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Do you feel embarrassed/pity for the people you know in MLM?

You will never find a bigger group of emotionally driven people than in MLM. MLMers defend their business as though you insulted their family. MLM is a dream (albeit one than never comes true) and talking poorly about that dream is like driving a knife into the back of the person in MLM. If you look around just on yahoo question you see the MLMers jumping at any chance to promote their business. Can you imagine being in a business where you have to present the "business opportunity" to anyone who will listen and degrade your business so much so that you will align yourself with anyone who gives the slightest positive response...without having any idea about them? See my extra note for a quick story...then add your own comments. PS-can't wait to hear all the emotionally driven MLMers bashing me for killing their dream. Hilarious. Talk poorly about any bad investment, bad business deal, etc, and its just analyzing a business...talk bad about MLM and you are Satan himself. I have a family member once that came to be for some advice in investing with 7 other people in a gas station in California. He was all excited because gas prices were going up, the product was something virtually everyone used, and the industry was so bright. However, upon careful examination, the profit margin was so small on the particular deal that it was a terrible investment and I steered him away from it. 5 of the people ended up investing and losing their shirts. Needless to say, my family member was very thankful.... Since then I have had this same family member bring me this amazing business opportunity with all this fancy market data and info about how the product was so amazing asking for my opinion. After analyzing the deal, I showed simply how it was unsustainable and he would need to do sell immense sustainable volume to even approach the incomes he was looking for. Of course, this was an MLM deal and when I advised him to steer clear, he was emotionally driven and his peers told him that anyone who disagreed with the opportunity was merely a negative person who didn’t understand the deal. Needles to say, he wasted, 2 and a half years of his life, hurt his credibility with his business associates and friends who he emotionally tried to push the business on, and never made anything of significance... So suddenly when it’s a conventional business opportunity looking at the numbers logically I have an intelligent unbiased viewpoint. But when you use the same approach to someone looking at MLM, you are suddenly negative and don’t know what you are talking about. Well since that time, this same family member has resurrected himself. He ended up investing in a self storage facility and now runs a reputable property management firm. He in fact is doing very well…which leads to the obvious point that even astute business people who are quite capable of making a good living not only get hooked into MLM from time to time, but even they cannot make it happen. Oh, how I pity those stuck in MLM with their false hopes and unproven incomes and foolish product testimonials. ***kzzxguy *** - don't get me wrong, I have great respect for anyone trying to make it big. I lose a little respect for those however who think making it big is signing someone else who will do what they are unwilling to do themsevles. Perhaps a better way to put it...I think sales is one of the most respectable professions. But consider, to be in business on your own and be considered at least semi-successful you need to be earning upwards of 80-100k/year. Well, even at 10% that requires close to a million in total sales annually whether it be you or your downline. The problem with MLM is that they offer far less commissions and people think selling a $40 bottle of some health product is going to get there there. They assume since everyone is saying that "so and so" is making $20k/month or because some doctor is doing it part time that its reasonable they will make that money, but never consider what it really takes to move that much product. "Build your downline"..riiiight! CLASSIC! It was only a matter of time until MEXICO4ME stopped in all defensive. This person is the perfect of the sad MLMer. Just look at the profile..spending all this time posting answers 90% of the time pitching his/her spam MLM business. If you don't like me talking down about MLM, why do you post an answer any time I post anything about MLM? Pure emotion. Look at your answer. You jump to baseless conclusions such as "40 year plan" which is merely the MLM brainwashed reply to anyone who disagrees with their business. Let me repost the answer I posted a while back that no MLMer will ever respond to because its an honest intelligent look at MLM for what it is. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvRNBZ5HP0NuOlpQmIFmHXvsy6IX?qid=20060829065246AAQOdsR But go ahead and continue to call me names and making baseless assumptions instead of actually debating the points. That is the MLM creed afterall...use a tag line whenever faced with fact.

