Help, need some answers for my Network Marketing/MLM business!?

I am involved in a company where all the numbers line up well, I really enjoy the products and services (used them before I ever got in the business side) and I am beginning to sign up people.





The issue I am having however is that the opportunity is presented where I stand to do really well by signing up only 3 people in my downline who also do the same for 7 levels deep.





Here is the problem i see...for this to work, those people on my 7th level must all have the same opportunity as I do, and their 7th level people must have the same opportunity as well. Well, at my level 25, using a 3x3 matrix, that requires over 847 million people!!! So, that is never going to happen...so it seems like ALL Network Marketing/MLM Companies have this same problem that the opportunity can not continue to grow and are destined to fail.





Help me understand how any Network Marketing/MLM company doesn't have the same problem? All answers greatly appreciated.

Help, need some answers for my Network Marketing/MLM business!?
The above answer is classic! Show any MLMer the numbers and suddenly you shouldn't look at them at face value. Gimme a break! Its supposed to be a business oppotuntity...in business you analyze profit, revenue, expenses, your market, but not in MLM. Whenever those numbers prove poor in MLM you shouldn't take them at face value. If you can't make a living selling your own product without sponsoring other people, run, its merely destined to fail like all other MLMs.





Your numbers hit the nail on the head of the MLM fallacy. They want so bad to claim its not a pyramid but as soon as the people at the bottom cannot sponsor anyone else and make money, the whole things fails. They will tell you that all companies are a pyramid, but the reality is all companies don't need to keep getting new employees just to pay the other employees, they actually don't even need to grow to be sustainable. Not with MLM.





Look at this naive Mexico4me fellow..he totally tries to direct attention away from the obvious flaws in the numbers by trying to draw comparisons to growth in any company. How ridiculous is that as an answer? Those companies had periods of growth, and that was in sales of product, not signing up your brother-in-law, your aunt, and your best friend. MLM people ALWAYS try to make comparisons to real world businesses and somehow think this makes their experiments in MLM a viable business, its a joke.





The fact is, no MLM company can expand at the rate that they say is needed to make you a millionaire. Of course, they will all tell you they make more millionaires than any other business opportunity and all sorts of other unproven propaganda to convince the naive, but don't you be fooled. Good luck.
Reply:The answer is not MLM as this is for people that are serious and who don’t want to be misled as we have tried many things and have found a company that has been around for 21 Years and pays you to advertise for them. My wife and I just started and are doing well. It is not an MLM company and no selling, no deliveries or stocking product. My wife’s aunt has been working with this Company (Melaleuca) for a little over 3 years and home schools 3 kids and makes $9,000 a month. It is a 500 Inc company and the CEO is on the U.S. Chamber of commerce board. I can arrange a web cast with my wife’s aunt for you and you can decide by yourself and WE WILL help you be successful. It is an honest Win Win.


If you want to see a web cast (presentation) from your home let me know and I will arrange it as that truly is the way to see all about Melaleuca. Have you heard of it. We have just gotten started with my wife's aunts help as it is a team effort and it is fun. Just a quick F.Y.I. 8 out of 10 people that see the web cast join the company and 95% of the people that join re-order product each and every month. Let me know when you are ready and we will set up the web cast.


e-mail: cleanandsafehome@yahoo.com


Thanks,


Rich %26amp; Teresa
Reply:I think what you are doing here is taking the numbers at direct face value. Not everyone you sponsor is going to find their 3 people, some will drop off, some will sponsor hundreds. So you can't take those numbers too literal. MLM companies have been finding great success for many years, but what you need to consider is your product. Is it something that has already experienced their hyper-growth stage or are they poised to experience it yet? For example, in the 50's, Gerber baby food went through their momentum stage, in the 60's it was Fisher Price and Mattel, the 70's was real estate...etc. All of these companies experienced an 18 year window of opportunity, so you need to be sure your product will do the same.


I am now training people on my 9th level deep and treat each of them as I was treated when I first started. They have the same opportunity I did when I started because the company is poised for momentum.


I recently resigned from an MLM company because they had already gone through this phase. The boomers are finding they're now becoming empty-nesters, so they are no longer interested in filling their home with products for the house and definately are not interested in finding others to do the same. I found it nearly impossible to sponsor people into the business because they knew they would never pass it along to their friends so they just avoided it.


Then I found what the boomers are looking for now, and that is health and anti-aging. It's now a multi-billion dollar industry and growing daily as people are always looking for health solutions.


Every person I have offered this to has agreed to sign up as a marketer if for no other reason than to get the discount. But I can count on their order every month, so that's where the numbers come in that you spoke of. Many will never market the product to others but want it for themselves which means they will never form the matrix. But the ones who do choose to fill their matrix pick up the slack for the others, so the numbers are still there but not in the grid like form you are talking about.


I hope this helps to answer your question.
Reply:I am a rep for Mia Bella Soy Candles and although we can have a downline and earn money from that,we also have home parties, fundraising, retail sales, craft shows, etc etc. There are no sales quotas or huge inventory to buy either.


Maybe you should consider trying something different?


My website is www.jarsoflight.scent-team.com if you want more info, just email me!


Best to you


Lisa
Reply:Your figures are correct. None of these companies will make it if their only goal is recruitment. For a network marketing company to succed, is must be "sales of product" driven.





Good Luck!