MLM

You've found your way into a forum where very few people
understand or like MLM. I happen to be probably the biggest
supporter and promoter of MLM on the forum but be prepared
for a ton of negative posts from people who actually know
very little about it.

To answer your question... yes, I've made a lot of money with MLM.

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This is true. (Mind you, I've seen MLM forums where very few people understand it, too).

I agree MLM has some awesome benefits if it's done ethically. Naturally, there is a fine line between an 'illegal pyramid scheme' and that of a legit mlm.

It's been a few years since I have dabbled in MLM, but the wife and I made great money, met some quality minded people selling an all-natural weight loss product. The best part was my wife lost 35#'s using it, so it was an easy sell.

The bad part was it had mau haung as it's active ingredient, which was causing heart-attacks and several side-effects. The company changed the ingredients, and the product stopped producing results. End of story!

Look at Amway, Avon, and franchising... nearly all the share same business model. The thing I don't like, is in most cases, they fuel from you buying $XX amount per month, then signing up others to do the same.

Other than that, I have one superbly detailed blueprint for an MLM idea I had, and had to shelf it (for now) after pricing the cost of a programmer to build the multi-tier payout structure I was looking to create.

All the Best,

Art

Can you make money - SURE!
Will you make money long term if you do not have a valid product - Not Likely. Hot products for some time now are weight loss. I'm seeing a lot of advertising on FB and most other Social Networks for that product line or Niche.

You must develop a large customer base and build the Network around that for long term residual results. Personally I prefer affiliate marketing or direct sales through online marketing but I have an active MLM Business because there are just some people out there who prefer that. (I'm also not in the weight loss niche-more into online tools and services which is tough developing that large customer base.)

Learn to Earn!
Jeff Beeman

MLM's as a business model always end up with you selling inferior products at higher prices, and that's not an overgeneralization.

Why? Because in order to be able to afford to payout the huge tiered payouts (where who referred you get huge percentages of your sales) they have to increase the price.

Yes, Its Multi LeveL Marketing and Still works for earning Money online.

There is always somebody making money in an MLM.

You can find somebody that has made money in every MLM mentioned in this thread. There will be people that join all the MLMs mentioned in this thread tomorrow that will make money. The problem is: not every can make money.

Somebody has to be the customer. You need to have a product at a fair price that a final customer wants to use, not make money on.

Every business is Multi-Level. Unless you drove to Hershey, Pennsylvania to buy the last candy bar you ate directly from the factory you participated in a Multi-Level business. Hershey probably sold it to a distributer, who sold it to a wholesaler, who sold it to a 7-11, who sold it to you. You didn't want to resell it to make money, you wanted to eat it, so you became the final customer and were probably happy with the product at the price you paid (even at a 7-11). Somebody made money on every level between the Hershey factory and you.

If you had a chart showing each distributor who buys from the factory, each wholesaler who buys from each distributor, each 7-11 who buys from each wholesaler and each customer who buys from each 7-11 I'm sure you would see something that resembles a pyramid. So you participated in a pyramid scheme when you bought that candy bar.

Just because something is Multi-Level doesn't automatically make it a scheme or a rip off. But there are plenty of them that I think are.

I'm making money in the last Network Marketing company I joined. It's free to join, no monthly fees or autoships, and the customer receives a great product at a price actually LESS than they are paying for the exact same thing now.

You've just opened up a whole can of worms. I see this topic come up every now and then. Try doing a search for MLM and you'll find lots of previous discussions.

EDIT: I see Alexa Smith actually posted a ton of helpful links above.

While MLMs can make money, it is important that you build your list first and THEN introduce them to your favourite MLM.

Otherwise if you spend 3 years promoting an MLM and it fails for you, you have nothing to show for it.

Whereas, when you build your list first, you can promote multiple MLMs to your list as well as a host of affiliate products to help your list succeed. And if an MLM doesn't work, tell your list you are pulling your recommendation on that one and why and tell them what new ones you recommend.

This is how you build a lifetime business.