Today many people are looking into alternative business opportunities. With the jobless rate high and the future uncertain, home based businesses are becoming quite common. One such opportunity is the pre-paid legal services field. Hiring a lawyer is necessary for practically any type of life event. The prospect of providing this service is quickly becoming one of the more lucrative opportunities for those interested in a home based business.

What is a Pre-Paid Legal Service?

A pre-paid legal service can be compared to having your own lawyer on retainer for any problem that arises. Most people need the advice of an attorney at least once a year. How many people consult one? Not many because the cost of hiring a lawyer usually means a large retainer and an hourly rate, which can become quite expensive.

A lawyer may be necessary if:

• You have received a speeding ticket.
• Are planning to purchase a home.
• Are signing a contract with anyone.
• Are planning to prepare a will.
• Are being sued by someone.

These are just a few of the situations in which you may need the services of an attorney. For a monthly fee you can have access to a law firm that can give you the advice needed for these situations. The great thing is the fee is far less than you would think. Approximately $26 a month can allow you to have your own law firm to consult when legal issues arise.

Providing consultation, contract review, preparing a letter or making a phone call to assist you, trial defense and IRS audits are a few of the services you will receive. In addition, you will have access to many legal forms that you may need. There are several plans available depending upon the state in which you reside. Family plans as well as business plans are available.

How Will Becoming an Associate Benefit Me?

When you decide to open a home based business such as showing people the benefits of pre-paid legal services, you will receive a commission for every person who signs up and becomes a member. All you have to do is talk to them, explain the concept and the benefits they will receive for becoming a member of Pre-Paid Legal.

You will receive the materials needed to get your business started immediately. As well as the support system available from the home office, you will receive marketing supplies, sales materials and the way to use it to create sales and certified training in the field. Support is always available from other associates on your team.

How Can You Become a Representative of Pre-Paid Legal?

The cost is minimal. For $49 you can begin your own home based business. You will receive training showing you how to market the business and how to show people the benefits of having a pre-paid legal membership. There are several marketing options from which you can choose.

The basic selling includes showing people the plan and explaining what it can do for them. Once they see the affordable rates that allow them to have legal services for a variety of life events, you will have no problem enrolling them. When you have done this, you simply send in the enrollment to be processed at the corporate office.

Your commission check will be sent directly to your bank account if you choose. The earnings potential is entirely up to you. The number of enrollments you get are based on how hard you want to work at selling this plan. If you want, you can even get paid on a daily basis.

Tips for Growing this Business

One of the ways of growing this business to realize even more income is to recruit members. When you recruit people to start selling the pre-paid legal plan, if you end up with three people sponsored by you that have bought a membership, you will then be an Executive Director. Then these three people sponsor three more people who buy a membership. As the number of people who sponsor someone else grows, your income grows because you will receive a commission every time one of the people under your sponsorship makes a sale.

The income potential can be quite lucrative if you decide to work hard enough to attain the top level. This can work as well if you sell 75 memberships a month. The hours you want to invest in the business will determine the income you have the chance to achieve.

So, you’re thinking about joining the Numis business opportunity and you’re looking for a review that gives you all the info about what it is and what’s involved. First off, let me start by saying I am not involved in this business opportunity but believe that this is a good company that has the potential to make people money.

What is Numis all about?

Founded by Ian Cordell, Chris Kent, and Jake Kevorkian, 3 of the top marketers in the Network Marketing industry, Numis Network started making waves in August 2009. Numismatic gold and silver coins bring a fresh new concept to the MLM industry that I personally love. In a market that is full of selling magic weight loss pills, energy drinks, and a bunch of other products that really don’t help anyone, it’s nice to see they provide a product that actually brings real value and benefits to peoples lives.

Why silver and gold coins?

People love to collect coins and in today’s economy, it is increasing in popularity. As Mike Mezack, the company’s expert Numismatist, says, “If you are going to collect something, it might as well be money!” Gold and silver coins are extremely profitable, don’t have a “shelf life”, and retain their value. What’s not to like about that? Plus, the coins they sell all come with an MS70 certification which is the highest certification in the industry.

How much does it cost to join the business?

The Numis Network has 2 options for you to choose from when joining the business opportunity. The first option is the Basic Starter Kit which costs $75, plus $10 a month to maintain your website. In the Basic Kit you get presentation materials, a company specific website for you to use to help promote your business, and a back office business center to keep track of everything. At first this might look like an attractive option since it’s a low cost start up and very low monthly cost after that, however, in order to qualify for commissions you will need to generate a minimum of $100 in sales per month. In addition, you won’t be able to earn several other generous bonuses the company offers.

This is where the second option comes in. For $495 plus a $99 per month autoship program you can get the Training Qualified Fast Track Complete Package. This includes everything in the Basic Kit plus your first Silver Eagle Coin, a collector box for your coins, training videos, an online marketing system called Numis BBS, a separate special lead capture website and an automatic email marketing campaign for the people who filled in their information from your lead capture page. My favorite part is the email marketing campaign because not many company’s offer this added feature to their distributors. I also like they let you customize these emails and allows you to create your own. The one downside with their marketing system is that it’s not customizable and you can’t add any of your own videos.

