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This past Friday (June 24, 2011), this  “Special Supplement to The Wall Street Journal by Direct Selling News” appeared in 1.2 million copies of the prestigious business bible.

The cover of the handsomely put together piece states,

“In 2010, direct selling companies generated over $125 billion in revenue in 150 countries through more than 75 million men and women who are changing lives serving others. This is the story of direct selling.”

More than worth-the-read, this is required reading for anyone already in or interested in Network Marketing Direct Sales.

Click the title link for the 40 page PDF: The Ultimate Social Business Model

Thanks to Ted W. Nuyten of www.BusinessForHome.org for the turn on.

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Direct sales (like Avon, Mary Kay) offer recession-proof jobs
Updated 5/15/2009 1:30 PM |
By Charisse Jones, USA TODAY

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Not long ago, Craig Lapp made his living driving a truck that helped carve Southern California’s soil into new developments. But then housing sales slumped, and in November 2007 Lapp’s construction company let him go.

While he searched for another job, Lapp began working alongside his wife, Lynne, in a business based in their Temecula home, selling nutritional supplements made by the direct-sales company Isagenix. Nearly two years later and with no construction job in sight, Lapp says a one-time sideline has become the couple’s bread and butter.

“It’s paying our mortgage, our car payments … putting food on the table,” says Lapp, 55, who adds that he and his wife are earning a six-figure income. “It was our ‘Plan B’ that turned into our ‘Plan A.’ ”

Direct-sales businesses that rely on home-based representatives to peddle their wares are seeing their sales forces rapidly expand as the nation’s unemployment rate soars to nearly 9% and those who lost jobs and nest eggs look for new ways to make money.

“We’re recession-resistant in the sense that more people come to us during economic hard times for supplemental income or replacement of a lost job.”
— Neil Offen, president of the Direct Selling Association.

While 2008 industry figures aren’t yet available, “Anecdotally we’re hearing that recruitment is up and … unfortunately as the unemployment rate rises to 10% or higher, we’ll be picking up more people who need an income-earning opportunity.”

The recession has become a recruiting tool. An Avon (AVP) cosmetics representative declares in TV ads that…

“I can’t get laid off. It’s my business.”

Companies such as Isagenix, a marketer of weight-management and nutritional supplements and snacks, and jewelry maker Silpada Designs are coaching their representatives to spread the word that direct selling can keep you afloat in the faltering economy.

“Right now, our direct-selling opportunity is really the No. 1 product that we have to sell,”
— Geralyn Breig, president of Avon North America.

With that in mind, Avon this year launched its most ambitious recruitment campaign and saw its U.S. sales force grow to more than 680,000 through March, its largest ever, Breig says.

The same month, cosmetics company Mary Kay began airing its first TV ad for new representatives. In its first three days, visitors seeking information about becoming “beauty consultants” at MaryKay.com spiked 108%.

Silpada Designs, a Lenexa, Kan.-based company specializing in sterling silver jewelry, says its sales force in the U.S. and Canada was up 11.8% on May 1 from a year earlier. And Chandler, Ariz.-based Isagenix says its sales force was up 30% in March from a year before.

Direct selling is a fluid industry, with only 10% of representatives working “full time,” or at least 30 hours a week. Many work only long enough to meet short-term goals, such as holiday presents.

The entire article is here: Direct sales (like Avon, Mary Kay) offer recession-proof jobs
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Millions of jobs lost, many may never return.
Even as the economy recovers, more people could face years out of work

Back a bit, Eric Worre, creator and star of NetworkMarketingPro.com, did this video below titled: Become a Network Marketing Pro. Solution for the Jobs Crisis.

Eric referenced a piece on MSNBC.com titled: Millions of jobs lost, many may never return. by Christopher S. Rugaber of The Associated PressHere’s the beginning of the article with a link to the complete piece.

WASHINGTON — Fewer construction workers will be needed. Don’t expect as many interior designers or advertising copywriters, either. Retailers will get by with leaner staffs.

The economy is strengthening. But millions of jobs lost in the recession could be gone for good.

And unlike in past recessions, jobs in the beleaguered manufacturing sector aren’t the only ones likely lost forever. What sets the Great Recession apart is the variety of jobs that may not return.

That helps explain why economists think it will take at least five years for the economy to regain the 8.2 million jobs wiped out by the recession — longer than in any other recovery since World War II.

It means that even as the economy strengthens, more Americans could face years out of work. Already, the percentage of the labor force unemployed for six months or longer is 4.3 percent. That’s the highest rate on records dating to 1948.

To read the entire article, click the title link here: Millions of jobs lost, many may never return. Even as the economy recovers, more people could face years out of work.

