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MLM as a Work at Home Idea

Mention multi level marketing and you’re likely to get a bunch of mixed responses. MLM has had its success stories and its failures and certainly has a mixed reputation as a genuine home business opportunity.

MLM (also known as network marketing) is essentially the process of marketing a product or service to others and getting those customers to become marketers themselves. There are several varieties but the common thread is the continuation of bringing customers into the system as marketers to form a downline from top to bottom. The person introducing the new folk into the system gets a commission on their sales and on the sales of anyone they also introduce into the system.  Sometimes this can go on for several levels.

The difficulty comes when these systems go too close to the illegal pyramid schemes. Read more…