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[Ruth Tarragano Contribution Level: 1]

I have just "arrived" here few minutes ago, got 1 friend already and hope that MLM is more alive than ever!...
I used to do it 10 years ago the traditional way, it was too "heavy" for me and I was looking forward to the new area of the net MLM way.
Now I am studying and hope to get help and tips here and promises to share any knowledge I have...

You will forgive my English pls..

Great day to you all!

[Shelly Begarowicz Company: Pre-Paid Legal ServicesContribution Level: 2]

Hi Ruth!

I know you're gonna love it here. This place is full of helpful folks. The network marketing you remember is "Dead and Gone". We are blazing a new trail for the industry and having a BLAST doing it!

Welcome to the Party!

[John Counsel Company: Other / Not ListedContribution Level: 2]

G'day gang

Shelly raises some very telling questions that I haven't yet seen answered:

• Companies that won't allow distributors to use the company name or trademarks.
• Companies that won't allow you to work with any other MLM companies.

I address both of these issues (and more) in my FREE Insight Report "Is Network Marketing REALLY Dead? (Or does it just smell that way?)" (Get your FREE copy here.)


It's not unreasonable for companies to restrict use of their brands and trademarks. These are typically the company's most valuable asset, and they can risk losing control and ownership of their intellectual property if they permit unrestricted use by distributors: this can be used by others as precedent in a legal defence in court cases.

It IS unreasonable — and in many countries illegal — for MLM companies to try to prevent their distributors from representing other MLM companies. It's classed as restraint of trade, unconscionable conduct and a variety of other names, depending on local laws. (Example: under Australia's Trade Practices Act (1974) a company can be fined AU$1.1 MILLION per incident — that is, per distributor! — for attempting to do this.)

In most cases, this restriction is nothing more than a BLUFF by the MLM companies. What they CAN prohibit you from doing is promoting OTHER MLM opportunities to your downline with THEIR company. This is not unreasonable.

How do they get away with it?

Usually, they rely on the ignorance, gullibility and fear of their distributors.

If that doesn't work, they'll create a formal dispute with you and suspend your bonus payments, stopping your cashflow.

They'll drag this dispute out to starve you of money needed to mount a legal challenge. If you do instigate legal proceedings, they'll pull out the mandatory arbitration clause hidden in almost all MLM distributor contracts. This means YOU agreed (on signing the contract) for forfeit your rights to court action in favour of mandatory arbitration before an arbitrator. Their rulings have the same binding legal power as a court judgement and are MUCH less expensive than paying court and legal fees.

BUT… who appoints the arbitrator?

The MLM company, who pays their fees and keeps them regularly employed.

This is not to suggest that professional arbitrators are corrupt or unduly influenced. It just means that any arbitrator who rules against a company is unlikely to be appointed by that company in future cases.

Any network marketer who doesn't protect themselves against this kind of action by MLM companies — and it happens far more often than you'd believe, especially to heavy hitters raking in BIG dollars with companies that get resentful of paying out those massive bonuses every month — has a death wish for their business.

For just $50 a year, you can enjoy excellent information and support from the Distributor Rights Association.

Hope this helps!


John Counsel
CEO, The Profit Clinic

[Glenna Branham Contribution Level: 1]

Is Network Marketing Dead? I do not think so. There is so much on the Internet that it is like a jungle. Therefore, many people are caught in the hype and hope for instant rewards, which means the Internet Marketing community is getting a re-look. People look at the ads and join a company, then do not make money, so they go to another company. Soon, they have spent thousands of dollars with no rewards.

Since the Internet is dynamic, our business needs to be dynamic also. At the same time, I think we need to weed out the hype and lies that are flying around by educating the public.

Network Marketing is not Dead: it has a new look.

[Ruth Tarragano Contribution Level: 1]

Hi Ruth!

I know you're gonna love it here. This place is full of helpful folks. The network marketing you remember is "Dead and Gone". We are blazing a new trail for the industry and having a BLAST doing it!

Welcome to the Party!

Thank you for the warm welcome!

[Eric Foutch Contribution Level: 1]

Probably so. Millions of people are running around the internet, like chickens with their heads cut off, screaming Get Paid Today, Funded Proposal, Magic System Creates Instant Wealth, Attraction Marketing, Twitter Me, 5 Secrets to Earn a Fortune with Google by next Tuesday, Attraction Marketers Manifesto.

