Why would anyone become a MLM sales Rep?

Extra Income + Low Start Up Cost Is MLM's Appeal!

Consider the following:

Until recently, most Americans who considered themselves middle class, received steadily rising wages.

In the three decades after the Second World War, the American dream of moving to the suburbs, buying a house and even sending the kids to college was a fact. Home ownership soared and the living standards of the middle class – idealized in television sitcoms – were the envy of the world.

Today that image is as dated as the television shows it birthed.

Falling wages, rising prices, downsized plants, and jobs shipped overseas have transformed the home economics of tens of millions of Americans.

In September of 1979 a middle class person was earning (in constant, inflation-adjusted dollars) $498 a week, or $24,700 a year. By 1995 he or she had suffered a wage cut of about a hundred dollars a month, or 4.6 per cent.

The citizens on the right of the income line-up fared very differently. In 1979 the typical full-time worker in the top third of the income distribution was earning $890 a week, or $46,280 a year. By September of 1995 his or her pay-check had swelled to $960 a week, or $49,920 a year – an increase of 7.9 per cent.

The fortunate souls on the extreme right of the income line-up were doing best of all. In 1979 the richest five per cent of American families earned, on average, $137,482, according to Census Bureau data. By 1993 their income had risen to $177,518, an increase of $770 a week, or 29.1 per cent.

The top one per cent of families have made spectacular gains. According to the Congressional Budget Office, between 1977 and 1989 their average income rose from $323,942 to $576,553 – a gain of $252,611, or 78 per cent.

These numbers, as compelling as they are, do not tell the whole story. Those of you who were alive in 1975 can simply compare what it cost to buy a new car in 2005 versus 1975.

In 1975, I bought a new Buick Regal for about $5500. In 1997, I bought a new Ford Explorer for about $35,000. Generally, fully equipped cars of any model have similar prices.
 
So the costs of comparable, fully loaded, top of the line, American cars was seven times higher in 2005 than it was in 1975.

Also, middle class houses that cost $30,000 to build 1975 were selling for $170,000 in 2005.

The cost of a single family home was generally five times greater in 2005 than in 1975.  (There are regional differences, of course.)

Here’s the killer!

If your income hasn't multiplied five to seven times what it was in 1975; you’re no longer middle class. I'll pause to let that sink in.....

If you earned $30,000 annually in 1975, you would need to be earning $150,000 in 2005, to keep relatively close to the cost of housing and cars. This is why many people are looking for a second job, or income.

These numbers prove what many Americans have suspected for a long time: living standards have fallen or stagnated for the majority, while a small minority have enjoyed a bonanza.

Taken together, recent wage and income trends suggest an unavoidable conclusion: America is no longer a middle-class country; indeed, the term ‘middle class’ has lost its meaning. You can draw your own political conclusions, as to how and why this has happened.

Why is this important?

It explains why people seek extra income through a business of their own. MLM combines large potential profit with low start up cost (usually less than $500). Add this to the fact that, middle class income has not keep pace with rising costs. And MLM begins to look like what some would call a no brainer.

Finally, over the next 18 years, every 8 seconds one of the 78 Million baby boomers here in North America will turn 54 years of age. Baby Boomers want financial security and they're searching for profitable business ventures.

This means that there is a market for any system where people can make extra income, without cashing out IRA's, or mortgaging their homes. If you could arguably make megabucks, and all it cost you was less than $500 and your time; you would do it, wouldn't you? Exactly. So would millions of other smart people.

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