KNOWING
- Introductions
- Defining terms: multi-level marketing, pyramid schemes, and direct sales
- Multi-level marketing according to The Babylon Bee
- Church Women’s Group Organizes Community Outreach To Share The Good News Of Plexus
- Local Couple Has Church Visitor Over Without Trying To Sell Her Something
- Church Sees 40% Increase In Giving After Putting Ushers On Commission
- Local Church Posts Helpful Plexus Rep Escape Plan In Foyer
- Fellowship Night At Woman’s House Sounding Suspiciously Like Sales Pitch
- Church Caught In Bitter Schism Between Mary Kay, Avon Parties
- Crap, Lady At Church Talking To You About Scentsy
- Our experiences with multi-level marketing, as buyers and sellers
READING
- The Divine Rise of Multilevel Marketing (Christianity Today) (paywall)
- The appeal of multi-level marketing; its benefits; its costs
- The vocabulary of multi-level marketing
- Guidance on Multi-Level Marketing (FTC.gov)
- How Not to Do Multilevel Marketing (The Gospel Coalition)
- Living out our Christian convictions as participants in multi-level marketing
- Living out our Christian convictions as friends/fellow church members of multi-level marketing participants
- Living out our Christian convictions as feminists committed to the flourishing of others
PASSING ON
- Multilevel-marketing companies like LuLaRoe are forcing people into debt and psychological crisis (Quartz)
- Would You Join A Multi-Level Marketing Company For Retirement Income? (Forbes)
- Case for (and against) Multi-Level Marketing, an ebook by Jon Taylor of the Consumer Awareness Institute, submitted as a comment to the FTC