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I am so sick and tired of hearing people talk about MLM being scam businesses. Multi-Level marketing is the same exact thing as Direct Sales, yet no one ever questions direct sales companies.

That is right. Your company may call it direct sales, party plans, mlm, network marketing, or even consumer direct marketing. No matter how you word it, they all do the same thing! Sell products or services and all bring new people into the business to gain bonuses and additional commissions.

ANY time you earn money from a downline you are paid on MULTI levels! Which is the exact same concept behind Multi Level Marketing. You make money from different levels.

Any company can be a scam! I have saw many many direct sales businesses come and go just as quick as mlm companies. Anyone remember, Scrap In A Snap, the scrapbooking party plan/direct sales company? What happened to them? They were billing reps and never sending products! They were paying reps with bad checks! I mean the list goes on. That company was classified as a direct sales business and they did scam many people, not just the reps, but the companies manufacturing their products!

People have the misconception that mlm is a scam. MLM is not a pyramid, it is nothing more than a company who has Distributors, Independent Business Owners, Franchise Owners, Consultants, Independent Agents, etc. to sell products or services and earn additional sales commissions based on the sales of people enrolled into their downline.

That is the same exact thing people do in direct sales, network marketing, consumer direct marketing, ect. They are paid based on their sales and others in their downlines!

I even see people who join mlm companies who are not successful turn around and call that company a scam. Just because you did not have success with a business opportunity, does not make it a scam. As with any business, success does not come over night.

Multi-level marketing has an image issue due to the fact that it is often difficult to distinguish MLM’s from illegal schemes.

From The BBB Website….
Multi-level marketing, a direct sales system, is a well-established, legitimate form of business. Many people have successfully sold the products of reputable companies to their neighbors and co-workers. These people are independent distributors who sell popular products and also recruit other distributors to join them.

That is from the BBB website! Now, a scam can happen in any kind of company, regardless of what they are classified as. A business is only as good as the people around it, but MLM is not a scam!!!!!!!!! Perhaps some people in MLM businesses are not honest, but that do not make every MLM company a scam.  Hell I have known people from different types of businesses be liars to gain a new downline member, but that does not make the entire industry a scam.

That is like saying all car dealerships are a scam. Come on now, how many people do you know who have in some way been burned from car salesmen and car dealerships? I personally know many! That does not make all car salesmen scammers.

This is a subject that really pushes my buttons bad! I have been with direct sales companies and companies that are labeled multi level marketing and they all are set up the same commission wise. You make your money from what you sell and what your group sells!

Therefore, there is nothing about mlm that is a scam! Sure some mlm companies may have been scams, but there have beem direct sales business scams as well. A few bad seeds can not ruin it for the legit ones!

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