Major Rod Cook, USA (ret.) “started retailing products in MLM in 1968. He built powerful organizations after that neophyte training. By late 1969 he made over $250,000 as a college student selling MLM "Liquid Soap." Later years produced more success! Rod started "PAID" MLM Consulting in 1984 on MLM pay plans for MLM top leaders.”  Rod Cook is the author of How to Start Your Network Marketing, Modern Party Plan or Web Affiliate Company and MLM Compensation Pay Plans.

According to the book description of MLM Compensation Pay Plans, “Rod Cook's Big Illustrated Book of MLM Compensation Pay Plans is for both beginners and experts. It is a Big 8.5"x11" book with full size easy to understand diagrams with full explanation on the opposite page! It contains secrets to understanding MLM pay plans, tricks to maximize your income, avoiding MLM pay plan traps, and how to dodge illegal pyramid schemes. It includes all MLM compensation pay plans, Network Marketing compensation pay plans, Party Plans, Internet Affiliate and Multi-Affiliate pay plans, Mortgage MLM plans and Real Estate MLM base plans. A chapter includes MLM or Network Marketing compensation pay plans to avoid that fail or pay poorly. It includes Chapters on MLM Binary pay plans, MLM Break Away pay plans, MLM Group Break Away plans, MLM Matrix compensation pay plans, Network Marketing Party Plans, MLM Network Marketing Uni-level (Unilevel) plans, MLM Network Marketing Uni-gen (Unigen) compensation pay plans, MLM Network Marketing Hybrid compensation pay plans. This is the MLM pay plan book that millions of people have needed when they joined an MLM - Network marketing company to maximize their income and avoid losing money. It is also needed badly by people starting MLM - Network Marketing Companies to protect themselves from losing money.”

It covers critical areas such as Strategic Marketing research, MLM Legal issues that destroy many MLM Companies, MLM - Party Plan, Compensation Plans (diagrammed in detail), how to attract MLM Distributors to build your company, how to run operations, a complete Glossary of MLM - Network Marketing and Party Plan terms, a complete chapter on MLM Software and a CD rom on how to choose the Software, how not to get cheated by fraudulent Software vendors or MLM Consultants, there is a complete chapter on multiple low cost sources of everything needed to save money, there is a chapter on how not to let top MLM builders manipulate you while at the same time attracting top MLM Hitters, as an addition there is a 200 page E-book on the CD rom on the MLM Internet University and Killer Internet Marketing Tactics for MLM - Network Marketing an Party Plan Companies. This book is re-written at least once a year (sometimes monthly) to keep the content fresh and the marketing tips hot. The book includes an hour of FREE consulting with Rod Cook, a certified IMC/AMA Master Consultant, in the area of MLM - Network Marketing - Party Plans and Affiliate Marketing programs.

The strength of this book comes from the fact Rod is a programmer, owned an MLM Company, and has been a million dollar a year earner in Network Marketing - MLM. He also did Party Plans and was part owner of a Party Plan Company. Rod took all his years of experience since 1968 and put it into a self-help know how manual, How To Start Your Network Marketing, Modern Party Plan, or Web Affiliate Company. The book is written in common business terms so that it is easy to understand, (especially with pictures and diagrams) while the precise logic (such as MLM pay plans) is by the experienced M.B.A. Rod Cook.”