What do you think of Network Marketing/ MLM?

I'de say network marketing is awesome & truly shows the power of being able to reach tons of people online. The bad part is that you have to have the right methods in order to make money & it still takes time in order to build ranks in the search engines. With the right product & the right audience the possibilities are endless though

Honestly, I don't think about it anymore. Back in the early 2000s and 1990s...YES !!

It is something that is just not for me.

And I am not saying you cannot be successful doing it.

Iam saying that to do it successfully you have to really have an outstanding Product or Service that you truly believe in yourself and hopefully use yourself. There is just no way around that.

Then you have to SELL the Product NOT the Dream. ( Or of course it can be a combo of both)

But you have to really be a super go getter and a super motivator of people, to be honest.

And have a system that can be duplicated by others.


- Robert Andrew

I'm involved in MLM and it's not such a bad thing to do that work but there are some things you should know. You don't have a full control of what are you doing, beacuse you are selling someone else's product. You can earn a good money in MLM but it needs some time and as I said you are not in full control so you never know what's gonna happen.

Multi-level marketing (MLM) is a marketing strategy in which the sales force is compensated not only for sales they generate, but also for the sales of the other salespeople that they recruit. This recruited sales force is referred to as the participant's "downline", and can provide multiple levels of compensation.

Thats the definition and it sounds to me that if you succeed in this marketing strategy that you get paid exponentially and passive recurring.

The bad part in MLM is really not the product. It can be insurance, tupperware, vitamins or information. It is the person promoting the product. It will only ethically work if you yourself believe in the product. If you are trying to sell a product you yourself do not use personally, your clients will smell the BS and run away.

Problem is a lot of MLM or marketers in general lie and try to shove their product down people's throat. Marketing is not about lying to people but telling stories. Success stories of your own and others and how the product helped you reach your goals.

Building these relationship with people and leading them by the hand on how to leverage the products you promote is the best way to make sales and succeed in mlm.

Joe

The push to recruit recruit recruit and not promote the actual product or services is why I don't like MLM.

The products and services most of the time tend to be rubbish is why I don't like MLM.

The fact that you have to pay in order to earn commissions is why I don't like MLM.

The pyramid shape and compensation structure is a big reason why I don't like MLM.

If that's not enough, here is some more reasoning :

Dude, ditch MLM and build a product.

You could create your own MLM with $400, Your own Weight loss pill for $150.. the opportunities are endless.

MLM products are always over priced and with the internet these days it's just not worth it.

You can make money in it, I'm not denying that. But it's not easy and it attracts a very "specific" type of crowd and many of them are dream chasers that evangelize the MLM yet are never successful.

But if you are going to do, you really need to build out your personal brand as the person to listen to.

They need to almost worship you.

MLM relies heavily on the psychology of the business.

i am actually looking to join mobe program. by matt loyd.
i heard so many good things about it. it is a big ticket item. so every sale you make , you pocket $1000
it makes sense: it is easier to sell i high end item to 1 person than $30 item to 50 people

I was in network marketing and I respect the industry and those who go about it ethically.

After putting in about a year of consistent hard work, I noticed my downline falling apart and quitting faster than I could build it.

This is where it's favorable for a person with an extensive network so you can build it down deep and quickly before your people get the thought of quitting.

I found myself meeting new people just to keep my old people tuned in and unfortunately I just couldn't keep my team from quitting while I was out recruiting, nevermind keeping them excited.

I just felt like I was the only one in my team that really wanted to do it, I know this was partly my fault.

When I found internet marketing, I stuck with it because it gave me more control over my business and I love it.

Not ruling out a come back in the future though

Cheers!
-Pedro Lopes

Network marketing is a great way to leverage your efforts and create a sales organization. From my experience one of the big drawbacks is the fact that most network marketing companies don't make it past the 5 year mark,that's why you see a lot of people jumping from company to company.One bit of advice,if you're going to make network marketing company a career join a company that's been around for some time (Amway,Herbalife,etc). I'd rather create my own info products and tools and have affiliates promote them for me.

