Does MLM really work?

I give you my view of some of the MLM businesses available in South Africa at the moment. My intent is not to bad mouth other products or shoot some of them down. You can make a success from any MLM business if you really want to. There are people earning big money in all these companies but still there are also people who never get started and who do not earn a cent. The problem is not with the business model but the with the individual, their motivation, dedication and perhaps also with the support and training from their uplines.

I get many people who tell me that they did not make it in XYZ company because they did not get any support from their uplines. If you want to get into this game you must realize that you design
your own destiny. It is not up to others to spoon feed you and make things happen for you. Above mentioned is a very lame excuse. Myself made a success of MLM and nether in the past 8 years did I have an upline who supported me. Only this year I joined a international business and for the first time in 8 years I have an upline who gives me the support one expect to get in a MLM business. So please if you join a MLM business and your upline do not support you, please realize that your success is determined by yourself. You must decide if you are going to let somebody else hold you away from your dreams.

Also keep in mind that MLM is not a get rich quick scheme. You can build long lasting wealth and most of us will do it slowly. But it is definitely worth every second you spend on it. There are people who can join a MLM business and earn R30,000 per month three months later. It is absolutely possible, it have been done many times before and perhaps you are even one of those people who might do it. This is also one of the problems with MLM. Many people get lured into the business of exactly this expectation. If they do not earn R30,000 per month three months later they give up. So rather prepare yourself to build your team slowly at a steady pace and to benefit from it two or three years from now. If it then so happen that you are one of those hot marketers then see it as a huge bonus.

I know there are many people who are sceptical about MLM and who have nasty things to say about MLM but I find it strange that those are always the people who are not involved in MLM at all or who
never managed to make a cent from it. So be careful not to take advice from people who obviously do not know what they are talking about. Surely you will not let a heart surgeon operate on you if
he's got a repetition for not conducting one successful heart operation ever before in his career?

As I already said, you can make a success from any MLM business. But there are some things that makes some of them just easier than others. There are no set rules for what makes one more successful than the other. It still depends largely on you.

You must have a passion for what you do in order to make it easier for you to make a success. If your religion teaches you that gambling is a sin and I tell you that you can make millions by promoting gambling sites then you might find it hard to make your millions because you are not committed to what you do and you do not feel good about what you are promoting.

You must be proud of the business you promote, you must believe in it, you must have a passion for it. It will help tremendously for you to make a success this way. So the point I try to make is
that you must select a MLM business to get involved in which you like.

Then you must look for a business in the financial level you and your friends are. You will find it hard to succeed if you are an attorney and multi millionaire and I get you involved in a little SMS business where you can earn 3cents for each referral. Your friends will laugh at you and you will not feel comfortable to promote such a business. But if I show you a plan where you can refer your clients
to buy real estate and you earn R5,000 per deal, it will be more in your market.

You must also compare the ratio between the cost of the business vs. commission you earn. I can show you a business where you can earn up to R16,000 per referral, but then of course it will cost
you R60,000 to join the business. You can make a lot of money from it if you have the right market for it, but you will not find many people who are willing to part from R60,000. Then I can show you
a business where you can earn only R7 per referral, but the business only costs you R50 per month. You will find that all of the sudden you will be able to sign up hundreds of new clients because it is
more affordable and the risk is lower. I currently earn more commission on a monthly basis from a R7 per person business than from one of the R5,000 per referral businesses. So do not overlook those where the commission LOOKS small. It might be small but the numbers ads up and in the end you can earn more from those.

