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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.

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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.

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Business is indeed booming for Direct Sales and Network Marketing around the globe— and for some very impressive reasons.

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We just don’t know a better one.

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Why do most people get involved in Network Marketing? For the money— pure & simple. But more & more, money alone isn’t enough. It’s money and…

More time to spend with
friends, family and yourself.

In short, the balance between life & work even a successful part-time Network Marketing business offers.

Please watch this short (10 minute) TED.com video from Nigel Marsh: “How to make work-life balance work”

An idea who’s time has come? Truly, an idea who’s time never really left. Yet as Mr. Marsh points out, there are very (very) few corporations willing and able to effectively incorporate these increasingly sought after human values into their work-a-day worlds.

But in Network Marketing, the freedom to balance your life and work is a fundamental benefit.

The burning or burned out corporate executive… the working mom who longs to be home with her kids… the 20-somethings who aren’t buying into having to give up your life to make a living… even the successful small business owner who’s painfully realizing his business owns him… all of these people and many more are turning in increasing numbers to Network Marketing as not only “the last bastion of free-enterprise,” but as the one place where they can earn the income they need to enjoy the balanced and fulfilling lifestyle they desire, dream of and deserve.

Network Marketing isn’t the only way.
We just don’t know a better one.

PS. If you are not yet a Ted.com “freak,” please consider becoming so. TED IS the Web at it’s best!
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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,

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We originally posted this back on December 8 and just realized we’d made a mistake and had it set to “Private,” so… nobody could see it. Duh <smile>. We’re re-posting it here & now.

There’s a huge difference between Network Marketing and pyramid schemes. Here’s the truth.
By Michael L. Sheffield

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Question: Some friends continue to try to recruit me into Network Marketing deals that seem like some type of money game or pyramid. Other friends tell me they’re illegal and I’ll get into trouble. How do I know what’s legal and legitimate?

Answer: To help you understand what Network Marketing is, I must first explain what it isn’t.

Network Marketing isn’t a pyramid scheme.

Pyramids are programs similar to chain letters where people just invest money based on the promise that other people will put in money that will filtrate back to them and somehow, they’ll get rich. A pyramid is strictly a money game and has no basis in real commerce. Normally, there’s no product involved at all, just money changing hands. Modern-day pyramids may have a product, but it’s clearly there just to disguise the money game.

Network Marketing is a legitimate business. First, it’s based on providing people with real, legitimate products they need and want at a fair price. While some people do buy cheap Motrin online make a lot of money through Network Marketing, their financial benefit is always the result of their own dedicated efforts in building an organization that sells real products and services.

Pyramids are illegal and are based on taking advantage of people. For a person to actually make money in a pyramid scheme, someone else has to lose money. But in Network Marketing, each person can multiply his or her efforts, skills and talents by helping others be successful.

Network Marketing has proved itself as part of the new economy and a preferred way to do business here and around the world.

Network Marketing isn’t about taking advantage of your friends and relatives.
Only a few years ago, Network Marketing meant retailing to, and sponsoring people from, your “warm list” of prospects. Although sharing the products or services and the opportunity with people you know is still the basic foundation of the business, today we see more people using sophisticated marketing techniques such as the Internet, conference calling and other long-distance sponsoring techniques to extend their network across the country and around the world.

Network Marketing isn’t a get-rich-quick scheme.
Of course some people do make large amounts of money very quickly. Many would say those people are lucky. But success in Networking isn’t based on luck. (Unfortunately, money won’t sprout wings and fly into your bank account no matter what someone has promised you.) Success in Network Marketing is based on following some very basic yet dynamic principles.

Now, let’s discuss what network marketing is.

Network Marketing is a serious business for serious people.

It’s a proven system where the design, creation and expense the corporate team has gone through becomes a road map for your own success. Just follow the simple, proven and duplicable system that the good companies provide.

The real key is this: Network Marketing is all about leverage.

You can leverage your time and increase the number of hours of work effort on which you can be paid by sponsoring other people and earning a small income on their efforts. Andrew Carnegie, who created one of the world’s greatest fortunes, said “I would rather make 1 percent on the efforts of 100 people than 100 percent on my own efforts.” This very basic concept is the cornerstone of Network Marketing.

For example, most successful people building a Network Marketing business do so in an organized method. They work a few dedicated hours each week, with each hour of effort serving as a building block for their long-term business growth. Then they sponsor other people and teach those people how to sell the company product and sponsor others who duplicate the process.

By helping the people you personally sponsor to sponsor others, you duplicate yourself. As this process continues, you create compound growth that can lead to hundreds or even thousands of people coming into your business. You leverage your time by helping others be successful and earn an income from all their efforts.

Network Marketing, has no big capital requirements, no geographical limitations, no minimum quotas required and no special education or skills needed.

Network Marketing is a low-overhead, home-based business that can actually offer many of the tax advantages associated with owning your own business.

Network Marketing is a people-to-people business that can significantly expand your circle of friends. It’s a business that enables you to travel and have fun as well as enjoy the lifestyle that extra income can provide.