It all depends on the product that's being promoted. If it's solid then MLM is a greta opportunity to make easy passive income, if it's weak then it won't last.

So if you decide to jump in, first do a thourough check on the actual product...

I have never been big in MLM, so maybe my opinion doesn't count.

But from what I've experienced, the biggest problem for me was building a downline that actually does something. Sure every one wants money, but most don't want to do the work. Ya you can get people to sign up, heck you could buy a downline if you wanted, but few of them are going to do anything that helps.

Course this is not just in the MLM sector, but in that model it's even more important that the downline does something.

To me, it's the one big flaw to MLM anything.

Yes I know there are different models, but let's be honest, to profit from most MLM programs you need people you bring in to do the work.

Just my thoughts

MLM is a good technique of online business but most of the online business looking fraud, many of the people has no faith on this kind of business so MLM needs to make their business policy more reliable for people .

Great question, you know I have found network marketing to be one of the most challenging but most rewarding at the same time.

It is much easier to sell a new affiliate product say with clickbank or jvzoo than to run a successful network marketing business.

Network marketing is a hustle thing. You need to work your butt off if you want to succeed. What is nice is that today we have tools that can do over 95% of the work for us but we still need to send traffic and following up is always good and just adds a personal touch to your marketing.

To me its working smarter not harder. I mean for us the "small guy" to have the ability to go out and create your own sales force selling a product that somebody else handles all the other stuff associated with having a business with physical product.

The pro's are if you are willing to create a game plan and put in some really hard work for 30 days you have the potential to set yourself up a 6 figure business.

The cons like I said is it is very, very hard at first if you have not done this type of business before but with that said everything at first can be a challenge but the more we do it the easier it becomes.

I think everybody should be involved in network marketing!

Network marketing is a powerful method of generating revenue. However it is also fraught with great pitfalls and difficulties if you don't have an ethical strategy. Personally MLN has been tarred by people like Bernie Madof.

I have been involved in network marketing in the past. Had great success with one company before it shut down. Most network marketing companies don't make it to ten years. It is a great concept but not an easy business to implement. My suggestion is figure out what position you want to get to in the business, speak to those already at that level to find out what they did, and then go do it. Repeat until you are at the top!

Network Marketing can be great if you find a good company that offers great products for their distributors to sell. The problem is a lot of network marketing companies don't have great products to sell. All they focus on is getting people to pay the sign up fee. You can't build a residual income that way.

Actually i am not fully involve with Network marketing / MLM. But i think, Network marketing is a business model in this modern world that have largest opportunity for investing money and making money. And all network marketer also an independent contractor. Thanks

I'm a big fan of MLMs! Here's what I love about them:
* Free training. Your upline only makes money when you do, so it's in their best interests to give you information that will help you succeed. Your upline is also your motivation, your cheerleader, your support, and your encourager, so it's actually a wonderful way to get started with sales.
* Good products. Despite what some people say about products, most MLMs started with products that were in some way on the cutting edge, at least of their era.Tupperware may not seem like much now, but when it first started that stuff was AMAZING! MLMs usually have one or two "flagship products" that are actually very high-quality and often quite unique: Mary Kay has their TimeWise line, ItWorks has the Ultimate Body Applicator, etc.

What I like most about MLMs is that it's a way to get started in sales for someone with NO experience who needs some training, some encouragement, and a system to start off with. It's a GREAT beginner sales experience with a relatively low start-up cost. Some people complain about the start-up cost (which is usually $100 for established companies and $500-700 for new companies), but that's really a drop in the bucket. Those of us in the business world will regularly spend several hundred (or even a low thousands!) amount on training, tools, resources, and help for a new venture; $100 is minimal.

So here's why I left MLM: I got started with Internet Marketing while working my MLM, and I got addicted to the IM side of things. It started with me wanting to make a Facebook page, then a Twitter, then a blog, then a Pinterest, then I started playing with SEO... And then I realized that although I was getting more business for my MLM, I didn't actually WANT to go visit clients and get dressed up and do presentations.The truth is, I just found that the IM was the part I loved, not the MLM.

