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Network Marketing and the Real Pyramid Scheme

Network Marketing (Direct Sales or Multi-Level Marketing, as it is also commonly referred to) is the vehicle that many people, today, are using to start their own home business and live a lifestyle that a regular 9-5 job just cannot offer. The Network Marketing Industry is a 50 Billion dollar per year Industry that attracts 70,000 people every 24 hours. The reason Network Marketing has become so attractive to many people in recent years is because it offers great opportunities for Personal Development and Financial Freedom; time freedom, the ability to write your own paycheck, no hustle and bustle of a daily job routine, leadership, and opportunities to help others achieve the same level of success you can or have achieved. Network Marketing sounds like a great opportunity, right? So then, why do some people insist in pyramid schemes or network marketing scams?

Network Marketing Complaints

According to Wikipedia, Network Marketing is a marketing structure that some companies use as part of their overall marketing strategy. The structure is designed to create marketing and sales by compensating promoters of company products not only for sales they personally generate, but also for the sales of other promoters they introduce to the company, creating a down-line of distributors and a hierarchy of multiple levels of compensation in the form of a pyramid. The fact of the matter is that Sales is at the top of the highest paid industries, today. For individual distributors and their team members, this is a very real home business that is allowing them to live a lifestyle some of the most educated people in the world only dream about. The fact that the hierarchy is assembled in a pyramid does not mean that Network Marketing opportunities are pyramid schemes! In fact, although there have been some organizations whose Marketing Strategies have been questionable, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has stepped up their oversight into any organization that offers Network Marketing opportunities. Research and Due Diligence before joining any Network Marketing opportunity is still highly recommended.

The Real Pyramid Scheme

Have you ever thought about that fact that the current corporate structure in your job is also a pyramid? If fact, it’s true! If you are an employee, you are at the bottom of the pyramid right under managers. If you are a manager, you are under middle-managers. If you are a middle-manager you are under the Directors and VP’s. Finally, if you are a Director or VP, you are under the CEO. The only problem with this pyramid is that it takes a very long time to climb and odds are you will absolutely never reach the middle, let alone the top! It’s a pyramid only few will ever be able to climb but at the greatest cost that any person can ever bear, their time!

Which Pyramid Will You Climb?

The choices could not be any clearer! Climb a pyramid that will take you decades to climb and only reach the middle, if that, at the expense of your personal time, family quality time, and perhaps even health  or climb a pyramid that can allow you to live a lifestyle with time freedom, free of financial worry, and control! Of course, the latter will take work from your part and it will be up to you to be self directed. However, the reward is far greater than any work that may come along the way. You simply cannot put a price on health, wealth, and wisdom!

Source by Hector Avellaneda

marketing, small business marketing