Understanding Multi-Level Marketing Business

A few months ago, I joined an MLM (multi-level marketing) group that focuses its business on cosmetics and daily care. The company is known worldwide as Oriflame – Natural Swedish Cosmetics. The MLM system that runs it is called the d’BC Network. I’ve been inviting people to join the network ever since.

It doesn’t always receive favorable response, though. Many friends, neighbors, and acquaintances have stated their refusal on joining the MLM business, due to several reasons:

• They don’t really understand what an MLM is.
• They cannot see the future prospect of an MLM business.
• They are already satisfied with the present job or business they’re running and won’t bother to venture or invest their time/money/energy/concentration on something wholly new to them.
• They’re afraid of taking a risk and failing.
• They don’t think they’ve got enough resources to succeed in the business.

Alright, before I continue with refuting the above-stated reasons of refusal, please let me give you a simple illustration.

Once upon a time, in a small village, lived two brothers. Their daily task was to fetch water from the river for the villagers’ water supply. At first, both work diligently so as to run their job. But, as time went on, the younger brother began thinking that the work they’re doing wasn’t really effective. He certainly didn’t want to go on fetching water for the rest of his life! So, this is what he did: he stopped fetching water for a few days in order to make a plumb-line. He concentrated thoroughly on this effort. When the plumb-line was finally ready and he connected it to the river – voila! – there went the water rushing from the river into the village’s water tank! The younger brother then no longer needed to fetch water everyday. He simply retired young – and retired rich!

Now, this illustration in business strategy is popularly known as the Parable of the Plumb-line. The ultimate goal of a Plumb-line Strategy is to gain passive income, in other words: do the work once and get paid forever!

MLM business is basically a plumb-line type of business. You might need to pour quite some effort into it during the early phase, but later on – after the network you’ve built has grown stable and firm – it is simply the matter of earning a continuously rising income for the rest of your life!

One of my uplines, Meuthia Rizki, said, “I didn’t actually plan to work all my life. I choose Oriflame MLM business because I want to retire young – retire rich, enjoy the rest of my life living in prosperity, and go to heaven in the afterlife!”

Well, she’s a very outspoken person and she has stated her mind quite matter-of-factly. At present, she earns 8-digits monthly income, lives in a luxurious house with fancy cars, and travels all around the globe to attend Oriflame Top Leaders Meetings.

Okay, so that’s one very successful example. But, the underlying point is that Meuthia Rizki (who used to be an ordinary person as the rest of us) once started her amazing career from the very basic, too: joining the network, recruiting members, and building her team. She becomes what she is today because she dared to make a decision to take the step forward in the past – and it had changed her entire life forever!

Joining an MLM business is really an opportunity not worth missing!

• Financially speaking, you’ve got the prospect of a bright future.
• It’s got very low registration fee: with simply 40,000 IDR you can already start a business of your own. So it can be said that this business is risk-free!
• It can be handed-down to your children. Oh, yes! It really can! That is the main reason I join and set my ambition in this business!
• You don’t need to think about creating, packaging, storing, and transporting the goods. Oriflame already takes care of that – together with all costs.
• You’ve got a huge chance of expanding your relations, finding new friends, visiting great places, learning new things, broadening your horizon, improving your outlook, and having loads of fun!

Now, the d’BC Network is a group that runs Oriflame MLM business through online marketing. The members of this network promote, recruit, and distribute both the products and the business via internet connection – as well as building a solid teamwork among its members. So, it’s a good opportunity for us, web-surfers.

What’s more: every member of this group is facilitated with a personal website, support system, mail-list, forum, and free online-training. I personally call this a brand-new approach in MLM strategy.

Are you still feeling anxious and doubting to make the decision and take a new step today? A wise man once said that success stems from the courage to make the first step. Without taking the initial action, it’s likely that we’ll never get anywhere!

Shall we let our dreams evaporate at the end of the day, or are we willing to start to make money today and fulfill our dreams tomorrow?

The decision is in our hands.