Looking for the Best in Direct Selling Companies?
Everyone wants you to join their direct selling opportunity and claim that there’s is the best…and the “real thing.” The best thing you can do is really do your research and ask lots of questions. Here’s some information about some direct selling companies you might be interested in:
Clothing and Accessories Business: Opportunities in the fashion industry selling clothing and accessories such as handbags.
Craft Business Opportunity: If you love creating your own crafts, why not earn an extra income sharing that love with others?
Gift Sales Business: Direct sales companies that specialize in gifts and greetings for all occasions.
Good Food Business: Find a gourmet food or beverage company that offers home parties and tastings.
Home Decor Business: Help others decorate their homes and get paid for it.
Jewelry Sales Business: If you love jewelry, you’ll find plenty of opportunities for you here.
Kitchen Tools Business: Direct Sales Opportunities with companies that sell all kinds of tools and gadgets for the kitchen.
Makeup Business: Check out these opportunities if you love cosmetics and making other people beautiful.
Natural Products Business: Whether you’re interested in natural food and drink products, cloth diapering or other natural lifestyle choices, there’s an opportunity for you.
Pampering Business: If you love luxury and a little pampering yourself, you can create a home business out of that love.
Pet Business Opportunity: Providing pet supplies and accessories is a growing market and is a great opportunity for the pet-lover.
Scrapbooking Business Opportunity: Make a living helping others create beautiful memories.
Sell Kids Products: Companies that sell all kinds of kids products including books, musical products, items for babies, and toys.
Wellness Opportunity Watch: Opportunities in the extremely popular wellness industry.
Always research the company history, check the BBB for any complaints and their resolutions – and talk to a few people involved in the business to get a balanced view of what you might expect when you sign up.
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Can You Make Money in Direct Sales?
Whenever I read work at home message boards, I always see some variation of the question “can I make money in direct sales”? Of course the answers are always from those who hope to recruit a few and so the answers are always heavily padded.
Can you make money in direct sales? The quick answer is yes, you can. However I’d like to offer more information than just a “yes”.
Direct sales companies usually offer the distributor two ways to earn money. One is through the actual sale of a product and the other is through sponsoring or recruiting people to become representatives for the company.
This article will speak of averages only. The average commission on the sale of a product in direct sales is about 30 or 35%. If in a week, you sell $100 worth of products, you’ll earn about $30 or $35 dollars. This will not pay your rent, but it’s $30 you didn’t have prior to selling the product.
When someone comes to me and says they want to earn $1000 per month, I know I cringe a little bit, not because it’s not possible, but because the vast majority of those involved in direct sales never earn this much. Just speaking of sales, in order to earn $1000, you’ll need to sell about $3000 worth of products every single month. If the average customer spends $35 on products, you’re going to need 85 customers each ordering $35 worth of product to hit that $3000 sales mark. Again, this is not impossible, but almost no one can do this their first month, or even their first 6 months. It’s not easy finding 85 customers each and every month. For those who stick with it, for those who continue to pursue new customers each and every month, it is not uncommon to have several hundred customers by year five. These customers will not order every month, but you’ll have a large enough customer base, that by year five, it’s much easier to find 85 people to order each month.
Now let’s switch gears and talk about sponsoring others. The AVERAGE income earned from sponsoring others is about 10%. This means for every $100 sold by those you sponsor, you’ll earn about $10. Again, using that $1000 as our target income, you’ll need to create group volume of $10,000. Ten percent of ten thousand is indeed that $1000 you were looking for. Again, this is not impossible to do, but it does not happen as often as the ads out on the internet lead us to believe it does. Let’s say you sponsor one person per month your first year. This means you’ll have 12 people in your group at the end of that year. If each of those 12 people sold $500 per month in products, you’d have group sales of $6000. Not quite the $10,000 you need, but you’ll be on your way.
So the answer is yes, you can indeed earn money in direct sales. I hope this article helps you understand how that income is generated.
Audrey Okaneko has been working at home since 1983. She can be reached at audreyoka@cox.net or visited at http://www.scrapping-made-simple.com