Correct me if i'm wrong but..

Trenton screw all that. People are biased with their choices at times. Some will say affiliate marketing all the way and others will say Network Marketing all way.

The best thing you can do is MAKE A DECISION AND STICK WITH IT.

Find out what company or product offers the best value and take action.

Dont give up no matter what and you WILL succeed. But asking for peoples opinions will help or make you more confused than ever lol.

Truth is people can only give you THEIR experiences, their experience doesn't have to be YOURS. Put that on the fridge lol.

Find someone successful in the company or network marketing in general, make them your mentor. Then be successful and tell us how ya did it!

God Bless!

Don't try to learn everything because that's impossible. Know enough to take action and surround yourself with people that are already doing what you wanna do.

But I mean is my logic correct here or am I missing something? I just don't understand

Both involve selling products, but network marketing involves recruiting other people too.

Some people don't like doing that, but if that's what you want to do then go for it.


Andrew

You aren't considering the conversion rate of a product on Amazon vs. the conversion rate of an MLM product or the cost and energy to acquire a lead.

1. if you don't know what conversion rate is you need to read and research a little more before starting your business.
2. roughly, it's the percentage of people who will buy an iPod for $100 from Amazon vs. the percentage of people that will join your MLM for $100 if they see your website.

Next, someone tells you what a "backend" is...

Hell, I'll do it intead of being a smartass. You get access to the customer's contact information. You sell other things to them later and keep 100% of that.

The business you are advertising gets access to a proven customer for life, that's more valuable than the sale of a single product.

You can't compare network marketing and affiliate marketing and say one is better than the other. Both are different from each other. If you're good at one and bad at the other the one you're better at will be a better choice for you every time. But let's delve quickly into your numbers since you mentioned this 4% commission on a $100 item. You really can't look at an initial one time sale in either one, you need to look at your assets:

1. It is pretty much guaranteed that if you're going to build a successful MLM business you aren't going to do it off a website, you're going to do it toe to toe, what this means is you're building relationships as opposed to lists, one isn't necessarily better than the other but they are different. As an affiliate you're going to build websites, rankings, ads, and lists. As a networker you're mostly going to build a downline, relationships, reputation, and skills. These are fundamentally different assets you'll use in completely different ways.

2. In both the affiliate model and the MLM model the commissions will be lower than they might be but as a general rule you can expect higher commissions being an affiliate than a network marketer...at least on the first level. That doesn't mean much though because the products are probably quite different and the profits in an MLM are all made on driving it multiple levels deep, which is a totally different skill, process, and outlook

3. In the case of an MLM you really need a recurring sale from the company and people buying again and again is what creates the residual income. In the case of being an affiliate you own the list and are free to promote whatever products you want (in an MLM you don't have that option, they want you to stick with the one company and will generally cut you off if you're promoting multiple, I know people who have been earning a cool $15k/mo. and suddenly had it cut down to zero because a photo was taken of them with the promoters from another company)

4. This brings us to the question of business equity. Contrary to what the MLM people will tell you selling your MLM position is difficult if not impossible, or rather you'll never get a great multiple on it, you just aren't building an asset you own that has much value, so long as you stick with them it can be great but you'll be lucky to get better than a 2 times multiple on your income if you sell if you can even get that. By contrast, build a great affiliate marketing business and you could get a 5+ times multiple depending on how you structure it so you're building more real and sustainable equity


The two simply aren't comparable, I tend to avoid both personally, and have a personal policy never to be involved in MLMs (went through the stage of entertaining them and have decided it's not the path I want to take) because I don't own the asset, it's not the behaviors I enjoy, and it doesn't typically surround me with the types of people I most enjoy, but that's personal preference. I have some very successful friends who are MLM types and it's worked really well for them...same is true of affiliate marketing. The key is learn to do what you do exceptionally well and stick with it but if I were you I'd make the decision based on what types of activities you enjoy, if you want to be on the internet all the time not interacting with people so much be an affiliate. If you want to be out interacting with people all the time go for MLM.

With MLM you have products and the opportunity.

The question is how to market it compared to affiliate products and how much work that is.

Now as has been well pointed out here MLM has its problems and that is most people has it wrong when they try to do marketing as the MLM has not any good marketing advice for its reps. That is why you are there! You market and get according to the comp plan.

If you get 100 people interested only 2-3 might be good for the opportunity and if you do not have any value or selling you, your team or your marketing system then good luck as you do not own squad. People join people not opportunities as such. You should position you on the front end, monetize and educate the 98% while having your opportunity on the backend. With the change of position you now own YOU and that is your independed nervecenter/website people go to. Big difference.

