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PYRAMID-SCHEMES
&
MULTI-LEVEL
MARKETING
AN OVERVIEW
PROFIT AT DIFFERENT
LEVELS
 In a product-based pyramid scheme, 99.88
per cent of participants never make any
money. In any pyramid scheme, it's a
mathematical fact that 88 per cent of
participants will be on the bottom level.
What differentiates
an MLM from a
fraudulent pyramid
scheme?
Recruitment
The Marketed Good
Price
Inventory loading
Inventory Repurchase
In The Beginning
9
10
Carl Rehnborg, Lee Mytinger and William Casselberry
of Nutrilite Vitamin company created the
MLM or Network Marketing concept in 1945.
11
Rehnborg acted as
“scientific advisor”
telling distributors
Nutrilite supplements
contained a “secret
base of unusual
therapeutic value.”
Nutrilite Products
Nutrilite Products
12
13
A “how to get well and stay well”
booklet was the primary sales
piece representing Nutrilite as
effective against almost every
disease known to man.
Nutrilite Products
14
The FDA executed many
product seizures and
ultimately issued a consent
decree dated April 6,1951
against Nutrilite and the
booklet was banned.
Nutrilite Products
15
1953
Top Nutrilite distributors began
selling for Numanna Labs
resulting in Nutrilite filing suit
citing the 2-year non-compete as
part of their distributor agreement.
Nutrilite Products
16
The FTC later ruled Nutrilite’s
2-year non-compete in
violation of Fair Trade Acts.
Nutrilite Products
17
1950
Rich De Vos and Jay Van Andel
began a Nutrilite distributorship that
peaked at over 2,000 distributors.
Nutrilite Products
18
1959
Rich and Jay form
American Way
Association
(Amway) selling
household cleaning
products while
continuing their
Nutrilite
distributorship.
19
1972
Amway purchases Nutrilite from
Carl Rehnborg’s estate.
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