A bit more on multilevel marketing.
My daughter is an Avon lady, Avon are a well established company, whose model is to sell direct through a distribution chain of home workers. They don't have shops. Your Avon lady (or man gender is not important) leaves a catalogue with you to browse at your leisure. You fill out an order form, she takes it orders the goods, which you pay her for on delivery. Delivery is free. She receives a commission on every thing she sells, which makes her a little side line income.
The benefits of this type of income are:
You can work from home
You don't carry stock so no initial outlay
No experience is necessary
Training and support
Avon offer a full money back no quibble guarantee on all products so you can sleep safe knowing that if a customer is disattisfied you will have a fall back plan.
As a small business this will not make you rich, but you can make a nice side income. Be aware you have to pay Avon for catalogues, but they cover the cost of delivery and returns. You can check out Avon here.
When should you consider it:
Works best in places where you have access to a potential customer base, through work at the office, at clubs, University etc. You can do door to door (cold selling) but that requires a certain kind of attitude. When people see the catalogue it tends to sell itself.
When not to do it:
If you don't like rejection, spare time or a moderate number of contacts.
On a similar vein have a look at the following as alternatives:
Amway: Same principals but health, beauty, home cleaning products etc.
Kleeneze: Another cleaning products catalogue but this one sells stuff you didn't know you needed, an example Goo Gone, gets sticky stuff of anything (it's amazing!!!).
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