As for products advertize those where your target market are.

Is it more simple? Well if you set it up the proper way it is and the payoff is wastly different if you care to take the time.

It's good that you decided to go with Network Marketing. Believe in yourself, do what you think will work for you, if it doesn't try again, it will become success in the end believe me!

People may, or may not agree that Network Marketing is better than traditional Affiliate Marketing or vice versa.

It's their experience, though it doesn't have to be yours.

Reading through all those replies will only make you confused, if you think Network Marketing is better stop reading about it, just go ahead and TRY IT!

In the beginning I was reading about CPA, Affiliate Marketing, Network Marketing all that stuff, and in the end I was never able to take action and make money. Why? Because I often over-complicated things.

Choose one thing, test, test, test and test some more. It's the only way to know whether it will work for you or not.

Cheers,

After years of research I come to this conclusion:

IM = affiliate products for commisions usually low and takes many sales. No relationships being taking place. Harder to advertize in general due to rules and policies online and you do not have say in the matter.

MLM or the direct sales industry = Bad marketing skills has turned that niche into problems and bad rap with call cold calling, flyers and meetings etc.

To be succesfull you will need to think differently about how you position yourself but the marketing would be friendly to the way you want to do it and besides you now own something. Your lead list and the relationship. The opportunity can close down any second but you will still be there.

Attraction marketing has arrived long ago and it is time for people to build something that will last for the long term.

All you need is the following things regardless of the niche.

1: Theme for website
2: Website for the theme
3: Targetted traffic to point 2

Now what would be the most valuable to spend your time to accomplish your income goals? 20$ affiliate products? When the work is nearly the same?

That's because what you've seen isn't representative of anything very realistic and is therefore seriously misleading you.

I've already explained to you, at some length and in some detail, the many places in which you're mistaken about that, so I can't really add anything to what I said yesterday when you made the same deeply mistaken observation.

Don't get me wrong: I'm pro-MLM, not anti-MLM. I used to be in MLM, myself, in a good company, and I made money from it. But your conclusions here are deeply misguided ones, in my opinion, because the premises from which you're drawing them are themselves mostly mistaken.

Here's a question you're apparently completely ignoring: what proportion of people joining an MLM company with the intention of making a living from it actually make a living from it? (I know it's not a provable figure, but my overall guess is about one in ten thousand. We can debate it, if you want to). And what proportion of people starting an affiliate marketing business with the intention of making a living from it actually make a living from it? (Again, it's not provable, but we can talk about it, if you want to. My guess is about one person in 100, possibly one in 200.) If I'm anywhere near right, that might perhaps indicate that the average person wanting to do one of those things for a living has a 50-100 times greater chance of succeeding in affiliate marketing than in network marketing. Those are some huge odds! You're ignoring that, or not acknowledging it, or something. Maybe you hadn't thought about it at all (though it isn't actually the first time it's been pointed out to you). Maybe you don't even agree with it (in which case probably we can't really discuss it very productively, but I think you'd be terribly misguided to imagine that, because I'm actually understating the discrepancy, if anything).

Yes, indeed. You don't.

But (as previously observed) that's because you have some familiarity and experience with network marketing and none with affiliate marketing. Posting questions about it in a forum and reading people's answers to them (some of which, in some of your threads here, have frankly been ill-informed themselves anyway) isn't "experience".

No - you don't come across that way at all. But you do (with no disrespect!) naturally enough come across as someone who barely knows the first thing about it but is still trying to draw comparisons, from mistaken premises, between it and something else that you do know something about. And the reason you do come across that way is that that is exactly what you're doing.

No criticism implied, but I don't think you do at all. I think you just imagine you do. And the fact that in this thread you've simply re-stated some of the same entirely mistaken premises which were actually explained to you in some detail just over 12 hours ago rather illustrates that, I think.

I wish you very good luck, whatever you do.

Bottom line...

If one off commissions are your goal there are 1,000 ways
to earn more money than MLM.

BUT...

If building long term residual income that can support you for life
is your goal there is no better vehicle than MLM... PERIOD.

Affiliate marketing = linear income... if you don't work you don't get paid.

MLM = leveraged residual income... the ability to work yourself out of a job
and still get paid.

If the recruiting aspect doesn't interest you don't waste your time with MLM

OK... OK... I stand corrected! LOL

In my defense I did say LEVERAGED residual income... LOL

I'll still take it through multiple levels over my own efforts any day!