Asking whether Amway is still around sounds like a joke until somebody answers it properly. Bessie Whitt does, with the founding, the growth into dozens of countries and what the company actually sells, and the piece treats an old network marketing name far more seriously than the industry usually manages.
That habit repeats. She looks at telecommunications companies, supplement businesses and the schemes people call scams, and asks in each case what the product is and who benefits from it. If you are being recruited into something and want a second opinion, this is the run to read.
The marketing posts cover article writing, search basics, video blogging and mobile in the plain style of somebody who has done all of them without loving any.
Affiliate promotions are mixed in, on a trading system and a fat loss product, and they read exactly like the promotions they are.
Look up whichever company you have been invited to join. Ignore the product launches on the way past.