Comments on: Why do MLM companies still charge for web sites?

By: Melody the Watkins Lady

Melody the Watkins Lady — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:59:20 +0000

I’ve thought about this as well and I think there are a couple of good reasons why companies charge for their web sites.

#1. It weeds out the people who aren’t really serious.
#2. It helps cover the cost of maintaining the site.

I always recommend my team members wait until they are already producing an income before they sign up for a site, this way their business is paying for it’s self.

I disagree with Clement’s statement, the site can be extremely effective if you know what to do and how to use it. In fact they are no different than Cheryl’s self replicating sites, neither can be found in the search engines.

For me knowing I don’t need to worry about updating the shopping cart, security issues, payment processing, shipping, hosting etc gives me peace of mind so I can focus on marketing the products and helping my team members.

By: Bigzeal

Bigzeal — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:36:53 +0000

I many times ask the very same question!! Why do these MLM companies insist on charging for websites??A website is the basic too their distributors are going to use to market their product.If they would only pull their heads out of the sand maybe they would realize how much more profitable they could be if they only followed amazon for instance and gave their distributors all they need to market.

By: Cheryl Gonzalez

Cheryl Gonzalez — Sat, 10 May 2008 21:34:14 +0000

Because they view it as another Profit Center, although some have both a free and a paid site. I don’t believe Company sites are very effective though…maybe helpful for signing people up, but they can’t be found in the search engines. I don’t think Companies realize this.

Good sponsors will put together a website with their Team and make replicating pages available. I’ve been doing that since the early 90′s and have built dowlines in the thousands. I don’t believe the upline should charge for that either…although most of them will

By: Clemente Edwards

Clemente Edwards — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:37:44 +0000

That is a very good question. The only sense I can make of charging distributors for websites is its just another stream of revenue for the MLM company. Besides the websites aren’t all that effective. MLM companies make a ton of money from all of the marketing tools they sale to distributors. I guess I can’t really blame them for it, they have to do whatever they need to do to survive as a company…I guess.