I know many people are furious about the following comment. So please see this as my own personal opinion. You can decide for yourself if it makes sense to you or not. I personally dislikes MLM businesses where I have to sell or promote a physical product like nutritional products, soap, cosmetics, vacuum cleaners etc. There are two simple reasons for this: 1. You limit your market. If I place an ad "Loose fat fast, ask me how" and you are this well build gorgeous girl with strong entrepreneurial skills and very good at sales, would you respond to this ad? No, of course not, you will give it one look and think "I am not fat, I do not need it" But if I place an ad saying "Make more money, ask me how" then I will get 99% of the people in the world respond to it because everybody wants to earn more money. 2. These products are normally over priced. So you will have a difficult time persuading your friends to buy a tube of toothpaste at R60 each or a vacuum cleaner at R12,000 each. My motto for the past 7 years has been "If there is a physical product involved I am not interested".

Here are my comments on some of the networks. My mother taught me that if you cannot say anything good about something then rather do not say anything, so unfortunately there are some of the businesses which I did not add to the list for obvious reasons. The comments
are in no particular order, I just added them as they came to mind.

For the International readers, sorry most of these are South African only opportunities, but you are welcome to still check them out.

Be Motivated Today
You get a free eBook which will teach you how to create a Passive Income plus you get daily motivational emails. I like the emails because they are short and powerful. You can join for a 9 day free trial. This is the most affordable business at the moment on the Internet. You can start from as little as R45 per month. The information you receive is far more than what you pay for it. You can also earn a Passive Income based on a 9 level MLM structure. Your income potential is unlimited. The free eBook you receive when registering for the free trial explains the commission structure in detail.

There is also no risk involved. Arnfried guarantees that he will refund all your monthly contributions plus banking fees if you worked on this opportunity for at least 6 months and did not have any success.

You can get more information at http://www.bemotivatedtoday.net/

BeeAWina
The potential income is extraordinary and the risk minimum. R5 registration fee and R5 per week. A first in South Africa and the world! At last a business that is so affordable and easy that everybody can participate.

It all happens via SMS and is 100% paperless. It is so easy and affordable that everybody can get involved, even your children. In order to register sms 0834315841 to 40922. The registration SMS will cost you R5.00. You will receive a confirmation sms within seconds after registration. All you have to do now is to let your friends and family SMS YOUR cell number to 40922. They will all be placed in YOUR team. Each week everybody receives a SMS containing a question. If you reply with the correct answer you will be placed in a draw
for a prize. Each reply costs R5.00. In order to remain an active member you must answer at least two questions per month. You will also receive R0.20 for each SMS your TEAM reply on. So, it will
cost you R5.00 once off to register and R10 per month to be a member.

Most certainly the most affordable business to get started with.

You can also register a charity, school or church and then encourage its parents/supporters/members to all register under the organization.

To get started today SMS 0834315841 to 40922 NOW!

STEP 1
From YOUR cellphone, sms 0834315841 to 40922. This will cost you R5.

STEP 2
You will receive the following sms from the BeeAwina platform giving further directions:
Welcome. How to register other interested parties. How to check your downline team status.
STEP 3
Give YOUR cell number to as many people as quickly as possible & let them sms it to 40922.

Lifechanger

LifeChanger launched in 2008. At the moment it is only for South Africans. This concept surely is a lifechanger. They have the most professional web site and tools available. Your "product" is various life changing personal development and motivational eBooks, articles, software, etc. It also has an interactive members area where you can meet more like minded people.

You can get more information at www.passive-income.co.za/lifechanger/

The Network Marketing College
Many people fail in Network Marketing because they are new to the field and they do not know what to do or how to do it. The Network Marketing College is a brilliant South African initiative which address this problem. You can buy a complete guide to successful network marketing from them for a once-off R200 (R230 for the printed version). BUT of course we are here to make money and this time you can make money while you learn. This is not just another course you have to buy. They attached a brilliant board compensation plan where you can in the end earn R20,400 from your once-off R200 "investment" by referring others to the college. Got to http://www.tnmc.co.za/pieter2
. Click the "profit share" and the "presentation" link to fully understand the brilliant compensation plan. What I like about his one is that it is a once-off payment only, thus no monthly contribution. You have ZERO risk, the material you buy for R200 is worth more than what you pay for it. So you get value for every cent you spend. You get a free professional web site to use.
This one is a must for everybody who is involved in Network Marketing.
It does not matter in what network you are involved, the course will help you to improve your networking skills. So go to http://www.tnmc.co.za/pieter2
now and join.