MLM Network Marketing does have a better way for many of you. Please, take a sincere & serious look at what we have to offer you.
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In this classic (and award winning) “SuperBowl” ad, the the clever folks at Internet employment site Monster.com ask, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Our question to you is just a bit different.

Are you willing to learn about a career where any of the things on this video will NEVER happen to you?

Then please, watch this: (It’s only 30 seconds.)

NONE of what the kids in the video “wanted” ever happens for MLM Network Marketers. We simply have a much better way to earn a living and a life. Join us and change yours for the better forever.
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Eric Worre is the creator & host of NetworkMarketingPro.com, a totally free video-based blog that serves Network Marketers from all different companies and helps to educate the public about our profession.

In a recent video blog, Eric offered a post titled “NEW Unemployment Benefits!” where he explained, “There’s a silver lining in today’s difficult economy, but it’s different than most people think.” Here:

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From Eric Worre about NetworkMarketingPro.com.

My hope is you find enough value to spend a few minutes a day with me, and that you use that value to build a rock star career in Network Marketing. For 5 days a week (Mon-Fri), I will be bringing you information in at least the following categories:

1. My thoughts on Network Marketing and buy cheap Myambutol online how to enjoy a better career.
2. Answering viewer questions.
3. Interviews with people who have earned over $1 million a year in distributor commissions (documented and verified).
4. Interviews with important people from within our Profession (DSA/Vendors/Owners/Watchdogs/etc.)
5. Interviews with the giants of Personal Development.
6. Interviews with Celebrities who believe in Network Marketing.
7. Interviews with specific skill experts (social media/online marketing/public speaking/branding/etc.)

ALL GENERIC to our Profession and ALL FREE!

I love Network Marketing. I love the people involved in it. It’s time we re-brand the space, but we can’t re-brand it by just saying we’re going to re-brand it. We’re going to have the “Be the change we want to see in our great Profession”.

I remain your friend and partner,

Eric Worre – Network Marketing Professional
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It’s said that a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. There is clearly some truth to that remark and it often shows up when people learn a little more about MLM Network Marketing. Two “cynical” questions consistently arise:

Are the people at the top making all of the money?

Do the people who get in at the beginning make all or most of the money?

Although as we said, these questions are “cynical,” for many people they are sincere & serious and need to be answered. One of the best people we know to do the answering is the creator of the Brilliant Compensation presentation, Tim Sales. Tim is a multi-million-dollar income earner who has become one of the preeminent trainers in the business. He is also one of our most pragmatic champions who explanations are clear & concise. Here’s Tim on a short 7 minute video with his answers to the questions above:

If you’re open to learning about an alternative to your current employment, please know MLM Network Marketing is not the ONLY answer. It’s just that we don’t know of a better one. Check it out. It may be what you’ve been looking for your entire life— and there will never be a better time than now.
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Six unemployed residents of St. Louis have vastly different backgrounds. But they all share one goal:

Finding a job.

In St. Louis, the labor market and unemployment rate are very similar to the rest of the nation. NPR begins a year-long journey, following these residents in their quest for work.

Nationwide, there are more than 14 million people out of work, and most economists say it will be years before the country returns to full employment. In terms of the labor market and the unemployment rate, St. Louis, Mo., is very similar to rest of the nation.

To read the full story by Tamara Keith that aired on NPR’s All Things Considered, Monday, January 17, click this link: Finding The Path Toward Employment In St. Louis. A complete transcript is also available on the site.

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“As I listened to this broadcast on NPR coming home with my daughter Ele from her Kung Fu class, I felt sick. My heart goes out to these people and the 13,999,994 other men & women out of work in America. I kept asking the car radio (I know, very silly) ‘Do they know about Network Marketing? These are good people. Smart people. Hard working people. They deserve a chance. Please… how can I let them know about the possibility to get their lives back with Network Marketing?”
— John Milton Fogg

If you’re a Network Marketer, you don’t have to tell these people and the millions of unemployed others like them about Network Marketing, but you’d sure make a huge difference in their lives if you did.

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Redo, reiterate, renew, repeat, replay, replicate, reprise, rebroadcast, rerun, recycle. All to say that until the business beginning of January (the 3rd) will be reposting some of our best to date. Hope you enjoy our vacation <smile>.

U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is one of our leading friends on Capitol Hill and was the prime mover behind the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act (DSHEA) of ’93. Here’s what Senator Hatch had to say about our profession:

“The companies that have developed this marketing approach with truly high-quality products are doing a lot of good in the world. … Network Marketing is a critically important way of helping people to use high-quality products … it’s also a way to give certain people an opportunity to sell those products and earn a good living from it. I see it playing a very important role in the twenty-first century.”

