Multi-level marketing also called pyramid selling , network marketing , and referral marketing, is a marketing strategy for the sale of product or services where the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce (also called participants ,and variously known as "salespeople" , "distributors", "consultants", "promoters" ' independent business owners " ,etc) selling the comapny's product/services ,while the earnings of the participants is derived from a pyramid- shaped comission system.
