multi-level marketing

English

Noun

multi-level marketing (uncountable)

1. A sales system under which the salesperson receives a commission on his or her own sales and a smaller commission on the sales from each person he or she convinces to become a salesperson.

Usage notes

Multi-level marketing is considered a legitimate business if the emphasis is primarily on the sale of products or service. See pyramid scheme for details of illegal schemes that rely heavily on recruitment of new investors to make money.

Synonyms

• MLM
• network marketing
• pyramid selling
• referral marketing

Related terms

• direct selling

Translations

sales system

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳銷／传销 (zh) (chuánxiāo), 多層次傳銷／多层次传销 (duōcéngcì chuánxiāo)

• Finnish: verkostomarkkinointi
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 連鎖販売取引 (rensa hanbai torihiki), マルチ商法 (maruchi shōhō)
• Korean: 다단계 마케팅 (dadan'gye maketing)
• Persian: بازاریابی چندسطحی (bâzâryâbi-ye čand-sathi)
• Polish: marketing wielopoziomowy m
• Russian: многоу́ровневый ма́рке́тинг (mnogoúrovnevyj márkéting)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: багаторі́вневий ма́ркетинг m (bahatorívnevyj márketynh)
• Vietnamese: bán hàng đa cấp, tiếp thị đa cấp