2015-05-21 14:32

 

Pyramid schemes crazy invasion of the Internet

 

Micro business [direct reporting network may 21 News (Netease website he Shulong) short months of time, had been optimistic about the many people, but because of the emergence of the "pyramid", reduced to mice of the street, everyone shouting.

Recently, a title for "Ma: micro channel key support the development of micro business, there will be three major initiatives," the article in the industry crazy pass, big V Gong Wenxiang also this article forwarding, and review said: Ma this statement, let this micro business unpopular based on 10 times more growth. Micro letter of support for micro business, this is obviously not in conformity with Tencent consistent style of rumors in the industry spread too seething, signifying micro business groups influence.

However, in the micro Bo issued shortly after, Gong Wenxiang was strong condemnation of Tencent's staff, is a direct attack on "please don't reengineering ballad; burst of rumors, also reflects the micro business despite the awkward situation of popular is not recognized by the outside world.

Return to commercial nature: the micro business really only MLM?

Put on the Internet + coat MLM

From the beginning of last year, taking micro power almost overnight penetration times on both sides of the Changjiang River. Data show that the number of micro business practitioners has exceeded 10000000 mark, and is still growing rapidly. In the first of the more successful micro brand, the call, more and more entrepreneurs to join the micro business community.

Netease science and technology survey found that the vast majority of micro Shangdu current using the similar to pyramid schemes of multi agent, this way to cater to the proletarian masses yearning to upstart mentality, but ultimately it is a typical Ponzi scheme.

Unofficial data show that the micro provider 80% is a mask, 80% of the micro business is female, which is based on family women. Therefore, NetEase technology and a mask brand "sellers" Ozuki (a pseudonym) made contact.

Abortion is a small city housewife. Last year, she in a friend's introduction become a mask brand "salespeople", their circle of friends often visible "real good conscience mask, detoxification, whitening, tender skin, moisturizing and moisturizing renew, iced repair, inhibition of melanin, dilute the chicken pox and India..." Like a mask advertising; often in the hair advertising, nobody cares, but many of my friends pulled under a black, Xiaoyue spend million yuan since the purchase of the goods, the purpose is to index, become the brand of the three agents.

Xiaoyue told ZDNet reporter and operate their own mask ex factory price of 50 yuan / box, general agent to get the goods sold after a proxy is 80 yuan / box, a class agent 110 yuan / box sold to the secondary agent, two agents and to 140 yuan sold to three agents, and in the bottom of the salespeople with cargo price is 168 yuan, to the final consumer hand, mask price has soared to the 198 yuan.

Like abortion as practitioners are very clear. At present, most of the derivative is three brands, the mask will eventually hit the bottom salespeople's hands, and not be consumed. Xiaoyue them, go to the spire is their ultimate ideal, and in Xiaoyue's circle of friends, "derivative a year buy a BMW", "do micro business two years gain about 10 million" "inspirational story" is also a lot of, these for wealth is simple and crude, the hunger, induce more like abortion as joined the derivative army.

The gameplay is similar to results are MLM, "human to human transmission", "drumming Chuan flower" game play for a long time, bottom pressure goods become more and more serious, many people so to borrow money, bankruptcy, only to find out in the end myself in a big scam. But once the game is difficult to continue, brands tend to do a quick change, then established names, began operating under a brand.

Many industry insiders interviewed said that now the majority of the micro are popular MLM variants. Terrible is, with the means of the Internet, around the micro channel and QQ launched MLM MLM more subtle and difficult to control than the past based MLM. Play micro business name, let these marketing activities more confused; and the ductility of the Internet and let MLM organizations can more easily affects more people; compared to the line and MLM, MLM micro business crime cost is very low, do not have the venues, only need to a phone, a computer, a virtual brand to crime.

Where is the problem?

In order to resist the pyramid of infamy, many derivative began claiming to be "direct". But electricity suppliers Liu Zhaoyang believes that the emergence of the Internet has solved the problem of asymmetric information, so that the price of goods more transparent. But now the micro providers and electricity suppliers will be the price of the transparent all down, RE development of a multi-level system, re let the information asymmetry, the price opaque, which is a historical setback.

A box of costs may only 10 dollars three mask, want to use derivative and ultimately to 198 yuan price sold to consumers, this already does not conform to the economic law. Mask is prevalent in the micro business, because the mask is a fast consumer goods, the cost and the ultimate price gap is great, there is enough room for profit, and more women users.

However, in the senior marketing Luo Jiekun seems, in fact, there is no mask or other products are not important, because we value is this similar pyramid schemes money mode, rather than products.

"Now the micro business is actually a problem - no one buy, who you sell?" A respondents said, "everyone playing with fire, the money not to make money, earn want to earn more, in fact we are all aware, scam rundown of the day."

Of course, insiders believe that the micro business no wrong points, take the hands of the good guys is innovative, and take in the hands of the bad guys become MLM. Future, with supervision and gradually put in place and the market self purification, MLM derivative will lose living space, let to the commercial products and. Prior to this, micro business will have to continue to bear the infamy of mlm.

What is the real micro business?

Products do not fly, the price of high, marketing and marketing, sale and activist missing, the problem of a lot of micro providers. However, in some industry insiders, this is only the micro business was playing bad consequences, the real micro providers should not be this way.

Micro business, refers to the social distribution based on social distribution, there are C2C and B2C points. The MLM category mentioned above is mainly C2C model, the social sharing of goods by individuals, acquaintances recommended, circle of friends show and delivery and after-sales, etc.. And B2C derivative is defined by the supplier of goods (including manufacturers, suppliers and brands) provides a unified mobile mall consumer oriented, responsible for product management, delivery and product after-sales service.

Micro providers are to the central business, the biggest advantage is that the convenience of word-of-mouth communication and precipitation users. If the product is really good enough. After social communication, its brand influence and sales will get rapid promotion, with low cost to past center business is difficult to reach the effect. In addition, micro business is businesses and users of direct communication channels, businesses can through all channels to reach customers together, forming a belongs to the enterprise's own database, so as to realize the personalized recommendation, precision marketing.

From the point of view of the trend of today's Internet development, we are entering a shared economy era, everyone can through the Internet to find the new collaboration and cooperation mode of similar Uber, airbnb will far-reaching influence our future. People can also use spare time and spare energy to play with electricity suppliers, based on the recommendation of the circle of friends is very valuable. Some even predicted that the future of the retail industry will be electricity providers, micro and traditional retail three forms, the proportion was 3:3:4.

But the future of the micro business is not now the MLM class micro providers. PISEN CEO Zhao Guocheng said, taking the micro circle of friends, such as fake, defective Shuabing chaos, because the absence of big brands caused by. "To run well, the need for large brands, quality products business, this is an inevitable trend, not the will for the transfer of people. Even now the chaos continued, but we believe that this trend will not change."

Like electricity providers in the country just when the rise, there have been a lot of relying on the development of Taobao Amoy brand, as a new micro channel retail channels, will also cultivate a lot of micro brand. But scouring the brand universal decline, the fact that the traditional brand once again dominate the electricity suppliers also shows that after enjoying the channel dividend, business will return to nature.

The future of the micro business must belong to the big brand, but also certain channels of the whole. Now in the micro business play fast that group of people, if you do not return the product itself, don't have to do the brand idea of play micro business must go not far. 3