Selling from home

work from home mumI was recently told that Mary Kay has a home-based sales force of 750,000. I don’t know if that’s accurate – sounds plausible. But I bet between Mary Kay, NuSkin, Amway, Mannentech, and Nutrilite (and some I don’t even know, I’m sure), there are many, many million people selling from home. And now with the economy being so quirky, and people losing jobs, I bet that the industry is going through profound changes.

Some of these folks have been trained to sell by their up-lines. Some have never been trained. Some just bought-in to the business because of some terrific hype heard at one of those Learn How To Get Rich Like Me rallies. But they have all learned to make a double sale: sell the product AND buy-in to the ‘business opportunity’ at the same time.

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