20 Ways Melaleuca is NOT MultiLevel Marketing - Hands On The ...

20 Ways Melaleuca is NOT Multi-Level Marketing1. No Volume Line or Quota with Melaleuca: Some MLMs require large volumes tomove up in positions.2. Cap on Product Point Commissions with Melaleuca: At Melaleuca, marketingexecutives aren’t paid commission on anything above 150 product points perorder.a. There is no reward for buying more product personally. Melaleuca doesn’twant you to buy more than you need for your home each month.b. You aren’t restarting your points at the beginning of each month like youwould with an MLM. You usually start at the same place the followingmonths.3. Melaleuca customers can return Business Kits and products up to 120 days afterpurchase for refund or credit on your Melaleuca account.a. With most MLMs, once you’ve bought inventory, you’re stuck with it andthe company will come up with all sorts of excuses why you can’t berefunded (“you’ve already opened it”).4. Melaleuca’s Annual Income Statistics for Marketing Executives are disclosedevery year. There is no need to exaggerate incomes like MLMs do.5. Melaleuca’s retention rate is disclosed from month to month – 95%!! MostMLMs will not give you theirs… of those contacted in a study, most distributorswere not over 40%.6. Melaleuca’s Marketing Executives receive a business report including theiraverages, back-up orders, and personal customer retention rates. MLMs give noinformation on their business reports.7. Melaleuca’s products are exceptional and reasonably priced, which adds value.8. At Melaleuca, we can’t go into the money if you don’t know that the foundationof our business IS our products. If you don’t believe in the products yourself, itmakes it hard to market them to other people. Most MLMs take focus away fromthe products and just talks about the money you’ll make.9. At Melaleuca, there are no “sensational” products. Most MLMs have a lot ofhype behind their products, whether it’s juices, chocolates, water filters… ALLPURE HYPE!!10. At Melaleuca, we use SCIENCE to market our products, not a lot of EXPERTSCIENTISTS, which are used to create hype.11. With Melaleuca, ANYONE can be successful no matter when you join in thebusiness because Melaleuca rewards the producer. With MLMs, you have to “getin first so you can be on top…”

12. Melaleuca has been around for over 25 years and we are a strong, solid business.Most MLMs fall apart within 5 years.13. Melaleuca is structured so that everyone is rewarded for helping everyone else.There are no “breakaways” and nothing is taken away from you when you helpsomeone else succeed. The more you help others to succeed, the more youbenefit financially. MLMs penalize for helping other people.14. Melaleuca was put together by ideas from other Fortune 500 Companies (IBM,Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson). Most MLMs are made up of formerMLMers of fallen companies who carried their bad habits with them.15. All of Melaleuca’s accounts are tied to the person who enrolled the newcustomer, so there is no need for each marketing executive to pay extra for theirown website like an MLM would do.16. Melaleuca’s commissions are paid to more than 1 person because we wantpeople to work in teams.a. Car dealerships: Commissions on each car are paid to the Salesman, SalesManager, Finance Manager, and Service Manager – THEY ARE ALL ATEAM!!17. The legal definition of MLM varies from state to state.a. Montana: ANY business would be considered MLM!18. Melaleuca doesn’t discount their prices to people who are higher up within thecompany. EVERY customer pays the same price.19. Melaleuca already provides great training, but no one is getting rich off thattraining. It is actually their policy to provide these trainings so that everyone ison the same level playing field. Most MLMs make their money from trainingvideos, seminars, books, tapes, etc., and not really from the sale of products.20. Melaleuca uses different language (We are a Consumer Direct Marketingbusiness and we use common business terms to refer to what we do here atMelaleuca):a. We don’t have “downlines,” we have Support Teams or a BusinessOrganization.b. We don’t have “distributors,” we have Marketing Executivesc. We don’t “get somebody,” we find new customersd. The more we use these negative terms, the more it puts us in the MLMbucket.