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Can We Really Trust Network Marketers?

What is it about multi level and network marketing that makes people automatically think 'SCAM'? The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place . ~Guy Kawasaki Multi Level Marketing Or Pyramid Scheme If you think multi level marketing and pyramid scheme are one and the same thing, you're not alone.  Unfortunately the terms 'MLM' (multi level marketing and also referred to as network marketing , direct selling, referral marketing etc) and 'down line' conjure up a negative image with many people because they associate them with illegal pyramid schemes and scams.  Nothing could be further from the truth and if you know what to look for you can easily tell which is which.   A Pyramid Scheme requires you to pay a fee to 'start earning'.  Unfortunately though that is about all a PS consists of - the ' income' is solely derived from those 'join up fees ...

"The future is purchased by what you do in the present." (unknown)

Are you risking your future by messing around with your present?  If you’re jumping around trying every new get rich quick opportunity that presents itself, even though it’s a well known fact that 99.9% of them are nothing more than elaborate scams, then yes, YOU ARE doing EXACTLY that. You ARE wasting valuable time (once today is gone you never get that time back) if you’re messing around with BS, second rate offers that promise the world but deliver absolutely nothing.  You ARE wasting valuable time if you believe that programs which promise to pay you over and over for doing nothing or very little are actually feasible, long term, sustainable strategies.  Ditto for the ones that actually sell nothing more than the promise of making $$s when you get others to also join and pay - those are actually pyramid schemes. Check out the definition of a pyramid scheme some time . Sure, they cloak it well with fancy terms and promising descriptions but come on....!  If y...