• It Works! Income Disclosure Statements

    It Works Marketing peddles body wraps, essential oils, nutrition drinks, skin products, and other health and nutrition items. (And body wraps do NOT work to make you skinnier. Any loss of inches is temporary.) Here’s an analysis of the ItWorks […]

  • ESPN on AdvoCare

    Yesterday ESPN published an article about AdvoCare, Drew Brees Has A Dream He’d Like To Sell You. AdvoCare is a typical multi-level marketing (MLM) company. It focuses on selling a “business opportunity” and uses nutritional products to make it appear […]

  • ESPN Outside the Lines on AdvoCare

    UPDATE: The television segment has been pushed back, but the article is out today. ESPN has been investigating AdvoCare, a multi-level marketing company that sells a “business opportunity” using nutritional products as their hook. Today, ESPN’s investigative news show Outside […]

  • MLM is Not a Business (It’s a Pyramid Scheme)

    I’ve written many times about how multi-level marketing (MLM) is not a business. Don’t believe me? Others have said the same thing. Today Lazy Man and Money lays out the reasons why MLM is not a business. You’ll have to […]

  • Herbalife $HLF Doesn’t Want You to See This Video

    Herbalife (HLF) does not want you to see or hear the evidence that the company is nothing more than a recruiting scheme. Audio and video footage was obtained of CEO Michael Johnson talking about how Herbalife is a recruiting company: […]

  • Herbalife CEO Michael Johnson on Recruiting

    Michael Johnson, CEO of Herbalife, talks about how the company is based on recruiting. ” Today, we’re recruiting. We’re still a recruiting company, and we’ve got to never not be this [again pointing to the word “Recruiting” on the slide […]

  • Rodan + Fields Income Disclosure Statements

    Rodan & Fields is a multi-level marketing company  that sells skin care products. The company initially established a positive reputation with its ProActiv Solution, which was a product for acne prone skin. In 2008, it moved into the MLM business […]

  • Thompson Burton: Support Company of the Year from Academy of Multilevel Marketing

    Thompson Burton, a law firm providing services to multi-level marketing companies, provides our comic relief today, along with “The Academy of Multilevel Marketing” (TAMM). The Academy of Multi-Level Marketing is an organization created by MLM industry supporters to make up […]

  • Herbalife $HLF CEO Michael Johnson on Recruiting

    Last week a video was posted to YouTube showing Herbalife CEO Michael Johnson talking about recruiting. Herbalife had the video pulled from YouTube on the basis of copyright infringement. That is most certainly a bogus claim. I’m not an attorney, […]

  • Herbalife Report: “Pyramid Shakedown”

    This week New York State Senator Jeff Klein and Public Advocate Letitia James issued a scathing report on multi-level marketing company Herbalife (NYSE: HLF). The report, The Amercian Scheme: Herbalife’s Pyramid ‘Shake’down, is based on complaints filed by 56 Herbalife […]