Sign your name on a distributor application and before the clock strikes midnight you will have multiple streams of income and credit card debt that rivals the national debt. It's ok Mary, you are the expert because you signed up 27 minutes before the last guy, brand yourself first, be a renegade.

Networking marketing is not dead, just the brains of most people trying to promote it!

[Matthew Phillips Company: Other / Not ListedContribution Level: 1]

It can't be dead! This site to me is proof of it thriving. Learning about this site cost me twenty dollars at a seminar lol. That was the main thing I got out of it haha. Sure it will hit bumps and kinks on the way as new savie entreprenuers rock the boat and begin carving their own paths with new tools. I think it's going to come back to competition and how good the company bringing their product or service to market is. MLM is just another method of bringing something to market. Good business wins, bad business fails (although being a crook has worked a time or two for some). Hopefully, sites like these will stop the ability to exploit people with scams.. You can only get caught so many times before someone wants to wallop you in the head .. cheers

[Alex Wrobel Company: Other / Not ListedContribution Level: 4]

It can't be dead! This site to me is proof of it thriving. Learning about this site cost me twenty dollars at a seminar lol. That was the main thing I got out of it haha. Sure it will hit bumps and kinks on the way as new savie entreprenuers rock the boat and begin carving their own paths with new tools. I think it's going to come back to competition and how good the company bringing their product or service to market is. MLM is just another method of bringing something to market. Good business wins, bad business fails (although being a crook has worked a time or two for some). Hopefully, sites like these will stop the ability to exploit people with scams.. You can only get caught so many times before someone wants to wallop you in the head .. cheers

Ha Ha Ha, very good point! If network marketing were dead, I would not have an email account with thousands of spam messages about the next best thing.

As long as there is a desire for financial independence and there are products to sell, MLM will be alive and well.

[Tom Mattinson Company: NoneContribution Level: 2]

I think as in all things in life that network marketing is due for a big change.

AS the next batch of Dillards hit the market there will be more and more people doing
Attraction Marketing. I expect that you will see things happen the way they have so
often in the past. Attraction marketing is drawing on basic physoclogical truths. That
is not going to change as quickly and dramaticaly as the method this is going to need to
be applied.

For years there was a set way to start in the MLM industry. IT worked well for years and made
vast amounts of people money. So, what changed? It was not the average person. IT was the
view of the public as a whole and their ideas of anything offering what seemed to be "Get Rich Quick"

The interduction of the internet flooded people so many chances to join a vast number of companies.
With 1000's of companies and no real personal contact to tell them where to go. Many jumped in
scams or joined a company where they had no real upline. With out skills and with the old ways not
working many companies got branded Scams by people that simply had no idea what to do to make money.

This was the time and place for the rise of the Attraction Marketer. It was a person that was telling
People to come to them and learn from the best. People have been comming to Attraction Marketing in Droves. With more and more "Experts" hitting the market every day. Things have no choice but to change.

Where are we going?

The only answer that this question has is "Network Marketers are NOT going away."

Times will change and as always we will have to change with them. Staying ahead of the trends has
always been the major way to know who was going to be a success and who was not.

There will always be a need. Companies will always have products that are best served by people
talking to other peopel about them. Some products needs this type of exposure to cut through the "fuzz"
Take the Health and Wellness industry for example. How many of these products are there out there?
How would anyone really know what to pick. Most people are to lazy to do the research themselves, so they look for someone they think they can trust and let them tell them what to use and buy. The human race is not about to develope an interst to do this all themselves. Therefor netwroking is here to stay.

You could go on for weeks about what Might happen.

You see companies not allowing you to say their name. If you think about this, What would stop the distributer from leavinga company like this and taking their whole team to a company with a like product. You would not have to change the adds you have posted or anything. All you would need to do is
change some links.

We see companies merging new and old ideas. Starting people off with a twisted list of 100. Not to be used exactay as it was in the old days. Still, they use the list, As a way to take action(failing to do so is equivlant to failing) and to build momentum.

We recentaly seen a company try to bann its members from any online actions.

I have no idea where we are heading as an industry. I do not see us going anywhere.

True

[Lynn Bayless Company: Other / Not ListedContribution Level: 1]

No it's not dead....did you hear the Donald Trump is reviving network marketing with his own company!!
Yes, the Donald is getting to the game of network marketing. The Trump Network, will be the biggest thing around.
So think positive , I always do.

Thank you!