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Multi-level marketing

Multi-level marketing (MLM), also called network marketing or pyramid selling, is a controversial and sometimes illegal marketing strategy for the sale of products or services in which the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce selling the company's products or services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from…

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Business model

Comparisons to pyramid schemes

Direct selling versus network marketing

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Multi-level marketing

Nodes80
Edges79
Triples81
Avg. degree1.98
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Multi-level marketing

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related to China · 24
Multi-level marketing → American, Chapter, China, China's, Chinese, Chuanxiao, Commerce, Direct Sales, FIEs, Further, Hong Kong, In, Japanese, Ministry, MLM, MOFCOM, Multi-level, O'Regan, Prohibition, Some
related to Direct selling versus network marketing · 19
Multi-level marketing → Aerus, Avon, By, Companies, Critics, Dominique Xardel, DSA, Electrolux USA, However, Kirby, MLM, Network, Other, Ponzi, Some, The Direct Selling Association, The DSA, Tupperware, United States
related to United States · 10
Multi-level marketing → Businesses, Church, Jesus Christ, Latter-day Saints, MLM, MLMs, Mormons Losing Money, Some, The, Utah
related to External links · 9
Multi-level marketing → Bankrupting Americans, C-SPAN, Dream, FTC's Consumer Advice, Jane Marie, March, Selling, The Billion Dollar Industry, Words
related to Financial independence · 7
Multi-level marketing → Although, Amway, Erik German's, MLM, My Father's Dream, Rather, The
related to history · 5
Multi-level marketing → Avon Products, California Perfume Company, California Vitamin Company, Nutrilite, The
see also · 3
Multi-level marketing → Binary, Group, GroupList
related to Setup · 2
Multi-level marketing → Independent, They

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mlm companies pyramid marketing participants multi-level sales selling products direct schemes illegal company made business distributors also states members money

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Avoninstance ofCompanies0.80text
Aerusinstance ofCompanies0.80text
Multi-level marketingrelated to ChinaMulti-level0.60section
Multi-level marketingrelated to ChinaChina0.60section
Multi-level marketingrelated to ChinaAmerican0.60section
Multi-level marketingrelated to ChinaTaiwanese0.60section
Multi-level marketingrelated to ChinaJapanese0.60section
Multi-level marketingrelated to ChinaThis0.60section
Multi-level marketingrelated to ChinaFurther0.60section
Multi-level marketingrelated to ChinaProhibition0.60section
Multi-level marketingrelated to ChinaChuanxiao0.60section
Multi-level marketingrelated to ChinaMLM0.60section

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