I SURVIVED: Local Admin Assistant turned ‘Small Business Owner’ (heavy on the ‘ ‘) turned Admin Assistant has been forced to look inward today after watching a cult documentary on Netflix and relating just a little bit too hard. A…[Continue Reading...]
MLM companies often claim to offer people the chance to earn money, work on their schedule, and find unlimited potential. But hidden behind these appealing promises are many instances of people being taken advantage of, misled, and encountered unethical behaviours.…[Continue Reading...]
Back in February I reported on trouble at Zrii -- the Deepak Chopra-endorsed multi-level marketing concern that peddles a "miracle juice" through a network of independent distributors. The company had terminated seven of its top distributors after a failed boardroom…[Continue Reading...]
When 23-year-old college graduate Julie was invited to a “girls night party” where the guests were told by a woman named Shawna from a company called Pure Romance that they could make big bucks selling middle-class suburban housewives “bullet vibrators…[Continue Reading...]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) March 19 provisionally attached movable and immovable assets worth Rs 84.24 crore linked to promoters of KBC Multitrade Pvt Ltd under Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The said company is accused of carrying out a multilevel…[Continue Reading...]
Multilevel marketing giant Amway reported a 5% decline in earnings year over year, which the company attributed to a strong U.S. dollar and the ongoing fallout of pulling out of Russia. The Ada, Mich.-based company sent out an earnings press…[Continue Reading...]
Most multilevel marketers have rebuttals at the ready when potential recruits accuse them of peddling a pyramid scheme. One of the canned comebacks for Donald Trump’s late-aughts MLM—because, of course, Trump once had his own MLM—is a doozy: “If you…[Continue Reading...]
The consumer advocacy organization truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) has published the results of a yearlong investigation into the multilevel marketing (MLM) industry that found widespread use of deceptive income claims to promote their business opportunities. Of the 100 companies examined, 98 percent…[Continue Reading...]
Here's another multi-level-marketing scheme to be aware of. It's called "Trades of Hope" and Hannah Alonzo describes it as an MLM scheme "disguised as an advocacy organization." Here's how the Trades of Hope website pitches the business to potential "partners"…[Continue Reading...]
TikToker Kate Kowalczik (@lcswkate) recently uploaded a viral clip that’s accrued over 781,000 views in which she delineates how, on several occasions, she’s been approached by multi-level marketing employees while shopping in “discount stores.” Kowalczik highlights how these individuals will…[Continue Reading...]
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