This paper examines the face-to-face interpersonal persuasive strategy of multi-level marketing. Through interviews and participant observation to explore how the salesman use the interpersonal techniques to persue customers to join their company or purchase their products.
In this research,we find the persuasive effect will be affected by the source credibility, the persuasive message characteristics and the products itself.Moreover,salesman always combine both emotional persuasive appeals and rational persuasive appeals (such as personal effect, the trialability of products, the source expertise and trustworthiness...etc) to persue their customers.