by Lyle 'Chip' Chipperson

Created on: February 21, 2011

Multi-level marketing (or MLM for short) is quite known for its ads on the paper and at times on TV with most times how one can get rich-quick quotes. One I remember that was common was the ‘stuffing envelopes at home,’ which is really a $30 start-up pay to get a booklet is which you have full rights to make copies of the pages on advice on the how-tos of starting your own home-based business. And your encouraged to sell each copy for $5 each.

MLM can also come in the form through the internet. A particular method comes from the USE of PTR (paid to read) or Text Ads websites. Like TV and newspaper advertisements, a good chunk of these sites say one can make a good amount of money by working in the comfort of their own home. This also includes testimonials from people claiming that they are very rich from this program and telling their bosses to go screw was so good. With these websites, it’s rarely a video with that person saying this, but a quite by a person with the first name and last initial.

And just like most MLM programs that advertise, pay attention now: They don’t exactly say what you would be doing to get rich quick. To recall some of these ads featuring a cartoon brown fox (back in 2004-06 and I’ll get to that one later), it was a TV ad with many people inside these nice looking homes smiling on and saying that they made a lot of money on the particular program the cartoon brown fox is advertising on your TV screen in the late night hours for those poor souls trying to sleep at night, hoping they get bored down to a deep sleep. That ad might of helped. It made my afternoon-shift self laugh.

But as I just said earlier: They don’t exactly say want you would be doing to get rich quick. All you get is a number of people (or paid actors) saying how their lives are so rich due to this MLM program they are involved with. And that’s an ethics killer right there.

To begin with, once you get in contact with the program via the phone or E-mail, you will be asked to provide a sum of money to pay for materials related to the program. I was once interested in Herbalife. Herbalife was a pay-by-mail herbal supplement which delivers the goods via a local sales representatives with brochures or little magazine leaflets, quite similar to how Avon works. Yes, I went into the first phase with it, I paid $35 and got myself a package which included a video and many, many leaflets on personal stories on how people made lots &

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