I thought it was a hoax. Surely this couldn’t be true? An actual college, offering a curriculum in “network marketing”????<\/p>\n
You know – – network marketing – – as in multi-level marketing, as in legalized pyramid schemes. Yes, folks, it’s true. Bethany College in Kansas is going to be offering a curriculum in professional scamming<\/a>!<\/p>\n But if a college is going to be teaching this network marketing, multi-level marketing stuff to students, then it has to be legit, right? Wrong.<\/p>\n I have no idea what would possess any educator to think that they ought to spend valuable classroom time teaching this type of legalized scam to students as if it was a legitimate business pursuit<\/strong>. I can only assume that the powers that be, namely one Robert Carlson, M.B.A., professor and chair of business, has done no research on MLM and has no idea how these scams operate. He says about the new network marketing stuff:<\/p>\n \u201cEntrepreneurs have not been taught how to correctly use network marketing. This has led to many using unethical, unsustainable, and nonproductive network marketing business models. We want to fill the education gap and teach students how to use the foundations of servant leadership to successfully and honorably operate a network marketing business.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The only education gap there is when it comes to MLM is educating the masses about what scams these companies are. The only people making money are the owners of the companies (yes, MLM is so lucrative that it’s a very attractive business model for owners) and a few pyramid toppers (who are making money at the expense of everyone below them).<\/p>\n A full 99% of people involved in multi-level marketing lose money<\/a>. This figure has been demonstrated time and again by researchers analyzing the figures released by the companies<\/a>. Here is just a small sampling of companies that have been analyzed:<\/p>\n