| Network marketing has been around for a long time | | | | orders, and number two, they earn money through the |
| as a business model, but few are really knowledgeable | | | | accumulated sales of all those who are in their |
| about how such a business really works. Many | | | | organizations. The second form of income is by far |
| consider network marketing as a pyramid, i.e., "only the | | | | the most lucrative in the long run, because it employs a |
| people at the top make all the money and the people | | | | "franchising" like principle of duplication. In traditional |
| at the bottom make nothing." While there is some truth | | | | business, a store or shop earns income primarily from |
| to this, there is hardly a company on the face of the | | | | that one source. In network marketing, an individual can |
| earth where a brand new person, starting at the | | | | "franchise" out to other independent contractors, who |
| bottom, is making more than a person who has been | | | | in turn, can do the same. In this way, one person's |
| productive at the top for some time. There is so much | | | | efforts are multiplied, for example, ten fold, a hundred |
| hype surrounding network marketing, that it is hard to | | | | fold or even a thousand fold, depending on the size of |
| dispel the myths from the reality of this form of | | | | one's group. No other form of business, save a |
| business. For those of you who are considering it as a | | | | franchise corporation can increase its revenue base in |
| business opportunity, though, there are a few points | | | | such a way. For the person who wants to invest little |
| that need to be clarified. | | | | money, yet have the potential for earning a 6 and 7 |
| Firstly, network marketing is often called a "pyramid." A | | | | figure income, network marketing may be the way to |
| "pyramid" is something where a person enters a | | | | go. Check some of these companies out online and |
| business and immediately starts to make money just | | | | see if your interests and abilities fall in line with the |
| because he or she signs up. This could be likened to a | | | | values and philosophy of such a company. If so, |
| chain letter. Network marketers make money | | | | maybe you will have found a business that is right up |
| legitimately in two primary ways. They can sell | | | | your alley. |
| products like any other traditional business via retail | | | | |