All companies start with an idea, the person that comes up with what ever they intend on doing to make money. That person then begins to hire people to help produce what ever product or service you will offer your customers. As sales get bigger, that first person adds more and more staff "underneath" him. The company gets bigger and bigger and more positions are added "underneath" the first person. Starting to sound like a "pyramid"?

Ask yourself "Could I ever get to the top of my company?". About the only way to get there is if the owner dies, retires or sells you the company. About the only way to even move up in your pyramid is if someone quits or dies. Even if sales goes up you still didn't move up, the company just got bigger which means now you have to compete for that promotion even more. This is what I like to call "climbing the corporate ladder".

We have all heard the phrase but never really understood it like this. The person on the top pays you just enough money to keep you coming back for more and hopes you don't figure out that you will never get his job or even close to it. This is why it is so important you understand how a true pyramid works.

Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing is designed in such a way that you can not only pass the person who brought you in but you can become the "Top Dog". This is very important to understand when choosing a network marketing company. Some are designed to keep you down so the ones on the top don't loose their income or lifestyle.

If you want to understand more about the proper definition of what a "pyramid scam" and "Ponzi Scheme" is I have included definitions below.

Pyramid scheme

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A successful pyramid scheme combines a fake yet seemingly credible business with a simple-to-understand yet sophisticated-sounding money-making formula which is used for profit. The essential idea is that the mark, Mr. X, makes only one payment. To start earning, Mr. X has to recruit others like him who will also make one payment each. Mr. X gets paid out of receipts from those new recruits. They then go on to recruit others. As each new recruit makes a payment, Mr. X gets a cut. He is thus promised exponential benefits as the "business" expands.

Ponzi Scheme

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A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned. The Ponzi scheme usually entices new investors by offering returns other investments cannot guarantee, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. The perpetuation of the returns that a Ponzi scheme advertises and pays requires an ever-increasing flow of money from investors to keep the scheme going.