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Who Else Wants to Discover the Truth Behind MLM Pyramid Schemes?

Guest post by: Garfield Herriot

Article Overview: In this article I will help quell the fear of Pyramid Schemes by adding Truth to the paranoia that plagues Network Marketing and Home Based Business Franchise industries. Many believe that 'network marketing', 'MLM' and 'pyramid scheme' are synonymous, and this is just pure misinformation and fear, and often times ignorance.

Who Else Wants to Discover the Truth Behind MLM Pyramid Schemes?

In this article I will help quell the fear of Pyramid Schemes by adding Truth to the paranoia that plagues Network Marketing and Home Based Business Franchise industries. Many believe that 'network marketing', 'MLM' and 'pyramid scheme' are synonymous, and this is just pure misinformation and fear, and often times ignorance.

People with positive focus, persistence, and consistency can create a multi-million dollar home based business franchise or network marketing business. Unfortunately, many poor souls are drawn in by over-hyped or false marketing. They are told it's easy, part-time, and get rich quick...none of which is true. While it's simple, it's not 'easy'. You can do it part time, like a hobby, and that's how you'll get paid...like a hobby. It is NEVER get rich quick. They also don't do their own due diligence and when they fall flat on their own face they deem the entire industry a scam or pyramid scheme.

You see, when your whole mentality is 'get rich quick', your doomed from the word 'go'. If starting, growing, and operating a business was 'easy', everyone would be an entrepreneur. When someone enters an opportunity with a bogus mindset and ludicrous expectations they are destined for let down and failure.

According to Wikipedia, 'A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, often without any product or service being delivered.'

Read the previous line again.


When you do your OWN due diligence it will become abundantly clear whether or not a business is legit.

To be truly successful in network marketing and other home based business franchise opportunities you'll need a powerful will and some sort of personal shield to protect you against the discouraging influences of others. Stop listening to people who call your business a pyramid scheme. Keep positive and stay focused on your goals.

Whether you like it or not, this is a business of marketing and promotion, so learn all you can about time-tested marketing strategies. Do yourself a favor and learn how to run your business from successful industry professionals, and stop listening to broke people! Just ignore negative people and cut them loose already.

Be persistent with your learning, consistent with your marketing and as the great Winston Churchill states: 'Never give up'.

When people attack your business ask them what they do for a living and then point them to the true structure of there job. If we're talking about 'pyramids', look at corporate structure.

There is a dominant 'head honcho' or CEO at the top of this structure. Beneath her is upper-level management, presidents, and other executives, followed by vice presidents and mid-management, then lower-level management, followed by supervisors and then finally employees. There are multiple levels of management throughout the entire pyramid which have names and titles that pretty much mean one thing: This is as much money as you'll ever make, and you'll never live the lavish lifestyle of those at the top. Ever.

Look a little like 'multi-level' to you too? Only difference is that in corporate structure there is no way on this green earth that the people on the bottom earn anywhere near those up top. The gap in these incomes is monumental (emphasis on 'mental') and ironically this is the type of environment that people who fail in network marketing return to. Whichever level of the corporate pyramid you find yourself at, you're pretty much glued there. Forever. The people on top were born there and they aren't going anywhere.

If you keep a strong mindset, and follow a proven plan to create a successful home based business franchise or network marketing business, you can and will reach your goals of financial freedom and the power to act.

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