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Erin Bies

Anti-MLM educator, military veteran, and former multi-level marketing participant (13.5 years, 6 companies) who now exposes MLM recruitment tactics via her YouTube channel and website erinbies.com.

Oct 6, 2026

15:39
... affiliate marketing?
15:40
Yep.
15:40
Yeah, you're supposed to disclose that you do make a, a commission if people choose to use that link, that kind of thing.
15:46
So that's really important, and that's according to the FTC.
15:50
What I was seeing in the last probably maybe year, year and a half, maybe even two years, is MLM companies and their distributors specifically are trying to kind of fly under the radar and appear to be like affiliate marketing.
16:05
But the big difference is there's not really a compensation plan that rewards people for having a team and/or recruiting people to sell the same exact products and do the same exact things on social media when we're talking about affiliate marketing.
16:20
But in multi-level marketing, the majority of the money is made off of recruiting people and having a team.
19:04
Mm-hmm

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