I still think MLM is a great way to go. I'm just not really needing as much "people" time these days and I'm enjoying working solo a lot more.

MLM is the thing of the past. There were/are just too many scams and that's why it's really hard to penetrate into market. I'd choose anything else before diving into this. But that's just my humble opinion

I am for network marketing. I believe it is a solid industry and I have been to a few events and met my sponsors and other people I followed online who were mega successful. The freedom they have is what drives me, because I know it's real.

The struggles I have had were not anybody's fault but my own. You have to understand that there are good sponsors and there are sponsors who hit the high spots answering your questions. Even with a good sponsor it can be tough to get off the ground.

Ultimately, your success or your failure is up to you, and you can't hinge either one on your sponsor. Don't get too discouraged with any one failure. Take a look at why you failed and hit it again when you're ready.

We all have to take responsibility for our failures and our successes. I stopped the auto ships in each case because I wasn't making sales and didn't need the money to keep going out on my auto ships without knowing why I wasn't making sales. That was a mistake in some cases, too. Nothing wrong with the product.

Again, my problem that I had to ultimately figure out.

I do intend go back into the industry, even though I struggled before. I have had to step back and take a hard look at my own thinking and my own approach. That is all I am currently doing, along with focusing on my list right now.

Network marketing is a numbers game, I think its safe to say. I think the rule of thumb is that 1 out of 10 you contact will join. Sometimes 3 out of 10, just depending. Then, help them. Work with them. Stay in contact and help them find what will work for them to be successful.

There is more than one way to reach people and get exposure, but you will have to be ready to spend some money to reach the numbers you need to reach. In most cases, I think, solo ads will be one of the best options to reach people, which is still trial and error. Cookie cutter ads don't always work.

Solo ads are what I still intend to do more of in the future, even with the trial and error. Solos and direct mail campaigns. I didn't try direct mail like I should have before. You simply have to test more than I did.

My advice to you, also, is to make sure you are building your list as you work to build any network marketing business you get involved in. Your list is your number one asset, no matter what company you join.

The network marketing company needs to be one of many income sources for you. Keep that in mind always. Find solid products that you test yourself and can market to your list as well as your network marketing company.

You want to build a responsive list that you can market any good product to in the long run.

I say again, I am for network marketing. It is a solid industry. I am convinced of that. I have learned from a few bumps and bruises and will go again in time. I am researching at the moment.

This has been long winded, but maybe some of it helps.

MLM marketing is very good theory but it's depend on some issue like there are many kinds of mlm service in internet but most of them are fake/cheater that's why many don't like this, but personally i like the system if they do actual right thing without any fraud.

If you are consider to get involved network marketing business.... besides online marketing, you need to to offline marketing also. You need to meet people directly. Because the network marketing is about relationship for long term.

Let's be honest everything worth having is hard work. If you treat MLM like a professional you will succeed with minimal start-up cost.

MLM could definitely make you money and still works great if you know what you are doing, but you would get better results buying high converting PLR content or creating your own product to sell.

MLM can be a great business opportunity for new entrepreneurs for a number of reasons. First, you'll learn how to sell, which is important because in business nothing happens until the sale is made.

You'll also learn how to follow a system, and how following a system can be beneficial for your business growth.

I have been involved and it doesnt suit my personality. I think its too hard for me to try to get people to duplicate my efforts. Most people buy the dream and then quit in a couple months when they don't see any money coming in. It can be a great way to make money but its not my favorite method personally.

I agree 100% with SteveSki.

Here's the latest ones that the bloggers are using as an affiliate link and making bank . . . not sure if its perfect Negative Reviews of Young Living | Your Connected Life

I like network marketing companies online because of their leveraged compensation plan.

I started online as a blogger and affiliate marketer - and although the commissions are nice, getting commissions from your team member's production is even nicer!! lol

I don't see any bad thins with network marketing. Not really.

I would tell you that it is a lot better than affiliate marketing alone. Especially when the network marketing company has digital products, and it is looked at as another affiliate program. With a powerful benefit (against typical affiliate marketing) ... that is the compensation plan attached to it.

