To be honest, I can hardly think of any other business models that have gotten such a bad rap. The moment you say the word multi-level marketing, people start thinking of polite ways to excuse themselves from your presence.

Is that because mlm businesses are inherently evil?

Actually far from it. From a pure practical standpoint, they are one of the most logical business models out there.

Company A makes a widget. You buy said widget and love it. You tell your friends about it. They buy the fabulous widgets and Company A sends you a little thank you check.

Where's the boogie man? did I miss something?

That is the long and short of it. There are plenty of permutations and modifications about how people get paid, but that is the basic business model and if you said it that way at that cocktail party everyone would smile and think it sounds nice. If you call it like it is, network marketing, duck, they might drop their drink on you as they flee!

So why is this? Well, there are more myths and lies about Network Marketing than you could shake a stick at.

Starting with the whopper It's ILLEGAL. Well, some bozos might have gotten in trouble years ago for something called a pyramid scheme, but frankly most corporations have a pyramid (big guy or gal in the corner office at the top, and associated big cheeses along the way, down to that poor well intending person doing the least fun jobs in the building). I'm no artist, but I tried to sketch that and it looked like a pyramid to me. THOSE aren't illegal. So I totally don't get that one.

Well, I was having a little private rant to myself one day last summer thinking this is nuts.

Multilevel marketing makes so much sense. How come we can't call it like it is and get to profiting in this logical business model?

Well, seek and you find. I actually Googled the words "mlm lies" and who popped up? Ann Sieg, author of
The Renegade Network Marketer

She also wrote a FREE book called
The 7 Greatest Lies of Network Marketing.





The 7 Greatest Lies of Network Marketing

Yes, that brilliant lady who more and more of us are starting to hear about. She wrote a book about just what I was thinking. This industry is filled with lies.

AND she even had a list of knew ones that I hadn't even thought of.

And mind you, I don't mean iddy biddy mis-truths that are annoying but harmless, I am talking whoppers that make people lose their businesses and their shirts all while stockpiling a bunch of products they shamefully cover with a tarp in the garage because they are too mortified to admit they are there.

There is nothing sadder to me to hear the stories about a bright eyed new recruit who is given a smoke and mirrors story about how they can just talk to a few friends and build a multi million dollar business. Do you know any of these stories? I would love to hear them. Sign my guestbook.

Anyway, back to Ann Sieg. Well, she is fed up and couldn't take it anymore too and writes this great ebook on the LIES.

Its free so don't get wiggly I am not trying to sell you something here. I just thought I would reach out to some kindred spirits out there and have a group cyber rant about how frustrating it can be when you find out you have been duped.

Signing off for now. Email your stories to me Miriam@onlinemarketerpro.com

I guess misery loves company or great minds think alike or something like that.
No sooner had I put up this lens I start finding all of these network marketers talking about The Renegade Network Marketer and a controversy. And more specifically The 7 Greatest Lies of Network Marketing.

If I get the gist of it, traditional up lines do really not like the idea that their business building methods are being called lies and myths.

What are the lies? Well, you know where I am going with this. You just listened to Ann Sieg's short audio presentation preceding the 7 Great Lies ebook linked above right?

Bugging strangers, friends and family, finding a product that sells itself, recruiting the magic 2 business builders and finding a miracle product will not get you there.

And yet that is what is still being sold as the best way to get a business going.

It seems so odd to me. Think about it, when new technologies come out, do makers of the old models tell the new manufactures that they should stop doing what they are doing?

Even when the new model clearly is better. Of course not. Especially if they stand to make money with the new developments? That simply doesn't make sense.

So why are the past generations of network marketers balking at Ann Sieg's words? Beats me.

There is a great big world out there with lots of room for lots of network marketers. Most companies sell consumable products which means that repeat sales can keep network marketers sustained indefinitely. Wouldn't they delight in the idea that the new generations were hugely successful? Not only would they profit directly from their down lines, but don't we all profit in the grand scheme of things every time a network marketer gains legitimate success?

My network marketing company likes to make reference to the law of attraction and what I just like to call good karma business. Can't we all just share the good karma that is inherent in success and delight in the new technologies that are available to us that make achieving true wealth in this business much more likely?

I think so.

Call me crazy, but I wish you all the most sincere and heartfelt success in what you are doing. All the ships in this sea are destined to rise together. Ignore the nay-sayers and follow what makes the most sense to you.