Review: Barely More Than a Long Sales Letter for MLM
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2011
I downloaded it for free, but I still say let the "buyer" beware. Hey, nothing is more valuable than your time. This item is being offered for free, but the time you waste reading it will be precious minutes of your own life squandered -- unless you are interested in MLM, or network marketing.I hate giving bad reviews even when deserved, and so it gives me no great pleasure to say that this is not so much a book that will help you with your desire to start a home-based business, but a thinly disguised, lengthy sales letter designed to direct you to the author's web site.I'll toss one scrap of credit to the author: She provides a fairly good outline of how to vet a MLM company for its value, and gives some advice on what to avoid -- because as we all know, the vast majority of MLM "opportunities" are scams. The author claims her chosen network marketing vehicle is different-- again, let the buyer beware.One of the most egregious aspects of this "book" is that the author offers scads of statistics concerning the nature of jobs, the work place, home business success, etc. -- yet not one of them are attributed to a source! It's all just "studies show that ..." and then nothing. No footnotes, no citations, no attribution -- making any of these stats not worth the tiny amount of electricity your Kindle is using to read them.There are a lot of authors here in the Kindle store working hard to write and sell informative books that offer great information and entertainment, and so it's sad that "marketing types" are cluttering this media to garner recruits for their own network marketing schemes.