No one knows what future holds. If their company ends up going out of business, or perhaps things don't work out as they had hoped, you are one step ahead of game! The relationship has already started!

If you sponsor 3 people out of 25 prospects, that is considered real strong in cold market game. But that still leaves 22 people that you paid for in your lead generation efforts that wash away as waste--an added expense in building your business. The idea here is to find a way to turn those 22 into a small profit center that helps pay for your advertising cost on front end!

Network marketing is full of tire kickers! People that are simply just curious. Think about it. I am certain that a large number of prospects who respond to your advertising campaigns, on and off line, are ALREADY INVOLVED IN MLM!

Lets look at this example, which is one of your typical advertising campaigns. Over a month period lets say you start your adverting campaign, on line, USA Today, a card deck, whatever.

Week #1 19 Prospects 2 Interested 6 not interested 11 already in MLM

Week #2 23 Prospects 4 Interested 9 not interested 10 already in MLM

Week #3 37 Prospects 8 Interested 6 not interested 23 already in MLM

Week #4 22 Prospects 2 Interested 8 not interested 12 already in MLM

After 4 weeks you have generated 101 prospects. 56 are already involved in Network Marketing.

What if you share MLM Marketing Center with them, and only 10 of them, less than 20% decided to take advantage of your personal recommendation! You have just added $50 to your monthly advertising budget! That is six hundred dollars for year.

Here is unique part, you have possibility of adding $50 next month, and month after and month after. Within a relatively short period of time you could create a $100, $200, $500 or more MONTHLY ADVERTISING BUDGET!

What would that do for your business?

Once pyramid, uh excuse me, referral matrix has enough people signed up program usually gains popularity fast. Some of people near top actually make some real cash, but rest just work their butts off for little gain. Sadly, in most cases program collapses suddenly and without warning - they are either shut down by authorities for various crimes or, more often, they just collapse because they cannot sign up new people faster than old ones are leaving.

That's secret to successful MLM - you have to sign up new suckers, oh excuse me, members faster than old ones leave or become inactive. If you can get enough new members working for you, then you have a chance of making some money. Of course, you have to sacrifice your ethics and morals and toss out window any chance of going to heaven (or whatever you believe in), and needless to say you'd make more money for less work at a real job, but you could make some money.

Herbalife is one MLM program that I can think of that has actually survived. I'm not sure why this program is still around where virtually every other one has failed. Perhaps it has gained almost cult status in our society, or perhaps it's because people involved have become fanatics or perhaps for some reason it has just been able to continue to grow ...

Personally, I would much prefer to sell something that people can actually use - in other words, a product or service of some kind. Something that gives people some value besides being in a program. Generally something tangible. Also, I like charging a fair and reasonable price without a hundred different markups going to lord knows where.

So in good conscience, I can no longer recommend any of MLM programs on internet.

Now, I must include a word of caution with these warnings. This article does not refer to affiliate programs which allow you to get a referral fee or commission for signing up other people. These kinds of programs are fine - as long as primary focus is selling products or services and not program itself. That's fact that makes MLM so easy-to-spot and so vulnerable to self-destruction - primary focus of program is selling program. And when you get right down to it, a program is worthless if only thing of value is program itself.

The only thing MLM programs are good for is a good laugh. Once you understand how silly and insanely stupid they all are, you just have to throw your head back and laugh.