Money, Dreams, and Coups: An Expose of Multi-Level Marketing

"e;I'll show you unreasonable. Do you want to step outside? Let's step outside and I'll show you unreasonable."e;We are Mike Putman and Mike Flory, Putty and Flory as the team called us and to distinguish between us. That quote was the tail end of a conversation more of a yell fest on one side between a leader in a multi-level marketing (MLM) organization and Flory.

It was a reaction to his statement, when asked to weigh in, that the selection of a new CEO (after just ousting the incumbent) was not a popularity contest. If you ve ever bought Advocare products or Ambit Energy services, you ve interacted with an MLM company.

Amway, Mary Kay , Herbalife these are some examples of widely known MLMs. Also known as network marketing, MLMs are a sales strategy that have been around for a long time, but that have exploded with the advent of the internet.

While it s hard to count the number of MLMs., it s safe to say that the number of people working within this structure is in the tens of millions.