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U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is one of our leading friends on Capitol Hill and was the prime mover behind the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act (DSHEA) of ’93. Here’s what Senator Hatch had to say about our profession:

“The companies that have developed this marketing approach with truly high-quality products are doing a lot of good in the world. … Network Marketing is a critically important way of helping people to use high-quality products … it’s also a way to give certain people an opportunity to sell those products and earn a good living from it. I see it playing a very important role in the twenty-first century.”

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Redo, reiterate, renew, repeat, replay, replicate, reprise, rebroadcast, rerun, recycle. All to say that until the business beginning of January (the 3rd) will be reposting some of our best to date. Hope you enjoy our vacation <smile>.

Back on November 17th, we published a blog post by Network Marketing leader, trainer & million-dollar annual income earner Randy Gage titled Don’t You Dare Give Up!. (If you missed it, click the link to go right there.) Here we go again. We simply found “Getting Free” to be such great advice about Network Marketing and such a great look at the possibilities of this business for you, we were compelled to publish it here. Enjoy it.

Getting Free
By Randy Gage
November 30th, 2010

One of the most important things we do in Network Marketing is helping people get free. They break away from the bonds of office politics, nepotism, rush hour traffic, and someone controlling a very large percentage of their waking hours.

We can offer them an environment based on empowering people. Becoming successful by helping offers reach success. Getting free by helping others get free. But this is also the area that hurts the most people in our business…

So I’m writing a lengthy post about the subject and I’m asking you to make sure everyone on your team reads this today.

The biggest mistake I see in the business is people leaving their jobs too soon. As soon as someone equals their job income, they want to leave it. But that’s a mistake. This forces them to live out of their MLM business, instead of using their income to grow their business. And when you have to sponsor someone just to meet bills, that creates stress and a very negative energy.

Better you keep your job and work even more evenings a week. Sacrifice for a season to grow the business and pay off your bills. The best scenario is for you to be debt free, extra money in the bank, and earning even more from your MLM business than your job. Only then is it time to quit the job.

So here’s my advice:

Write your resignation letter NOW.

Then put it in your wallet or purse. Read it every morning. Read it when you’re having a hard time at work. Read it when you get home from a meeting at 1 am and have to get up at 6 am for work the next day. Let it drive you. Then one day soon, you’ll be able to hand it in.

Dear (insert cheap boss name here),

As I’m sure you know, there have been turbulent changes in the economy and this has affected us all. In response to these factors, our family has been forced to make some restructuring changes and some positions have been eliminated. One of those positions is mine.

I can no longer afford to work here. And because of the difficult economic times, I am opening up the position for someone that doesn’t have a dream. It’s time for me to leave, so I can live mine.

Sincerely,
(Your name)

Please really do write your resignation letter today and let it pull you toward freedom. And encourage your people to do the same. But counsel with them and let’s not have anyone leave their job until the time is right for them. Then we really are helping people get free.

- RG

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A recent piece on YahooNews by Associated Press Business Writer Pallavi Gogoi, asked, “Where are the jobs?” and answered, “For many companies, overseas.” (Click the title link to read the entire story. Here’s an excerpt.)

Corporate profits are up. Stock prices are up. So why isn’t anyone hiring?

Actually, many American companies are — just maybe not in your town. They’re hiring overseas, where sales are surging and the pipeline of orders is fat.

More than half of the 15,000 people that Caterpillar Inc. has hired this year were outside the U.S. UPS is also hiring at a faster clip overseas. For both companies, sales in international markets are growing at least twice as fast as domestically.

The trend helps explain why unemployment remains high in the United States, edging up to 9.8 percent last month, even though companies are performing well: All but 4 percent of the top 500 U.S. corporations reported profits this year, and the stock market is close to its highest point since the 2008 financial meltdown.

But the jobs are going elsewhere. The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, says American companies have created 1.4 million jobs overseas this year, compared with less than 1 million in the U.S. The additional 1.4 million jobs would have lowered the U.S. unemployment rate to 8.9 percent, says Robert Scott, the institute’s senior international economist…

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There’s a big difference between what’s good for American companies and what’s good for working Americans.

There has never been a more important time to learn about and be open to the possibilities of Direct Sales MLM Network Marketing. It is The NEW American Dream.
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BLUE CHRISTMAS FOR FLEDGLING ECONOMIC RECOVERY
By Irwin Kellner, of MarketWatch

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Unemployment is up, employment is stagnant, taxes may rise and 2 million people are about to lose their jobless benefits — so what is there to be merry about?

