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Q&A: Are There Any Good MLM Companies?

Today's listener wants to know if there are any multi-level marketing companies worth joining. The short answer: no. Here's the longer one.

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Today's caller has a friend who's into network marketing — she doesn't call it MLM because of the "preconceived ideas" — and wants to know: are there good ones?

The honest answer: the business model itself is flawed, regardless of the company. It's not really about which products they sell or how nice the people are — it's that MLM is structurally designed to generate income primarily by recruiting new participants, not by selling products to real end customers. That means most participants lose money.

Think of it this way: imagine a manufacturing company with great health insurance for its workers and a 90% customer service rating. But the product destroys the lives of its users. The perks don't redeem the core problem.

The side hustle path is wide open with legitimate options. Don't get recruited into this one.

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