Let me give you one great tip for network marketing......

Focus all of your energy and effort on producing results (getting new team members) every single day. Don't worry so much about your current team members, unless you have a lot of extra energy and time. You don't want them to suck in your time and slow down your own production.

Once you have a big team, only then you can start focusing more on helping them.

I had to learn this the hard way!

I hope this helps!

I like Network Marketing and MLM because it is fun to meet new people in all fields of business/life and have the same ambitions to create a team. I believe in "Good Business" If I can help others enrich and improve their quality of life and at the same time generate wealth it is a Win Win situation for both parties.

Network marketing is a great model of business. You can build a residual income! You can help other people changing lives! To become successful in this industry you need to have a SYSTEM that everyone can duplicate.

I get a laugh out of all these people who say, "I love MLM it's a great opportunity" followed quickly by saying "the reason I left it was because ..."

The reality is MLM products are over valued and there just to make it seem like it's a legitimate business model when the reality is the real product is the $500 membership they sell you and give you a 'free' website that costs them nothing and charge you $40 a month to get into your own back office.

It's a complete SCAM albeit cloaked in legitimacy.

The events are nothing short of a David Koresh brainwashing and anyone that has anything to do with MLM are too weak of mind to really see it for what it is. There are a few that get lucky and make it sure but the reality is if you peal it back you'll find those always hit a pot of gold with someone in their downline.

Try and duplicate that. It won't happen. Also, there is NO CONTROL so if the company decides to go from telecom to costume jewelry you had better like and believe in the new direction. Or maybe they fold altogether.

The reality is it's ruthlessly difficult to have anyone these days come out on Thursday night 7pm to the Sheraton hotel as they have all experienced a snake oil mlm moron try this with them in the past.

Stick with IM and leave mlm for those who want the dream without the work.

Reality is mlm attracts the very low end person who doesn't really have any other options for business or can't be creative enough to make their own options or even worse and 99% of the time they are people who don't have a business / entrepreneurial bone in their body.

It's like taking a fat kid out for a salad. It may work once but he'll be back to burgers the next time. Now some will argue well that fat kid stayed with salads and lost 100 lbs. Well sure it happens. One out of 10,000 will actually make it work. The rest resort back to their old unsuccessful selves.

With mlm you are trying to change people's habits and lives and that is something you will drive yourself crazy with only to fail miserably. People don't change. On the cover of Fast Company magazine a few years back they did a study and it said "If your life was on the line, no figuratively but LITERALLY a gun to your head, and you had to change your odds of being able to successfully change would be 1 in 9".

That's pretty terrible odds. It's hard enough to change yourself without having to babysit a bunch of no loads who never really want to work anyway they just want the luxury cars and mansions in the video.

Don't waste your time. The products are over priced and why aren't they sold through other traditional sales avenues if they are so good? Because they aren't. It's a suckers industry.

Stick with IM or even a traditional sales career.

Sure it works for a few like Randy Gage and guys like that but for the most part those people got lucky one way or another.

It's like this. Think of the guy who buys lottery tickets every day of his life and spends a fortune chasing the dream and never wins a thing. Nothing to show for it but heartbreak and wasted money and time. Then there is the guy never purchased a lottery ticket a day in his life walks in buys his first lottery ticket and wins $20,000,000. Same exact principle with mlm. That is why not to be fooled by those very very few that actually do make any real money. It's completely and totally unduplicatable.

In case you didn't know already I DESPISE mlm and anyone involved with it as it's a lazy man's disease of the mind and spirit. Attracts the get something for nothing people 99/100 times. Do you really want to be associated with this type of person in the first place is what you need to ask yourself.

J

There are going to be a few haters on this post I know it for sure. Watch this video below before posting and then tell me I'm wrong.

Network marketing is great but it can be a very frustrating opportunity for many people.

Does it work? Hell yeah. You get to earn residual income from people that you brought in YEARS ago and if you just stick at it, you will find people who will duplicate.

