MLMs Promise Nothing

Are MLM's too good to be true? Yes!

How can you tell that a “money making program” is a scheme?

It doesn’t take long at all to see those programs for what they are ― just clever schemes:

  • To get you locked into repeating minimum purchases of everyday products
  • To get you to spend your precious vacation days and dollars at MLM conventions and seminars, buying their sales literature (c’mon ― wouldn’t you rather go to Cancun?)
  • To get you to spend your money on “sales tools”
  • Think about it!
    • Do you pay your boss for sales literature ― at your day job? Then why do Market America and all other similar income programs charge for packs of flyers?
    • Does your day job charge you for support from the guy that keeps the email server running or from the sales team? No? Then why do Market America and all other similar income programs charge their distributors a monthly “web center” fee?

It’s all very clever ― isn’t it?

It’s staggering how many people fall for it ― smart people!

Don’t feel mad or sad! Living well and living free is the best revenge.

MLM Plan of Action

We couldn’t say this better! The source ― the genius at www.ratbags.com ― has these funny words to say about your “MLM Joining strategy”:

Here is my suggested plan of action for anyone considering joining a multi-level marketing scheme:

  1. Make a list of all your friends. (This is the same thing you are told to do when you join a pyramid.)
  2. Estimate how much money you will spend over two years on entry fees to distributor meetings.
  3. Estimate your costs for travel and accommodation for those two years' worth of meetings. Include the cost of fancy clothes, accessories, jewellery, hair styling and dry cleaning so that you can look successful.
  4. Estimate the cost of tapes, videos and other tools which you would be expected to purchase in a two-year period.
  5. Estimate how much it will cost over the next two years to hire babysitters for when you are at meetings or out several nights a week showing the plan.
  6. Add up the amounts in Steps 2 to 5.
  7. Add $5,000 for incidental expenses ― petrol for the car when out showing the plan, magic markers, butcher's paper for drawing circles on, breath freshener, tooth whitening paste, ...
  8. If you don't have a mobile phone, add another $1,500. (Being always accessible is important. Friends of mine asked their upline to be the godfather of their daughter. He kept his mobile phone in his hand throughout the baptism ceremony.)
  9. It is important to look successful, so if your car is more than four years old talk to your local BMW or Mercedes Benz dealer about a lease. Do not even consider a Lexus. For the time being, don't add the lease payments to the total.
  10. Inquire at either or both of the local country club and yacht club about membership. Again, leave out these costs for the moment. (There is no need to budget for a boat or golf clubs ― membership is what matters, not playing games. You won't have any spare time, anyway.)
  11. Look at the total estimated expenditure after Step 8.
  12. Subtract $100 for projected income from product sales.
  13. Subtract $200 for projected real savings from buying overpriced products at a discount.
  14. Write out a cheque for three quarters of the remaining amount, made out to your local children's hospital or some other suitable charity. (This will be a legitimate tax deduction. Despite what the pyramid salesmen tell you, most taxation authorities will not allow you to deduct the costs of participation in a multi-level marketing scheme. The costs are so much greater than the income that these activities are not considered to be serious or viable businesses.)
  15. Spend the remaining quarter of the money on a big party and invite all those friends that you listed in Step 1.
  16. At a suitable time during the party, stand on a chair and tell everyone that the night was paid for with money that you didn't waste by chasing an impossible dream. Also promise them that you will never ring them up and offer them a business opportunity.
  17. Enjoy an honest, productive, friend-filled life.

Read on to learn what we've done to make it work, and if you want to try it, email us.

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