Public Comments

1. Whenever I get that MLM sense, I avoid whatever the offer is. I have spent hundreds of hours checking out all the get rich quick schemes. For the record I have a website with ideas and ways to save money and make extra money through cash offers and paid surveys. The website is http://www.easymoneyadvice.com Thanks Cory
2. Oh, gosh, don't these MLM's seem like a CULT? I know of a dear friend who is involved in selling books, art packages, and other small items to the public. This person is out in the heat every day, thinking he is going to make a killing in a few months. I haven't really said anything to him directly. He's young and very trusting. There is no investment, but the pay is horrible. I don't know how he's making it. I wish I knew what to say or do. It's a little late to point out the problems, and yes he takes great offense at anyone who knocks it. He feels that people are attacking him personally, and don't believe in him. Does anyone else have any ideas about this?
3. they r hard working people who believe in their dream to be rich one day.. so .. treat them with respect
4. I feel embarassed/pity for Marcello. This poor guy wastes hours and hours every day bashing what others do for a living, when he could be actually trying something like WORK and getting on with his life. There are things in the world that I don't like either, jobs I would never consider doing, but I have enough respect for the people that do them to never try to make them feel that what they are doing is insignificant. Time to get a life Marcello. Go get yourself a job, as you obviously subscribe to the 45 year plan, retire poor, get yourself a nice big bag of Walmart dog food to try creative cooking with, and live off the government. Leave those of us who are earning an honest income ( far more than you earn, guaranteed) alone. No one has a problem with you analyzing a business, but you are unable to do it with any form of an educated opinion, and frankly, you're just sickening. So once again, GET A LIFE MARCELLO...Join some group where you can spew your uneducated drivel and have yourself a big old time! Perhaps join competitive checker leagues or something a little more in your caliber.
5. I wasn't going to bother chiming in to this question until I notices Mexico4me felt the need to embarrass himself yet again. You can't post a question in the small business section or the career section without Mexico4me spamming you about his business opportunity. He is a classic case of what is sad about the MLM business world...and now they are all over the net like a virus. This chain letter style business had no respect from the beginning and is merely a punch line today. The only people with any respect for the business are those who stand to profit from selling stuff to them (like motivation books & tapes), or the people who are in MLM themselves. No one who is outside of MLM has any respect for this industry, and what's worse is most MLMer's don't even know it. MLM is the only so called "business" on the planet where EVERYONE who chooses not to do it thinks its a sham and those in MLM think everyone who chooses not to do it must be lumped into a bitter 40 year plan. I have more respect for the janitor who works 40 years for his pension than any MLMer who needs to sink so low as to prospect in someone's yahoo question the way Mexico4me does.
6. Marcello, you are a little hard on these guys but I know where you are coming from. You are 100% correct, but I suspect you are more amused making fun of them than anything else. Am I right? To add some points though: i have never seen people in any other business that will just accept the numbers without any validation like they do in network marketing. in network marketing, people who have never been in business sign on to this because they hear things like people are making X amount of dollars, you could make millions, or Donald Trump says network marketing is the best way (although he is a real estate tycoon and has no affiliation with network marketing). Can you imagine making a decision to start a business based on hype? that is what happens everyday in network marketing because the average person that joins has no idea how to analyze a business. evidence of this is the fact that so many in network marketing try to recruit off the internet. if that is your pool of business people you intend to base your income on, you definitely have my pity. also, you will always find there is some lawyer or doctor who lends his name to an organization and suddenly everyone in that is brought in is thinking "wow, if a lawyer or doctor is doing this, then I must be doing the right thing. And wow, i heard they were making $10k a month, and look at that nice car." these people of course never consider that this lawyer or doctor is either making all their money in their own practice or is equally unqualified to judge a business. Being a good doctor doesn't automatically translate into good business sense. I once knew an accountant that left his profession, left his family hanging, and went into Network marketing full time. Everyone in his upline and downline applauded him all the way to losing his home. If you asked anyone new to the business what happened to him though, the story line was he retired from his success in the network. Bravo. yes, pity all the way, although anyone stupid enough to get involved deserves what they get and perhaps the only way to learn is by getting in and failing, and getting it our of your system.
7. Marcello, you are one wacked dude. However, it is true, the numbers don't work in MLM. Just do the math in a simple 3x3 matrix. By the the time you hit the 14th level, you need 10 billion people. The MLM response is to not get caught up in the numbers, or don't take the numbers too literal. Imagine saying that during a real estate transaction? "Mr. Investor.... you are taking the numbers too literal. Don't get hung up on the numbers..." Wake up MLMers. 99.9% of you won't make it. The other .1% will siphon enough off the others, to appear "successfull" so you can then sell tapes and seminars, to the 99.9% to make up the bulk of your income. Mexico4me, I want to join your business, so can I see you income statement? Profit and loss? And you uplines, and your upline's upline. No I can't? You are right, I am getting hung up on the numbers again, silly me.