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]

forkee, not to disrespect you either but I think you're the one not thinking out of the box here. You open up a business, you invest money on a product that you want to sell or see a product that you think has a potential to give you income. For example, you open up a small clothing store, you invest money on clothes that you think people will buy, right? Same thing with MLM, people see the potentail of the product so they invest on it? they purchase it from the wholesaler and sell it retail, then people get their associates so their commisional volume grows. The only difference is you don't get commisions on opening up a clothing store.
You also said that I bring up good points and it sounds like its all regurgitated common say from whomever trained me to say them... so there are trainings and seminars and I have also done my due diligence, years and months of research before I saw the potential in this business. Have you done your research or do you just hate MLM so much you don't even want to think about it?
Thank you too forkee for insulting my intelligence when you qouted me and doubted that I thought that myself. You just lost a million dollars to me . FYI, I have a degree in BBA at Schulich School of business Canada and BS ECE at University of Santo Tomas Phillipines.
You see forkee, Its just like any other business, it will take years for it to grow, some people might have the luck to have their MLM work for them in months and earning money right away, some people don't. I bet that's what you're insight on MLM is. Pay and earn right away. Nope my dear sir, it doesn't normally work that way.
If you don't mind me asking, what do you do for a living? Are you just an employee and work for somebody else, are you self employed, or are you a business owner? Please don't get self-employed and business owners mixed up.
If MLM is a scam, why then two of the greatest minds in business, Robert Kuyisake and Donald Trump, endorse it? Why would Steven Scott (Total Gym), Guthy and Renker (Proactive) do it? How would Amway generate so much profit since it started? How would Primerica be succesful? These are only a few of the business and people in this business succed, what about the other ones? Oh and please don't tell me that these are all hear-say and somebody just told me all this things because I have read the books by RK and Donald "Why we want you to be rich" and Steven Scotts' "The Richest man who ever lived".

[MercuryFree]

If MLM is a scam, why then two of the greatest minds in business, Robert Kuyisake

Because if he writes a book about it, and then does seminars endorsing it, both of these things earn him money . I'm not saying that some of his stuff isn't good (have read two of his books) but he's not entirely impartial now is he, heh. I've always wondered what his net worth less book + seminar proceeds actually is...