Don’t stop the good fight marco, these people are doing the most to make their companies look legit as possible

They always say, "But this company is different!" 😂

I remember in Amway when I had a couple sit down so my "mentors" could show them the plan. The husband asked "so where does the money that we spend go?" and my mentor said "it gets shared amongst all of us" - Somehow I didn't catch that until after I left.

@staticchicken

5 ай бұрын

I too went to a meeting and a lot of stuff that they said flew by me until a few hours later. Gotta remember they’ve had 6 decades to workshop their techniques on people much smarter than us. Easy to get swept in if you don’t know what to look for.

MLM IBOs have no shot of succeeding without recruiting. NONE of them are legit! The failure rate proves this theory Great video as always brother

@suzinaccache

7 ай бұрын

so true 😂

Recruiting people to sell for you is a way to create your own competition. This is hilarious when you also consider that people in MLM often bring up how "selective" they are with who they work with, or how "1 out of 10 people will say yes to the opportunity." So logically they should have an even smaller pool of people to pitch that dwindles exponentially as time goes on.

@anons000

7 ай бұрын

Not necessarily. Many recruits in direct sells are the appointment setters and those who train them are the closers. Marco is mostly correct but there are in fact still direct sellers who are successful.

@Pancakegr8

7 ай бұрын

@@anons000 MLM companies use the term direct selling to mask the fact that recruitment is the real goal. The products come second to the opportunity. Also, *how* do you know that someone is successful when they haven’t disclosed what they spent on books, trips, event tickets, etc.?

@JimIBobIJones

7 ай бұрын

It isn't anymore but the idea was legitimate back in the days before mass media and the internet: you leverage social networks to market a product. This works really well where the product in question is better marketed through social networks rather than via more impersonal adverts in newspapers, radio and TV (Tupperware and cosmetics for example). 1) You "salesperson" holds Tupperware parties to directly market and sell your product to their social network - this is much more effective marketing that is low cost to you - the company. 2) You also utilise your salesperson to expand your sales force by recruiting their friends - the "upstream" acts as an incentive and a reward to your salesperson for expanding your business. This is also much lower cost than you (as a company) manually expanding the business. 3) This form of network based marketing has significantly lower costs to you as the actual business owner as you don't need to have massive warehouses and brick and mortar storefronts everywhere, as your "salesforce" works out of their own houses and don't require extensive logistics to market your products. But yeah, today they are pretty much unviable business models.

@JimIBobIJones

7 ай бұрын

@@anons000 Direct sales can be viable where its a direct to customer or single level marketing model - but the MLM model isn't really viable today.

@applecatnyango

2 ай бұрын

To me that sounds like 9 out of 10 people recognize the scheme for a scam that it is and want nothing to do with it.

Is every MLM a scam? Yes.

Glad you made this 20 minute video. Two hour videos are just too long and require a lengthy commitment. You make good points as usual and you're not afraid to take on the big guys like others do.

@PKPhoenix83

7 ай бұрын

I agree, great content but it needs to be 5-20 minutes long not hours. Sometimes, less is more.

@SAPANNow

7 ай бұрын

I love the hour+ length videos

@Kveldred

7 ай бұрын

No, I totally disagree. Quick, low-effort/low-info bite-sized vids are a dime a dozen; it's the long-form deep-dives that I started following this guy for. _edit:_ plus who has time to be fucking around putting a new video on every few minutes man I need something to last for when my hands are busy

@bbkintanar

7 ай бұрын

I like both personally. The long format videos are for when I'm working and I have it playing on the side "podcast-style". 10-20 minute videos are great on my lunch break or when I'm taking a 💩 lol

“We are Life-Status Changers” killed me bro 💀 That was such an awesome example of the carefully chosen vocabulary these scammers use. Love your videos - Thank you for getting the word out there, man.

