When I started in my first network marketing business in the early 90's, I was sure that I had picked a good, honest company with a valid, useable service. I was ready to take my message out into the world. I was confident that not only would I be able to convince people that my new business provided a service they needed at a reasonable price, but, since it was a multi-level marketing company, that they would see the possibility of starting their own business and making money for both of us.

I had previously done enough sales to be aware that there would be a certain level of rejection. There always is. I was also relatively aware that, since I was not representing a well known company, that the rejection might be a little more than I might normally expect. What I wasn't prepared for was some of the hostility I encountered!

More than one person told me, "It's just a scam!" and predicted that I would regret ever having become involved with it. Others simply said, "Nobody makes money with those things." I began to have doubts, but then a check came in. It wasn't big, but it showed that money could be made. Then I got to know some people in the business a little better, and met one who was making several thousand dollars a month at it. Not only that, I had reason to use the product, and, since it was a health service and I had kids needing the service, I saved several hundred dollars with it. Later, in addition to other brokers, I got to meet several people who, although not selling the service, were saving lots of money with it, much as I had.

However, the remarks of the doubters and detractors troubled me. I saw only positive aspects of this new business and the new world of network marketing and my network marketing friends, but there seemed to be a large number of people who automatically assumed that I was working a scam, or at least working for scammers. I couldn't seem to reconcile the two sides of the issue.

After a while, I quit that program, and tried some others. I didn't seem to do as well with some of them, and I began to think that maybe people were right. Maybe all these network marketing companies were just scams, and maybe only a few people could ever make money with them...probably because of some shady business.

Somehow, I still felt that I was missing some point. I saw friends of mine doing well in different network marketing companies, yet again and again, I kept hearing how these companies were just scams. I began studying the subject of network marketing, and, in the course of trying different companies and tactics, actually began to make a nice amount of money with a company that I really respected, a company that treated me honestly and well, and a company that I sometimes heard people call "a scam".

Finally, through enough study, conversation, and experience, I uncovered what I considered to be the basis of the problem. There were actually four reasons, alone or in combination, why people figured network marketing and multi-level marketing businesses were crooked.

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