Thursday, August 30, 2012

The truth about pyramid schemes

This isn't a question I come across frequently, in fact I've only had one person assume that Rodan and Fields was "one of those pyramid things" thus far. To save face, I'll spare his name, but it WAS a family member and was NOT my husband ;)

Ok, so let's get started. First off, pyramids are an illegal investing operation with no products or services. You are simply recruiting people with the idea that they will recruit more people who will in turn recruit more people for no purpose other then to make the people on top of you in the pyramid richer. This is nothing like what I do.

Dr. Rodan and Dr. Fields are two Stanford trained dermatologists that recently created their second skincare line. Their first line was Proactiv and was promoted via infomercials. Now the doctors are doing for aging what they did for acne. Their new skincare products were in high end department stores, but they removed them and built an entire new sales model in network marketing. They knew they could only reach so many people behind those glass cabinets at the department stores!! So now anyone has the opportunity to promote and sell these wonderful Rodan and Fields products.

In addition to selling the products, you do look for people to partner with you in an effort to spread the products out to as many people as possible. Trust me, once you've used a regimen, you will want to shout it out to everyone!!

One last note about pyramid schemes, if this was truly a pyramid scheme, do you think the doctors would plaster their names (and reputation) all over the products?? I didn't think so ;)

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