I still think it is a pyramid scheme...(Pyramid Scheme Cartoon by Pat Petrini)

http://www.PatPetrini.com

For all of us in the network marketing industry that have met somebody like this. ;-)

A hilarious cartoon on the misconceptions between network marketing and pyramid scheme.

http://www.PatPetrini.com

Pat began building his XanGo business at the age of 22. Within one year Pat was out of the 'rat race' because of the residual income provided by his XanGo business.

Pat now spends his time traveling the world while coaching and training people to build successful home-based businesses in the network marketing industry with XanGo.

He has spoken in front of audiences of thousands for businesses and universities around the country on such topics as lifestyle design, time and financial management, leadership, home-based businesses, network marketing and many more.

Pat is the co-author of the popular audio presentation with Tommy Johnson, The Perfect Business for the Young Entrepreneur, which can be found at http://x1tools.soundconcepts.com/p/XC084

About XanGo

A leading global nutrition company, XanGo, LLC is a recognized category creator as the first company to market a premium mangosteen beverage, XanGo® Juice, to consumers worldwide. XanGo continues to lead the category by driving the research, development and advancement of functional mangosteen products. It has expanded its roster of premium, functional products to include 3SIXTY5™, a whole food nutrition multi-vitamin, along with Glimpse™ Intuitive Skin Care. XanGo is privately owned and powered by a global network of 1 million independent distributors in the U.S. and more than 20 international markets such as Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany and Malaysia. For details, visit http://www.xango.com

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[Darryld1]

It does not matter how the words and terms are mangled, it's Pyramid selling. The only way to climb the 'levels' is to sell more products and invite more people in so that they boost your personal sales and create a new, lower level. So in effect, what is happening is that the original person is not 'climbing' anything but is instead having deeper layers developed below them as more and more people join. The rhetoric used to justify this is nothing more than semantic word games.

[PatPetrini]

@Darryld1 So, what you are saying is that you can't make money unless you build your own sales team and sell a lot of product. Hhhmmmm...sounds a lot like every sales organization I've ever heard of. :)

[HillChris1234]

Network marketing is a pyramid scheme. Just because you create a crappy product to hide what you're really doing doesn't make it any less so. I'm serious! "Hey, look at my crappy products!!! But, where I really make money is by recruiting others to sell the crappy product." See, the difference is, managers in real businesses don't "recruit" salespeople to sell their own stock of crap, they "hire" salespeople to sell their crap.

[PatPetrini]

@HillChris1234 I see...so if I hire people to sell products instead of recruiting them, then everything is different, right? Makes total sense! :)

[ajzile]

@eb2112 finally someone who has common sense !!! it annoys me so much, people think that when they sign up for a network marketing company money is just going to flow into their pockets without doing any work. then when they don't get paid they jump to the conclusion and say "oh i'm not getting money this business it must be a scam ...."

[MaksimLevinskyMusic]

HAHAHA! :P

[Lukaila28]

Great Video. It cracked me up. Good job.

[tightentonefirm]

@DrUltraMegaMegaMan

The worst thing you can do in this economy is get a second job...the best thing you can do is start a home based business....~Dave Ramsey

another great author

[tightentonefirm]

@LPWellnessCoach

can I recommend you read the book

Beach Money by Jordan Adler

or research Warren Buffet and Donald Trump and their investments in MLM

or Sequoia Capital's investments on the stock market and MLM.

Zig Zigler, great author, can maybe enlighten you a bit

or Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

You make some great points, however, it is apparent you are not educated in this area, and you comments are merely opinions,...

[BodyByViDesign]

Agreed LPwellness, that's exactly what it is!

[BodyByViDesign]

AWESOME!

[LPWellnessCoach]

@HillChris1234 In a serious network marketing organization it is not like that: you do not earn one penny only by recruiting people, you have an income based on their earning - and your job is to teach people on how to earn money showing them how you do. That's it, easy. But all that do work only if the product is extremely good, no jokes!!!

[danishcamb]

Just admit it was invented by gypsies! ^^