If you have been involved with direct sales or network marketing for any length of time then you know the names of legendary companies like Avon.
Well for years Avon (since 2004) has held the number one spot as the Global Direct Sales Company title until now.
The number one spot now belongs to Amway!
Amway a global leader in health, beauty and an outstanding business opportunity for Independent Business Owners.
The Rest Of The List
Here are the other top companies:
3. Herbalife International International is an American company that develops, markets and sells nutrition, weight management and skin-care products globally.
4. Natura Cosmeticos SA is a Brazilian company engaged in the development, manufacture, distribution, and sale of cosmetics, producing a full range of cosmetic products.
5. Mary Kay, Inc. is an American privately owned direct sales company that sells cosmetics products.
Note: The Health & Wellness and Beauty industries are obviously very popular and these companies are doing well implementing the network marketing business model.
Should Avon Representatives Be Concerned
No, I don’t think so. Avon has a very good management and leadership team. They will make the adjustments necessary to remain competitive and at the top for years to come.
To Your Success!
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P.S.S. Not sure what business opportunity is for you, check out what I do to help people get out of debt and make money click here.
Your comments are welcomed below, if you are an Avon rep share your experiences.
Yep it’s true, Wake Up Nowor WUN has officially announced their shut down (at least in the United States).
In an open letter by their CEO, Phil Polich, posted on their Facebook page February 17th, 2015, Polich blasts former CEO Kirby Cochran.
As we made progress, we continued to discover that Kirby Cochran’s deceptive actions had put the company in a position from which it could not recover. In the end, his decisions for a privileged few outweighed the incredible heart and dedication of the many. CEO Phil Polich
Well all the signs that there was a problem have been there.
WUN financials have been in question for awhile.
Wake Up Now generated almost $8 million dollars in losses over 2012 and 2013. Significant losses mean commission payments are in jeopardy.
In a Wake Up Now Business Opportunity review I wrote back in July 2014, I provided links to the company’s 2013 income disclosure statement. WUN admitted that a vast majority of their representatives do not make ANY money!
Wake Up Now has filed a 70 million dollar lawsuit against their former CEO!
If you really want to know what kind of soap opera was going on behind the scenes at Wake Up Now company headquarters then read or download this legal complaint document filed by the company just click here.
Despite their current state of affairs, Wake Up Now vows to right the ship over time.
“We will continue to sell our products, including Awaken Thunder and the WUN Fit line of products. We will diligently work to fulfill all financial obligations of the company. I will continue to work with the creditors and vendors in anticipation of getting all obligations resolved. CEO Phil Polich
Top Three Lessons We Can Learn From Wake Up Now
Despite what has happened there are at least three fundamental lessons we can learn from Wake Up Now’s demise:
1) Always research the company, especially the leadership. Read a lot of reviews and don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t just jump all in because of the initial hype!
2) Examine the company product, what makes it unique?
3) Make sure the company compensation plan is sound. Be suspicious if they pay commissions primarily on the recruitment of new affiliates.
NOTE: Wake Up Now’s revenue generation relied on constant recruitment effectively making their business model impractical, to add salt to the wound their 22-page compensation plan was really confusing.
ATTN: Former WUN reps and other Network Marketers
WakeUpNow’s closure is a great example of why it is important to brand YOURSELF and not the company you are affiliated with!
FINAL THOUGHTS
Network marketing companies come and go all the time, just like many brick and mortar small businesses do but what I find especially disturbing with this development is the amount of young people that will be adversely affected by WUN being their first network marketing experience.
Wake Up Now attracted a wave of young entrepreneurs at several colleges and universities.
Many of which dug deep into their pockets in order to get involved in the Wake Up Now business…or the wunlife as they called it!
If you were a WUN rep please keep your head up and do not let this minor stumbling block quench your entrepreneurial spirit and keep you from pursing your dreams of financial freedom.
To Your Success!
P.S. Check out my RESOURCES Page to see the programs I recommend and tools I use to generate 20-50 new leads a day!
P.S.S. Not sure what business opportunity is for you, check out what I do to help people get out of debt and make money click here.
Your comments are welcomed below, if you were a Wake Up Now IBO please share your experiences.
Are you using social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus etc. to promote your products, services or business opportunity but do NOT display your profile picture?
Perhaps you are one of those that uses the default (blank) picture?
Why?
What Are you hiding from?
