network/multi-level marketing?

I didn't regret it, though.

MLM/Network marketing is just like any other business. You need a good middleman (rather, middlemen) to run the business for you.

For example, you plan to run a restaurant. You need a competent accountant, a good cook/chef, skilled waiters/waitresses, cashiers, utility men/women, etc. It works the same way with network marketing/MLM. You need competent people who can recruit other competent people and/or sell the products. The most important part is the monitoring. You need to know how to properly manage your personnel, like any other business actually. Make sure that everyone is moving and making your network grow as much as possible.

I'd like to call MLM/network marketing "delayed gratification." You'll need to make a lot of sacrifices if you want to become a top earner.

I meant to bump this. I'm curious what Tempest decided to do.

bump

Ha, probably a worthless bump, but it's a shame we never heard the end of this.

I'll admit to pulling my punches a little bit on page 1, at least initially. I wanted him to figure things out for himself with some guidance to the right information. If I were being truly honest, I would have been a lot more brutal from the onset. That Zija has scam written all over it, and we can only hope that OP's "friend" isn't code for OP himself. Either way, whichever it was is undoubtedly no longer with Zija and is out a few thousand dollars or more.

I also shouldn't have said I was in an MLM. Technically they go by that name sometimes, but it's different than what OP is talking about. Mine was just a direct marketing (i.e. sales) position. It was still pretty sh*tty, but it had things like an hourly wage and no "startup" money, hallmarks of the scams like this thread is about.

Tempest is still an active member, he probably doesn't check on the general discussion forum, you can PM him though.