How do you get people to stop promoting pyramids?
I don't get it...why do people jump on these things thinking they are going to be rich off these things. Now to be totally truthful I do get a monthly income off of one or two things that I'm not happy about but I signed up and promoted without knowing the true intent. If you decide to yell at me I couldn't argue your point..
How to dismantle this stuff?
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Bruce Bates16
Cooperative marketing
Haha you are right they won't call themselves a pyramid, but most pyramids won't in general. Ask them if they are a "network marketing" company and you will get a vastly different answer.
But how do we stop the bad, shun them from everywhere we go. Everything we own should shun them. In fact I have been talking to wincer about how to clean up apsense.
What I recommended he do is make a system wide policy to disallow all affiliate links.
The majority of quality marketers be they network ma
Mike G.12
Marketer
We look at what pyramids is differently...I tend to think of anything that can be put in a brick and mortar on a shelf not be a pyramid.
...but I took the liberty to call Avon and ask them myself at: 1 (212) 282-7000 Global Headquarters if they considered themselves as a pyramid....No!
Amway is headquartered in my home state and I know them well just got off the phone at: 800-253-6500 and was told in anger "NO!"
I do get your point but rarely is anyone here promoting any of those good ones yo
Bruce Bates16
Cooperative marketing
Oh I am so glad you brought this topic up, and we will vastly disagree on my answer I am sure but I definitely have an answer that I want to stress.
Pyramids, are NOT pyramid scams.
EPX - honorable pyramid, avon - honorable pyramid, amway - mostly honorable pyramid (these days), Vorwerk - honorable pyramid, herbalife - honorable pyramid, pampered chef - honorable pyramid, this list goes on and on and on.
Pyramids backed by products - are not a problem and should FLOOD the market with their