The Broken Promises of MLMs #254

Time for a Friday Flight- our little sampling of the week’s best financial news and what it means for your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we boil them down to specific takeaways that will allow you to kick off the weekend informed and help you to g ...  Show more

The vast majority of HTM listeners are Gen Z and Millennials - people who are starting early and taking the bull by the horns. But that’s not true for everyone in our audience, and it’s certainly not true for the average American. Our guest today didn’t even start thinking about ...  Show more

When it comes to MLMs (multi-level marketing) brands, Nicole is torn. She's heard some horror stories exposing an exploitative underbelly of MLMs, but she's also spoken firsthand to people who attribute all of their financial success and happiness to their work with MLMs. Today, ...  Show more

In this episode, Chelsea sits down with Dr. Bill Keep to talk all things MLMs. Dr. Bill is a professor of marketing at The College of New Jersey who’s been studying MLMs since before they were trending. Thanks Avast.com for sponsoring this episode of The Financial Confessions! Su ...  Show more

If you’ve ever found yourself on the other side of a Facebook message asking if you “keep your business options open,” we hate to break it to you, but you were the target of an MLM pitch. In today’s episode, we’re talking about the inner workings of multi-level marketing and the ...  Show more

Marketing online seems to have taken over most marketing budgets these days, but is traditional TV advertising dead? Brandon takes a look at several peer reviewed studies that appeared in academic journals to get to the bottom of it.Listen in to hear how TV advertising can workin ...  Show more