Why You Should Join an MLM Scam

Every generation must re-learn that MLM (multi-level marketing or network marketing) is extremely profitable—for a tiny percentage of participants.

And that is okay.

One estimate is that 2% in any MLM organization make outsized profits, and the rest lose money.  That estimate might be high or low.

People become part of the 98% if they (1) care how their actions affect other people, and (2) are not born to sell.  The 98% are marks, or targets, for the 2%.

Yes, anyone can learn to sell.  But to sell complete lifestyle change, to sell religious conversion, requires a competence package that few possess.

I can sell, and have some of the other necessary skills, and I lost $70,000 in one year.  The company continually changed policies to benefit the 2% and harm the 98%, because they knew the 2% were their real customers and the rest of us were cannon fodder for the 2%.  I realized that I would never become part of the 2%.  So I quit.  Weirdly, I was again convinced to try another of those companies a year later.

Here is the good news.  Almost everyone who tries to make money in MLM becomes a better person.  I have seens hundreds of people try MLM, and they develop skills:
* ability to emotionally expose themselves and talk to people
* ambition
* basic self-improvement, sometimes even improved personal hygiene
* accounting and accountability
* basic marketing mindset
* long-range planning
* ability to discern good and bad opportunities

So even if you lose money, you still receive benefits (skills) that you can use in legitimate spheres of your life.

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SIDE NOTE

Here are some definitions and clarifications.

MLM scam: Some of these companies focus on product, and compensate distributors for selling products. They are legit. But if a company’s focus is the payment plan for recruiting, it wants you as cannon fodder to keep people at the top profitable. The legal definition of Pyramid Scheme involves having a real product or not. If the product is a liter of fruit juice for $40, be suspicious.

Personal direct marketing:  These companies are almost 100% product focused.  They are not MLM.  Pampered chef, Avon, and various candle companies do not offer a path to wealth, but are legitimately ways to earn side money at home. (Some scams do offer huge profits for doing very little work.)

Cellular Level:  A common product claim from MLM companies is that their vitamins or fruit juice benefits your body “at the cellular level.” Clarification:  Everything we eat benefits or harms us at the cellular level.  Organic kale and lead paint chips affect us at the cellular level.

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