Had a guy from Primerica sit down with me and I explained to him how the 5 to get 5 to get 5 can only go 13 levels deep and that the whole endless chain recruiting model is a model that's a fantasy but of course he didn't hear anything I told him. He kept the positive mental attitude posture and kept trying to deflect by dancing around my direct questions. This clown even tried to tell me that he can pass this business on to his kids but never went into actual DETAIL as to HOW one would be able to do that 😂

@benjaminaristotleboes3157

7 ай бұрын

HOW????? 🤣🤣🤣

@maddiet1717

7 ай бұрын

AKA recruiting them lol

@cobracommander9138

4 ай бұрын

Pat of PHP has a video that's only for PHP members in which he explains how you can sell your business when you are ready to retire or get out of the business. The ridiculous amount of goals you have to meet and goals the people you brought in also have to meet in order for you to do that makes it impossible. It's all BS.

@JacksonBottom-cz2fl

4 ай бұрын

@@cobracommander9138 Exactly total non sense

If the products were that good, they’d sell them in every store they could get into, not keep them behind sales people. (Ex: the MLM beauty counter started selling in Sephora and ulta because it makes more money, duh)

I’m pretty sure I was approached last week by an mlm member. Years ago I was in primerica and got out fairly quickly and didn’t lose money, but it made me sad that I thought I met someone being really nice to me to then realize later they just wanted me to meet their mentors who would probably try to recruit me.

@secluded7772

3 ай бұрын

I had one zoom meeting with primerica and I was feeling it at first till they drew the lil stick figures showing the recruiting process it deadass made a pyramid 😭

I’ve been in many of these. My biggest rule I set for myself is this: If you can’t make a living selling the product by YOURSELF, without ANY downline, it’s one or two things: 1.)The product SUCKS 2.)It’s an outright lie

@sevensages5279

5 ай бұрын

Also, if your income is tied to recruiting others to join! Like these sleazy MLM life insurance and financial companies !

@yt-user03561

4 ай бұрын

They tend to overhype the product. If the product was as good as they claim it would be flying off the shelves in actual stores.

I was in as close to a legit MLM as you can get. The one question they couldnt answer was "but what about once weve logically hit every person that has interest...? If we keep expanding and adding more teams and yall have already been at this for 3 years to start with how long until we run out of people to talk to and then what? There was never a good answer to that one. And even my manager conceded he sometimes thought about that himself.

In a time where everyone is trying to eliminate the middleman and try to get the lowest price, MLM participants think they'll create an artificial fee structure and people will crave it.

So true the amount of time spend on mindset sessions is surely a red flag

Excellent video! You do such a great job at breaking down the MLM phenomenon and explaining why our language use surrounding it is so important. People are beginning to get a sense of how much political collusion and corruption there must be for MLMs to continue to exist. High five for calling out the FTC , creating awareness about the DSA, and calling MLMs what they are: destructive cults. Your work is helping a lot of people find solid ground after coming out of one of these cults.

MLMs need to be in the past!!! It's the old heads still trying to hold on, and we aren't falling for it!!!

@alicewonder0

7 ай бұрын

Not at all true. Millions probably, are still falling for it. If people were not falling for it, those businesses wouldn't still be flourishing!

My absolute favorite happened a long time ago; about 15 years ago. Someone was trying to get me involved in a pyramid scheme - and bought me lunch to facilitate a meeting about it. I don't remember what it was for, but it was some kind of intangible thing like a financial product. Anyway, I said "ummm...yeah, so this sounds like a pyramid scheme to me." The guy said "No, it's more like a triangle." Seriously. That is all.

I just realized you have less than 100k. I never would have noticed because your production value is so high. You are also the ONLY one who actually calls out our own government for being entirely complicit in this con. Keep up the good fight

Dude. It’s almost like a dark entity that you try to get out of your system. These groups brainwash with their live and online training meetings giving you the illusion that you can make “a fortune of a lifetime” and then you invest more time and money into marketing materials and talking to people when deep down you know that this isn’t a sustainable way to make income but “don’t give up! Keep going” the ‘mentors’ will say.

I was a lifeguard for a private pool birthday party a couple weeks ago for a bunch of rich families celebrating their daughter’s birthday and I noticed one of the dads had the primerica logo TATTOOED on his back. I thought that was weird but what was weirder was the fact when the daughter of the dad was about to go down the slide (she looked no older than 4) she randomly said “We love people more than anything.” in almost an automated cult like tone. I was on edge the rest of my shift and researched primerica after I got off work and found this channel, keep up the good work Marco!

I passed a primerica office on the way to Home Depot today. Thought of you! Keep it up!

