Val Smyth Mentors in Motion

Val Smyth, founder of Mentors in Motion offers tips and training as a business mentor helping business owners with marketing online, MLM training

Don’t let that word, “MLM” scare you, it stands for Multi-Level or Network Marketing.    Network Marketing companies are direct sales companies which pay out a portion of their sales for a product to a distributor.  Do you  know who Michael Dell is?  He owns Dell Computers.  He has a direct selling company which is the #1 seller of Computers.  Do you know how he did it?  He has delegated a task to people to call others on the phone and sell them computers. Those people who sold computers for him, made a commission off that sale.  That is what people in MLM are doing today, making commissions for the retail purchase of products from people who are in a group or downline below them.  It is legal and it is one of the greatest industries in the world, when ran correctly.

You probably have visions of Amway friends converting you to their way of life by buying their products, etc, or maybe you got duped to going to a house meeting and all the sudden, were ambushed with a slick sales pitch to buy soap?

Or maybe you have been burned by some MLM companies because you paid them your money, but your downline never grew.  I wonder why?  Did you ever pick up the phone and invite someone into your company? Or maybe they took your money and never sent you their product. MLM only works when you work, and if you expect someone else to do the work for you, you will never be successful.

 If you have been burned by MLM, join the club, so have I.  Now, don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with MLM, it is just that so many people have also been burned because of all the hype, smoke and mirror jobs put over on us by con artists. I personally think MLM is a fantastic and great industry, but I also know that in order to succeed, one must not try to duplicate a PERSON, but only a SYSTEM…