Why Network Marketing

Network Marketing or Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) is a natural business. Actually, you are involved in some form of MLM everyday. When you watched a good movie you tend to tell it to your friends who in turn will watch it also and eventually, will do the same thing as you did. It’s also true when a new restaurant opens, when a new product is introduced in the market, or when you recommend a familiar medicine to an ill neighbor.

That is what MLM concept is all about. It is simply sharing a good product, service or business opportunity with others. We are doing that all the time. MLM is perhaps the purest form of free enterprise.

Your sales will come from sharing the products or service to your friends whom in turn sharing with theirs also. That’s why another name for MLM is Network Marketing. (Networking is a broad term because not all of them are MLM. Network means contacts, acquaintances, connection… etc. You can use networking in business, telecommunications, computers, job search, etc.)

Is Network Marketing Legal?

MLM is a legitimate business based on existing local and international laws namely:
Article 53 of Republic Act 7394 also known as “Consumer Act of 1993”
The upcoming House Bill 5601 or “Pyramid Sales Ban Act” that will further describe MLM legitimacy
The “Fair Trading Act of 1979” of FTC that became the basis of all MLM laws today.
But be careful also because many Pyramiding Companies are disguising as MLM.

Some Myths About The Legality of MLM

Endorsing Legitimate Quality Products
The product has nothing do with legitimacy. The legitimacy is in the compensation plan.

Membership in Direct Selling Association (DSA) or Multi-Level Marketing International Association (MLMIA) or Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
A lot of companies who are members of both agencies were closed down for pyramiding.

Fast Growing, Profitable and Debt-Free Company
The fact is that growth, profits and lack of debts may be signs of involving in pyramiding.

More than Five Years of Business
Length of operation has nothing to do with legality. Lack of regulation is.

The best thing to do is to learn the difference between legitimate MLM and illegitimate pyramid.

Pyramiding VS. Network Marketing

NETWORKING IS NOT PYRAMIDING! This must be emphasized because pyramiding is illegal. The essential difference is in the system of commission. Network or Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) systems pay commission on the sale of products. Pyramid systems offer distributors commission for recruitment of new entrants not on the product sales of sponsored parties. The danger with such Pyramiding schemes is 1) they are illegal and 2) there is the risk of collapse. The Pyramid system crashes when there are no more recruits. This means financial loss for all distributors. This is the reason why most countries in the world outlaw this practice.

Why Network Marketing

Is Network Marketing Legal?

Some Myths About The Legality of MLM

Pyramiding VS. Network Marketing

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