Unfortunately I see people doing this a lot but did you know that it could be hurting your business?
Without a real profile picture NO ONE pays attention to you!
A real profile photo helps increase your engagements.
Not an avatar!
Not a picture of money, fancy cars or houses!
Not a puppy, kitten or a group of your best friends!
People want to connect with a real person, they want to connect with you!
So if you are a real person then use a real photo of yourself, it doesn’t have to be a professional/studio photo but a nice casual head shot will do. And lose the fancy hat, baseball cap, those awesome RayBan sunglasses or anything else that competes for our attention in the photo.
A real profile photo makes it easier to recognize you.
What if I am going to meet you in person for the first time, having seen a photo of you will make me feel more comfortable and confident I can spot you in the crowd.
Similarly, if we’ve met in person and you send me an invitation to connect online, seeing your photo will help me remember you.
Also a great way to help your own branding is to use the same photo for all of your online profiles. Use the same photo on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube channel, your blog, etc. It will make it much easier for people to recognize you right away.
But I just don’t want to publicly display my picture
Think about it like this…
Would you join a business opportunity under a person that has never shown themselves?
Would you hand over your credit card to purchase a product or service from a invisible stranger?
Do you attend an event or party that you were invited to by a complete stranger?
I personally don’t entertain invites, events or friend request from anyone that does not display a real profile photo. Taking it one step further if your profile page is blank i.e. doesn’t include the basic description of who you are and what you do, I’ll delete or ignore your request.
People that don’t display a profile photo are normally…
1) Not very active on on social media (check how frequently they post),
2) They have a reason to hide their face – SCAMMER!
Yes, SPAMMERS ARE REAL and SCAMMERS DO EXIST!
What About A Business?
If you are a legitimate small business then use your company logo.
Most companies have rules against the use of their copyrighted logo/images (check your contractual agreement). So I do NOT recommend network marketers or anyone affiliated with direct sales use their company logo as their profile picture.
Remember its about connecting with a real person!
There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for an entrepreneur using social media to make connections and/or promote their business products or services NOT to display a real profile picture on their page.
To Your Success
P.S. Check out my RESOURCES Page to see the programs I recommend and tools I use to generate 20-50 new leads a day!
P.S.S. Not sure what business opportunity is for you, check out what I do to help people get out of debt and make money click here.
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Maybe you have heard of her maybe you haven’t, but today I want to talk give you my top 3 reasons why I love Mimi G and Mimi G Style!
Who Is Mimi Goodwin?
NAME:Mimi Goodwin(Mimi G) AGE: 39 BORN: Puerto Rico, [Raised in Chicago] RESIDES:Omaha Nebraska with her husband and children. EDUCATION: Graduated from Roberto Clemente High School (Chicago) in 94; Attended FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising)Los Angeles, 1999-2001. WEBSITE:MimiGStyle.com LANGUAGES:Spanish
I am a thirty something year old mother of 6, so finding time to be a mom, a wife, and a designer is a lot of work, but its what I was meant to do.” Mimi
Mimi G is a wife, mother, consultant and stylist. She is also the creator of a popular Fashion, Lifestyle, and DIY (Do-It-Yourself) blog entitled MimiGStyle.com.
What’s really cool is that Mimi Goodwin’s original foray into the fashion world started as a self-taught seamstress at the early age of 12, which culminated with her own ready-to-wear runway show in spring 2010. It was then that Goodwin’s fashion consciousness and direction took a turn down a different path, as she recognized that women want ready-to-wear that is not only trend-setting and looks great on a variety of body types but have also found a love for making and creating their own clothes.
Mimi’s axiom,
“Buy It, Make It, Mix It, Rock It!”….
is the mantra for thousands of daily followers, as well as fashion industry professionals.
According to her website,
Mimi G has quickly become an International fashion icon, instructor, role model, and an “in demand” speaker and panel member at blogging conferences across the country. Her DIY projects are the talk of every town, “making sewing sexy,” and generating a fresh new following of fashion savvy readers.
So here are the top three reasons why I love Mimi Goodwin and her blogMimiGStyle!
Reason #1: Mimi G blogs about her passion
Obviously Mimi G understands that blogging about your passion is a very good way for people to get to know and trust you.
By consistently putting out fresh content on her blog, Mimi G has built long term relationships with her followers. She is now seen as expert in fashion, people trust her and more importantly come to her for tips/advice.
