How To Profit In The Gig Economy
How To Profit In The Gig Economy
Part 6: Why the Long-Term Promise Rarely Holds Up One of the most enticing promises made in network marketing is the concept of residual income—the idea that you can build a business once and continue earning money indefinitely from the efforts of your team. On a whiteboard, this sounds like financial freedom. In reality, very …
Part 5: How Expanding Your Downline Undermines Sustainable Earnings One of the most pervasive—and ultimately damaging—aspects of many network marketing compensation plans is the overwhelming focus on recruitment over genuine product or service sales. In these systems, success is often measured not by the revenue generated from real customer purchases, but by the size of …
Part 4: The Invisible Forces Behind the MLM Dream In this installment, we shift our focus from the numbers on paper to the human mind. Even when hard data reveals the flaws in a compensation plan, network marketing companies are adept at using psychological tactics and cultural dynamics to keep distributors chasing an elusive dream. …
Part 3: When Projections Meet Reality In this installment, we explore the vast gap between the idealized numbers scribbled on whiteboards and the actual data from the field. Every network marketing seminar features a whiteboard filled with complex equations and colorful diagrams that promise exponential earnings. These projections are built on assumptions of perfect recruitment, …
Part 2: Moving Beyond “Early Entrants” The Real Key Is Organizational Size and Pay Zones In our first installment, we discussed the pitfalls of trusting glossy whiteboard presentations that promise riches based on purely hypothetical numbers. Now, let’s refine our understanding further. A common misconception is that only the earliest entrants walk away with all …