For
a while, I have been contemplating to quit my job and be with my kids at home.
With sky-rocketing inflation, not earning was not an option that many of us
have, same was with me. So, I started searching for an option where I can
create some money from home. Suddenly
one day a message flashed on my cell inviting people like me to a conference
where they would teach us, especially the housewives, the art of making money
through using some simple tools. It was a BIG disappointment when I realized
the conference was all about some herbal products to be sold through MLM or
Multi Level Marketing. They used big words like strategy, synergy, business
grooming etc. etc. but at the end of the day it was about making agents and
becoming one.
MLM,
as a concept is selling products and services through distributor-pyramid you
create down the line and get paid not only for the sales you generate
personally but also for the sales generated by the distributors you recruit/enroll. Sounds lucrative? Unfortunately, it’s
not. Many people in search of quick
bucks end up being trapped in this and subsequently not only lose the money
they have invested to become distributor but also remain with stock of
unwanted, unsold products they would never use themselves.
If
you carefully analyze the structure of MLM you realize it’s a “tool to fool”
the people involved. A typical method of multilevel marketing is, first invite
people to the so-called business meet, tell them about the product (generally an
herbal supplement or some beauty products), make them distributors, sell them
the same products and ask them to make more distributors. Generally a speaker
or an AV presentation with people boasting of “THE FOURTUNE” they have made
through network marketing is shown to lure and convince the audience. But the wise will definitely ask questions
such as:
· Why
should I have to be a distributor first to even buy and use the products?
· Why
does a distributor create a competitor (another distributor) who eventually
would explore the same market he has to do business in?
· If
a sale is generated in the latest order of distributor-pyramid, why should
company pay to all the distributors involved up the hierarchy and most
importantly how can a company afford to give commission to so many people on
one sale?
It
is so very clear that direct selling business does not benefit anyone but the
very company. They make money not only through selling their products but also
through making thousands of distributors. It is a fraudulent system of making
money, which requires an endless stream of recruits for success. By the way, have you ever thought if they are
so blessed and rich by using MLM, why then, so called money minters shown
giving testimony of their wealth created through network marketing need to be
there in such small meetings at all? It’s simple because they have NOT MADE
MONEY the way they are shown in their presentations. No one makes easy money
because it does not exist.
I
am a survivor and escaped the trap on time. In case you have been thinking to
attend one such meeting, I request, you better think again!