The Network Marketing College now also launched TNMC2. The idea with TNMC2 is that you cycle faster than with TNMC1. Thus you can start off with TNMC2. Refer two people, earn your profit and use that profit to enroll for TNMC1 and make a bigger profit there. My advice will be to enroll for TNMC2 first. You can do that by using the following link: https://www.tnmc2.co.za/pietpetoors

ICI - StratEquity
If you are interested in owning shares then this is the business for you. This business is also very popular. This one is popular not because of its affordability but because of its product. The mother company is StratCorp and they are listed on the ALT-X. StratEquity is one of it's subsidiaries and ICI is the marketing concept they use to market StratEquity's product. They have been going since
2003. They sorted out all their admin problems which are associated with any upcoming and growing business. Their service is excellent and they have offices and presentations all over South Africa. At
a minimum of R225 per month you subscribe to their "Wealth Creator Subscription Plan". In short a portion of your monthly investment will be kept in a trust account. Every three to four months they will buy you shares with your accumulated portion. This almost eliminate any risk since you get your money back in the form of a share certificate every 3 to 4 months. So there are no huge amounts of your capital with the company. They buy you shares in some of their investment companies. The Investment company then use the shareholders' money to buy share in blue chip company, Satrix
and some other income generating ventures. You can at any tie sell your shares and they guarantee that they will buy back your shares from you. You will receive your funds within 7 to 14 days.

I know you will love the concept and of course you will then want to tell more of your friends about it. You will also get rewarded if some of your friends join. You will earn a once-off R100 bonus plus a monthly percentage of your referrals' monthly contribution up to 5 levels deep.

You can do this 100% online if you want to. You can get a web site from ICI at R25 per month. But until they stop me to do it I still offer my referrals a free mirror site at the under mentioned domain.
Have a look at my own web site at www.sharenetwork.co.za for more information.

They do give you an excellent DVD with your starter pack. The DVD contains a full presentation and also a good training session. You do not have to drag people to presentations, you can visit them at their home, drink their tea, eat their biscuits and show them the DVD.

U-Care
This is another amazing business. You subscribe on a monthly basis at a minimum of R125 per month. They do not have a physical product, the donate the money to various charities all over South Africa. Of course they get criticized for using such a business model to raise finds for charity but the fact remains that they donated more than R7.6 million to charity this way over the past two and a half years. I am sure if your own business have not done better than this you do not have any basis to criticize them. They are doing very well and their money goes to where it is needed. The process
is well controlled and we can see what difference our money is making. The commission they pay is very good compared to the monthly premium you pay. U-Care themselves unfortunately do not offer a free web site or online registrations, but I offer all my members a free mirror site similar to www.earnextra.co.za/ucare
. On my site I offer a downloadable registration form which makes up for the lack of an online registration facility.

For more information go to my own web site at www.earnextra.co.za/ucare

Non MLM Opportunities
There are also some other businesses you can join and get paid for referrals which are not MLM. This means that you will only get paid for your own effort and will not derive a benefit from the effort of those you referred.

The very best example of these is iGrow investments. They offer training, support and properties for real estate investors. You can join as a free gold member. You can invite friends and family from their web site. If those you invited join they get listed as your clients. They will remain your clients for life and if they buy property via iGrow you will earn R4,000 referral commission per property.

You must be invited by somebody to join, so if you would like to get invited enter your details on my web site at www.realestatemillionaire.co.za

The Internet Library
For a low yearly fee you can join The Internet Library which is another great South African initiative. When you join you get access to hundreds of eBooks in various categories. They also add new eBooks on a daily basis. You can also refer new members to the library.
Check out http://internet-library.info/
for details. You can also join as a free member and see what it is about before you upgrade.