Vince has officially lost his mind, he has made a heap of videos abusing Julie Anderson and threatening Glenn.

After I watched all your videos and live streams, my life became barren. Then this video dropped and I now feel complete.

Guy woke up and chose to speak facts! Real legend of our times you are Marco!

I remember one of these clowns trying to recruit me, I asked what he actually did for a living and he absolutely refused to elaborate.

@rosamariabest6069

Ай бұрын

That's usually how it goes. A friend of mine has a daughter who got into one of those. She posted on Facebook about a job opportunity that allowed you to work at home. I asked about it because my daughter needed a new job. I knew something was up when she told me to PM her about it. when I asked her who she worked for, she gave me such vague answers. I finally figured it what it was by looking up her FB profile. It was one of those diet MLM's.

Happy to see an update from you. Hope you are doing well where you are. Cheers!

Found your videos and your channel while doing some research into a network marketing company we joined, fell down quite the rabbit hole in videos . This video was such an eye opener, showed my bf your video as well and we both just sat there looking at each other and had a long discussion about it. We both backed out from it before we actually wasted any large amounts of money, we were both genuinely just desperate to find a way of making extra money and we both just desperately wanted the dream we were being sold to be real. So glad we closed that door

Love the nursery rhyme music while you're reading the book. Lol

This part: 16:49 where you gave an example of murderers forming a coalition with guidelines and expectations was just genius. It actually made me laugh, thinking about how ludicrous it is to consider murderers changing their name to something that seems justifiable such as “Life Status Changers” just to allow infiltration into acceptance. Great analogy. I think that is the part that will help those on the fence the most with the way you related it to a real life example.

You really said ALL the nasty stuff this time, NO FILTER and kept it brief too!!!! Good thing you're abroad, there are going to be people really really really pissed at U LMAO.... GREAT JOB!!!!!

At work watching this vid. Love the content Marco 🙌🏼

Marco needs do an interview on DJ Vlad

Your videos are very interesting. I am a doctor of economics (Warsaw School of Economics, Poland), I write articles about financial pyramids, among other things, and I recommend your videos to my students. It seems to me that MLM, although outdated for FMCG, may (!) only make sense for specialized services, as long as it does not involve an initial fee, although in the long term the MLM structure must be getting lower (flat) to remain profitable. What do You think?

@Boredblacksheep

7 ай бұрын

Romanian here & PhD student. There's no "profitability" going on no matter how you look at it. The products are overpriced for their quality level. Let's take Avon which people are selling now in tiny self-made shops in Ro. The recruiting is just not really happening anymore due to market saturation and also the person to person sale is not happening anymore due to those shops existing. The majority of the sales of the Avon shops are bath foam, one of their lipstick lines and nail polish. All the make up is too expensive for the quality. You get the same quality as the cheapest brand in DM (the german shop line) for the price of L'Oreal which has a much better quality. The face cream used to be as expensive as Avene. Of course I will buy Avene and not Avon because it is much better and it's a French brand. Regarding services MLM, Romania was flooded by OVB Allfinanz. They are recruiting like crazy, but for how long will they be? I see them choosing only high school graduates/Bachelor degree dropouts. But on what can they compete with that? For optional pension fund, there was an offer from my workplace, NN (large established pension fund) came, they presented their offer, our workplace offered to add money on top of what we would like to pay to our pension fund. Everyone took that offer. So no way of competing on pensions. I switched jobs, my new workplace pays me a life insurance from Erste Group. So there's no competition possible on life insurances. Poor people don't buy such luxuries, well paid people get it as a work benefit. The only things left are car insurances and house insurances and here the majority of the people just pick the cheapeast which MLMs can't offer due to their need to make commisions. Both Avon and Oriflame are having financial issues, so becoming flat without improving the products or decreasing the prices is not the path to profitability.

@houseofschenck6230

7 ай бұрын

I think you should be involved in the Multi-Level Marketing Conference. It's an international virtual conference, the one Marco mentions at the end of this video.

@sdsodrod

7 ай бұрын

@@Boredblacksheep fascinating take, thanks for sharing your view!

