Comments on Stats? How many people join the advg MLM First year? Second year? »
December 11, 2008
wasdadd @ 1:36 am
Each one does differently. I am in one that is a spinoff from an existing MLM and they took almost all the members of the existing MLM into the new one, so they had several thousand people on day one.
I am in a really large organization within this MLM, and my own leg is currently putting in about 100 people per month. I suspect that this is 10% of the total MLM membership.
Write me (wasdadd) at yahoo if you want more information about the opportunity, or if I can provide you with any more information. This is year 2 of this MLM (started November, 2004)
I’m new to MLM, but my understanding is that most MLMs hit critical mass in about 3 years. My MLM however, will hit critical mass by the middle of next year (18 mos, they launched in July 2005).
If you’re interested in more info, please email me or IM, crimsondryad at yahoo.
For an average MLM, you’re looking at between 300 (not doing well) to 10,000-20,000 people for the first year alone. According to DSA, to be considered a fast growing MLM you need about 20,000 people joining. I would caution though that a lot depends on the products/services MLM offers - some are inexpensive and consumable, others are expensive and one time purchase only, so numbers of people joining doesn’t represent quality of people joining. Best MLMs, however, grow slower at first, focusing on customer service and, ironically, turning away distributors from out-of-area until other areas become part of business expansion.
There are close to 3,000 MLM companies in our databases right now; most fail in the first year and never even make it to 2nd year; 80% of all MLMs would fail in 3 years. Also, how many people join doesn’t at all mean how many people stay active - 80% of people quit within 3-5 months while 95% of all distributors in average MLM quit within 1-2 years. So a company may claim, correctly, that 20,000 people joined them this year - yet it’ll also be true that only 1000 of them are currently active distributors.
Lastly, it is also important to consider who’s joining - if professional MLMers are joining (like the ones who follow the industry and bring in their own downlines with them to each new company). If such people join, numbers can go way way up quickly - yet the numbers go down just as quick when these same “heavy hitters” take their downlines to the next MLM they’re joining. This is one of the best and only ways for distributors to make real money quickly in MLM, but it does hurt the Company that experiences quick growth, invests in its systems/biz, and then deflates because the heavy hitters moved on. All of this impacts the numbers of people joining, but the numbers won’t actually represent how many interested distributors joined because their motivations are unknown until quite some time passes.
Comments on Stats? How many people join the advg MLM First year? Second year? »
Each one does differently. I am in one that is a spinoff from an existing MLM and they took almost all the members of the existing MLM into the new one, so they had several thousand people on day one.
I am in a really large organization within this MLM, and my own leg is currently putting in about 100 people per month. I suspect that this is 10% of the total MLM membership.
Write me (wasdadd) at yahoo if you want more information about the opportunity, or if I can provide you with any more information. This is year 2 of this MLM (started November, 2004)
I’m new to MLM, but my understanding is that most MLMs hit critical mass in about 3 years. My MLM however, will hit critical mass by the middle of next year (18 mos, they launched in July 2005).
If you’re interested in more info, please email me or IM, crimsondryad at yahoo.
For an average MLM, you’re looking at between 300 (not doing well) to 10,000-20,000 people for the first year alone. According to DSA, to be considered a fast growing MLM you need about 20,000 people joining. I would caution though that a lot depends on the products/services MLM offers - some are inexpensive and consumable, others are expensive and one time purchase only, so numbers of people joining doesn’t represent quality of people joining. Best MLMs, however, grow slower at first, focusing on customer service and, ironically, turning away distributors from out-of-area until other areas become part of business expansion.
There are close to 3,000 MLM companies in our databases right now; most fail in the first year and never even make it to 2nd year; 80% of all MLMs would fail in 3 years. Also, how many people join doesn’t at all mean how many people stay active - 80% of people quit within 3-5 months while 95% of all distributors in average MLM quit within 1-2 years. So a company may claim, correctly, that 20,000 people joined them this year - yet it’ll also be true that only 1000 of them are currently active distributors.
Lastly, it is also important to consider who’s joining - if professional MLMers are joining (like the ones who follow the industry and bring in their own downlines with them to each new company). If such people join, numbers can go way way up quickly - yet the numbers go down just as quick when these same “heavy hitters” take their downlines to the next MLM they’re joining. This is one of the best and only ways for distributors to make real money quickly in MLM, but it does hurt the Company that experiences quick growth, invests in its systems/biz, and then deflates because the heavy hitters moved on. All of this impacts the numbers of people joining, but the numbers won’t actually represent how many interested distributors joined because their motivations are unknown until quite some time passes.