The Dangers of Door-to-Door Bookselling

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Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes.

If it exists, there’s an MLM for it. In this case, we’re talking about Usborne Books, now known as Paper Pie, and Southwestern Advantage. Both of these book MLMs have made questionable income claims, but it’s their worrying messages, whether in their books or in their businesses, that has people wary. While Usborne books may be steered toward children, Southwestern Advantage targets college students to sell their products—and they don’t seem to care about the safety of their distributors, eithe

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00:00 Plushie
00:33 Book MLMs
03:36 Targeting Moms and College Students
07:29 Harmful Recruitment Practices
12:58 The Dangers of Southwestern Advantage
18:32 AD
21:38 Is it Worth it?
25:18 Outro

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