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The implication that Market America is a Multi Level Marketing company is incorrect. MLM literally stands for multiple percentages of pay, or tiered percentages that typically start low and get higher as people are recruited. The percentage only increases contingent upon performance. Whereby the percentage for vertical marketing in Market America is 100%, and remains as such regardless of performance. Johne1983 (talk) 20:30, 3 June 2016 (UTC) I;m not going to waste my time arguing about this.
One thing that's worth noting about the citations being used to support the belief that Market America is a multi-level marketing company is that citation 5 is really not as "unambigous" in its declaration that user LuckyLouie claimed in his April 20 reversion. It states, "Market America was founded in 1992 by JR Ridinger based on the multilevel marketing (MLM) business model...MLM is used by Avon, Amway, Tupperware. But what makes Market America different?
"In 2011, it acquired SHOP.com to become the first to integrate the internet, e-commerce and social media to create a new business model to challenge Amazon.com."
I don't feel this is asserting what those intent on keeping this citation claim it is asserting, and at the very least, it's not "unambiguous" as was claimed. It definitely seems possible that Market America has implemented a business model which is different from the MLM structure based upon what is noted in that citation, especially because Amway, Tupperware and Avon are still at their roots very low-tech businesses, and Market America has positioned itself a very tech-focused company with the shop.com acquisition. The nature of the MLM itself is a bit of a dinosaur, and that doesn't feel consistent with Market America's recent marketplace ventures. Mots justes (talk) 18:57, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
In this edit, some IP adds the word "NOT" (so capitalized), to result in:
-- for which the former reference, "BloombergBusinessweek", is identified elsewhere as
The references for which are:
This editor is thus making three assertions:
I cannot immediately check the veracity of the third of these assertions. (Google Books isn't currently showing the page -- not to me, anyway.) As for the second, it's false. Worse, the IP has blatantly made it false. For here's what "Market America's American Dream Machine" actually says:
It appears that the IP has falsified what the first sentence of our article says. I have therefore removed "NOT".
Since these apparent falsifications have come from various IP numbers and have been repeated, I'm about to s-protect the article. If Management Fundamentals: Concepts, Applications, and Skill Development says something different, and/or if other reliable sources say that this isn't an MLM company, please discuss below. -- Hoary (talk) 08:07, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
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Please change "Market America is a multilevel marketing company[4][5] that describes itself as a product brokerage and internet marketing company." to "Market America has been classified as a multilevel marketing company that describes itself as a product brokerage and internet marketing company. Some of its features in business building have certain similarities with multilevel recruiting. The company claims its distinction from traditional MLMs with an alleged smaller distribution chain than others requiring extensive linkages and hierarchies leading to traditional pitfalls per their claims[9]. Currently, Market America has on-boarded new e-commerce platforms: affiliate.shop.com, developer.shop.com, [4] and www.shop.com/shoplocal. It would seem they are aiming to reach into the domain of local businesses. When looking at the tools and suites promoted by the company, it has strong similarities to a 'BPaaS' or Business Process as a Service[1][2] also known as cloud computing #REDIRECT Business Process Management [5] which is a cloud service model [6]. The Market America distributorship and back office are provisioned to buy-in clients for smaller overhead costs just as well as Microsoft Office 365[7] and Adobe Designer Suite[8] which are BPaaS cloud architectures." because this is updated information about the company according to the specified sources.e
Sources: 1. CompTIA Cloud+ Certification Study Guide by Stammer, Nate; Wilson, Scott; 2013;
2. What is BPaaS - http://searchfinancialapplications.techtarget.com/definition/BPaaS-Business-Process-as-a-Service
3. What is business process as a service "For Dummies" - http://www.dummies.com/programming/cloud-computing/hybrid-cloud/what-is-business-process-as-a-service-bpaas-in-cloud-computing/
4. APN network - http://affiliate.shop.com
6. Channeladvisor "Market America engaging cloud strategies" - http://www.channeladvisor.com/market-america-shop-com-engages-channeladvisors-managed-services-team-to-enhance-its-digital-marketing-strategy/
7. Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Solution - https://products.office.com/en-us/business/enterprise-cloud
8. Adobe Desiger Suite http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html Xavylon (talk) 23:10, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
9. Unfranchise Manifesto by J.R. Ridinger - http://www.unfranchisemanifesto.com/
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template. Proposed changes contain unsourced and unattributed editorializing and euphemisms. Grayfell (talk) 23:27, 27 August 2016 (UTC)Reference specifically the unsourced and unattributed editorializing and euphemisms please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xavylon (talk • contribs) 03:05, 29 August 2016 (UTC)