What happened to MLM's?

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What happened to them?

AIBU to miss them? The boss babe quotes, the photos of the white mercs, the CEO of my own life job titles?

Where have they gone, and have they been replaced by anything?

Jesus Christ. Some people just really have no shame, do they?

Interesting, the only person I know doing an mlm these days is also doing the travel consultant one! I really don’t understand why anyone would use one of these ‘travel consultants’

replaced by ‘TikTok’ shop

There's a brilliant YouTuber who picks apart MLMs and dodgy influencers, she's US based and it's all alive and kicking over there. Some of them are dangerously "God" orientated. T'is both scary and entertaining at the same time....

I’ve still got a couple of friends doing Tropic or Monat. And a few who’ve been sucked into that life coach shit, where you pay to have “life coaching” from someone and it turns out to basically be them telling you to set yourself up up as a life coach on their team and so it continues. Don’t think anyone is actually doing any life coaching at any point. The most that seems to happen is that they write their “inspirational life story” for a self published book that sells approx 3 copies.

That’s a real job 😂

It's mostly Tropic and Temple Spa around here still. Good friend is still very much sucked in. They are supposedly the finest skin care products ever produced and the only ones not to contain toxins, although strangely I never see them recommended in independent reviews/articles, despite reading beauty pages reasonably regularly.

I think it has shifted to content creators. At least the ones I know have. One I know did announce a move into “travel consultancy” but I haven’t seen much from her on this since.

@Cheesegrapeschutney Tropic’s owner claims that she has to use “social selling” as her products are so fresh they don’t have the shelf life to go into the retail chain. I think this is bullshit. I think she chose MLM because it taps into a cheap as chips workforce. I don’t buy the female empowerment and women supporting women manipulation. Tropic’s owner also claims that they don’t allow reps to over-buy product they can’t sell but one look at eBay at the thousands of listings, often for multiples of the same product tells me that there are plenty of Tropic bots who are their own best customer and are finding it an expensive exercise. You’re absolutely right, no one is talking about these very expensive products from MLM like Temple Spa or Tropic outside the MLM world.

Someone I vaguely know is trying to sell people an MLM course/ training in ‘affiliate marketing’ despite having no apparent interest or skill in the area herself 🙄

They don't, do they?
That's the idiotic thing about MLMs.
Nobody makes any money.

So many people have abandoned social media, it must be much more difficult for MLM people to be seen. Socials are full of AI-generated BS and random accounts we didn’t ask to see, so actual content gets missed.

Is Lisa Johnson a con?
I've always thought she was.
There was a long thread about her on here a couple of years ago, and Lisa Johnson found it and threatened to sue MN and she also wanted them to tell her all the posters' real names and addresses.

It was wild. I'm sure she's a con artist.

There was a great MLM plot in Orange is the New Black. Aleida gets out of prison and gets sucked in to a Herbalife type scheme. Quickly realises it’s a con (also pointed out by the child of an Arbonne rep) and ends up using the packaging to smuggle drugs again instead as at least that makes money.

Hmm someone from uni who didn't finish the course was going on about something like that to me. I was not interested and he was not pleased. Kept saying he couldn't understand why I didn't want to do it. Why would I randomly want to be a bloody travel consultant? I work in AI!

I know it can be a real job. Just seen quite a few recently that seem off

“Intuitive Psychology Coach” is the new one I have seen. With some podcasting/ influencing thrown in while the MLM runs in the background. The top one near me must have seen a dip though; she has diversified into a “Social Mums” franchise too. More sitting ducks for the grift.

There’s still a few pretending they are boss babe travel consultants with the perfect work/life balance allowing them to be around for their little ones/never miss a moment/they got this mama.

Good riddance to the rest, these won’t be far behind

Herbalife is still out there. I am also seeing lots of post on Instagram about digital earnings (basically affiliate marketing) and they are selling training courses for that.

Travel consultancy seems to be a thing, Vicki pattison was in on it and she has quite a big influencer following.
See lots of tiktoks as well with I was a struggling single mum and now I'm living my dream life, ask me HOW? And I'll DM you 🤣
Digital marketing is also quite a buzzword but no idea what it actually consists of. Selling courses to each other ?
Also lots of people offering one on one consultant services online, I've seen some that have some good advice on their videos as a general thing but think sometimes people can be a bit vulnerable when they pay money for someone they think has all the answers.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOnethat’s not one I’ve come across but if she is selling courses on how to get clients etc that is almost always a sign of a con. Some of them are big American organisation with professors advertising their courses and they look incredible but there is simply no way they can deliver the things they ‘guarantee’ such as getting three high paying coaching clients and making £100,000

While Utility Warehouse might be an MLM they are a Which? recommended provider and they pay us a lot of money in Feed in Tariff from our solar panels.

Last year we paid out £469 in utility bills and Utility Warehouse paid £1081 into our bank account, so we ended the year profiting by £612.

So don't let the fact that they are an MLM put you off.

Utility Warehouse, Tropic, Neals Yard and the life coaches abound around here.

Friend does the travel thing, I'm not sure she's made a penny out of it but keen to boast about her 'team' 🫠

They throughly ripped us off.

We inherited the company with the house yet they charged us a small fortune to escape from the internet "deal" that we had never signed up for. It was £35 a month for non fibre back in 2015. Absolute rip off - and good luck trying to speak to anyone.