I fear and again I suggest a rereading you have mistaken my use of the term MLM to be some larger bracket to include franchising and marketing in general. But the article was and still is all be it one sided a warning to people not to fall into pyramid schemes under a “new” name.

Perhaps I should have included a quick paragraph on franchising to have helped those who may have heard the term MLM in a traditional business setting.

affiliate programs and multi-level programs are merely methods of marketing

of course one has to choose the right company, most don’t know how to choose a quality company as they do not do their due diligence (having been introduced by a friend who hasn’t done their due diligence either).

if people will do their own research they will find many blue chip $multi billion companies trading on the NYSE and elsewhere. I am not sure the writer of this blog really does understand the network marketing industry but clearly he has had a bad experience … I had one in Starbucks but I wouldn’t write them all off.