Marco a hero for exposing and getting people out of mlm I recently left Amway and they are a cult my team was in Canada and the U.S. I was warned many times to not joined but did not listen to the warning as I felt that my uplines and crosslines were my friends ,but I eventually noticed they were toxic as one of my uplines threatened to end our friendship if I didn’t go to the conference. My crosslines were pressuring me into idolizing the diamonds and emeralds in Amway. Also the team I was in had headquarters where they all live together and go to meetings together also staying up listening to motivational audios all night. I remember during a meeting I went to a girl cried when she got to meet the diamond couple in the business viewing the couple as higher beings.

Marco the fucking ABC/Twinkle Twinkle music at 2:21 distracted me so bad I had to rewatch that segment 3 times 😂 it would've only been 2 if I didnt notice you were holding back laughter too. LMAO story time w grandpa

im still on the ad and its already a banger!

Y’know, this Marco guy is a pretty rad dude.

Brilliant breakdown video. Needs more viewers. MLM's are like super villains that just won't die.

I just got caught up with Primerica and I’m glad I did a little research and found your videos. The world needs you now more than ever sir

Hi Marco, I follow your videos since a long time ago, I wanted to thank you for all that content. I have few friends that joined MLM IM Academy in France, they renamed them "IM FRENCH" but it's under the domain of IM ACADEMY. They target students and I think it's disgusting to literally steal their money and time. I'd love to gather rock informations and go for them to show my friend what scam are they into. I wish you good luck in your fight. Thank you very much

HURRAY Marco is back. I have really missed your videos.

@KizzyParks

7 ай бұрын

I missed him too.

Keep up the good work Marco! 💪🏽

FTC been real quiet since this dropped

I remember my Amway days in the early 2000s. It became an expense social club 😮

Dude you’re killing it keep up the awesome work

🎉🎉 this is a killer video as always!!!

"Life status changers" i swear this is thi wittiest diss ive heard all my life 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

World class work, as always, Marco.

There is no such a thing as a legitimate MLM period

AYYY MY LEBANESE DADDY

“If it was this easy and worked, everyone would be doing it”

Came here through JT. Good explanation

My dad bought meat from Texas Choice, a steak MLM. He didn't question buying cheap steak from a dude's truck in the chiropractor parking lot...he didn't question filet cuts that were $3 each; and doubled down after my mom steamed the devil out of them to make them somewhat edible. He tried looking at reviews and stopped at the "they have three stars". I looked at them, and they were all either 5 or 1 star reviews. The 5 star ones were blank bots; the 1 stars were multiple paragraphs ranging from rotten meat to creepy salespeople refusing to leave until they had to be escorted by the cops.

Let’s Gooo! Marcooooo!!!! Thanks Marco!

Not going to lie I keep coming back for the beard 🤣👀Nevertheless, very good content Marco! ☺

You’re a hero Marco! Lead the charge brother

I have friends caught up in the mlms and I send them your videos all the time but they always laughs it off and it saddens me. One of them is literally homeless in Florida and thinks the government is watching him and he still thinks he’s gonna get rich smh

Love your stuff brother !

Yes. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Well done!

Love your work

Preach on, Brother!!👍🤟

lolol i have a guy now that texts me to follow up with joining amway. he approached me at the gym trying to get me to sell supplements. like dude no.. im not going to sell some random supplements that i have zero knowledge about to my community. also, why would i even need to “buy in” a starter set when i can sign up to be an affiliate or athlete with these other supplement brands for FREE and with no overhead.

Holy cow I almost got sucked into Amway a couple of weeks ago. Thank God I had something tell me not to join it and leave before it gets too deep.

All you have to know is tool scam

Hey can you talk about globe life insurance? I don’t see many videos about it. It’s also an mlm but I want to know your opinion about it! Thank you!

@sevensages5279

5 ай бұрын

All MLM'S are terrible! At a minimum, 95% of those who join make less than a minimum wage worker making $7.25hr! That doesn't even take into account the taxes! Because you will be classified as an independent contractor, you are responsible for paying the full amount of your payroll taxes, i.e., social security and medicare. So the net amount is less than a $5/hr job!

Get it, Marco!

Pocket watching with JT sent me 👀

I love your house ❤ what a lovely room....the fireplace ❤.......

Absolute 🔥🔥🔥

My man Marco can't miss

You’re the man Marco! What are your thoughts on EXP Realty and now other new real estate company’s that have a similar MLM structure..?

