5 Pillars

A while ago, I received an email from my mentor. He was telling a story about how one day, he found an entire downline genealogy of an existing MLM company for sale on the internet.

He knew the owners of the company, so he called them up and said “Hey! What’s going on? My gosh, your company is doing good, isn’t it?”

“Yeah. Company is doing great. But we couldn’t afford to buy the software, so we leased it. And part of the lease deal is, the software company owns the database.”

The software company decided it needed more money, so it sold the entire database to 10 third party MLM lead companies for $10,000 each, pocketing a nice $100,000 off the backs of the hard work of the distributors.

Can you imagine that? [click to continue…]

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The term “Best MLM Company” is searched in Google about 4,400 times per month globally, which indicates there are about that many people all over the world looking for information, opinions and reviews on just which one of the many thousands of MLM companies in world is the best.

I’d guess that significant portion of these people are looking for an opportunity to join. Perhaps they are brand new to the network marketing industry and are looking for the best possible chance of success. Or perhaps they have come to the realisation that their current company isn’t going to take them where they want to go.

But here are the 2 major problems with trying to find the needle in they haystack, the holy grail… 1) it can’t make you successful and 2) just how do you define the best MLM company? [click to continue…]

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Efusjon, often spelt with a lower case ‘e’, launched in early 2009 with great hype and fanfare. The opportunity to make enormous amounts of money with efusjon was forcefully marketed on the social network, Facebook. Indeed, some members who used Facebook literally became efusjon extremists.

Well right now, efusjon is being sued in California for operating as an illegal pyramid scheme. The reason for that is the only way for distributors to make money in efusjon is to recruit people into the network.

See, a network marketing business model is sustainable because there is the constant movement of a quality product to the end consumer who’s happy to pay for it. A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that impoverishes 9 people for every 1 that gets rich.

This case demonstrates that just because a company has a tangible product and is using a multi-level marketing distribution channel to get it into the hands of consumers, it does NOT mean that the company is not running an illegal pyramid scheme. [click to continue…]

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Is Yours a 5 Pillars Company?A network marketing company is your vehicle to financial independence – the thing that takes you from where you are now, to where you want to be. Even if you are a good driver, you need to have a safe, reliable and efficient vehicle to get you to your destination.

So how do you know if your vehicle is capable of taking you to where you want to go? How do you know that you have the right vehicle? And what do you do when you find out that you’re in the wrong vehicle?

That’s where the 5 pillars can help you to assess whether the MLM company you’re representing is the right vehicle for you. The 5 Pillars are what you need to be successful in a company in the long term. [click to continue…]

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