The secret to making money

It turns out my post about multi level marketing, and why I dislike the model, created some quite a few waves with people disliking what I wrote. This post will share some additional thoughts about making money – because in the end that’s why I decided to give the MLM world a try: make money. It’s also the executive summary of why I dislike the model: I didn’t make any money.

Actually, reality was even worse than simply not making any money. Most start-up companies will go through a (preferably short) period of limited cashflow. But my experience was worse than just that: I was required to spend increasing amounts of money first in order to have the opportunity to make money later.

That model simply doesn’t work for me. I’ve built and managed several companies and had a variety of interesting careers – and anything I’ve done was always based on the model of money flowing towards the company I was creating, and subsequently me. Especially in our modern days, it doesn’t take much to start…