MLM

Downline sales structure

MLM is an abbreviation for multi-level marketing, a business model where participants earn money both by selling products and by recruiting new salespeople, who then recruit others beneath them.

Critics note MLMs often resemble pyramid schemes, with most participants losing money while those at the top profit: She lost thousands in an MLM selling essential oils.

In other contexts, MLM stands for men loving men, used in LGBTQ+ communities to describe gay and bisexual men.

marketing

pyramid

Pointed polyhedral solid

distributor · commission · network · Amway · Herbalife · direct sales · sponsor · compensation plan · recruit · host

insurance

whole life

Full span of existence

death benefit · policy · beneficiary · coverage · investment · annuity · dividends · underwriting · estate planning · wealth transfer

linguistics

masked

Having face covered

token · prediction · language model · bidirectional · embedding · fine-tuning · natural language · GPT · attention · corpus

Categories
Opposites
business model legitimacy

MLMethical business

Commerce following moral principles

nonprofit organization · worker cooperative · honest work

sales/distribution structure

MLMwholesale distribution

Large-scale commercial supply chain

e-commerce · department store

employment/income type

MLMunion job

Position with collective representation

full-time employment · full-time job · employee · career · hourly wage

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG