It’s pretty hard to invent anything new. Much more often it’s old models that are adapted to new circumstances. Commercial practices make no difference.

Marketing?
I won’t bother you with the usual definitions, I’d rather give you my own:
“The best way to sell a good, a product, a service for the maximum profit to the larger amount of people.“
But…
There are always buts. In my own case, I don’t present myself as a marketing specialist (if even I know a bit of it), but rather as an expert in communication strategies and in contents. So I really don’t give a damn if your product, your blog, your site has problems, and I won’t tell you no stories about that.
I always gave friends a hand (after all my visibility comes straight out of many collaborations), but that’s favors, not my mission. That one is to supply the best possible quality professional services to the ones who pay me.
And I don’t accept every possible client. I want my job to satisfy me.
So, the introduction to talk about about a way of making business that, thanks to companies such as AVON or Herbalife has become widely known and very successful.
As I’m no lady, chance was that my contacts with cosmetics companies weren’t very frequent, but when my own doctor tried to to convince me to sell dietary products, I stared to feel something was wrong, very wrong.
As a matter of fact, here’s to you…

Multilevel marketing
Promising that anyone can make money, even individuals, by selling something to people they know. That’s a principle that has always been used by the ones that sell encyclopaedias. They hire greedy youngsters on provision basis to sell knowledge to an aunt, their grandfather and, let’s not forget them, mom and dad.
But things never are as easy as they seem. Once they run out of relatives, these guys don’t know whom else to sell to, ad they usually leave, often not even reaching the minimum budget they need to get paid complete commissions.
New companies in that field, however, have solved even that problem: you pay cash at delivery, and the profits you make are your own.
However that’s no difference. Buyers are still the ones you know, and to find other ones is whole other story.
The law of large numbers
States that in stable conditions chances to obtain relevant results are inversely proportional to the number of tries, ie the more you try, the less you achieve.
indeed, one of the major assets is how good the salesperson is (and that’s a though job, believe me), but I definitely have a hard time imagining any pro wasting it’s tie on such things, unless it’s for a joke.
So, after a couple of sales, amateurs vanish, leaving all profits to top of the pyramid organizers who don’t have to share with anyone.
Multilevel marketing is also often called pyramid marketing because of the sales networks structure, where a single boss manages all the network’s traffic and makes a profit out of every penny anyone under him does, often in cash an tax exempt..
As an opposition to such game we have…

Relationship marketing
That being the network of all the useful people a person establishes between all his connections. A crowd of relationships and collaborations one builds up in time and that finally becomes a part of his capital, just like clients of a public premise are.
So excuse me if here i take myself again as an example. You can simply look on my feed’s icon to see how many people subscribe to this blog, these being established readers.
Also my contacts on different social media marketing platforms are quite obvious, and my results on search engines are too.
this is because in the three years iI spent on the Internet, for one reason or the other I gained credibility.
That’s why the ones who read me thing I’m skilled and interesting. Hey, thanks to all of you!
And, as we said a while ago, I’m dealing with
marketing and communications, telling others how products and services should be marketed and advertised (and sometimes , apart talking about it, I even do it for real) .
So, what people expects from me are ideas, solutions, benchmarks and shortcuts on such items, even over background noise, bad examples, and the misleading arrogance of many.
And the more I go on, the more people will follow, making me, as long as I will still be able to make goog judgements even more credible. To most people’s eyes, the magnet in the last image.
But if I failed even once too obviously….




