There’s no place like home for the holidays. And that’s where many shoppers are remaining, much to the consternation of the nation’s retailers.

The way things are going in Washington these days, merchants are hoping for the best but bracing themselves for nothing more than a lump of coal in their Christmas stockings. After all, how can you expect people to spurge if they are concerned about jobs, unemployment benefits and taxes?

Especially worried are those retailers that ordered lots of holiday goodies, thinking that the worst was over and that the economy was picking up. In a narrow sense, it is — at least according to the umpire of the business cycle. But out there in the real world, most people think that we are still in a recession.

You can’t blame them.

The jobless rate rose to 9.8% in November, the highest rate since last April, at a time when it should have been falling.

To make matters worse, private-sector payrolls rose a paltry 50,000 last month — 40,000 of which were temporary workers.

This does not do much for people’s confidence. Those few who did find work in November are obviously worried that it may not last. And then there are the 15 million who are out of work, among them 6.3 million who have been jobless for 26 weeks or longer…

> Source: MarketWatch. To read the entire article, click here to go there.

You still have time to give yourself and your loved ones the Holiday & Holyday gift of a brand new life for 2011. Please, take a sincere & serious look at the possibilities for you in Network Marketing. It’s not the only way… We just don’t know a better one!
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The following excerpts were taken from an article published back on October 8, 2010 in The New York Times. Click the title link to read the entire article online at NYTimes.com.

Public Jobs Drop Amid Slowdown in Private Hiring
By Catherine Rampell
Published: October 8, 2010

In the one-two punch long feared by many economists, hiring by businesses has slowed while government jobs are disappearing at a record pace.

Companies added just 64,000 jobs last month, a slowdown from 93,000 jobs in August and 117,000 in July, the Labor Department reported Friday. But over all, the economy lost 95,000 non-farm jobs in September, the result of a 159,000 decline in government jobs at all levels. Local governments in particular cut workers at the fastest rate in almost 30 years.

“We need to wake up to the fact that the end of the stimulus has really hit hard on local governments,” said Andrew Stettner, deputy director of the National Employment Law Project. “There is much more of a slide in the job market than what we really need to clearly turn around.”

With the waning of the $787 billion Recovery Act passed in 2009 and credited with increasing employment by millions of jobs, finding new policies potent enough to speed up the recovery has proved difficult.

… Friday’s jobs report led to discouraging forecasts for the rest of the year, given the slowdown in both job and output growth in recent months. Private payrolls have been growing throughout this year, but at a rate too sluggish even to keep up with people entering the work force, much less make a dent in the numbers of unemployed. The nation’s unemployment rate stayed flat in September, at 9.6 percent.

Of particular concern is the fact that the length of the workweek has barely budged in six months and the number of people working part time because they cannot find full-time work continues to climb…

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And true to the predictions above,  the employment picture has indeed worsened as the country moves to the end of this upside (and mostly) down (economically speaking) year.

There has never been a better nor more important time to take a sincere & serious look at a part-time career in Network Marketing. This is The NEW American Dream

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This post was written by John Fogg.

Seth Godin is one of my heroes. In so many, many, instances, Seth’s writing cuts through the morass & misunderstanding of the world we live & work in with a uncanny precision & vision that makes things crystal clear. Especially “things” such as what can be done to change what’s not working for the better, perhaps forever.

In his latest book, Linchpin. Are You Indispensable? Mr. Godin makes a case for what’s not working in the world of work and why. Like this:

The system we grew up with is a mess. It’s falling apart at the seams and a lot of people I care about are in pain because the things we thought would work don’t. Everyday I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back. They have become victims, pawns in a senseless system that uses them up and undervalues them.

It’s time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map.

Stop settling for what’s good enough… Stop asking what’s in it for you and start giving gifts that change people. Then, and only then, will you have achieved your potential.

For hundreds of years, the population has been seduced, scammed, and brainwashed into fitting in, following instructions, and exchanging a day’s work for a day’s pay. That era has come to an end and just in time.

Seth goes on to say that we have an opportunity today to change our lives for the better. He is NOT making a case for MLM Network Marketing. From my conversations with Seth I believe (unless he’s changed his “worldview”) he has not held our profession in the highest esteem. I don’t think he fully understands us, because without intending to, I believe he IS making a case for Network Marketing as one of the options to choose from.

Linchipn continues…

The Take-Care-of-You-Bargain
Here’s the deal our parents signed us up for:

Our world is filled with factories. Factories that make widgets and insurance and Web sites, factories that make movies and take care of sick people and answer the telephone. These factories need workers.

