Facebook "entrepreneurs"

[samarrange]

I'm trying to get off Facebook, but there is one activity in my life that runs on it, so of course I have a feed, and stuff gets shoved into it. The more you mute, the weirder the stuff that the algorithm foists on you, it seems.

Anyway, I have started to notice lots of profiles from people who call themselves "entrepreneurs", but don't appear to actually do anything very much. Their main business seems to be selling vaguely-specified services to help other entrepreneurs #turbocharge their businesses and take them to #thenextlevel. Coaching, podcast production, search engine optimisation, meeting #goals, but above all, being #blessed.

Some of them seem to have partners and kids, and there really isn't much of a hard sell about them. I wonder if some are just bored and dicking about pretending to be "running a company" while their partner has some kind of high-powered job. But a few of these profiles have been popping up in travel-related groups, looking to "house-sit" (aka, live rent-free). It's almost as if their entrepreneurship isn't actually taking all of them to #thenextlevel financially.

Do these people really exist? Has anyone ever met one of them? If you are one of them, can you tell us what you do all day (other than read threads on Mumsnet, of course #macha #kombucha #break #relax #bestlife)?

I know one who claims to be an independent travel agent. Apart from go on holiday herself and post twee memes and patronising statements about people not seeing enough of the world I’m not entirely sure what she does.

Most of it is pyramid scheming and any money is in the pointless recruitment of people through empty promises to spout yet more bollocks.

I know a girl, that I used to know IRL, who moved to Dubai & is now some sort of Wellness Guru. She post pics of herself in beautiful Thai beaches, with motivational claptrap. Seems happy! She’s making money from it (or something) somehow…

99.6% of MLM victims “entrepreneurs” lose money once day to day expenses are factored in, so that’s a lot of people finding out that endless chain recruitment can’t work and that it’s not about the products they’ve spent a fortune on, that are now stacked up in the spare room. So what do you do? Set yourself up as a mindset coach offering to coach other coaches to coach; effectively selling the opportunity to coach. Or you set yourself up as a coach and help people still trapped in MLM to achieve “success” in the very thing you couldn’t make work for you.

Any of these MLM or MLM mutation careers that appear to have been successful are almost always underwritten by a partner’s income or other source of cash. Some made money back c.2015 before the whole industry started to decline. Now they are all scrabbling about on social media trying to hold it together and sadly still dragging in new victims even though many more people are aware of MLM these days.