I work for Primerica Financial Services and I see people getting promoted and making so nice and huge money, so yes it's a MLM.People have to understand how business gets started.The secret to that was the people never gave up on their dreams and are not rich from it. Failure is only a minor set back ,but a path to success.

Gamer, I am partial to some of what you said...specifically the last few lines. However, I don't agree that MLM's are risky investments because they are not investments, they are businesses that are inexpensive to start up with a very low overhead in comparison to traditional businesses. For instance, think of a pizza shop, dry cleaner or a Mc Donald's. Those are all tradition businesses, but to open one of those businesses would require A-1 business credit and some start up capital that could range into the millions for some. Those are huge investments that only 5% of the population can afford. Whereas MLM's are set up for the average person who has the entrepreneurial drive to start for a few hundreds of dollars or less and in most times, there overhead could be covered within the first month or so.

I think the main reason why people fail in these businesses is because they don't treat it like a business, they treat it like a hobby that if they don't see success fairly quickly, they tend to give up on it and label it as a scam because it only cost them a little bit of money. But would a person who put up a million dollars for their biz be so quick to throw in the towel??? I think not! So i believe the one of the biggest problem that people who join a MLM biz have is first Educating themselves about the industry and looking at the industry as a "Get Rich Quick Scheme" which in fact it is a business that requires work. And because people join these biz for the wrong reasons, they never see it through or take the time to "LEARN" their business!

Most people will get in...get excited...ask a few people to join them...get told know by a handful of people then quit before they even learn the FIRST and most important thing to know about this industry! and that is...THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT!!! But if you focus on becoming a professional and learning your business and commit to giving your business atleast 12 months, you WILL be successful!

Because I made a decision and committed to becoming a professional, I now earn a decent monthly residual income that is steadily growing, and I help/teach others how to do the same!

Point noted. But within the corporate world, people WILL see opening a business as an investment in terms of profit and expect return. If those two variables aren't there, then investors are less like to put their assets within a business. I do agree that peole making this type of business isn't proactive enough for the business to succeed and perhaps I should have taken that into account during my last post. Best of luck if you are pursuing this type of business.....gamer

No, there is no difference. Scheme or scam? That's a difference.

Everything in life is structured like a pyramid, police department, military, schools, you 9-5 job. There is somebody above you that you don't make more than. A mlm is structured like a pyramid most the time but you yourself can be the top of your section of the pyramid and likewise people below ya can actually be higher up the pyramid than you but not over you.

..."So what is it about this lucrative industry that turns so many people off???"...


ummmm ... The prison term? j/a

To put it simply, MLMs give you a piece of the sales of everyone you recruit. There are real products and sales of those products involved. Pyramids have no product and meerly pay one investor with another investors money. I have seen it done with a circle to. As more people join the outer circle you move to an inner circle and then get paid. Still a pyramid scheme even if it is round.

My thoughts on this one.: Pyramid Scheme no tangible product or service and or you can't move up, basically like at your 8-4 you can't become Supervisor because there is already a Supervisor, you have to wait till they move on whether it's to a new position, retire etc.
I shouldn't say an 8-4 is a Pyramid Scheme, it's just a Pyramid, period. Also you have to buy so much product, and try to sell it at a higher price to make a profit......
MLM or Network Marketing: You have a product or service to offer, tangible. Yes you get residual, commissions and over-rides. You do not get a commission for recruiting someone. And the new Associate can pass the Associate that brought them on board..... How crazy great is that? So MLM/ Network Marketing is NOT a Pyaramid by any means.....

Pyramids to get into you give money for nothing except to get in. It all goes to the guy on top. Once its full it splits and the 2nd level ppl move up and become top ppl of their own pyramid.
And more ppl pay. Well when it wears out the ppl that never made it to the top get screwed. And lose out.

I just recently got into network marketing. I signed up for a power company. Ppl switching electric.
It was 100% free to get in and do

Ive made good money so far. Been in about 3 weeks and have made about $600 so far.
Im 6 ppl away from making my next $1000.00.

So in about a month of work. Ive made about $1600.00. On the side. With not much work into it. And no start up fees or cost.

So i like network marketing!!!

Very simple. A pyramid is a program where there is money that trickles up to one or a select few number of people. It's considered illegal because he receives a cut out of every entrant. Mlms have the same concept it's just that there is a product being sold and the person at top makes money up until a certain point.