How MLMs Use Shame to Recruit and Keep Members - Ethics CEU (1 hr)

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How MLMs Use Shame to Recruit and Keep Members - Ethics CEU (1 hr)

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Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) businesses often use shame and control to recruit new members and keep the old.

Also known as “direct selling” and “network marketing,” MLMs have a structure where a person has a financial interest in keeping another person in the company. This dynamic can lead to manipulation, resulting in shame and isolation.

(If you’re in an MLM and happy, good for you. I’m not interested in a debate, only helping people who have been harmed.)

1 Hour

This CEU will be held online on Friday, May 23rd

from 12-1 PM CST

(1 PM - 2 PM EST // 10 AM - 11 AM PST)

NOTE: To help accurately plan enrollment, we ask that you do not sign up for sessions you are not planning on attending.

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