Network Marketing - Who's in it?, discussion... pros and cons Options

[Jeunesse]

Just curious, what's your take on Network Marketing or Multi-level marketing or direct sales if you want to call it nicely?
I know Robert Kuyisake author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Donald Trump endorses network marketing but what's your opinion about it? Is it a good start for a part-time home business? What do you think are the pros and cons.

This post has been edited by Jeunesse: Feb 8, 2009 - 10:37 AM

[Jeunesse]

first thing to come to mind is pyramid scam

i wouldn't get into it if i were you. everyone pretends to be buddy buddy at first but in reality, its every man for themselves. the only reason why they would want to help you is if they know it will help make money for them directly. once you're labelled as a dead end, you're pretty much screwed by the same people that promised they'll help you. its a very lucrative business only for people who ALREADY know a lot of people. otherwise if you don't, you end up looking for "associates" and drag your friends into it, resulting in everyone hating you.

dont buy into their cons, they will throw a whole ****load of famous quotes made by successful people, and it is very convincing and doesn't really allow a lot of arguing (since you would be contradicting a successful person) but look past that. and dont trust them when they say "you can make as much as....." or "so and so raked in over 3 figures last month" or similar crap. ask them how much they made personally. if they say it doesnt matter how much they made, they are just crapping on their own words. a lot of them would pretend to be successful and drive fancy cars or dress super nice, but its all fake if they dont even show proof or at least admit to how much they make (ive never even heard an "oh i make around.....")

unless your the pushy type thats cutthroat and care about absolutely nothing and wont let anything get in the way between you and $$$$$ then you should stick to earning money the honest way.

thanks for your opinion but, Pyramid scam? Why woulld you say that? Isn't the corporate structure the same way? I mean you have your CEO on top, 2 VP's under him, 4 managers or more under the vp's, supervisors under the managers and so on... basically corporate and network marketing works the same way, pyramid, you hire people under you for your business to work. And how will your business succeed? By working hard selling your stuff or your service, and helping and pushing the people under you do their job, right? Isn't it the same? The part that attracted me to this business is the starting investment, you can start to have your own business and be a "CEO" for just less than $1000, you just have to get people as your "vp's", "managers", "supervisors" and so son and so forth. Does your boss care about you and is he a pushy type cutthroat? I bet he is and if I stick to earning money the honest way, when will I be a CEO or the person on top?