My background is in mathematics (computer science) and business. I've got quite a bit of worldwide experience and education, plus have travelled in Europe and North America - Canada and USA.

My first exposure to MLM was in a high-tech networking lunch meeting where there was some 1-minute introduction of everyone in the room and a guest speaker would then talk about their new startup etc. I expected everyone in the room to be in the high-tech field so was intrigued when one guy came to me afterwards and asked if I wanted to meet him the next day to discuss an "opportunity"...

"What kind of opportunity?", I asked.

"Helping me import products and building the business", he said.

So we met a few days later over a coffee and he started asking about my current situation and we started to discuss the concept of multiple streams of income. Up till this point I still had no idea what the business was, so I started to ask just what he was after. It slowly evolved from "helping start his company importing products" to joining Amway.

I backed off at that point - although I was sold on the idea of multiple income streams I still wanted to make use of my IT background and recent MBA. Selling household products just didn't seem to make sense for me.

The next MLM that came along was Nikken bracelets. The rep. tried the old "I'll lend you the video and come back in a few days" so that he was guaranteed a second shot at his pitch. Once again I just didn't believe enough in the product to take it further.

A friend of my wife tried to get us into Amway and once again we were not excited by the products. That friend never called us again - another risk of involving friends and family in your MLM.

The fourth MLM that I was introduced to was Quixtar. We went as far as going to someone's house, but all the talk about e-commerce just didn't make sense to me as this was during the dot com boom and I figured I could do better with a real IT company than a "Amway on the web".

So I focused on my IT and business skills, did lots of fun international consulting work, and lately have been helping companies with their sales processes. I also am a rep for a few high tech companies helping build their business here in North America.

I have time for some other MLM and recently I heard about Gano Excel, which is a 10 year old company from Malaysia doing over $100M in business via their MLM system.

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I have had ok success with this product and looking back it was the only MLM that I myself seeked out and was not solicited by anyone to try it.

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