Problems of the network company. Distributors are being taken away
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2025 6:03 am
One of the most difficult problems that often arises in the MLM industry is the problem of poaching distributors. The basis is the article "Get Your Hands Off My Downline!!" by one of the most famous American experts in the field of legal issues related to the existence of MLM - Spencer M. Reese, who, together with his colleague Kevin D. Grimes, heads the legal services of the American Direct Selling Association (DSA) and the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations (WFDSA), and is also a consultant to many of the largest MLM companies and professional distributor organizations.
COLLISION OF INTERESTS
If God guided MLM in the same way as He guided the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt, then the first of the Ten Commandments given to the People of Israel through Moses would sound like this: "You shall not steal part time data descendants." Quite in the spirit of the Ten Commandments would be: "You shall not covet your neighbor's descendants" and "You shall not encroach on descendants."
The problem that any MLM company has to face from time to time is the luring of distributor networks to another MLM company by one of the still working or former distributors. In fact, the company can consider itself lucky if this happens no more than once a year. My practical experience allows me to say that such unscrupulous luring of distributors is the main cause of conflicts between distributors and the company. If we consider this problem in an emotional sense, then the surest way to turn old proven friends into mortal enemies is to try to lure their descendants at once. Your former friends will vilify you at every mention of your name, if they will even mention it at all. Far more likely, in the future, they will refer to you as "that dirty son of a bitch N" or attach unprintable epithets to your name.
COLLISION OF INTERESTS
If God guided MLM in the same way as He guided the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt, then the first of the Ten Commandments given to the People of Israel through Moses would sound like this: "You shall not steal part time data descendants." Quite in the spirit of the Ten Commandments would be: "You shall not covet your neighbor's descendants" and "You shall not encroach on descendants."
The problem that any MLM company has to face from time to time is the luring of distributor networks to another MLM company by one of the still working or former distributors. In fact, the company can consider itself lucky if this happens no more than once a year. My practical experience allows me to say that such unscrupulous luring of distributors is the main cause of conflicts between distributors and the company. If we consider this problem in an emotional sense, then the surest way to turn old proven friends into mortal enemies is to try to lure their descendants at once. Your former friends will vilify you at every mention of your name, if they will even mention it at all. Far more likely, in the future, they will refer to you as "that dirty son of a bitch N" or attach unprintable epithets to your name.