network marketing

American  

noun

1. a marketing strategy in which sales representatives of a company recruit other salespeople and earn commissions on their own sales and on the sales made by their team.

   Use your personal relationships to be successful in network marketing.

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Etymology

Origin of network marketing

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

Explaining why CNN dropped the crawl during ads, a network marketing executive once noted: “We want to keep it an advertiser environment and not detract from the message.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2021

Three people he knew were still in Cedar City including his brother, 25, who works for a network marketing business and is his roommate, and two female students, 19 and 30, who live together.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 26, 2020

Fairly soon Igor Alberts was making more than €1m a month from OneCoin, which quickly became the biggest product in network marketing.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2019

"My husband and I joke around that if pickleball were network marketing, I'd be so rich," said Johnsen.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2015

Upon the initial success of his network marketing business, he proceeded from his fast beginning to make nearly every early stage mistake in the book.

From Forbes • Nov. 14, 2014