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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also want to add there are a ton of new MLMs that arent based on products, but services.

[b]Example, I know someone in Ontario who is almost tippy top of a pyramid of "coaching". Like life coaching? [/b]I used to know her husband and occassionaly swing by her instagram. Apparently she's purchased a new mcmansion and gwagon with their earnings. I want to say they charge $5k for one class, up to $15k but I cant remember. I dont know her education specifically.

The workout ones are definitely there too. My cousin (barely graduated HS) flitted around through different MLM products (wraps & shakes mainly) and is now doing fitness. She does online fitness coaching. I'm not mad at this one because shes totally turned her life around, quit (or drastically reduced) drugs and alcohol and works out and is super fit. [/quote]

Yes, the coaching culture is very MLM-like in that the real money to be made is selling coaching training programs. These programs are sold to people who are looking for a real career that is going to make them decent money -- but they end up spending more on the training than they ever make. It's a bit scammy. I have an acquaintance who became a life coach a few years back and I remember thinking how ridiculous it was that they were serving as a "mentor coach" in the coaching training program they'd gone through before they even had any real clients of their own. How are you teaching people to do something you haven't even really done yet? From what I understand they have a lot of clients and are making decent money now though.

But coaching is pretty legit now (didn't think it ever would be, and that the APA would find a way to shut it down, but they didn't and here we are), and I'd say you have a better shot at being successful with coaching than you do with Arbonne or Rodan and Fields or some nonsense like that. [/quote]

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