MLM Survivors Club: [MLM Survivors Club] Re: Melalueca

Friday, January 4, 2008

[MLM Survivors Club] Re: Melalueca

> And as far as the 99%+ that don't make money, that's not exactly
> accurate..But to prove a point, let's look at traditional business.
> 80% of businesses fail in their first 2 years. Now these are guys
> that KEEP WORKING on their business and it finally fails somewhere in
> the 1st 2 years. That also applies to the network marketing business,
> doesn't it? Sure it does. You're buying a mini-franchise so why
> shouldn't you feel obligated to work it?
> So what happens to the tradional 20% that are still in business after
> 2 years? Another 80% fail before they make it to 5 years. And that is
> the same in the network marketing business too.
> See where the numbers say that 'so many have failed' are for several
> reasons.

If you do the maths (even your maths) then we agree that the vast majority of people
getting into MLM business not only don't make a living, but lose money.

The problem with MLM isn't that whole smokescreen righteous 'work-hard' argument you
just put up, it's the discrepancy between the promise of sportscar, cruise-liner, solve-
your-financial-worries and the reality of 97%+ failure rate.

Oh, and it's the the fact that the 3% (or so) who DO profit so so through the failure of the
97% of DON'T succeed.

Don't be stupid, you'd say - the top people don't want people to fail! They'd profit even
more if the 97% succeeded, wouldn't they? Of course they would - but there just one little
thing THEY KNOW but you WON'T ACCEPT and that's the fact that only that 3% CAN
succeed in the MLM model.

Knowing that and yet continuing to recruit people to recruit people to recruit people to fail
is what makes MLM an abusive trade in human neediness as far as I'm concerned.