Here is an article that was passed on to me about how people are using direct sales to get them through the recession. Whether supplementing their current income, replacing income from a lost job, or just staying home with the kids to cut down on day care expenses, network marketing is giving people an alternative to the standard 9-to-5 job.
Here is a portion of the article:
Direct sales (like Avon, Mary Kay) offer recession-proof jobs
While he searched for another job, Lapp began working alongside his wife, Lynne, in a business based in their Temecula home, selling nutritional supplements made by the direct-sales company Isagenix. Nearly two years later and with no construction job in sight, Lapp says a one-time sideline has become the couple's bread and butter.
"It's paying our mortgage, our car payments … putting food on the table," says Lapp, 55, who adds that he and his wife are earning a six-figure income. "It was our 'Plan B' that turned into our 'Plan A.' "
Direct-sales businesses that rely on home-based representatives to peddle their wares are seeing their sales forces rapidly expand as the nation's unemployment rate soars to nearly 9% and those who lost jobs and nest eggs look for new ways to make money....
