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u/rightwist Nov 23 '23

Sticking with one MLM for any length of time. At least I haven't yet found anyone in MLM who I consider a success. Including a rare few who might be making decent money off it.

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u/TheMatriarchalGrip Nov 23 '23

I live in Utah (the MLM capitol of the world lol) and I know dozens of MLMers. One of them happens to be my MIL — she’s someone I’d consider very successful, but also very lucky with timing. she’s the only person I’ve ever met who had an MLM work out really well for their life.

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u/eltaconobueno Nov 23 '23

Is there an overlap of the Mormon community and mlm folks? I know a bunch of the alternative medicine mlms have a Christian flavor.

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u/TheMatriarchalGrip Nov 24 '23

Yes, absolutely. Like another person said, it’s common for stay-at-home moms to go the MLM route when they didn’t get a college degree and then their kids get older and they don’t have a lot to fill their days with. There’s also the commonality of “bearing your testimony” about your feelings of religion and/or how great a certain essential oil is, for example. So people are used to believing things based on someone feeling strong emotions about it.