What’s better than being your own boss, setting your own hours, determining your own salary and having an office wherever you happen to be?
It’s a Utopian idea that is reality for tens of thousands of people working independently in direct sales worldwide. But getting there isn’t easy. It takes grit to abandon the familiar grind and build a business — especially in direct sales.
Just ask Wayne Nugent, founder and chief visionary officer of a $1 Billion leading direct seller of travel and leisure club memberships.
He got his start as a direct salesman and, after more than two decades in the business, he has seen it all. In that time, the industry has faced many challenges largely due to a minority of companies recruiting representatives, charging them large upfront fees and persuading them to purchase large volumes of nonreturnable inventory with little or no tangible value.
Though many reputable companies exist today, mere mention of direct sales, multilevel marketing or network marketing can stir memories of the pyramid schemes and shattered dreams that made headlines in the past.
Nugent contends you can’t paint all network marketing companies with the same broad stroke. He created his company in 2005 to help people find fun,
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How To Handle the “I Quit” Objection From Newbies
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Top Leader Travis A. Flaherty handles that objection as follows as published in The Game Of Networking facebook group.
By the way, if you are a network marketing professional you should consider to be a follower/member of that generic group as you can pick up golden nuggets for free 🙂
Travis Flaherty:
New promoter: “If I don’t start making money with this business soon I am going to have to quit and ask for a refund.”
Me: “When did you get started?”
New promoter: “Last month”
Me: “How many team calls have you been on. Or company events have you attended?”
New promoter: “I am really busy with my real estate business. I don’t have time for the calls.”
Me: “I am curious, did you have to invest money to receive your real estate license?”
New promoter: “Yes”
Me: “Did you have to invest your time going to school, and THEN learning the skills on HOW to promote your business, before you started to earn an income?”
New promoter: “Yes”
Me: “Does having a real estate license guarantee you will earn money?”
New Promoter: “No”
Me: ” And how do you sharpen your skills as a realtor?”
New Promoter: ” By attending my brokers trainings, attending a virtual weekly coaching call and attending seminars.”
Me: ”
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Better Planet Paper – Toilet Paper Goes Network marketing
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Better Planet Paper founded by CEO Scott Kufus – a long term network marketing professional – is a member owned environmental-paper co-op focused on becoming the most trusted and responsible “tree friendly” consumer paper brand in North America conveniently delivered direct to your door.
The company is a grass roots environmental service organization that incentivizes people with prizes to purchase forest-friendly paper products that create a sustainable world.
By providing home delivery of competitively priced and diverse biodegradable paper products that contribute to reforestation, Better Planet provides consumers an economical and convenient opportunity to become part of the solution through responsible consumption.
The ability to become not just a consumer but more importantly a “Prosumer” and produce a net benefit to the planet with each purchase of paper.
As the company stated:
Everyone wipes, now it’s time to wipe away unnecessary expenses and rollout, paper with a purpose. Better Planet Paper… Change brands and change your world. The change begins with you.
On the opportunity site Better Plnet has implemented an unilevel compensation plan structure, affiliates must have at least 5 active retail customers or affiliates to qualify for commissions.
A Premier member agrees to automatic shipping, based on your own chosen schedule. Monthly, every other
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Interview With French Top Leader Jean-Michel Cideme – LEO
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Dedicated and determined, Jean-Michel Cideme is a man of impressive stature with a strong mission to succeed.
This highly motivated direct selling professional joined Learning Enterprises Organisation Ltd (LEO) in June 2016 and has already soared to the heights of Senior Executive rank. Recently recognised for his remarkable training skills at the LEO Global Annual Awards 2017, with the Best Trainer Award, he has swiftly become a true asset to the organisation.
Originally from Guadeloupe, in the Caribbean, but now living in Paris, Jean-Michel Cideme has travelled a long way, in distance and in life, to reach his current location. Here is a hard-working professional with a strong work ethic and a gift for motivating others. With over 15 years working in the direct selling industry, Jean-Michel found himself looking for a new opportunity in 2016, and decided to join forces with LEO, impressed by the company’s industry-leading innovation, and has no regrets.
Setting himself new and bigger goals each day, Jean-Michel has proved to be a powerhouse in his LEO business and his progress has been stunning! So, to find out what makes this highly successful LEO Member tick, Ted Nuyten asked Jean-Michel some incisive questions:
You have achieved so much in just
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Network Marketing The Second-Biggest Industry In Utah With $8.5+ Billion In Revenue
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Utah in the USA and its capital Salt Lake City is famous for its world-class ski resorts, nature and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Beyond that, however, Utah has a lesser-known claim to fame: It is the unofficial world capital of multi-level marketing and direct sales companies.
There are at least 100 Network Marketing companies in Utah alone, generating est $8.5 + Billion in annual revenue and making direct sales the second-biggest industry in Utah behind tourism, according to Loren Israelsen, executive director of the Utah-based United Natural Products Alliance.
Under corporate executives there is a strong “Old Boys network culture” many executives have worked with each other in different companies, helping each other to success.
Top earners such as Ken and Carol Porter with life time earnings of $28 million, Steve and Melyn Campbell $26 Million, Nathan Ricks $50 million and Mark Comer $17 Million are Utah based residents.
Per capita, Utah has more MLMs than any other state.“It must have something to do with the way LDS culture works in the valley,” said Ann Dalton, CEO of the beauty product direct-seller Perfectly Posh, from her Salt Lake City office.
