Confessions Of An MLM Junkie!

My name is Lance, and I'm an MLM Junkie. I haven't joined a new Network Marketing company in nearly 3 years.

For somewhere around 10 years, Multi-Level Marketing was destroying my life. What had looked like a life changing source of hope, had turned into a nightmare that cost me my time and more money than I could afford.

The truth is, it took me far too long to realize that network marketing, at least in the way it was being taught, practiced and promoted at that time, just wasn't for me.

I joined a couple of MLM companies in 1983 and 1986 but didnt stay with them long. Then after years of being pursued by Network Marketers, fate led me to reluctantly join a by-mail MLM in 1995 and to eventually pursue Network Marketing with enthusiasm..

As a marketer, I got my best results in companies that were designed to be pormoted by mail. In fact, I was doing well with one such company but when it was sold to a group of dishonest incompetents, all the time and money I had invested in mail promotion was wasted. It was a unique opportunity that could not be replaced no matter how many companies I joined and tried to promote by mail because it had been created, specifically, as a by-mail Network Marketing company.

A decade later, tired of the ups and downs, I decided to take the advice that came from a relatively recent sponsor on one of his conference calls and to do something that I really liked, instead. So Multi-Level marketing is a passive, in-the-background sort of thing with me today that is done exclusively over the internet using a generic system that anyone joining my downline can duplicate. You can learn more about this by clicking here, if you are interested.

In truth, there I was trying to earn a whole lot of money so that I could eventually do what I wanted to do while I missed doing what I really wanted to do in the process and mostly lost money, inestead.

That's right, MLM pretty much cost me a decade of my life and a whole lot of money. Most of the countless MLM's I joined are no longer in business. And some of the best ones, the most hopeful ones, were pretty much out of business by the time I left them.

No, I'm not one of those people who thinks Multilevel Marketing is a scam, though it does have its scammy people and elements.

I just think that the people who chose to do MLM or are considering Network Marketing need a realistic perspective. Not from the boosters, not from the haters, but the kind of perspective that comes from years in the trenches that is seldom talked about because doing so interferes with the sponsoring illusion.