Why Affiliate Marketing Beats MLMNetwork Marketing
Maybe this is still up for debate for some people, however from what I’ve seen over my lifetime now shows affiliate marketing is the most lucrative and consistently rewardingmodel today... why? The short answer is unprecedented numbers of people flocking to the internet to buy almost everything they need and or want!
I’m sure this isn’t a big surprise as you’ve heard the news from time to time report about it... and how Amazon in one of the World leaders in online sales. If you have any doubt this is real do a Google search for:
“How have changes in buyer behavior in our culture affected traditional businesses in the United States?” I had a gut feeling but the results were still shockingto see... what does this mean for you and me? It means unlimited online ravenous buyers who already want to buy what they are interested in all you have to do is present them with a tasty looking post or review and link toencourage them.
Now for the biggest reason why affiliate marketing beats MLM/network marketing today. There is another change in our culture that is terrible as it affects all traditionalbusinesses (brick & mortar) and mlm/network marketing businesses... simply “Nobody Wants to Work!”
Of course this isn’t 100% absolute nobody because I want to work and you want to work or you wouldn’t be here and all those people who work hard at mlm/networkmarketing - they want to work too... but a huge number of our Nation’s population don’t want to work!
I owned a traditional brick & mortar business for the past 9 years and recently closed it permanently because “People don’t want to Work!”
Everyone we ever hired quit for various reasons but the bottom line is they just didn’t want to work. Some got bored, others wanted an easier job that paid more per hourso they could work less hours and have more play time.
This is just our experience but many other businesses in my town also went out of business for the same reasons! and we could conclude maybe it’s just my little town?However we’ve had confirmations this is happening in cities, and towns all over the United States.
Now back to the problem with mlm/network marketing businesses... these same people who didn’t want to work in traditional businesses are joining mlm/network marketingbusinesses and guess what? Yep they still don’t want to work! Recently I recruited over 60 people in less than 2 months in a network marketing company I was working for. In the 3rd month they all dropped out!
In another mlm I’m still officially active I have 110 people directly under me and 1,071 indirect under me. Out of the 110 directly under me there are None who are active..I’m the only one who is active. Out of the 1,071 indirects I can count the active ones using both hands. why is this... because “Nobody Wants to Work!” In 2005 I was in a network marketing company with3 legs of associates directly under me one in the United States and 2 in Europe all 3 legs contained mostly active reps and I had a pretty much automatic income about 1,000 per month then the company decided to go out of businessand reorganize purging all reps and cheating all out of their recurring monthly income so that was that.
As you can see somewhere since 2005 people started to change and most significantly the biggest change in people’s work ethic has happened in the past 2 years from whatwe could see. My experience in mlm had some good and in recent years really bad. With this change in mind it’s easy to see why Affiliate Marketing beats mlm/network marketing... You don’t have to recruit Anyoneand don’t need to depend on anyone other than yourself
Even though people who “don’t want to work”are Not committed to working offline, or online they are wildly committed to Buying stuff online!
To our Affiliate success! Dave
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Great assessment, Dave. I agree with you people today don’t want to work. They all want a “leveraged” lifestyle. If you have money, you can leverage money to make more money like Warren Buffet. If you own property, you can leverage that to collect rent. However, you need to earn money first to find that leverage.
In MLM, you work hard to build the network for the company, if for whatever reasons the company closes down, goes a different business model, all your effort then comes down to nought.
Building you own website, you own the website, the domain, the content and you can make yourself part of the brand for your niche. Whatever affiliate products you sell, you can add, change or replace. There will be more control as the asset you build belongs to you.
This is interesting. I used to be a true workaholic working 2 full-time jobs for many years and even having 2 full-time jobs and 2 part-times at one point in my early 20s.
Later I had one much better full-time job and did my own business stuff after work including online. I loved working. Even working half a day on Thanksgiving and til 1 AM on Christmas Eve. Then one morning... seemingly out of the blue... I thought "what am I doing? Is this it? Is this all my life is? Just working continually until the day comes when I finally take my last breath?"
I've seen life very different ever since. I still think there is value in some good hard work but there are a lot of things I would rather do. Basically I used to live to work and now I only work to live.
I wonder if maybe there was some kind of huge cultural shift around same time and perhaps it wasn't just me. Lol
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Two great points that you bring up Dave.
Over the years I've been involved with MLM and either with improper training or loss of enthusiasm I lost all interest in MLM.
I worked for Sears over 36 years and saw a lot of people just like you described. Eye opening Dave, thanks for sharing