If you learn how to be one of these workers, if you pay attention in school, follow instructions, show up on time, and try hard, we will take care of you. You won’t have to be brilliant or creative or take big risks.

We will pay you a lot of money, give you health insurance, and offer you job security. We will cherish you, or at the very least, take care of you.

It’s a pretty seductive bargain.

So seductive that for a century, we embraced it. We set up our schools and our systems and our government to support the bargain.

It worked. The Fortune 500 took care of us. The teachers’ union took care of us. The post office and the local retailer took care of us. We followed the instructions, we washed the bottles, we showed up on time, and in return, we got what we needed. It was the American Dream. For a long time it worked.

But in the face of competition and technology, the bargain has fallen apart.

Job growth is flat at best.

Wages in many industries are in a negative cycle.

The middle class is under siege like never before, and the future appears dismal. People are no longer being taken care of— pensions are gone; 401(k)s have been sliced in half; and it’s hard to see where to go from here. You might be the hard working secretary, the one with the institutional knowledge, the person who has given so much and deserves security and respect. And while you might deserve these things, your tenure is no guarantee that you’re going to get them.

Suddenly, quite suddenly in the scheme of things, it seems like the obedient worker bought into a sucker’s deal. The educated, hardworking masses are still doing what they’re told, but they are no longer getting what they deserve.

This situation presents a wonderful opportunity.

Yes, it’s an opportunity. An opportunity to actually enjoy what you do, to make a difference to your colleagues and your customers, and to unlock the genius you’ve been hiding all these years.

It’s futile to work hard at restoring the take-care-of-you bargain. The bargain is gone, and it’s not worth whining about and it’s not effective to complain. There’s a new bargain now…

Again, to be clear, Seth Godin DOES NOT directly endorse MLM Network Marketing. That said, there’s a lot we ARE by design & on purpose that’s right up his alley.

What Seth presents is a picture of the “American Dream” that is past tense. “The bargain,” and the systems and structures and people and ideas that have supported it, “has fallen apart.”

Three years ago I put together a book titled, It’s Time… For Network Marketing*. It was, alas, at least as indicated by its lack of acceptance & sales success, ahead of it’s time. Perhaps no longer.

It is clearly time for a NEW American Dream.

And although not for everybody, for millions of people “…who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it back.” Who, “have become victims, pawns in a senseless system that uses them up and undervalues them.”

The NEW American Dream can be found in Network Marketing.
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Back on November 17th, we published a blog post by Network Marketing leader, trainer & million-dollar annual income earner Randy Gage titled Don’t You Dare Give Up!. (If you missed it, click the link to go right there.) Here we go again. We simply found “Getting Free” to be such great advice about Network Marketing and such a great look at the possibilities of this business for you, we were compelled to publish it here. Enjoy it.

Getting Free
By Randy Gage
November 30th, 2010

One of the most important things we do in Network Marketing is helping people get free. They break away from the bonds of office politics, nepotism, rush hour traffic, and someone controlling a very large percentage of their waking hours.

We can offer them an environment based on empowering people. Becoming successful by helping offers reach success. Getting free by helping others get free. But this is also the area that hurts the most people in our business…

So I’m writing a lengthy post about the subject and I’m asking you to make sure everyone on your team reads this today.

The biggest mistake I see in the business is people leaving their jobs too soon. As soon as someone equals their job income, they want to leave it. But that’s a mistake. This forces them to live out of their MLM business, instead of using their income to grow their business. And when you have to sponsor someone just to meet bills, that creates stress and a very negative energy.

Better you keep your job and work even more evenings a week. Sacrifice for a season to grow the business and pay off your bills. The best scenario is for you to be debt free, extra money in the bank, and earning even more from your MLM business than your job. Only then is it time to quit the job.

So here’s my advice:

Write your resignation letter NOW.

Then put it in your wallet or purse. Read it every morning. Read it when you’re having a hard time at work. Read it when you get home from a meeting at 1 am and have to get up at 6 am for work the next day. Let it drive you. Then one day soon, you’ll be able to hand it in.

Dear (insert cheap boss name here),

As I’m sure you know, there have been turbulent changes in the economy and this has affected us all. In response to these factors, our family has been forced to make some restructuring changes and some positions have been eliminated. One of those positions is mine.

I can no longer afford to work here. And because of the difficult economic times, I am opening up the position for someone that doesn’t have a dream. It’s time for me to leave, so I can live mine.

Sincerely,
(Your name)

Please really do write your resignation letter today and let it pull you toward freedom. And encourage your people to do the same. But counsel with them and let’s not have anyone leave their job until the time is right for them. Then we really are helping people get free.

- RG

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