TIktoker “Levihallo” (right) fights against the network marketing scene on Tiktok, Rocco Rizzo (right) stands up against it. TikTok / levihallo / Getty Images / Mara Yagmur Roozendaal
A Tiktok video by Levihallo making fun of network marketing goes viral, garnering 1.4 million views.
At its core, network marketing is about selling products and recruiting new sellers, with the system resembling a pyramid.
According to a study, 99 percent of network marketers lose money, yet the industry continues to grow, with 700,000 Germans trying it in 2019.
Have you had experience with network marketing? Then contact our reporter Luca Schallenberger confidentially ([email protected], Threema: 3MRRX6T9).
“If you’re having a bad day, remember that you’ve never fallen for a pyramid scheme before”: That the Tiktoker “HelloHe certainly wouldn’t have thought that with these words he would turn what felt like the entire network marketing scene against him.
But his video making fun of the network marketing system went viral on the short video platform. The video has now received 1.4 million views, 185,000 likes and more than 2,300 comments.
Specifically, the video is about the system of network marketing. You may be familiar with this: a former friend contacts you on Instagram and asks if you would like to start your own business. Often these friends have not found the key to infinite wealth, but are trying to make money from you. Network marketing essentially consists of selling products. For example vacuum cleaners. But you mainly make money by recruiting new sellers. In return, you receive a commission as well as shares in the sales that these new sellers in turn generate.
Network Marketing: System resembles a “pyramid”
This is what the system behind network marketing looks like. Graphics: Falco Konitzki
The system resembles that of a pyramid. The person at the top earns the most because they benefit from all the commissions. Those at the bottom of the pyramid earn the least, especially if they haven’t recruited anyone yet.
So if you hit up your friend, he will get a commission for it. Then, when you start selling vacuum cleaners, your friend gets a commission on the sales price. And if you recruit other friends, you will also benefit from this system – at least in theory.
99 percent of network marketers lose money
The promise behind it: You can get rich quickly with it. But the truth is different. 99 percent of network marketers lose money, as shown by a study from the USA, about which the “Deutschlandfunk“ reported. Nevertheless, the industry continues to grow. According to the report, 700,000 Germans tried network marketing in 2019 alone.
Tiktoker Levi also drew attention to exactly this problem – and promptly received headwinds from the network marketing community. Among others, Rocco Rizzo, who said he was an executive in network marketing, got involved. He challenged Levi to go live with him on Tiktok and discuss. But Levi rejected the offer. Since then, there has been war between Levi and the network marketers.
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