Multi-Level Marketing is NOT Like Corporate America

Written by TRACY on February 21, 2013. Posted in Business Basics, Failure in MLM, Videos

One of the common statements made by people in favor of multi-level marketing is that it is just like corporate America. We call MLM a pyramid scheme, and corporate America is a pyramid too! That’s simply not true.

While the SHAPE of the hierarchy of people looks like a pyramid in MLM and in corporate Amercia (one person at the head of the company, a few below, managing several below them, and so on)… that is where the similarities end.

Multi-level marketing is PAY TO PLAY. Everyone has to PAY MONEY in order to participate, and almost everyone loses money in MLM. In contrast, no one pays to get hired for a real job. Instead, the company hires the people and pays them every single payday. In corporate America, everyone makes money (although at different rates of pay), while in MLM almost everyone LOSES money.

Below is a snippet of my interview on HuffPost live, talking about this issue:

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Lazy Gardens

February 23, 2013 at 6:25 am | #

Another way they differ is that “Corporate America” (the successful parts of it) tends to run on facts and not bee-lief and dreams.

1 – They keep accurate books, tracking income and all expenses.

2 – They know who/where their market is before they stock inventory.

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