Reality of a MLM "Small Business"
Melinda Lucas on Aug 22nd 2022
What is a MLM? Multi-Level-Marketing is what MLM stands for. And in reality a MLM is nothing more than a way for large company owners to scam individuals into doing their work for them WITHOUT giving any benefits. It is a way for them to convince people that dream of a bigger picture that this is a way to "get out from underneath a boss" and become a "business owner" to "fulfill their dreams" to have "financial freedom" MLM is nothing more than a rich business that is masked by individuals that are told they are "a small business owner" when in reality they are nothing more than a stepping stone for the real company owners making them richer and richer. They sadly convince their next "victim" that they will become rich with this "business opportunity" when in reality they are actually just a sales rep for a large company. All of this hype of "big dreams" "be your own boss" keeps the company from having to pay any benefits to the sales rep. Because they are "offering a business opportunity of a life time". All the while if lucky the individual doing all the work might be making 15% on every sale they are working their butt off to make. They are told they are "building a future" and they are actually building a future for the real company owners... They are told they can "work their own hours" and they can, however if they want to succeed and make a living at this they will have to work 3x they hours they were working at their regular job. Now let me make this clear, you can make money in a MLM, you can even be successful with a MLM, but it's going to take a lot of work and even more hours than you are working now. It will require you pitching a sales pitch to every person you come into contact with 24/7. It will require you convincing others that they can make a living doing this too. But lets face it, it's really nothing more than a independent contractor sale rep like Avon has offered for the past 100+ years. YEAH, that's right Avon started in 1887!
I really don't know why I was led to post this besides the fact that I feel so many are being given false hope for financial freedom without being given the real facts of the amount of work it is going to take. And honestly I really feel like the phrase "small business owner" has been thrown out of wack with all the MLM hype.