MLM Con Artists Steve and Gina Merritt Want to Pass a Law That Would Protect all MLM Con Artists
In August of 2026 a website called “Writethepromise.org” was launched. The website discusses a proposed law called “The Direct Selling Clarity Act” ...
Douglas Brooks
Critical Perspectives on Multilevel Marketing
This post is about “Critical Perspectives on Multilevel Marketing: An Introduction to the Field of Critical MLM Studies,” a book that ...
Hiding harm in plain sight: What Marketing Research Does Not Tell You about MLM
Today’s blog was written by Dr. Claudia Groß, of the TIAS School for Business & Society, The Netherlands, www.tias.edu/ Dr. Groß ...
Merchants of MLM Misinformation
In Merchants of Doubt (Bloomsbury, 2010), Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway detail how scientists were recruited to sow doubt about the problems caused ...
MLM is a Pseudo Franchise
Multilevel Marketing (MLM) portrays itself as a business that anyone can do, with low barriers to entry and no experience necessary.[1] ...
The MLM Industry is Lobbying Hard to Prevent the FTC From Expanding the Business Opportunity Rule to Cover MLM Opportunities
The latest House appropriations bill, H.R. 4664, includes a provision designed to starve the Federal Trade Commission of the funds necessary ...
FTC Obtains Court Order Shutting Down “Success by Health” MLM and Prohibiting Defendants from Participating in Any MLM Program
The Federal Trade Commission has just scored a convincing victory over the MLM “Success by Health” and its founder, serial MLM ...
Usana Alleged to Have Secretly Paid for “Objective” Ratings by NutriSearch; Rival Ariix Sues
When I hear about a case where one MLM is suing another MLM, my first thought is “Is there some way ...
In Memory of Bruce Craig, a Passionate Advocate for Victims of Pyramid Schemes
I thought it would be appropriate to start off this blog with a post acknowledging the passing of one of the ...