Does it seem like people who start bringing their MLM business to the internet get pulled into Internet Marketing and affiliate marketing? Is IM easier than MLM? Are people having more success selling an e-book than selling their MLM opportunity? Just some questions I’ve been kicking around and curious what others thought….

Andrea Vahl

WAHMswer :

There’s not much difference between MLM and Internet marketing ( The more I listen to Eben Pagen is the more obvious that becomes). The point is to learn how to network, build a network and how to market products and services to that network that is relevant to what you have in common with them.

MLM is just a form of compensation for moving a product. We should change the name to MLC for Multi-Level Compensating.

Instead of 1 dimensional pay outs like a straight commission from the sale of a digi-product (ie. ebooks, audios, etc) you get multiple levels of compensation through a ‘downline’ as an incentive to train them to sell more.

With the leveraging power of the Internet instead of recruiting people who may or may not preform… You can always just produce another blog or website that becomes your ‘downline’ income stream almost on autopilot.

So, you make money where someone joins your actual MLM ‘downline’ or not. It’s very, VERY intoxicating so watch it work .

The M = marketing is the part that has been sorely missing from MLM for a while… so I guess in a sense people do jump from MLM to IM even if what they are selling are MLM products/services or even businesses.

The processes aren’t much different: We have websites that need traffic, that have a call to action to "do something" that is mutually beneficial (click, buy, subscribe, ask, read, download, call etc).

Malika