How about an MLM that only deals with a broad variety-rationed closeouts/severely discounted products?

Yass Marcoo🔥🔥

Excellent explanation.

Wait…what? You mean my Amway down line isn’t EVER going to make me rich? Damn..,

stay safe Marco

On becoming a God in Central Florida is a great watch

MLM organizations are based on the traditional system of patronage. Instead of finding out who is easily convinced that they are the star, IBOs are credit worthy patrons who find customers with a need for such products which those clients can choose to retail as a service provider with a respectively high potential in regards to revenue and marketability. After sales increase from such clients and the promotional tiers of achievement are accessed and recruitment of your customer base begins. That is MLM and direct sales as it pertains to the patronizing efforts of these organizations.

1:51 Beg to differ Marco! Between the solar, alarm, pest control and home improvement companies that all go door to door , It is still a huge market!

Another marco BAR

Still waiting to see a rematch with the dude from PHP mlm

Hey Marco , can you do a video on SMMA gurus

All Hail King Marco 🤴

How do you feel about Quility Insurance?

Im curious to know your take on 7k metals mlm.

What do you think of "Symmetry financial group"?

A close family member of mine moved from beach body after a committed 12 years to Hugh and Grace. Anybody know anything about the second one?

@rdizzy1

7 ай бұрын

Moved from a beach body?? What??

@BYUIPolitico

7 ай бұрын

@@rdizzy1beach body mlm

And then you have Scott: "Yeah but stupid narco tool scam lack of retail sales am I rite?????"

Hey I’ve been in direct sales for the last 3 years. Typically the only successful direct selling roles that are viable are services people need. I was specifically selling solar panel systems (energy). But I know people who do well in pest control and cable. Granted, these are legit direct sales roles. There’s really no aspect of recruiting in the jobs functions. I haven’t recruited anyone in my 3.5 years at the solar company I’m at. Of course if you recruit someone who comes in and does well that helps boost your career similar to any job. A lot of these roles come with a base salary + commission. another key differentiator is that you’re not paying to “join the job” similar to how you see with Herbalife, IM academy, etc. Versus having a salary + commission Edit: I’m glad you cleared up that MLM’s are not direct sales. I agree that direct sales is a dying profession because of the advent of Amazon and online shopping. However, there’s many people making a lot of money in door to door sales. You should research it, might make for an interesting video

They Either dont understand how they are being fleeced or they think they are high up enough on the pyramid to be one fo the scammers.

@reservoirfrogs2177

7 ай бұрын

The craziest thing ever is the people hardcore fighting for its defense despite the fact they are still low enough that they are not making any profits. It's such potent mind control for the dumbest shit known to man.

I’m curious what you and any watchers think about real estate mlms. eXp, Keller Williams etc. They describe their mlm program as revenue sharing but….. 🤔

LEGEND

Salesforce and insurance indistry is the WORST exploiters and technically MLM

Hey Marco. And anyone who keeps up with this stuff … I work in a union job. And the other day someone told me that’s unions are also pyramid schemes and I’m lost on that. I feel like that guy is … not bright. That also just doesn’t make sense to me. Can I get some … other insight to this ?? Thank you.

@aaronlampkin284

7 ай бұрын

Union’s aren’t perfect(Corruption from the top of union board, depending on who’s leading) but its not a pyramid scheme.

@steph678

11 күн бұрын

No it's not

Just watched your ACN video. Blew me away with the almost word for word style that a Calgarian named Jan used and uses. Lots of his stuff is gone, so his history is wiped. But basically a serial scammer currently touting crypto.

Yes

Nope there is not! Use to be with 2 of the tops distributors in Herbalife when their sports supplements were coming out 2 brothers both had houses in Pelican Hill Newport Beach Cali. 1 brother lived 2 doors down from Kobe Bryant. Overlooking Newport Beach and PCH 18k sq ft home. $30million dollars They told everyone they did it from the ground up only to find out his wife opened the market in Japan with her contacts in government. They did nothing from the ground up and ended up on Netflix in a documentary on deceptive marketing practices I know for a fact its a cheap way to advertise “word of mouth” marketing knowing only .05% only make $500 year. They didnt have to pay anyone to blow their brand up and spend minimal amounts on marketing

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!