Re: Another MLM horror story.

> My aunt got involved with an MLM 2 years ago. Ever since then all she ever
> talked about was the damn business and how incredible it was and how the
> entire family, including the dog should join this "ground
> floor".

> She knew that I was doing good with my internet business, so of course I
> was a prime target. However, my wife helped me avoid her by tell her I
> wasn't home every time she came over. Eventually, she got the point.

> I knew about this type of business, I have seen the incredibly outrageous
> income claims these companies usually make in order to reel in members, I
> have read the horror stories, and I wanted no part of it.

> It got to the point where most of the family was avoiding her too, nobody
> wanted to sit near her at family gatherings because she would try to
> recruit you into the thing. She made her husband buy her a state of the
> art computer and an entire room of the house devoted to her office and her
> business which she was gonna pay her husband back once she was making a
> six figure income with the business.

> Well, after a year she had managed to get a couple of people involved in
> it with her. And she used to say to my mother... "Sometimes I have to
> pinch myself to make sure that I'm not dreaming. I finally have my own
> successful business!"

> Well, forward another year later, she has given up. She is now maxed out
> on her credit cards, her garage is full of unsold products that she had to
> keep buying in order to save her position as some kind of
> "leader" status. And her husband is deep in debt paying for all
> this "Dream business".

> I urge everyone out there, Multi level marketing is a very complicated
> business and often even a scam. Do your research on this type of business
> BEFORE this happens to you.

> Alex

This is a horror story and exactly what gives the industry an awful rep. I got involved when I was 19 and knew how to say no if something was not adding up. I would never tell someone to get on autoship. I hate it. I think it is the worst idea that has ever been so widely promoted. It is made for the people at the top. Notice that whenever they talk to you it about getting on autoships and about setting it up at the first of the month. Why is that? Oh maybe so they can figure out their salary and what they might need to produce before the end of the month to get to that next level.

MLM is not at all bad. Health and Wellness companies are bad for people that don't have a lot of money. They are very expensive when you first get going. I am in one that I love but I retail product not recruit a lot of people for it. The reason they are expensive is not the initial $20-$50 fee it is the autoship to qualify for downline bonuses. Also they don't like to tell you that you are probably going to need to get some product and just sample it out and let people try it. That is not free. Next and probably the most important about health and wellness mlms is this

YOU MUST BE A SALESPERSON PERIOD. That is not even a statement that anyone would ever change my mind about. There is absolutely no way in the highly competitive over crowded health and wellness mlm market that you can survive not being a salesperson. People like to pretend they don't have to sell and try and recruit others that can. The only problem is they are so desperate any talented salesperson is going to look past them. Also the person recruiting probably tell others you don't have to sell to anybody. LOL.

Anyway sorry to hear the nightmare about your Aunt. Network marketing is not for everyone not even for most. However a good networker can carry weaker ones if he believes in helping people and working with those that trusted to go into business with them.

Keep charging ahead and I'll see all of you at the top. God Bless.

Dustin