{"id":16332,"date":"2009-08-05T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=16332"},"modified":"2015-03-11T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:34:08","slug":"direct-selling-multi-level-marketing-and-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/direct-selling-multi-level-marketing-and-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct Selling (Multi-Level Marketing) and the Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27198%27%20height%3D%2758%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20198%2058%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27198%27%20height%3D%2758%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/images\/logos\/cbs3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"58\" \/>All year long we\u2019ve been seeing news story after news story about how \u201cdirect selling\u201d (the name meant to disguise multi-level marketing and confuse consumers about the true intent of the companies) is a great option for making money during difficult economic times.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, people are losing just as much money with MLMs as they always have, but no one seems to want to talk about this. Conservatve estimates are that 98% to 99% of consumers who participate in multi-level marketing or direct selling actually lose money.  The \u201cdirect selling\u201d companies want consumers to believe there is lots of money to be made selling products. But the real business the recruiting and frontloading of inventory to those new recruits.<\/p>\n<p>The CBS affiliate in Philadelphia ran a story about the direct selling opportunity and the economy\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[jwplayer file=&#8221;http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/videos\/marykay.flv&#8221; image=&#8221;http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/images\/videos\/marykayvid.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All year long we\u2019ve been seeing news story after news story about how \u201cdirect selling\u201d (the name meant to disguise multi-level marketing and confuse consumers about the true intent of the companies) is a great option for making money during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[184,822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm","category-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-4fq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}