Michael L. Sheffield is the founder of Sheffield Resource Network, a full-service multilevel marketing consulting firm in Tempe, Arizona. He is also the co-founder and chair of the Multi Level Marketing International Association (MLMIA), whose members represent companies throughout the world.

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Increased life expectancy, decreased pensions and Social Security benefits add to the challenge.

In the January-February AARP buy cheap Motilium online Bulletin, CEO A. Barry Rand, wrote his Where We Stand column about “Facing the Challenge of Turning 65.” In the piece Rand pointed out that the first of the 78 million Baby Boomers began turning 65 on January 1, 2011 and they will adding another 65 year old to their numbers every eight seconds— more than 10,000 every day— for the next 18 years. By the time the last of the Boomers turns 65 in 2029, the 65+ population of the United States will have doubled what it is today.

“Add to that,” Rand wrote, “the fact that people turning 65 today can expect to live another 18 to 20 years, and the implications are staggering.”

Although as he points out, Boomers are generally optimistic about their future and “see their best years ahead of them,” millions of Americans are struggling. The first boomers are reaching 65 at a time when:

• their retirement savings have been decimated by the Great Recession;

• their pensions are vanishing;

• the value of their homes has decreased substantially;

• workers are still losing their jobs, and finding new work is a struggle;

• health care costs are rising and more doctors are refusing to see Medicare patients because of an unstable and flawed payment system; and

• the president’s fiscal commission is proposing to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — and shift more of the costs to people 65-plus — when they need it most.

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Network Marketing isn’t the only way.
We just don’t know a better one.

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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>.

“Yes, I think network marketing is the best system for the average person.

If in the corporate world you don’t sell within the first months, you’re fired. In Network Marketing they’ll work with you to achieve. What a deal that is! They will work with you to become free.

Isn’t that wonderful? That’s revolutionary.”

- Robert Kiyosaki, author Rich Dad Poor Dad
excerpted from It’s time… for Network Marketing.

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What’s America’s #1 export?

You’d think that was a well-known and established fact, yet curiously, there is NO definitive answer. Candidates for the title include: Wheat grain, military and defense “products,” entertainment (films, the arts, sports, television products & programming), software, debt… and recently our #1 export to China has been waste paper and scrap metal.

Here’s our (surprising?) prediction for the future:

In the next 5 to 10 years, Network Marketing will
become the U$A’s leading export to the world.

You “heard” it here first. <smile>

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Nido Qubein is a motivational speaker and president of High Point University, an accredited undergraduate and graduate institution with 4,000 students from 50 countries and 45 states.

He is also the president of an international consulting firm and has received some of the highest awards given for professional speakers, including the Cavett (known as the Oscar of professional speaking), the Speakers Hall of Fame, and Sales and Marketing International’s Ambassador of Free Enterprise.

He has written several books and recorded scores of audio and video learning programs including a bestseller on effective communication. He is an active speaker and consultant addressing more than 100 business and professional groups around the world each year. His books and learning programs have been translated into three dozen languages and are sold across the globe.

“Network Marketing rewards human potential, individual effort, collective support and positive action. It is a magnificent form of living free enterprise— of experiencing success— and of enjoying the fruits of victory. It is also a way of growing as you prosper— a way of learning as you serve— and a way of sustaining recurring income as you live.”

There has never been a better time to take a sincere & serious look at investing in Network Marketing. It is The NEW American Dream

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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!. Then on the 30th of November, we published another of Randy’s powerful posts, Getting Free. The Promise of Network Marketing. (If you missed either one, click the title links to go right to them.) 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.

Everyone Can Win
By Randy Gage
December 10th, 2010

I can still remember like it was yesterday.  It was 3 am, and I was sitting on the sofa watching infomercials.  The one with Tom Vu was on and he said, “You, you sitting there on the sofa.  It’s 3 am your wife’s asleep, your baby’s asleep.  Nobody cares about you.  You’re a loser!  If you don’t buy my program, you deserve to be broke!”

And of course I was so broke I couldn’t afford to buy his program, so I felt like the biggest loser in the world.  But thankfully I found Network Marketing…

And the one business where everyone can win.

You are not competing against anybody.  You have the chance to win and nobody else has to lose along the way.  And in life that’s not usually true.

When you get in a business where your success is based on the success of others, everybody wins.

Now there will be some losers, but that’s because some people quit.  So that’s a choice they make.  But if they are willing to stay the course, they can win along with the others.

Ain’t it great!

- RG

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If you’re up for working & winning, please take a sincere & serious look at Network Marketing today. It IS the business (and do you know of another one?) where Everybody Can Win!

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T. Harv Eker is a business and personal success coach. He is the founder and president of Peak Potentials Training— which was founded in 1994—  a company that offers various seminars, coaching, and camps that claim to inspire and to incite “changes that include higher incomes, greater net worth, better relationships, true power and a sense of inner peace.” Eker is also the author of the best selling book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, and founder of the world famous Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar.

“The unusual and wonderful thing about Network Marketing is that everyone around you is working to help you grow— instead of trying to keep you down ! In what other business do you have people making $50,000 and more a month— and they’re willing to tell you exactly how they did it ?”

There has never been a better time to take a sincere & serious look at investing in 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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