If these guys show up in your neighborhood, you are either "in" or "out," family or target, friend or foe. Suspicion rules the day; everyone has an "angle"; greed supplants innocence. The "neighborhood" is turned into a marketplace, and may never recover from the blow.
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Do I want to be involved in encouraging people to be more materialistic?
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Do I want to be known among my friends and family as a person who tried to con people with a thinly veiled pyramid scheme?
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It should be noted that when selling product, the only distinction from a real-world business is the possibility for deception due to the "looseness" of the MLM and the incentive to exaggerate claims without any accountability. Other than this, selling product in an MLM is fairly similar to selling any product in the real world.
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The first marks for recruitment are the gullible, or the "expendable" friends.
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There is an undeniable camaraderie among MLMers. But for everyone else, "there goes the neighborhood."
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One can't help but wish that the "neighborhood" could be like it once was. But an MLM storm has blown through, ruining valuable relationships with no regret or conscience. And brace yourself, another one is coming. Perhaps it is in that smiling face approaching you, or in that nice letter you just received from a "friend"?
What goes unnoticed to the MLMer is that when the neighborhood is turned into a marketplace, something precious is lost... which is not easily regained.
This aspect of the MLM experience should not be underestimated, and the reflective reader would do well to think twice about the value of friends, family, community, and church fellowship before joining or continuing in an MLM.
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if "the pitch" at an Amway meeting were even moderately accurate, in something like 18 months Amway would be larger than the GNP of the entire United States
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Another morally questionable practice that is not intrinsic to MLMs, but seems axiomatic, is the pent-up idolatry of the leaders.
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ople can make money in an MLM, undeniably. The moral issue is: Where is the money coming from? Selling product? Then why not sell the same product in the "real world"?
But everyone knows that the real incentive is the pyramid
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"Let me tell you about an incredible ground-level business opportunity," and you are invited to a house or to lunch for "a discussion." Funny enough, you feel sick in your gut that there is some hidden agenda or deception. "Probably a multi-level marketing (MLM) organization," you think. Suppose it is? Should you trust your instincts? Is there anything wrong with MLM?
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Tom McLeodA good breakdown of why money can't be made without defrauding others, with a good list of follow-up reading as well.
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Great Men?
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