{"id":3086,"date":"2020-04-27T17:35:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T22:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.wpengine.com\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2020-04-27T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T22:35:33","slug":"the-return-of-the-mlm-a-horror-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/?p=3086","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the MLM- a Horror Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

My dislike of MLMs in general is pretty common knowledge.\u00a0 I’ve written about it before in posts such as:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/beckypalmer.wpengine.com\/how-not-to-sell\/<\/a>\u00a0 .\u00a0 \u00a0I prefer to not purchase from companies structured that way and I’ve told people as much plenty of times.\u00a0 \u00a0Yes, there are a few exceptions, but they are getting fewer and further between.<\/p>\n

In the last 6 months or so I’d seen a HUGE drop in the number of social media posts in my timelines about MLMs and I haven’ been added to any “secret shopping” groups lately either.\u00a0 Which- by the way- is the BEST way to ensure I will never buy what you are selling, even if you have the best products on the planet.<\/p>\n

But, along with the other types of shady dealings and suspect offers popping up during this global pandemic, the MLM hard sell pitches are making a comeback.\u00a0 \u00a0On the one hand I feel sorry for these folks.\u00a0 They are just looking for a way to feed their families.\u00a0 No one tells you it’s a lie and a sham when they are trying to sign you up- that’s not a very good sales pitch after all.\u00a0 \u00a0The reality is that only 1% of people who sell for an MLM will make money, and those folks are making money off the folks they recruit under them, NOT actual product sales.\u00a0 \u00a0That 1% is making money off the monthly mandatory purchases their underlings are required to remain “in the program” which can range from $50 to the hundreds of dollars – with zero regard to how much they actually sell.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, if frustrates me how anyone can still fall for this.\u00a0 Have we all forgotten the VERY public demise of LuluRoe just a few short months ago?\u00a0 Thousands of women were left in financial ruin.\u00a0 New LuluRoe consultants were instructed to purchase five thousand dollars in inventory just to get started and thousands more every month.\u00a0 They were pressured into maxing out credit cards to do so.\u00a0 \u00a0 LuluRoe didn’t fail because of bad product.\u00a0 They failed because their business model was unsustainable.\u00a0 A pyramid you might say.<\/p>\n

But here we are again being spammed with the “you can’t afford NOT to join this business RIGHT NOW” posts again.\u00a0 Like a bad penny they keep popping up.\u00a0 \u00a0The cute fonts and cute girls making funny videos are still selling the same old crap they were last year and last decade.\u00a0 Most folks lose money by their involvement with an MLM.\u00a0 \u00a0The lucky ones only lose a couple hundred bucks, but some lose a lot more.\u00a0 You have better odds of making money playing blackjack at your closest casino than you do joining a MLM.\u00a0 \u00a0Just let that sink in.\u00a0 And then just say no to MLMs.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My dislike of MLMs in general is pretty common knowledge.\u00a0 I’ve written about it before in posts such as:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/beckypalmer.wpengine.com\/how-not-to-sell\/\u00a0 .\u00a0 \u00a0I prefer to not purchase from companies structured that way and I’ve told people as much plenty of times.\u00a0 \u00a0Yes, there are a few exceptions, but they are getting fewer and further between. In the last 6 months or so… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice","category-things-that-make-you-go-huh"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/shopping-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beckypalmer.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}