November
2
2009
BambiQ asked:
My boss recently joins a MLM company (Multi-level Marketing) and he has sent me emails asking me to buy their products. I’m not interested but not sure how to respond to the emails. To make it worst, we have to see each other everyday at work. So it’s been quite awewark for the past few days.
My boss recently joins a MLM company (Multi-level Marketing) and he has sent me emails asking me to buy their products. I’m not interested but not sure how to respond to the emails. To make it worst, we have to see each other everyday at work. So it’s been quite awewark for the past few days.
How should I go about turning down his invite? I really don’t want to lose my job over this issue at all 
November
2
2009
November
1
2009
Okie asked:
I have an MLM that I’m working on building. It is a great low risk opportunity (low cost plus a money back guarantee) with a product that actually doesn’t require extra science or convincing (it’s not potions, pills, etc…rather, it’s best selling books).
However, the main hurdle I have is finding people who are open to the concept of MLM in general rather than the specific company I’m with. I find that either people are totally NOT interested in MLM or if they are interested, they’re already in their own and not interested in joining mine (which is understandable…because I’m not looking to switch to theirs either).
I have an MLM that I’m working on building. It is a great low risk opportunity (low cost plus a money back guarantee) with a product that actually doesn’t require extra science or convincing (it’s not potions, pills, etc…rather, it’s best selling books).
However, the main hurdle I have is finding people who are open to the concept of MLM in general rather than the specific company I’m with. I find that either people are totally NOT interested in MLM or if they are interested, they’re already in their own and not interested in joining mine (which is understandable…because I’m not looking to switch to theirs either).
So my question is how and where people find GOOD prospects that are actually ready to sign up for a new MLM (I’ve seen ‘networking’ sites that help you build networks of like minded folks, but it’s the same problem, we’re all their to tout our own company…not to join someone else’s…and the websites themselves are often selling their own separate agenda).
Thoughts?
October
31
2009
Why do people in MLM say its a business, but when asking for their numbers compare it to a paycheck?
Megan S asked:
Don’t these people realize a paycheck is for a job, and revenue/expenses is for a business? People in MLM tell you its a business until you ask for their numbers, and then its a job and private. I would not ask for their information if they were hiring me for a job, but trying to sign me up for their business those numbers should be expected. Is this just yet another component that makes MLM a joke?
Don’t these people realize a paycheck is for a job, and revenue/expenses is for a business? People in MLM tell you its a business until you ask for their numbers, and then its a job and private. I would not ask for their information if they were hiring me for a job, but trying to sign me up for their business those numbers should be expected. Is this just yet another component that makes MLM a joke?
October
30
2009
governorhorton asked:
I am looking to run a business out of my home (NOT a mlm type venture), but I am not sure which route is best: inc. or llc? What are the differences between the two? Is one more expensive than the other in regards to filing for a business? Thank you in advance for whatever advice is offered.
I am looking to run a business out of my home (NOT a mlm type venture), but I am not sure which route is best: inc. or llc? What are the differences between the two? Is one more expensive than the other in regards to filing for a business? Thank you in advance for whatever advice is offered.
October
30
2009
Marcello asked:
I assess businesses for a living and look mostly at real estate. When I have been presented a deal and determined it was a poor investment, people generally do not get emotional or upset calling me names and telling me I am negative. This is the same in most business ventures.
I assess businesses for a living and look mostly at real estate. When I have been presented a deal and determined it was a poor investment, people generally do not get emotional or upset calling me names and telling me I am negative. This is the same in most business ventures.
But in MLM, you can express your opinion of it being a poor business choice and you get MLMers jumping all over you as though you insulted their family?
Is this because people get in to MLM emotionally instead of intellectually (on the hype as oppose to assessing it as a business), or is it because MLM is more cult like that they would like to admit?
plr2win, you have expressed exactly my point. The issue (well one of them) is that you need to depend on your downline for income, and thus at any given time, there are always more people producing less than is needed to provide themselves an income than there are actually earning an income.
You see, in real world business, whether it be sales, admin, management, whatever, the person working that position is always providing enough value to justify their pay. In MLM, the majority is always earning less than would justify incomes because instead of focusing on personal sales first, they focus on recruiting and thus need others in order to make money.
Show me a model where everyone is first made to do enough personal volume to make a good living then allowed to recruit and I will show you a decent MLM…but none like that exist.
plr2win – to further clarify, its not that I am suggesting the model is some unethical system, I am suggesting the presentation of MLM as a means a getting wealthy is a sham. Explain how an exponential matrix can keep supplying revenue streams for someone on your 20th level. You can’t because at that point you would need millions and million of people in your organization. This simply yet another reason that MLM is flawed as a “business opportunity.”
MLM like a McDonald’s franchise…thats Ripe! It would be the same if everyone in your neighborhood set up competing McDonald’s on every corner with no concern for how that competition affect each franchise, and also if the fry guys and cashiers only got paid when they brought their friends and family in to get jobs as well. Gimme a break. MLMers are kidding themselves with these false comparisons.
October
29
2009
October
28
2009
Stockwillrise asked:
I am looking for a MLM business to join first of all. I don’t even have a company to promote as of right now. Secondly i am not looking to join a MLM business using the normal advertising methods. i need someone who has new ways of promoting a MLM business that sound like it might actually work. If anyone out there has some ideas let me know please.
I am looking for a MLM business to join first of all. I don’t even have a company to promote as of right now. Secondly i am not looking to join a MLM business using the normal advertising methods. i need someone who has new ways of promoting a MLM business that sound like it might actually work. If anyone out there has some ideas let me know please.
October
28
2009
