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Originally Posted by DmitryDavydov  STAY AWAY from MLM. It's just about the dumbest and the most difficult way to generate money. Go for YOUR OWN business and DON'T BUY BS from MLM people when they say that when you join their company, you somehow get your own business. This is simply NOT TRUE.
MLM sucks. It's very good for your personal training, but you won't make any money in it. Exceedingly unlikely. Go to Amway and read their statistics. They make 2 billion in sales. Sound's good? Well, they have FOUR MILLION DISTRIBUTORS. Do the math, it comes out to about 500 dollars a year. 50 bucks a month is not a lucrative business you should pursue. Now, that's the AVERAGE. Which means that most people DON'T MAKE ANY MONEY.
As a fellow Russian, I just warned you. One day you'll be thankful. Taking risk is good, but you have to take good risks. |
As a fellow Russian you could try to be a little more objective and respect my point of view. And don't talk to me as if i'm a newbie who knows not a thing about MLM. And SHOUTING is not a good idea either.
Have you personally BEEN a success in MLM? if not then how do you know what it's like. Yeah you probably have a bunch of stories to illustrate your point of view, but i also have a lot of stories to illustrate mine.
Your point is that most people fail. But if you look from another perspective, they may not have earned any money, but not everything in our life is measured with money. For a lot of people MLM is the first step to: 1. acquiring an entrepreneurial mindset. 2. personal development. How much does that cost?
Once again, most people in MLM quit without achieving any success. That's true. Now think of linear business. How many entrepreneurs succeed in their business? Think of e-commerce. I'm sure 90% of those who start an e-commerce business fail. (By the way, your blog kind of talks people into starting a web-business. 90% of them will fail. Does it mean your blog is a scam?).
Your logic: most people in MLM fail => therefore MLM sucks.
Then: most people starting their own business (or web business, or forex trading, or whatever) fail => therefore everything other than a 9-to-5 job sucks. Right?
My point is MLM is no different than any other kind of self-employed work. 90 percent will fail. 9% will get average results. 1% will achieve outstanding results. You get as much as you deserve.
PS: some comments on the amway figures you've quoted. Out of 4 million distributors, 2 million probably do not work at all. i.e. they bought a product, and either they are happy with that or they changed their mind, in a word they will not start really working. Of the remaining two million over 1,5 million work part-time as a supplement to their daily jobs. Yeah they earn very little, but they invest very little. Those who invest much, "skim the cream". In any decent MLM company (in Russia) two years of hard work is enough to achieve a paycheck of a few thousand dollars. In Russia it's a lot more than "nothing".