I had a discussion with someone today who was pretty adamant that the articles here at MLM Blog help in giving the industry of Network Marketing a bad name.
Let’s think about this for a second. If you have a friend who robs a bank and a local newspaper reports that your friend robbed a bank, is the newspaper responsible for tarnishing the name of your friend or is your friend responsible for tarnishing his own name by robbing a bank in the first place?
In the conversation, Efusjon came up. So here is the driving question: Am I giving Efusjon a bad name by exposing the fact that they had no partnership with Facebook, they changed their compensation plan twice in the last few months and that some of their top earners lost 30 to 70% of their income while the company lost over 12,000 associates as a result of these issues?
Reality check: The hype and lies harm the reputation, not the reporting of the hype and lies.
And yet they keep chuggin along despite all the drama and critisism. I’m certainly no expert but I think they’re going to be around a while.
Ty,
It’s a difficult position. Dammed if you do and dammed if you don’t.
You call out the companies that are doing things wrong and you will be accused of being a poor sport and drawing attention to the negatives that too many people already think about the industry.
If you do not call out companies that you think are putting a black eye on the market you are doing a disservice to the industry. And people researching MLM companies will think this is just a cheerleader hype blog.
Maybe if you wrote negative posts in more of a sad tone than in a happy I told you so way. I don’t know sometimes it is just easier to kill the messenger.
I really do appreciate this blog and having a place to keep up with the MLM industry beyond my personal sphere.
I agree that there are certain MLM’s out there designed to get their creators rich quick and those people really don’t care if their members make any money or if their company will be forced to go down the toilet within the first year because by then they’ll have their money and be living fat and sassy for awhile dreaming up their next scheme. But I don’t think that makes ALL MLM’s bad, I’ve been a user of ad2action.com now since it’s BETA launch in February and I’ve been really happy with the service provided and the results experienced. Of course it didn’t make me a millionaire over night, few legitimate undertakings will but it’s not been a waste of my time and money either.
Amen my brother, I totally agree “The hype and lies harm the reputation, not the reporting of the hype and lies”.