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I'm
John Counsel, founder and CEO of The Profit Clinic, one of the most
respected management consulting, training and publishing firms in the area of small
business, home-based business, internet marketing and direct selling.
You can read my professional profile here,
and my background in MLM, or network marketing here.
(It's not the usual background at all!)
I created this web site to help YOU establish whether a particular MLM program is
a legitimate business opportunity, or really just an illegal pyramid selling
scheme posing as legitimate network marketing.
Because
that's the real question here not whether MLM (or network marketing)
itself is illegal pyramid selling.
Why?
For TWO important reasons, actually.
Reason
# 1
In any business system where a lot of money can be made especially by twisting
the concept or its operation to fool the uninformed or unwary unscrupulous operators
often distort or hijack legitimate MLM businesses, or set up scams
that they claim are MLM, to deceive and exploit desperate, ignorant, greedy,
lazy and gullible people.
Reason
#2
There are always people who, for their own reasons, accuse MLM of being illegal pyramid
selling (amongst other equally unpleasant allegations).
What you need to examine closely, in both instances, are the MOTIVES of
each group. WHY do they do it?
The first group's motives are easy enough to identify. They're thieves, liars
and crooks, basically. Or they're ignorant, gullible stooges of those crooks
who don't bother to get the FACTS before they climb on board their deceptive bandwagons.
They're out to STEAL...
your money
your time
your hope and
your faith and trust in other
people.
They claim that their activities
are MLM because it masks the TRUTH about them. They're no different
to unscrupulous political activists who cloak their real agendas in the guise
of religion in order to fool the mindless masses looking for an easy way into heaven.
In this case, heaven is nothing more than instant, effortless wealth.
Sorry... there's no back door to heaven or wealth. You have to invest time,
effort and self-discipline to realise either vision. (Both are false
visions, of course. The only ones who get to realise their own selfish
visions in this way are the people running the scams!) Learn more here...
The motives of the second group are usually less obvious, but just as predictable.
The simply truth is that, in the twenty-first century, when we have...
tough anti-pyramid laws
in place in most countries,
ambitious, empire-building
government regulators looking to advance their careers, and
crusading media "personalities"
looking to boost their own profiles,
anyone who accuses a legitimate
MLM program of being an illegal pyramid scheme does so for one of only three reasons.
1. Ignorance
They simply don't know what they're
talking about. In their favour, though, most people who don't know the truth rarely
make accusations. Instead, they worry about their lack of knowledge and raise
questions or concerns. This is not only valid... it's intelligent behaviour. (It's
actually the ONLY valid reason of the three.)
2. Prejudice
These people don't actually want
to know the truth because they've already invested a lot of emotion in what they
WANT to be the truth... their own opinions or beliefs. But opinions and beliefs have
no connection to FACTS, or they're no longer opinion or belief. They're knowledge.
They're usually people who have mouthed off, in public, and now have to defend their
100%-emotional positions to the death, or look very stupid.
Or they're members of the "mediocre majority" who can't bear the thought
of anyone else highlighting their own lack of achievement by actually succeeding at something. So they attack that other person and their chosen vehicle to success
as a distraction "smoke and mirrors" to divert attention away from
their own failures.
3. Malice
These people usually know
the truth. But, for their own hidden agendas, they spread lies and half-truths in
order to advance their own interests. They're the most dangerous of all, because
they're seeking to deceive you every bit as much as the fake MLMers are.
Accusing all MLM opportunities
and operators of being illegal pyramid selling because you were ripped off by a
scam claiming to be MLM, is no different to accusing all medical professionals
of being "quacks" because some "snake-oil peddler" sold you a
fake cure, or a seedy faith healer "cured" you for money, but the "healing"
didn't last.
It's understandable, given the emotional and financial hurt you suffered, but it's
illogical, irrational, unreasonable and unreliable.
What you need, in order to make your own judgement about a particular MLM opportunity,
is objective, factual information, insight and understanding.
That's what this web site is here to provide. And here's the best insight of all...
"Words conceal. ACTIONS
reveal!"
In other words, judge people by
what they DO, not by what they SAY. "By their fruits ye shall know them."
Good advice in any area of life, but especially when it comes to your money!
So let's start at the most basic level. Let's look at what pyramid selling schemes
actually are, and why they're illegal. Then we'll examine what MLM opportunities
are, and why they're not illegal. What's a pyramid selling
scheme? And why is it illegal?
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Profit Clinic does NOT endorse business opportunities appearing in advertisements.
Please do your due diligence before taking any action.
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