Multiple level marketing or MLM or network marketing is a sales structure that compensates the sales force for their sales and for the sales made by associates who are in their organization whom they sponsor. Once you are sponsored into the network you can create your own sales organization known as a "down line". As continue to build a successful organization you will create a tree like sales organizational structure that graphically resembles a pyramid in shape. A part of sales will distributed throughout the levels of your down line.