In essence, before deciding to become involved in a multi-level marketing company and expect to make a profit, it is essential that you understand:

It is a selling proposition - you will be required to do at least some face-to-face selling - and it will require a lot of your time.

You must have a product line that appeals to most people - in other words, information or program/help that will enable people to fulfill their basic wants such as become rich.

Selling vitamins, wrinkle creams, even food, will NOT fulfill those needs because of intense competitionÉBut, appealing to those people who are already selling a product with a sales improvement or training program, can make you rich.

In addition to understanding what's involved, and a product line that most people want, and will buy from you, you need assistance - instructions and help - in not only selling product or products, but in how to find new customers on an ongoing basis. Once you've decided to try your hand at multi-level marketing, and you've become affiliated with a company that has a product line you feel will appeal to most people, and you have your advertising/sales materials, next thing is to determine how YOU want to sell it - will you be selling door-to-door, via home parties, public seminars, by mail, or a combination of all these methods.

Remember, amount of time you spend in actually trying to sell product will determine amount of money you make. The more presentations or sales calls you make, more money you're going to make - but unless you make those sales calls, you won't be making any money.

It's up to you to decide just how much time you'll spend with your extra-income producing project.

These things are illegal because if - as in a dream world - they really worked, by time one person had attained level number five, he would have "signed" everybody on face of earth with only first two levels receiving any of money. There would be nobody left for third, fourth and fifth levels to sell to...

Multi-level marketing companies get around law by stating within their by-laws that it is strictly forbidden to promote or attempt to sell program by mail. Then, when postal inspectors come calling on little guy, MLM company says: He did it - we don't do such things - here, look at our by-laws.

The bottom line is as old as hills: you can do anything you want - legal or illegal - so long as you don't get caught - but when you do get caught, you'd better be prepared to pay price.

Besides terrible mess multi-level marketing has gotten a lot of normally law-abiding & moral people into, it has "foisted" upon these people personality changes that man of them do not like.

To make any money selling a product or service on a commission-only basis, you have to have ability to sell like proverbial "used car salesman". It's all hard sell, and more often than not, involves "forcing" prospect to buy whether it's good for him or not.

Anyone who has ever attempted to succeed in commission sales, knows that it takes a product in great demand - a great deal of sales calls, advertising and persistence - at least a little bit of failure - and a tremendous amount of "total business moxie" to make any money at it.

There's nothing wrong with commission selling - and if you're good at it, you're good at it, you can make a lot of money if this kind of selling - but remember that multi-level marketing is commission selling - way "distributors" are recruited is very illegal, with authorities closing down more MLM companies every day - and it takes a special kind of personality to succeed at it.