Is the MLM duplication business model dead?

The other day, you responded to a four-question survey about the kind of network marketing organization you are in:

1. Top down command (do the business like they tell you because they know "what works" or have a "system" that works), OR

2. Creative sorts who encourage you to invent your own ways of selling and recruiting.

And second, what kind of person are you?

Are you more happy in a top-down command situation, or more happy in a creative situation?

The results are most interesting. With about 120 respondents, from 30+ different companies, the results show that nearly 40% report they're in organizations where "they pretty much tell me how they do it and that I should do that too" (Q 2).

However, over 70% say they "prefer being creative and trying tnew ways of selling and recruiting." (Q 4)

And what do they think it takes to be a successful network marketer? Command and control or creative environment?

The large majority - 65% say "a creative environment" so they can experiment with new says of recruiting and selling.

Creative is the opposite of "duplication" isn't it? Duplication has been the MLM business model for 50 years. Command and control was the rule. Still is in most places.

But is it what we need today?

Take the one question survey here and see...

Is duplication as the MLM business model, dead?

I'll post the results in a few days, or when we get 100+ responses, whichever comes first.

What kind of network marketer are you?

Giant company Cisco has undergone some big changes in the kind of person they hire to groom for leadership...read and then take the 4 question survey and tell where you stand.

In the old days, nearly all big companies had a "command and control" environment. Where from the top banana on down, everyone did what the next higher-up told them to do.

But not anymore. While "some people need a command and control environment" that is not the way of the future, says the company chairman, John Chambers.

They look for people who can lead working groups, who have ideas they want to test and who want to lead by doing new things.

In the NM business, we have all been told we're "in business for ourselves but not by ourselves."

What kind of team are you on? Are you encouraged to test new ways of recruiting and product sales?

Or are you in a "command and control" environment where the upline tells you "it's my way or the highway" (as they sell you leads programs, etc.)

What about you?

Do you prefer a command and control environment where you don't have to think of new ways to build your business? Where you are given the ways to do the business from the top down?

Or are you a creative type that loves trying new stuff?

What do you think it takes to be a successful network marketer?

Take the survey and see what others are saying.