Multi-level marketing schemes are also known as network or social marketing, product-based sales, referral marketing, and direct sales. MLMs recruit people to recruit others, presumably sending a ...

While Whitehead cites LuLaRoe, a billion-dollar multi-level marketing (or MLM) company launched in 2013 as a primary example of this business model, she also focuses on a general examination of the ...

All three now have tarnished brands and downlines, the multi-level structure of independent representatives, gone or fractured.

Action 9′s Jason Stoogenke explains how to tell multi-level marketing from a pyramid scheme.

The multi-level marketing (MLM) industry has been part of American commercial life for at least 100 years. What began as the door-to-door selling of vitamins and perfume has become a channel worth ...

Most Americans have been aware for some time that multi-level marketing schemes are bad — either through recent books or documentaries like LuLaRich. But did you know exactly how bad? Bridget ...

Well-known examples of multi-level marketing schemes include Mary Kay, Avon, and Herbalife.

Multi-level marketing schemes rely on many of the same tactics that cults do.

The websites advertise you can “be your own boss” and “work from anywhere” because it’s the “perfect side hustle…to build a rock-solid residual income.” Multi-level marketing is a ...