The ultimate multi level marketing secrets
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What is Multi-Level Marketing?
Multi-level Marketing, or MLM, is a marketing strategy which creates a down line of distributors and a
hierarchy of multiple levels of compensation. The sales force is compensated not only for their own
sales but also for the sales of the people they help recruit. Firms, having a large product base, often
cannot employ equivalent sales force; and believe they would be better off without the traditional
approach. Hence, they implement MLM to survive competition from multi-nationals.
MLM is also known as Network Marketing because it utilizes a network of individual customers to hit
other potential customers. In other words, every individual customer serves as a sales representative.
Multi-Level Marketing Vs. Pyramid Marketing
People often confuse MLM with pyramid marketing; however there is very clear distinction between the
two approaches: pyramid marketing is about getting your money and then using you to recruit other
distributors; MLM, on the other hand, is about moving the product through a larger network of
distributors so that the business can increase sales volume.
Another difference between MLM and pyramid marketing is that Pyramid marketing requires each level
to DOUBLE before a new level is created so it isn't fair to people lower down in the levels and also
unethical. MLM, however, awards a commission based upon the volume of product sold through own
sales efforts as well as that of the down line organization.
Since MLM faces the risks of initiating a business that has not been tested by the customers is not
recognized, people prefer to wait a coupe of years before joining. Hence, they also witness the
Details
- Publication Date
- Nov 16, 2021
- Language
- English
- Category
- Personal Growth
- Copyright
- Some Rights Reserved - Creative Commons (CC BY)
- Contributors
- Text by: Silva Pereira
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- Format
- EPUB