Does multi-level marketing really work ?

I first came across multi-level marketing about 11 years ago when I was introduced to Amway although looking back my Mum was an Avon Lady when i was only seven years old so I guess it really goes back 47 years for me in any case.

I had an attempt at Amway but gave up after only a few weeks I guess I found the products expensive and then of course you have to pay postage. I take it from Amway distributors that if you stick at it you can do very well. Only three or four years ago I was introduced to

Omega-trend a similar range of products to Amway household products and insurance that sort of thing. Again I was introduced to me who had done really well as they say had reached the dizzy heights of "Emerald' where his monthly income I think from memory was 3,000 dollars a month. Again it took him and his wife a few years of dedication to the Omega-Trend cause almost a religious like commitment to the product 24 hours a day seven days a week.

In a nutshell multi level marketing works by word of mouth and by making appointments with friends family and their friends and family and building up a network of associates to yourself who then funnel their points towards the top of the tree. Eventually as you get a bigger and bigger base as the network grows bigger as the theory goes then there are more people feed 'commission towards you as the starter of your particular network. Along the way you purchase the products that say Amway distribute your friends do the same & the profits or part of them are funnelled back to you.