Omg, MLM makes people turn into WEIRDOS

I should add, this girl is working as a bar tender and has yet to convert a single person yet.

I guess she expected her prospects to take her at her word that her dream future lifestyle she fawned about was going to happen.

A quick question:

Has anyone ever met an MLM person who actually focussed on selling them the products?

Because the answer to that question tells you all you need to know.

The products are purely there to make it a non-pyramid scheme type of thing, if I'm right.

However, if a watchdog notices this cover-up and you can deliver proof that they're focussing on adding new (paying) members, whilst combining that with the promise of making more than, and with their investments it becomes illegal in most countries.

But isn't it still up to the person that joins if they want to either spend time selling the products vs recruiting new people?

Yes, it's up to them - of course it is.

But when you're hypnotized and being told to build a team (a.k.a. pulling in new paying members), you'll forget about the 0,xx% commissions on product sales quite soon.

Edit:

The commissions on product sales are kept low on purpose, so that building a team looks way more profitable.

Don't get me started on MLM's. I had one kid fight my brother, and cheap shot him because my brother told him "you are not going to retire your parents with vemma"

Personally I run a facebook group for young entrepreneurs with over a thousand members. I have a rule, and a pinned post that clearly states that MlM promotion will not be tolerated. At least once a day someone will come in to pitch visalus or vemma, and talk of a great opportunity etc etc. Ive wasted a few hours talking to these people, and they are not a very smart bunch. According to a vemma "brand ambassador" liquid vitamins are the way of the future due to faster absorption rates. I called him out on it, and told him vitamin timing has an effect that is almost nil, and most water soluble vitamins just get pissed out, and are dirt cheap.

I then probed him for the cost of one can. Over 2 euros. This is more than 2$ American. Typical energy drinks fall below 1$ to manufacture. Food products tend to have lower margins as well. When I asked him why the product was so expensive for an employee I shit you not he said "vemma has aloe,green tea, and mangosteen extract so that is why its so expensive" Ran a quick search on alibaba, and found out that mangosteen extract was worth about a hundredth of a cent. I told him this, and his response was priceless. "Verve uses extract from the mangosteen peel because extracting from the fruit would not provide you with the crucial xanthols"

The conversation went on, and he told me that his mom that is a nutritionist even went as far as putting the drink in a mass spectrometer to test the drink (lol)

Those are just a few instances. These people are very stubborn, and hard set in their ways. When one doesnt work they move to the next until all of their friends, and family dessert them.

I know right, everyone is immersed in it. They start dreaming big and they think it's easy. Most of the MLM-ers are young and I think that's their target. The higher ups, or the pioneers who have been there already for quite some time are targeting these kind of people. Young and dumb. I'd say it's a smart move but a lot of people lose themselves while pursuing or rather, trying to be successful in MLM. But what they don't see is that they sound totally different after having this kind of dream.

EDIT*: Jesus, I feel like I slept as I was writing this.

Im involved in an MLM and completely agree.

There are some people who treat it like a business and others who treat it like a religion.

What's sad is a lot of effective online marketing is no longer allowed by compliance. This is all because a few idiots abused it and decieved people into coming to meetings or signing up (often implying it was an hourly job). If it weren't for these assholes, I would have probably built a much larger team but now but Im still making decent progress.

The reason why MLM is tough is because untrained reps deal with the wrong market of people (people looking for jobs) This leads to the false impression that xyz company is unethical / and or a scam when 50% of prospects will inevitably Google it. In the case of my company 80% of the bad reviews are posted by lower income people who were looking for hourly jobs (the remainder is competitors or people looking for a get rich quick scheme) So, I've just accepted that I'll have to go through larger numbers of people to create a passive income.

For anyone in MLM here, ALWAYS pre-screen your prospects before they come to the meeting or interview. It's a bit of short term pain (extra 30 seconds on the phone) for a lot long term gain! Trust me, some people don't even read job or bizopp ads. They'll just apply to everything (without even reading the compensation details) and end up wasting your time.

Make sure they understand it's they earn money on commision (and in some cases will have ownership of their own business once they've passed a certain sales/recruiting threshold)