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Potential Questions and Objections
Don�t automatically assume your prospect is going to have a negative perception of MLM and that you have to defend network marketing. It is best to ask questions in response to their questions so you learn, figure out, where they are coming from.
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Multi-level Marketing
In very simple terms, Multi-level Marketing (MLM) is spending more time on making your customers SELL for you rather than BUY from you! It is the art of turning your customers into your trusted brand ambassadors, i.e. your sellers.
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How To Write A Well-Themed MLM Article
How To Write A Well-Themed MLM Article

Needed: A More Proactive Approach to Enforcement of Laws Against Pyramid Schemes as Applied to MLM�s
One of the insidious features of many MLM�s is that promoters often aggressively harvest the rewards from building their pyramids and disappear before enforcement agencies can catch up with them.
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Types of MLM Compensation Systems
A frequent argument of MLM promoters is that while they may agree that there are problems in the MLM industry, each will claim they have solved the problems with their new brand of MLM compensation system, which is supposedly more fair, honest, generous, etc., than all the others.
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Naked Pyramid Scheme vs. Product-Based Pyramid Scheme
To distinguish between typical pyramid schemes and those masking as MLM�s, I will introduce two terms that should help clear up the confusion between the two, along with some features which they have in common.
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Challenge to the Industry: "Prove Me Wrong"
As feedback began coming in, I began to see patterns displayed by MLM�s that were eerily similar to illegal pyramid schemes.
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I decided to investigate MLM for myself
As a long-time critic of MLM programs, I was curious to know why so many otherwise intelligent and capable persons were involved.
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Destructive Effects on the Lives of MLM Paticipants
The effects on the lives of participants is well described by Robert Fitzpatrick in excerpts from the web site of Pyramid Scheme Alert:
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The History of Pyramid Schemes and Multi-Level (or Network) Marketing (MLM)
The history of pyramid schemes in this country is fascinating, but I will include merely a brief sketch here.
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What is the actual harm of a pyramid scheme?

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But what is the actual harm of a pyramid scheme? What are its ethical abuses and compromising allurements?

Collectively, losses are too far reaching to calculate. They involve billions of investment dollars, months and years of futile effort, livelihoods and careers abandoned or sidetracked during the misguided quest for promised wealth, alienation from family and community relationships, and self-esteem buried in guilt, shame and dashed hopes.

In a recent petition to the FTC for a new inquiry into multi-level marketing, retired Assistant Attorney General from Wisconsin, Bruce Craig, wrote, “Many distributors have lost life savings, stable jobs and their marriages.” Despite these dire losses, he adds, “most distributors, after failing in what they thought was a valid business enterprise, are not motivated to complain or seek redress. They have… been conditioned to believe that any failure was their fault.”

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Excellent opportunity to create a successful home business
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Drop Shippers and eBay
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Envelope Stuffing
After realizing that I wasn�t cut out for MLM, I soon fell victim to the old envelope-stuffing scam.
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My Unique Background And Experience With Network Marketing (MLM)
Anyone reading this report might see this as a rather brash expose against an established industry and relevant regulators.
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