In her blog, MimiGStyle, Mimi G focuses on DIY projects, health and fitness tips, product reviews, highlights from her annual “Sewing, Fashion and Style” conference, and your everyday family shenanigans.
As a mother of six, Mimi G works hard to balance her family life, her day job in the entertainment industry and sewing by night. She started blogging as a way to keep a living diary of her own sewing adventures, and soon learned that other women share her same passion!
Now she has over 350,000 unique visitors per month, who check in each day to learn everything from sewing, to choosing fabric for the right pattern or DIY project, to finding out what is trending in the fashion world.
Apparently in the beginning blogging wasn’t always easy for Mimi G. In an early 2012 blog post entitled, The Good, The Bad + The Ugly of Being a Blogger,” she shares the pros and cons of being a blogger.
Yes, blogging takes a lot of work. However, if you are willing to do the work then you will find the benefits and rewards are well worth it! Get a blog if you want to take your business to the next level!
Reason #2: Mimi G utilizes Social Media
Successfully using social media to promote or market you brand/business can enable any entrepreneur or small business looking to extend their reach and acquire more customers.
If you are on social media sooner or later you are going to see a post or photo someone has shared from Mimi G Style!
Each day,mimigstyle.comfollowers check in to see Mimi’s “daily looks,” popular pattern reviews, sewing tutorials, links to other trend-setting fashions, and learn her secrets on how to get the looks demonstrated below on a budget.
On Facebook alone a single post from her will net 20K -30K Likes, hundreds of engaging Comments and a minimum of 1K Shares! Yep, her status updates contain everything the Facebook algorithm loves in order to extend her reach to her followers!
Mimi G has several social media accounts, amassed several followers in each and continues to gain hundreds of “new followers” by the day.
If you want to drive traffic to your website just blog or use social media. A good Social Media Marketing strategy can create a recognizable identity for your product or service. This is extremely important for any entrepreneur or home business. Social Media tools can get the word out about your brand in a way that promotes online conversation and creates buzz.
Reason #3: Mimi G created her own brand
As am entrepreneur you have to understand the power of developing a unique personal brand, then marketing yourself and not any one business.
Mimi G’s unique tri-photo blog post unveiling her wearing the “outfit of the day” can be found all over the internet. Take a look at see some Mimi G Style images below…
Typically Mimi G will post a photo on her website showing her modeling three distinct poses of her latest outfit from the side, front and sometimes even the back.
Most of the outfits are of her own creation but there are also some that are store bought.
Mimi G will always post the brand name of the accessories that accompany her outfits in case her followers would like go purchase them to create or duplicate the same look.
Building a personal brand like Mimi G goes hand in hand with attraction marketing.
Attraction marketing is providing a specific group of people (a niche) with valuable information and resources in order to help them find solutions to a challenge they are struggling with.
Mimi G has done a great job attracting fashionistas by providing valuable tips on sewing and accessorizing.
Well I hope you enjoyed this on post on,
The top three reasons why I love Mimi G!
Ready to create your own blog?
If you want to know how writing blog post on things you are passionate about can help you generate income from the internet then,
Today I want to spend a little time talking about something I see quite often with network marketing representatives that have not taken time to fully develop their marketing skills.
If you have been in the network marketing industry as long as I have then you are sure to run across people that will pitch their multilevel marketing (MLM), direct selling, or network marketing business opportunity to you.
I get contacted almost daily by people asking me to take a look at their products or join their business opportunity.
Here is a small sample of non-edited (misspelled words and all) messages I have received in the past through social media or email:
Hey Charles, I just want to start off by saying thanks for accepting me I really appreciate it, ____here, I’ve been checking out your post for quite a while and I am amazed at you’re work, I’m working on a project called wakeupnow and I’m looking to partner up with business professionals, this goes well with your current opportunitie, there is incredible money on the table, are you open to other options outside of your current business?
And another…
Hello Charles glad to see you earning a good income working online. I would love to build you a 2nd income and I would do all the recruiting and building if you are busy with other projects. Just join and send me your link and I will place people under you. I can recruit enough people where you earn a minumum of $600-$2500 or more. I have built a few large teams. Watch this Video. Cost $100 to join
And one more,
I checked out your websites and they look good. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of EPX Body yet, but we are experiencing phenomenal growth. We’re the #1 Home Based Business in Npros and on MLMrankings.com If you would like to take a look at it, let me know what you think.
