Are you constantly being pestered by MLM consultants? Do you have friends that keep asking you to join their “team”? This is how to say NO to Multi-Level Marketing, whether you’re being asked to purchase or join as a consultant.

I had never really thought about MLM’s before, or what kind of business practice they encouraged. I knew that my mum had held an Ann Summers party at our house when I was a kid (presumably her friend was a consultant) and that a few of my friends had dabbled in Forever Living, Yoonique and Avon but it never lasted long and I just assumed they didn’t enjoy it.

It wasn’t until I joined a few support groups on Facebook that my eyes were really opened to the world of multi-level marketing and how relentless it could be.

A few of the groups I had joined were for my chronic illnesses. These groups thankfully now have better screening processes but back then they were absolutely rife with MLM sellers.

I had friends requests and messages constantly from women who had found me in these groups, telling me to buy their Juice Plus, Diet Coffees, Skinny teas, Body wraps etc. None of which I was interested in.

None of which are actually healthy for any of the conditions I’d joined the groups for in the first place.

But the big one, the real eye opener, came from being a member of a miscarriage support group.

I joined a few months after having my miscarriage, as I’d been going through it alone and hadn’t spoken to anyone about it. I just wanted a safe space where I could talk about my feelings and my experience.

That safe space was broken by the bombardment of messages from MLM consultants that claimed their amazing products would help me get pregnant again and stop me from having further miscarriages, one thing I also bought was prenatal vitamins.

I cannot tell you how that made me feel.

All I can tell you is that my run in with MLM “huns” didn’t stop there.

Starting this blog and being an active member of the mental health blogging community only opened me up to more multi-level marketers.

The most common one I get, is people trying to recruit me as a “wellness sponsor”.

This is how it normally goes:

• It starts with an over the top DM or email that starts with “HEY GIIRRRRL”
• It continues with “I just LOVE your energy and I think you could KILL IT with this business”
• *is super vague about what the business is*
• INCLUDES EVERY SINGLE EMOJI THAT EXISTS
• “I have an incredibly opportunity for you”
• *copies and pastes as massively vague message about embracing obstacles/body, mind and soul connection*
• I reply with “what is the opportunity?”
• *continues to be vague and doesn’t reveal the name of the business*
• *makes a super false claim about how since being introduced to this opportunity they have CURED ALL OF THEIR INCURABLE ILLNESSES*
• I ask if they’re part of an MLM
• They say “no it’s not like a pyramid scheme or anything. I’m a wellness sponsor. I promote wellness”
• I look at their profile/website to see that they sell essential oils.
• I ask them “so you don’t sell essential oils for an MLM company then?”
• They reply with something like “we have different visions of this”
• Then I get blocked.

This kind of thing has happened so often that I am now instantly suspicious of anyone and what they may be selling.

It’s can be really difficult to keep saying no to people, especially if you have social anxiety.

It’s even worse with friends because you genuinely care about them and don’t want to be that person who turns them down, but when there’s an over saturation of people shilling the same overpriced products for the same companies… it’s absolutely necessary to say no to multi-level marketing.

How to say no to multi-level marketing

Saying no the polite way
There are several ways you can say no to an MLM consultant without being harsh, such as:

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The ask too many questions tactic
This seems to work for people (who aren’t friends) that have added you for the sole purpose of selling something/recruiting. It seems to be a universal MLM trick not to give away much information about the actual business while they’re recruiting or trying to sell their products to you.

So to avoid having to actually say no, you could just ask too many questions and spook them away.

Offer them data to prove their claims are false
If you actually get to find out any information, then do your research. All MLM companies have to have some earning disclaimers on their websites and the earning potential is always super low compared to what recruiters will tell you.

I feel like it helps to have this information, so that it’s easier to say “look at this data, I don’t think this is worth it for me”.

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