Home Based Business

NikkiP_2

I daresay if one person says black on the next post the response will be white. I think everyone has to accept that the two 'extremes' ( in the nicest sense) will never meet. A bit like the Old Firm ( rangers and Celtic) in Scotland. The extremes will never agree but those in the middle will accept a bit of grey. A good discussion though.

Hardup_Hester

Hi Loveandlight
I was working for a temp agency, they told me it was a 1 day job, travel ex's paid, I have a mortgage to pay & they had no other jobs that week.
Hester

Hardup_Hester

My lodger has been a herbal life distributer, she takes 12 different supplements every day & she's always ill, lol.
I've made it quite clear that she cannot run her distributership while living with me & that she will have to find a flat before she restarts.

Bufflowbill

I saw an advert in my local free paper recently, in the sits vacant column. It read
" Top Utilities Company requires sales people immediately"

I rang the number and the guy try to recruit me to join the Multi Level Marketing outfit Telecom Plus / Utility Warehouse ,he wanted a joining fee of nearly £200.

These people must be desperate.

Tim_L

thebusinessbloke wrote: »

This is a commonly asked question so let's deal with it. Network Marketing provides a faster route to the customer as there are only 3 components in the supply chain: company...distributor...customer.

The company doesn't require premises to sell them from, thus the money they make from not having those overheads is reinvested into the products making them better than what the retail outlets have to offer. Have you ever wondered why many health shops are offering 3 for 2 offers all the time? What do you think is the quality level of their products?

Distributors know about the products they are marketing, because they use them themselves and recommend them, therefore, by personal recommedation; which is a very powerful sales media. They can educate their customers on a one to one basis and be a ready source of informative guidance, often with access to professional assistance if required.

For example, none of us are health professionals; but we have access to doctors, nutritionalists, etc who can answer technical questions.

I hope that answers that question

This is supremely unconvincing. The claim here is that MLM removes the overhead costs of sales outlets, allowing this cash to be reinvested in the product line to improve it.

Whereas in fact, the network is enormously expensive to run. If someone in the network can make a healthy income from the pyramid beneath him or her, without actually selling anything, then he or she is adding no value to the sale - the income is pure overhead. As you go up the levels, the overhead downstream increases geometrically. Pyramid selling, even based around a 'legitimate' MLM company, is horrendously inefficient.

In fact sales outlets are generally a reasonably efficient route to market. They provide a brand presence, which has value, and they are accessible to consumers. Businesses can also choose to sell direct, which is extremely efficient but requires something to drive a consumer to purchase, or via a distributor network (i.e. wholesale selling to a shop).

Where MLM often finds a market incidentally is in the indulgent relative or friend who is browbeaten into buying products they don't really want, to help someone out. Which is really just a form of charity. I've seen this a lot in people I know who get interested in MLM.

Anyone at all actually looking for any MLM marketed product at a discount only needs to look for it on Ebay, the ultimate flat sales model. You'll find very many people dumping stock, which says a great deal about the saleability of the merchandise.

Peter_Pan

Tim_L wrote: »

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Where MLM often finds a market incidentally is in the indulgent relative or friend who is browbeaten into buying products they don't really want, to help someone out. Which is really just a form of charity. I've seen this a lot in people I know who get interested in MLM.

Anyone at all actually looking for any MLM marketed product at a discount only needs to look for it on Ebay, the ultimate flat sales model. You'll find very many people dumping stock, which says a great deal about the saleability of the merchandise.

I have to agree, after 5 years in NM i can see clearly once more.

bluedove

Having read all the pros and cons of NM so to say....
i love Avon and use its products, i'm thinking of being a representative, is it one of the supposedly NM coys that give pple false hopes,
Experts over to you pls....

eco123

Hi Bluedove

May I ask why you wish to do Avon?...

1) Is it for financial gain?
or
2) Another reason?

This above is a serious question.

Peter_Pan

Hi Bluedove

If its for a bit of extra cash and you don't mind paying expenses out of what you earn for books etc I would say give it a go - some find it too hard work getting enough orders to make it worthwhile for the time you have to put in and its those people that will either quit or perhaps get hooked on the teambuilding side (recruit more people and earn a bit from their turnover) i would say do think very carefully about this side of the Biz and decide if it would be right for you .

Twopints

thebusinessbloke wrote: »

I think that the small minority of people we speak to are into product movement, whereas the majority are looking for an income. The 'team' within our parent company I work with is focused on how to do network marketing the 'right' way.

I may have missed your point here, but if this is so where will the income for the majority come from if only the minority are actually moving product?