| Network marketing or multilevel marketing is a | | | | Now you ask: the difference between a legitimate |
| legitimate income opportunity. Multilevel marketing is a | | | | network marketing business and a pyramid scheme? |
| popular way of providing people with products they | | | | Pyramids are illegal and are based on taking |
| need and want at a fair price. This is done by | | | | advantage of people. For someone to make money in |
| independent distributors, who usually work out of their | | | | a pyramid, someone else has to loose money. A |
| home. The target market for distributors are | | | | pyramid is strictly a money game and has no basis in |
| stay-at-home moms, but all types of people are | | | | real commerce. Normally, there's no product involved |
| earning an income with network marketing. | | | | at all, just money changing hands. Multilevel companies |
| Network marketing is a serious business, and it isn't a | | | | seek to make money with you. Start-up costs are |
| get-rich-quick scheme. Success is based on following | | | | generally small. These companies want to make it |
| some basic principles. You create your own team. You | | | | easy and inexpensive for you. Legitimate companies |
| manage this team by recruiting, training and motivating | | | | will buy back unsold products if you choose to quit. |
| them. Your team is given a roadmap, since they look | | | | And the key element: products are sold to consumers. |
| to your success as the model, and then duplicate that | | | | This requires quality products that are competitively |
| method. | | | | priced. |
| In multilevel marketing, you earn a percentage of what | | | | Network marketing is a people-to-people business |
| your downline sells. Downlines are people you sponsor | | | | where you can meet new people from all over. It |
| into the business. Then your sponsors sponsor others, | | | | enables you to have fun, sell a product that you enjoy |
| and you have created a compound growth that can | | | | and stand behind, travel if you like, and enjoy the |
| lead to hundreds of more people coming into your | | | | benefits of an extra income. |
| business. | | | | |