My question to you is, why should I join your business opportunity?
More importantly, why should I join your business opportunity under YOU??
What makes you different from the thousands of others promoting your business?
What are you offering me to join under you? Do you have some special training or a proprietary (marketing) system?
Think about it, 100 or marketers pitching the same or very similar lines to me daily. Stuff like this…
…create a 6 figure income, great leadership, stable company, ground floor opportunity, blah, blah, blah
But most of you are missing the point…
If I want to make the 6 figure income you keep telling me about with your company I could just join up under one of the leaders of the company, right?
The problem with this approach is that it attracts naive desperate people that also think there success lies in joining a good opportunity,
What Happens When You Do This?
…well, you may initially have some short term success by promoting your business opportunity to some gullible people.
I don’t know about you but I don’t want to build my business with a bunch of lazy, naive, gullible people that are not willing to do any work…
I want to build my business with motivated hardworking people and this strategy/approach doesn’t attract those type of people.
When you use this approach you are building your business like a house of cards.
The slightest little thing can make it topple at any point.
Once these naive people realize that building a business is actually work, that it actually takes dedication, commitment, motivation or learning new skills…things will start to unravel,
…and once a card starts to fall very soon after the whole thing is going to come crashing down.
That is exactly what happens in most people’s organizations because they don’t attract the right people.
So have I described you? Are you this person?
This strategy is typical in the industry
…and we wonder why after 90 days people quit.
REMEMBER, in this business people join people not systems not until you TRULY get that I mean really get it then your business is going to suffer.
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To Your Success
P.S. Check out my RESOURCES Page to see the programs I recommend and tools I use to generate 20-50 new leads a day!
P.S.S. Not sure what business opportunity is for you, check out what I do to help people get out of debt and make money click here.
Are you a Military Spouse and Interested In Making Money From Home?
We all know military veterans have sacrificed a lot in service to our country, but so have their spouses.
Often Military Spouses sacrifice their education and careers in order to raise the family. Military Spouses will often travel to a different state or even a different country to be with their service member.
Once settled, Military Spouses may find it difficult to find employment and struggle financially.
Today you can take action to improve not only your life but the lives of other military spouses by lifting them out of unemployment or underemployment.
How?
I want to show you a program I recently discovered that will allow you to work from home and is an excellent income producing opportunity.
As a military spouse I know that you possess a unique set of skills including resilience, adaptability, commitment, unparalleled dedication, and more. These are all valuable skills that will allow you to run a successful online business.
So What Did I Discover?
An incredible company called Empower Network. Military spouses have found Empower Network a refreshing way to stay at home, build a massive online business and produce life changing income! Empower Network does just what it says’ Empowers YOU!
Military Spouses Choose Empower Network
Empower network is an online opportunity that empowers members to make money with out experiencing the common problems, challenges, and pitfalls most go through when attempting to start a home based business.
Empower Network was created and specifically designed for the individual that has absolutely no online marketing experience, but would like to use the internet to solve their cash flow problem.
Through Empower Network’s viral blogging and marketing system in a “turn key” format you can avoid a timely blog setup and immediately start creating content online that solves your cash flow problems.
Yes, many Military Spouses are blogging about their experiences with the military right now! By sharing their experiences and valuable tid-bits through blogging, military spouses are helping many other spouses make better informed decisions while getting paid to do it.
And guess what? With your Empower Network blog you can blog about any topic you want to!
Here is the best part, I am going to show you how you can get paid up to $1000 per day blogging. That’s right I said $1000 a day!
I am an Army officer and Military Veteran with over 24 years of active duty service. I know first had exactly how important military spouses are.
Give me a chance now to HELP you and your family financially!
Partner with me now before the slots fill up! But only if you’re serious. I don’t have time to waste.
WUN financials have been in question for awhile.
“We will continue to sell our products, including Awaken Thunder and the WUN Fit line of products. We will diligently work to fulfill all financial obligations of the company. I will continue to work with the creditors and vendors in anticipation of getting all obligations resolved. CEO Phil Polich
ke Up Now attracted a wave of young entrepreneurs at several colleges and universities.
When you use this approach you are building your business like a house of cards.
We all know military veterans have sacrificed a lot in service to our country, but so have their spouses.
And guess what? With your Empower Network blog you can blog about any topic you want to!
