[agelforums]

I am just curious .. I got alot to speak about on this subject but seems most of this board hates the idea of Network Marketing and MLM.

So I want to raise a discussion on MLM.

Good or bad, everyone give me your thoughts and opinions on it.

[WanganRunner]

People don't like MLM because it isn't a real goddamned business.

At it's best, a legitimate MLM turns you into a salesman, not an entrepreneur. At it's worst, it's a pyramid scheme.

It doesn't help that MANY of the MLM's out there are wholly illegitimate, but even the honest ones still shouldn't be what a real entrepreneur wants to hear about. Running a business and being a salesman aren't the same thing. If I wanted to have "limitless potential for profit!!!OMG" and NOT really run my own show, I'd just be a goddamned financial advisor or something. It's for people of limited vision.

I also can't stand marketing people, honestly. If I can make money without having to convince people of things they wouldn't otherwise accept without me, everyone else can too. Vultures.

[F360]

Originally Posted by WanganRunner

People don't like MLM because it isn't a real goddamned business.

At it's best, a legitimate MLM turns you into a salesman, not an entrepeneur. At it's worst, it's a pyramid scheme.

It doesn't help that MANY of the MLM's out there are wholly illegitimate, but even the honest ones still shouldn't be what a real entrepeneur wants to hear about. Running a business and being a salesman aren't the same thing. If I wanted to have "limitless potential for profit!!!OMG" and NOT really run my own show, I'd just be a goddamned financial advisor or something. It's for people of limited vision.

I also can't stand marketing people, honestly. If I can make money without having to convince people of things they wouldn't otherwise accept without me, everyone else can too. Vultures.

I think the constant spam on the net trying to sign people up was what got me disliking it so much. That, and it is nothing entrepreneurial.

[Lex]

its a scam

[mebreezy]

I'm not a salesman nor do I want to be. I'm a people manager. I want to run a business off of a single or multiple ideas and have people work for me.

[Carcy_list]

its about adding leverage under u guys... damn, u just wont even look into it all

[akula]

Originally Posted by Carcy_list

its about adding leverage under u guys... damn, u just wont even look into it all

see, that's the other reason

MLM pulls in people who are never supposed to be in business

it works like this...if you were really cut out for startups, you would've started something without needing this mlm rubbish. but you're not - you're just an ordinary person, you're not trained in business, or have the personality for being a businessman. nothing wrong with that. if the situation was different, you would have went to business school.

so, this set of circumstances will lead you to failure and disappointment, and then you'll have your answer for why people hate mlm. these are schemes that prey on people, like my mom, who should never even come within 10 meters of seeing a balance sheet.

[mebreezy]

It's almost like those chains that you send $1 to 6 people and in the end you make $98239482398 or something like that. MLMs also completely neglect their product and concentrate on their chain of people (that's how they make more money, more people involved).

Like prepaid legal. They're more concerned with getting more salesmen (who pay like $150 to join) instead of selling their legal insurance. They're making more money on their own people than their damned product... How stupid is that?

[akula]

it's just silly....MLM companies playing on people's fears, moral sins and insecurities

oh well

[Kenix]

I don't believe in MLM. I think only the top level people and starter really earn money. They sell marketing plan and not products.