How Does It Really Work?

Most of us

grew up with

a traditional

direct selling

paradigm.

In direct sales, if

you’re offered a

product and the opportunity

to earn money by selling that product, the amount of money you

make will be based on the amount of product that you personally sell.

In the traditional direct selling paradigm, if you had a goal of selling $1

million worth of product a month, you might hire 100 full-time, professional

salespeople to work for you, giving them each a territory and a quota

of $10,000 in sales per month. If they couldn’t meet that quota, of course,

you would fire them and find other salespeople who could.

While Network Marketing is a form of direct selling, there are some very

important distinctions. As a Network Marketer, you would use a very different

paradigm to achieve the same $1 million in sales.

Instead of full-time, professional salespeople with terrifying quotas,

Network Marketing is based on satisfied customers; most of whom do not

like to sell but are happy to tell others about the products they, themselves,

use. These customers are not full-time or part-time employees. They are

some-time, independent volunteers with no quotas and no protected territories.

They “work” when they feel like it.

Network Marketing is not necessarily about personally selling a lot of

product, although some distributors do. It is about using, recommending

and selling the product, and finding a lot of others to do the same.