Don't get Confused between Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Scheme in Networking Business

Networking business is still considered illegal in various countries. Although the networking business is restricted in different countries, multiple individuals and organizations promote pyramid-style networking through legitimate multi-level marketing (MLM). 


Here we will discuss Pyramid Style Networking and Multi-Level Marketing.

 

The MLM scheme has deceived many people in the world today. Today here, we are going to tell you how this scheme works. 

It is also a kind of network marketing scheme. MLM is also known by various names, including Multi-Level Marketing or Referral Marketing as well as Network Marketing. The pyramid scheme is also a type of network marketing scheme. But there is some difference between these two terms.  

MLM is a marketing method that some companies use. To understand MLM, you first should understand the flow chart of a Normal company.

An average or general company consists of a manufacturing company, subordinate to a retail and wholesale distributor, and finally, a customer purchasing goods and services manufactured by the company.

But in fraudulent MLM companies, the seller is above, then the distributor is the consumer, and the consumer is the distributor. Such fraudulent MLM companies deceive the customer by saying that they are not the customer but the distributor. But in the end, the reality is that the same distributors are the customers. 

A typical company is always focused on making its products and services excellent So that the consumption of its product and service may increase in future. But an MLM company is always focused on connecting people and expanding the network.

'S/He impulse everyone to come and join his network, and instead, S/he wants to get a commission.'

In MLM, the company urges its distributors to add more people to the network and assures them a commission.

The more people companies connect with under MLM, the more their network grows. In this way, starting from one person and then spreading to many, its shape looks like a pyramid.

There are a few distributors under the company's boss, and more networking professionals are attached to them. This way, the network grows in Network Marketing.

In such a case, you may wonder, who will be the end consumer of their product? What goods and services are they selling? At the same time, it is natural for us to think about the benefits that an MLM company makes by collecting so many distributors. 

MLM company strategy to make money 

MLM companies ask you to invest some money before you become a distributor. However, not all MLM companies ask their clients to invest money in advance. Some ask you to buy a starter pack or some product.

After doing so, you can earn a commission by becoming a distributor. In this way, MLM makes its distributor and its customer. 

Such MLM companies do not have to spend a lot of money on their marketing and advertising of the company, nor do they have to improve the product. They need to add as many people as possible to their company. 

Difference between a Pyramid scheme and an MLM 

There is not much difference between a pyramid scheme and MLM. The Pyramid Scheme and MLM deal with their confidence as they choose to commence their play activities. But the main difference is that there is no product in the pyramid scheme.

It is said that a direct commission will be given to the service recipients for investment, and additional people will be added to the scheme. A fixed commission will be given for the investment coming from them. But most of the investment money comes from the person at the company's top. 

For example, in a pyramid scheme, a person is asked by a company to invest ten thousand rupees. The person then has to find three more, and the company promises to pay them a commission of ten per cent of the investment.

In this way, they also promise to give two per cent each from the network created by the three. So it looks like the scheme is beautiful, and easy to earn money without making any effort. In this way, a person becomes rich overnight which is not valid. 

When you connect to this kind of pyramid, you always think that you are at the top of this pyramid. But in reality, you will always be down. 

About 0.1 per cent of the people at the front of the pyramid scheme make affluence, but the other 95 to 99 per cent fall prey to it because they can't find other people and connect to this network who can invest money and give them a commission.

The pyramid scheme is illegal and banned in most Asian countries, like Nepal and India, but MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) is legal. Because in MLM, you will sell a product and service together. But Pyramids scheme is different from MLM.

In reality, the MLM company seems to be selling some products from the outside, but it is also adopting a pyramid scheme marketing strategy even inside. 

You always spend money on any product or service when you see it is helpful to you. Similarly, a company evaluates the value that a person can give to the company before hiring an employee.

But, when you look at all the MLM companies, these companies primarily prey on the unemployed, the simple and the homeless people because such people can raise a small amount of investment required for the company and also fool themselves just as they can fool others. 

MLM companies organize their work and imprint the company in the minds of the people in a very clever way by organizing outstanding motivational events. In fact, it is a game of brainwashing many youth and unemployed people. 

The commission in such companies is paid only when you spend a certain amount to the company. Thus the company adopts pay to play strategy.

So, This is the main difference between the Pyramid Scheme and MLM. We don't find much more difference between them, but also we try to explain the difference.

This article is totally based on the research and feedback of the people and not based on a personal point of view. 

Please mention in the commend what do you think about Network Marketing. 


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