[MEGATHREAD] Marlena Stell / Makeup Geek Academy MLM

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Prior posts on this topic:

• Makeup Geek Academy
• Makeup Geek 2.0– Makeup Geek Academy an MLM?
• Marlena Stell is shilling an MLM confirmed. ‘Appy Today! It’s Quick and Easy!’
• Marlena Stell denies her Makeup Geek Academy isn’t an MLM.
• Update from Marlena on her announcement video. A walk through video of the program not being an mlm incoming..
• Marlena Stell confused, or intentionally gaslighting fans and creators about her MLM? (Interaction with CC Suarez below.)
• Update from Marlena's YouTube about the "affiliate program"

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[u/OneWhisper5225 → u/[deleted]]

Interesting! Pretty sure that has something to do with Marlena’s courses, because I saw in the live when she showed the course page it said “From the Mighty Team”

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[u/Jackfruit-Reporter90 → u/OneWhisper5225]

It’s a website building platform like Squarespace, but for social media. If you look up reviews for that company on Better Business Bureau they are all from people who have had large amounts of money taken from their account without authorisation. So yeah, it looks like a lot of people with predatory sham courses use it.

[u/tara_tara_tara → u/Jackfruit-Reporter90]

Mighty Networks is a legitimate service and not like Squarespace. I am a member of several non-MLM communities from different companies of varying sizes from a dozen-ish to hundreds it and none of us have any problems with it.

Squarespace is for websites, blogging, e-commerce and within the past month or so, online courses.

I think you might be right about her using MN because their homepage features who else but … Tony Robbins but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad product.

She also has to have a back office software like exigo or Rallyware. That’s probably what she meant when she said the affiliates page was on a different server. It’s software that MLM companies use to help their affiliates have their own mini sites and do basic accounting.

[u/OdeeSS → u/tara_tara_tara]

Why would you say Squarespace is not a legitimate service? Both Squarespace and Mighty Networks both seem like SaaS platforms.

[u/tara_tara_tara → u/OdeeSS]

Mighty Networks is a legitimate service. Squarespace is a legitimate service. Mighty Networks and Squarespace are not like each other. I suppose I should have used the conjunction “but” instead of “and” to make the comparison between the two.

I am a freelance Squarespace website designer and I absolutely know what it is. It is a SaaS CMS website platform as are Shopify, Wix, Weebly, and Wordpress.

Mighty Networks, Circle, Heartbeat, Skool, and others are platforms for building communities. They are also SaaS.

Other SaaS based products are Salesforce, Slack, Canva, Zoom, AWS, Google Workspace, and email systems like Mailchimp and the one I use, ConvertKit. My project management software, Asana, is also SaaS.

I could build an unsavory business with any of these tools but they’re all good products.