re: Does Anyone Know Anyone Who Became Successful Working For A MLM?

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I think she did pretty well with Advocare but no one really knows the truth.

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This is just the thing.

Everyone who says they are doing great with those are usually lying so that you’ll sign up with them and they’ll get a portion of your sales.

I’ve had a few “friends” try to get me on that shite and I always tell them the same thing. If business was really booming, you would be making the sales yourself instead of trying to recruit others to sell as well. What salesman is begging competition to enter their territory?

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my experience those types of people become cult like about the shite and they won't stop bothering you about it

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That is definitely the norm and a LOT of people do this so I understand. I see it all the time when around my in laws but the people that are successful are either good at keeping the relationship with others or throw them in the trash and keep moving until someone says “yes.”

Luckily my in laws keep the relationship and have a good reputation with others. He doesn’t even ask family members. We know what he does and he thinks that is enough if we wanted to get something from it.

The women I see in fb that sell the various MLM crap usually jump around to different ones.

I bet R&F stuff is actually good skincare....but I refuse to buy it cause of their selling tactics. That and it’s overpriced.

Eta: the ONLY MLM I buy from is Beachbody. But that’s only their on demand access to all of their workout programs (which is legit). I don’t buy their overpriced shakeology shakes.

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We’re friends with a girl that got in on top of all the herbal life nutrition studios in the last couple years. She’s bringing home 30-40 grand a month now with like 65 stores under her.

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There is a documentary on Netflix about Herbal Life. Evidently their main target were poor people including people in Mexican communities.

In the documentary there was this one guy (a white) from Oklahoma. He graduated with a business degree so he wasn't a complete dumbass, but he opened up a gym. Got into herbal life, which he would sell at his gym.

He was talked into opening more gyms. He eventually went bankrupt. In summary, just selling the product wasn't the way to be successful. It wasn't about the product, it was about the number of people you had under you (which is the difference between an MLM and a pyramid scheme. And that's how all of these MLMs are able to operate. Product over people). Herbal Life was found to be a pyramid scheme, but they restructured and evidently continues to do the same thing, but they just have to show that the product is more valuable than building a network.

Personally, I think MLMs are unethical (in terms of business). If someone has a quality product, it should be available in stores. Stores agreeing to sell products is somewhat a filter.. Because everyone wants to have their products in walmart or department stores, etc (or on their websites), but products have to be approved.

So when it comes to MLMs. Anyone can take any type of product, develop a good marketing plan and convince individuals to sell it for them (and build a network with it).

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No they don't. If you can reach your market and cut out the middle man than why not?

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Your want your product to be seen by as many people as possible. What do you think holds more validation? Having your product in stores or having people going around trying to petal their product.

Going the MLM route immediately turns a lot of people off to the product. Since there are people saying they know someone who has success going the MLM route, I just googled to see the amount of people who have success with MLMs. Evidently 73-75% of people who join MLMs make no money or lose money. So that tells me it really isn't about the product/

I know a woman thsst killed it with Advocare until the shut down.

If you can sell, you can sell.

This guy made 5 million dollars a week by placing tiny classifieds in the newspaper all from his one bedroom apartment.

Alton Oschner with Amway

I remember when Mary Kay was building the guardhouse in front of her new home. The original build was too big, so she had to rebuild it smaller. I used to cut through that neighborhood some. There was a either 3 million, or seven million dollar spec house down the street.

Found articles about Mary Kay's house and The Spec house on CandysDirt.com

Mary Kay's house...


Spec house...