Network Marketing

[Karenwhe]

Hi Agelfreedom,

I think you hit the nail on its' head. MLM is some what of a dis-ease.

Its roots are not so healthy in terms of peoples perceptions. Without going into the whole history, too many people that were not supposed to ever join an MLM or EVER own a business for that matter have been conned and convinced into MLM by friends and family.

I wrote once an article about this explaining exactly the reasons behind this, and what really MLM is when to take all the nonsense out of it. Amongst other thing I do, I am in a business that is multi-tier direct marketing (you can always call it MLM), but funny enough, I don't care about the MLM part of it (in other words sponsoring anyone) but only the services that are sold to the clients.

I have background in direct marketing and for me, if it is multi-tier (e.g. downline/upline) or not it is irrelevant to me.

If you want to be in MLM or not, if you got a product that sells you can sell it, if people want it they will buy it. It is as simple as that, stop worrying about the downline / up line and the rest of the stuff and get products and services sold and you will make money no matter how you wish to look at it.

Occasionally you will come across people that will want to also sell that product or service then you can "sponsor" them and they will do well. Simply because they want to do it - not because someone convinced them to do it.

MLM focuses far too much on dragging people into a business rather than just selling products and services that people really, really, really WANT and making a fortune along the way.

In short, I know and have seen many business people that miss massive opportunities simply because they have discomfort and dis-ease with certain words in the marketing world like MLM, direct marketing, network marketing.

If I was to guess the probabilities of the future, I would go so far as to say that if you give it long enough people will also have dis-ease with affiliate marketing. Because milti-teared affiliate marketing is pretty much like MLM like in smaller scale and right now too many people are being sucked into affiliate marketing to make an online living that in my humble opinion do not know what they are getting themselves into.

Later down the road if they get distaste from it and disillusioned with it, they will also say the same things they say today about MLM.

In short, start selling products that people WANT if you are good at direct marketing (which by the way is MLM and an organization should be a member of the Direct Marketing Association - DMA if they are doing a successful and legal MLM).

Forget about the "sponsoring" side of MLM, along the way you will find people that are interested in the business, in the mean time if the product and service is good you will make money and that counts to the bottom line.

Hope this helps.