Consulting & Expert Witness Services

Provided by Jon M. Taylor, MBA, Ph.D.

 

Unique Background for Consulting and Expert Witness Services Related to MLM

Dr. Jon M. Taylor (MBA, PhD) has taught college classes on entrepreneurship, ethics, management, and personal finance - and participated in over 40 home business startups, focusing on sales and marketing. Also, his experience in MLM; communications with top MLM executives, law enforcement, and thousands of inquirers; consumer advocacy; and wide-ranging research on MLM / network marketing (see below) make him the premier consultant and expert witness on chain selling and product - based pyramid schemes.

 

Discovery
 

Cases are won and lost on the facts that are uncovered in the discovery process. Jon Taylor will help you quickly identify what documents and disclosures to seek that will strengthen your case.
 

Consulting
 

In writing an expert report, Dr. Taylor draws on his extensive experience and exposure to build a case that is as solid and conclusive as possible. This means marshalling the facts and evidence to conform to laws in the various applicable jurisdictions and in accordance with the legal issues selected for study and comment.
 

Expert Witness
 

Dr. Taylor will make himself available for deposition and court appearances as needed. His experience testifying has shown him cool under pressure and unfazed by clever questioning tactics of opposing attorneys.

 

Dr. Taylor's extensive research on MLM/network marketing includes:
 

  • Surveys of over 300 tax professionals in four states (those who handle the taxes of MLM participants)

  • Analyses of compensation plans and marketing materials of over 350 leading MLM companies

  • Analyses of MLM companies' reports of average incomes of distributors, as well as published financial reports

  • Consultant and expert witness in actions against MLM companies

  • Review of actions by the Federal Trade Commission

  • Surveys of consumers in areas of intense MLM participation

  • Surveys of presidents of leading MLM's and communications with other top MLM officials

  • Correspondence and meetings with officials from the FTC & other federal and state agencies

  • World-wide feedback from thousands of MLM victims 

  • Surveys of current and past MLM distributors from dozens of MLM program

  • Experiential one-year test of a prominent MLM program, including tracking of costs and income

  • Research on hundreds of packaged non-MLM home business options

  • Comparative analysis of identifying characteristics of direct selling, no-product and product-based

    pyramid schemes (MLMs)

  • Comparative analyses of odds of profiting, no-product and product-based pyramid schemes, and games

    of chance in Las Vegas


All of this is on top of a lifetime of experience with home business opportunities and consulting with home-based entrepreneurs. And he has personally tested MLM programs and responded to feedback from MLM participants and families of victims from all over the world. No other researcher or practitioner has this much research background and experience to bring to a given MLM case or consultation.

For a summary of thousands of pages of research done by Dr. Taylor, including worldwide feedback, read "The Five Red Flags: Five Causal and Defining Characteristics of Product-based Pyramid Schemes, or Recruiting MLMs."


For more detailed background information, read Dr. Taylor’s bio and vita