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MLM DISTRIBUTOR TERMINATIONS--MLM or Network Marketing Law is a complex interweaving of State and Federal, statutes, regulations, with an overlay of court precedents. It takes an experienced MLM Lawyer to understand some of the fundamentals of MLM Network Marketing distributor termination.

Complete Article Click Here: MLM Terminations

-- AFFILIATE MARKETING PROGRAMS ~ How They Work

by David G. Eisenstein, Esquire

In addition to providing added capabilities to traditional network marketing models, the World Wide Web has brought an innovation on the concept of network marketing itself to the forefront, referred to as Affiliate marketing programs. Companies promoting their products through user/marketers refer to their independent distributors as Affiliates and pay them on a scaled down version of a network marketing compensation plan, usually paying down only one or two levels of Affiliates in a uni-level compensation plan arrangement. Affiliate programs can be an excellent promotional device for a web based business.

Complete Article Click Here: Affiliate Marketing

-- "Internal Consumption" Is Not A Disease (but the FTC contends it may not be enough to justify getting paid commissions)

by David G. Eisenstein, Esquire

First, a Little History and a Few Words of Caution: Remember the phrase that you need to be a "product of the product" to be successful in network marketing? Well, that still may be true, but the new buzz word in network marketing legal circles is "internal consumption" and if the Federal Trade Commission is the one using that phrase it can conjure just as much evil sickness as the word "consumption" did in olden times when it was the name of the deadly illness which "consumed" the lungs, long since referred to as tuberculosis.

Complete Article - Click Here: FTC - Internal Consumption

-- COUPLE GET $650,000 IN CONTRACT DISPUTE

By VIRGINIA HENNESSEY

vhennessey@montereyherald.com

A Monterey jury has awarded $650,000 to a Cleveland couple after finding their distribution contract was wrongly terminated by Starlight International of Monterey, a multilevel marketing company that distributes dietary supplements.

Complete Article - Click Here: Starlight Dispute

-- MLM TERMINATION PAIN

THE COST TO FIGHT FOR YOUR MONEY!

by Rod Cook

The MLM WatchDog

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DISTRIBUTOR CHECKLIST TO USE WHEN CHOOSING A COMPANY

-----Perspectives from a network marketing attorney whose practice emphasizes distributors’ rights.

Have you ever heard, “I didn’t quit the company, the company quit on me?”

Often, the companies are helped to “quit” by regulators due to glaring weaknesses and outright illegalities in the companies’ structures and/or operations. Company weaknesses such as failure to emphasize retail sales, assure strong buy-back protection for distributors, prohibit front-loading, and, in particular, earnings misrepresentations by the company and/or its distributors, will continue to lead to regulatory attacks on the legality of such companies’ operations.

Now, how can a Networker avoid involvement with companies that will “quit” on them or be forced to stop doing business by regulators?

Complete Article- Click Here: Distributor Checklist

“ARE NETWORK MARKETING DISTRIBUTORS BUSINESS PEOPLE?”

-----Perspectives from a network marketing attorney whose practice emphasizes distributors’ rights.

In the network marketing industry, there are many successful distributors who have found a nice niche as a home based business owner. Many more are diligently working to be successful. But, do they really own their own businesses, or are they more like employees of the companies for whom they are often called “independent distributors?” The answer is more difficult than the corporate marketing departments of most network marketing companies would have you believe.

How much control does the “company” exercise over the distributor?

Complete Article- Click Here: Distributors as Business People

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IT’S NOT WHAT “YOU MAKE” BUT WHAT YOU MAKE “STICK” TO YOU

The Network Marketing Industry has Many Million Dollar Earners but Few Millionaires Complete Article- Click Here: Make it Stick to You

RESIDUAL Income Spelled Out--All too often it is brought to my attention that a distributor who has been induced to build a productive downline organization through a promise of residual income has been unfairly and/or illegally stripped of that hard earned item of personal property. Complete Article- Click Here: Residual Income Spelled Out

THE “PERFECT STORM” OF COMPANY-DISTRIBUTOR CONFLICT

What are the “lethal” ingredients of the MLM company dispute with a distributor which results in litigation being filed by one against the other?

Complete Article- Click Here: Perfect Storm

THE “PERFECT STORM” OF COMPANY-DISTRIBUTOR CONFLICT, REVISITED---Previously, I wrote about the so-called “perfect storm” of company-distributor conflict. By that I meant what are the “lethal” ingredients of the MLM company dispute with a distributor which results in litigation being filed by one against the other? Now, at least one industry commentator, has raised the question, would the companies and their executives who terminate key distributors, resulting in a forfeiture of the “residual income” previously promised to them back to the company, be guilty of more than alleged civil wrongdoing, possibly violating the Hobbs Act prohibition against “interference with commerce by threats or violence” enacted by the United States Congress, exposing them to potential criminal prosecution?

Complete Article- Click Here: Perfect Storm Revisited

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MEDIATION, ARBITRATION OR LITIGATION: WHICH, IF ANY, IS THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR DISTRIBUTORS?

Complete Article- Click Here: Marbligate?

ARBITRARY DOWNLINE MOVES BY COMPANIES SIGNAL LACK OF INTEGRITY Complete Article- Click Here: Arbitrary Moves

INDIVIDUAL 401K AND DEFINED BENEFIT PLANS ARE THE TICKET FOR HIGH INCOME EARNERS Complete Article- Click Here: Retirement Plans