FAQ - Multi-Level Marketing -
Chris Gunn
Marketing is a person to person selling technique and it just doesn't work
when advertised via mass medias. You end up with dozens of folks shouting
the same slogans from the same table top. The audience gets angry and goes
away. That makes the other folks trying to sell products mad, which is one
of the reasons why we discourage MLM on the biz groups.
Because of their lack of experience, MLM'rs tend to over saturate, make
exaggerated earning claims, and generally drive off newsgroup readers.
Multi-Level Marketing ads belong only on newsgroups which are chartered
specifically for MLM *advertising*. BTW, alt.business.multi-level was
originally chartered as a discussion group. All the spam there has now
made it useless for MLM'rs to discuss their trade.
We have a similar problem with the so-called "affiliates" and other
organizations that attempt to talk folks into doing their mass marketing
for them. They may mean well, but they end up with hundreds of people
posting the same messages to the same newsgroups and everyone's messages
get cancelled or rejected. Watch for the "Disappearing Messages"
article on the newsgroups or look it up from BIZynet's resources at
the http://www.bizynet.com/faq-how2.htm index. The alt.make.money.fast
newsgroup is available if you just have to shout about the latest
affiliate or easy-bucks deal.
You may discuss Multi-Level Marketing on the appropriate biz discussion
groups from a business advice perspective. However, if it sounds like
recruiting, a promotion, or appears to be advertising (blatant or
disguised) it will be rejected. The anti-MLM flame wars, that occur
occasionally, will also not be tolerated.
Thanks, Chris
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