I think it depends on where you are in life and what you're trying to accomplish. I used to be in a MLM. It was fantastic for me because at that age, I needed something other than school to keep me motivated and the MLM expanded my business knowledge like nothing else. I learned how to be an effective leader and my people skills are excellent. Why? Because I had good mentors who actually cared.

On the otherhand, a lot of MLMs (unless you're in a IM niche) have not embraced the use of attraction marketing by way of the internet. I have gotten pretty good at advertising and marketing by way of the internet but the MLM that I was in didn't allow my techniques.

For me personally, if you're able to make money online, and make money successfully on an MLM, I don't see why it would be bad. But you will have to seriously prioritize because if you don't put in the work for the MLM, its not going to be successful. If you're married and have kids and your time is already stretched, I wouldn't recommend it unless you have someone who is right next to you to help. Just my 2 cents

network marketing works....it is a great way to do business....but, like everything else...there are pros and cons. It really depends on the company. People buy from people they know, like and trust. Does you MLM offer products and services people can use and are willing to pay for? Is it easy to get involved? These are things to think about.

The richest people in the world would start all over using network marketing to build up their income, so yeah it's one of the best opportunities to make money.

However, the haters will always complain because it takes a lot of hard work to succeed unless you work together as a team.

Came across MLM before affiliate marketing and gave it a try but i need to say that some of the techniques they tell you to use are somewhat strange!

I was involved a few years ago with numerous MLM's. I found them all to be rubbish, i.e. KBGold, Karatbar, CapitolGaming etc..

However on a whim took up a free affiliate a couple of weeks ago and have hammered it and finally, after years, I making money daily, lots.... the kinda stuff you read about!!!

So until 14 days ago I thought they were all utter rubbish.NOW I love it again!!!

It can take years to find a decent product. Dont go thinking the first one you do will make you rich and NEVER spend your own money on one until you are making money..

kev

Personally I am not a fan. I have been in various things years agaao like, Herbalife, Wealth masters, Carbon copy pro, MVT, and what I find is that I used to get excited about helping others and realise that most people didnt do what I asked. it would p me off. No matter how hard I worked I was CHASING. Trying to find those 3% hot converters. It got tiring and in the end I decided to stop making other companies wealthy that could disappear in 2 weeks and work on ME. My advice is tread carefully and if you keep working for other companies be aware that You are NOT IN CONTROL of your life. When you build your OWN business you are in control.

I set about learning Youtube and FB etc by searching on Google and seeing what people wanted. When you have a solid brand you have no problems getting amazing lists and conversions. Its all about trust. To me, MLM and networking is too oldskool. It seemed like 'a way out' once but its tired now if you ask me. DO YOUR OWN THING and put your all into it.

By the way, youtube is just about the best tool and cheapest tool I used to use for attracting prospects so all I did was promote clickbank and other affiliate stuff using high target keywords and pay someone at fiveer to be the right demographic for my clickbank offer. Keep the video congruent and make it short and you can really start doing ok. Thats just my tip for today! )

I have been mixing up with many network marketing businesses simply because some if they carry products higher to what you find in stores! See huge likely in earning with very minimum monthly overhead and savings. I only wished that people would have an open mind in its place of upsetting about what they heard or what other people say. The public will talk about failures because they love to pity. And it is mostly the people who do not apply or commit themselves to networking as a production who fail.

I have been mixing up with many network marketing businesses simply because some if they carry products higher to what you find in stores! See huge likely in earning with very minimum monthly overhead and savings. I only wished that people would have an open mind in its place of upsetting about what they heard or what other people say. The public will talk about failures because they love to pity. And it is mostly the people who do not apply or commit themselves to networking as a production who fail

Mlm is a great way to make money and build lasting passive income.


However to succeed, you need to make sure you are promoting a great product.


do a thorough check on the company and the people behind it.


You should also research the compensation plan and ensure it is progressive and reward teamwork.

MLM marketing is great only when you have a great product/service to sell that others want. Personally i have been doing it for six months (selling dreamtrips) and it has been working great for me. You need to be consistent and put in work, all i have to do is show atleast 2 to 3 people a day consistently.

I just got started with MLM. So far I recruited 4 people. I will probably recruit more this month