Connections fostered in LDS communities, said Dalton, create a hotbed
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Mannatech Finds Most Other Aloe Vera Products Are Missing Clinical Trials
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Mannatech®, Incorporated (NASDAQ: MTEX), which provides top-quality nutritional supplements for families in China through its website www.MeiTaiChina.com, provides one of the rarest derivatives of the legendary aloe vera plant that serves as the basis for many of its innovative health and wellness products.
For more than 20 years, Mannatech has included a pure, exclusively refined ingredient derived from the gel of the aloe vera plant called “Manapol® powder.”
Manapol powder is an essential ingredient in core Mannatech Glyconutritional products. Mannatech’s Advanced Ambrotose® powder and Ambrotose Complex powder are among the company’s top-selling products containing this aloe vera gel extract, and are known for their cognitive, immune and gastrointestinal benefits as well as cellular communication support.
There are many companies that sell products based on aloe vera gel. Some make boastful claims about what their products can do, but what most of these companies are missing are the clinical trials that scientifically validate their products.
This is just one of a number of advantages that Mannatech provides its customers compared to almost all of its competitors, which helps to ensure that the wellness promises made are real and substantiated.
Since its founding, Mannatech has invested more than $50 million in research and development that includes a
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Tyra Banks Beauty Exits Network Marketing
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Tyra Beauty leaves thousands of distributors in the dust.
in 2015 at the start of her network marketing business, Tyra Banks said:
“It’s really important for me to empower people, particularly women to have financial freedom, because my mom she stayed with my dad way too long and she always says it’s because she didn’t have her own money and that inspires me,”
“I am charged with shaking up the world of beauty,” Banks said. “Anyone can join our crew of badass entrepreneurs and be the ceo of their own lives.” Enrollment costs $59 and participants are trained through an online program called TYRA-U.
According to a press release:
“While the direct sales channel grew from a few hundred hand-selected Beautytainers during its initial Beta period in spring of 2015 to several thousand by 2017, doubling revenue each year, the decision to close the channel was due to certain challenges typically associated with direct selling and multi-level businesses.
The success and positive momentum in the direct sales channel has been astonishing.
That success has come at a price and over the last year it has become increasingly clear that there are challenges with the direct sales channel that are simply not compatible with the mission and ultimately
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Interview With Luana Sicari CSO Starbit – The Blockchain Revolution
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Starbit International has launched a new revolutionary Blockchain project, which allows ordinary people to access knowledge in the world of Blockchain and crypto currencies, through a theoretical and practical course that also includes an innovative automatic software able to work with multiple platform and any alt-coin on the market .
Starbit International uses a network marketing compensation plan that rewards its distributors promoting our Blockchain Information Packs and its new digital services, with 10 different ways of earnings and one unique binary balanced system that thanks a special algorithm, rewards promoters on the double sales volumes generated by the weaker team and adds great benefits to all active promoters.
Luana Sicari from Italy, is Chief Sales Officer as a long-term Network Marketing professional, Riccardo Vieri is Director of Innovation technology and Training.
Francesco Giampieri is director of Compliance and Giovanni Lionetti is director of finance and administration.
Ted Nuyten had the honor to interview Luana in Monaco – Monte Carlo were the company launched in May 2017.
Luana, how did you got involved into this Blockchain project?
“Some entrepreneurs met and discussed for a long time to create an innovative project in the field. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies represents the future. When I realized the potential of this plan, I
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Mannatech Adds Seven New Members To Its Million Dollar Club
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Mannatech has added seven new independent sales Associates to its Million Dollar Club†, which now has more than 220 members.
Mannatech’s Million Dollar Club is made up of Associates from around the world who have cumulatively earned more than $1 million since joining Mannatech.
The seven new members of Mannatech’s Million Dollar Club come from five different countries, including the U.S., Canada, Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
The new Mannatech Million Dollar Club members include:
Johanna Gil Bala – United States
Julia Zhu & Tony Bao – Canada
Rodney Fleetwood – United States
Je Heng Jung – Japan
Myung Jun Kim – Korea
Janie Wesselman – United States
Sabrina Kuo – Taiwan
These new members of Mannatech’s Million Dollar Club were recognized at MannaFest 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada, where thousands of Mannatech’s independent sales Associates gathered to learn more about the company’s new and innovative products, including GinMAX™ and GlycoCafe™, receive best-in-class industry training and celebrate the successes and achievements of Mannatech Associates from around the world.
Mannatech’s Million Dollar Club is supported by the company’s commitment to compliance with world-class products that offer business entrepreneurs a way to build safe, long-term businesses around the world.
About Mannatech
Mannatech, Incorporated, offers a profound wellness experience that makes a difference in the lives of people
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Starbit Launches an Exchange Listed Crypto Currency With Network Marketing
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Starbit International has launched a new revolutionary Blockchain project, that includes the promotion of Centurion Coin, a Crypto Currency already listed on several exchanges, that has published its white paper, is already listed on Coinmarketcap.com and offers digital wallets for several OS.
Starbit international uses a network marketing compensation plan that rewards its distributors promoting blockchain information packs and new digital services with 10 different ways of earnings and one unique binary balanced system that thanks a special algorithm, rewards promoters on the double sales volumes generated by the weaker team and adds great benefits to all active promoters.
The company mission:
Be the first global club bringing knowledge about extraordinary and unique digital services with the use of Artificial Intelligence and some of the most exclusive services in the world.
The first blockchain product adopted, is a cryptocurrency that draws lessons from Bitcoin and