I read an article, was waffling the biggest load of nonsense I have ever heard or read in my life. http://www.vandruff.com/mlm.html
His first point is regarding saturation, well this system has been going for 60+ years and saturation has not even come close. Herbalife international has been going for over 28 years and they have some 1.6 million distributors out of a population of 6 billion+ people. Amway who have been going since 1959 that is almost 50 years have 1 million distributors in the USA and 3 million worldwide, that is a total of 4 million in the whole world. Amway have in excess of 450 products to retail around the world. As a an ex Herbalife distributor I know they have at least 100 products available to their independent distributors to retail. So between arguably two of the largest MLM companies in the world they have less than 5 million distributors out of a world wide population of 6 billion.
The fact is that more babies are born per day than new distributors are being recruited. Why good people would get a bad taste in their mouth about MLM baffles me, get on with it and get people using the product. MLM contrary to the skeptic's belief is not about hard core selling, but about getting people to share high quality products. He then waffles about supply and demand, well assuming we are talking about skin care it is fair to say that this particular product will never saturate the market, so again get on with it and get sharing the product.
He then goes onto waffle about pyramid structures, well all corporate life is built on a pyramid structure. Also in most MLM companies people often earn more than their upline. Equal is as equal does. Because most companies pay out to certain levels it is very possible to earn more than your upline. Can that happen in a job? No!
He then does the 10x10 thing and has the whole city signed up in less than a week. If that is the case why are there less than 5 million Amway and Herbalife distributors combined worldwide? He then gripes about greed, well wake up sir there are some of us who want more out of life than 40 years at the broke factory and then a not so golden hand shake.
No sir, the original concept of MLM was to get on the product, get excited about your personal results and then share this with friends and family. Once you have 4 people sharing the product you are in for free and then you help others to do the same. Perhaps individuals got greedy and impatient but the system did not. This article in my mind is written by some one who never made it in MLM and has spent a lot of energy in the wrong place.