It’s important to be able to have something you can customize because the only way to really be successful with your own business is by marketing yourself, not the business. It’s a proven fact that company generated websites don’t work. If you ask any of the network marketing guru’s out there if they built their business promoting a company generated site everyone of them will tell you no. This is because people will only buy your product or join your business if the know, like and trust you and you can’t achieve this with a generic website.

If you plan on joining a company like Numis that doesn’t provide you with a customizable website you will have to find a marketing system or create your own website from scratch. Of course there are tons of options out there so spend some time doing research on what fits you and your personality best before you spend a single cent of your hard earned money.

Backed by Donald Trump, the real estate millionaire, the Trump Network is a relatively new MLM business opportunity. Based on the direct sales of daily vitamins and nutritional supplements, this opportunity is in the beginning phases, and is looking to recruit people motivated to help the company grow.

The Trump Network is starting with two products. The first product is a test, called the PrivaTest, and is designed to tell you which supplements you should be taking for the best health possible. The second product is a month’s supply of the recommended vitamins and minerals for you. Each month a box is shipped to your door with premeasured packets for your convenience.

The plan is still the basic MLM business plan that has been around the block a few times. You start your business by invite and for a set price to have samples and marketing materials, then you recruit others to do the same. All direct recruits give you a commission of 4%, their recruits 3%, and so on down the line. Once your recruits start becoming managers, then more money is able to be earned.

The recommended way to start with the Trump Network is the FastStart Way. It costs $497.00, and includes product, marketing materials, and instructional DVDs. The website states that other start up opportunities are available, but one must speak to a recruiter to find out.

The largest advantages to the Trump Network are Donald Trump’s name behind the products and it is a new company. Most people who join new MLMs have the most success with the corporation. Another advantage is that vitamins are a consumable product, so creating a repeat business relationship with your clients is possible, and will help ensure income for the future. The disadvantage that was able to be discovered now is the start up cost of almost $500. While this is considerable less expensive than starting a traditional company, it is still more that what most MLM companies expect from new representatives.

Nu Skin is a skin care company (they prefer anti-aging company), established in 1984. Through direct sales, Nu Skin offers a complete line of skin care, anti-aging products, cosmetics, and body and hair care. Since women spend billions every year on skin care and attempting to keep time at bay, a cosmetic company could be a great investment for those looking to get involved with direct sales.

Nu Skin boasts giving over $6 million of its sales back to it distributers. It has a generous commission on its products of 42%, and since cosmetics are a consumable product, repeat business relationships can be developed. Since this is a direct sales company, you will be expected to recruit and sponsor new distributers, and will earn residuals off of signing these new sponsors up.

In addition to the Nu Skin line, there is the Pharmanex line of nutritional supplements and the Big World opportunity which is very unclear to what it actually is. If the links supplied are correct, Big World is a technology company and is hosting web space that you sell. This seems very odd for a skin care company to have partnered so far out of its niche. The diversity of the products available to sell is unusual in a direct marketing company.

As far as a business opportunity, Nu skin appears to be very stable. Nu Skin is a publicly traded company, had $1.25 billion in sales so far, and has been in business for 25 years. From the description of the products, they appear to be high quality and different from those commonly found on the market. Since Nu Skin is keeping the initial investment in the company a secret, it maybe a considerable chunk of change to get started, which may be a deterrent to many in today’s economy.

A large advantage that Nu Skin offers is their rewards program. For their top representatives, the company purchases high ticket items like trips and jewelry as rewards for those people. Another advantage would be name recognition; since people in general tend to like spending their money with companies they are familiar. Without more information, listing the drawbacks is mostly a guessing game, but contacting Nu Skin, if this seems like an opportunity for you, is highly recommended.

Amway founded Quixtar in 1999 and only a decade later, the company is now known as Amway Global.

Amway products and Quixtar products are basically identical. Offerings include nutritional supplements, cosmetics, beauty aids and even appliances available through a friend without the need to enter a store.

The company uses the MLM business model, meaning that the more recruits a representative has, the more money one makes. However, Quixtar has something the old Amway model didn’t: the Internet. This makes Quixtar the 21^st century Amway – a network marketing business.

The company still relies on a word of mouth and little to no advertising, making one wonder why they bother with the web. However, as many viral emails show, just contacting the people one knows can mushroom into thousands of contacts a day.

In order to become an IBO (Independent Business Owner), one must know an IBO. Don’t know someone in Quixtar? It’s not hard to find a rep, all you have to do is go to google and search for “Quixtar rep” and in the results you will find a ton. Each business owner in the Quixtar family is encouraged to set up their own website to promote the products. In fact, it is a requirement. Quixtar is designed to be a web business.

Like any store, IBOs are required to purchase their products for resale. In addition, they are encouraged to recruit other IBOs. Just as the IBO’s recruiter is making money off of all the IBO’s purchases, so does that IBO makes a commission from those recruited.

One hurdle is the fact that Quixtar prohibits conventional advertisement of IBO’s websites. So essentially, it comes down to one-on-one communication and old-fashioned word of mouth in a modern medium. One would suppose that social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook could serve to spread the word. However, the rules seem slightly unclear and this may violate Quixtar’s often vague and ambiguous rules.

The adage “it takes money to make money” applies as well. From the outset, the IBO faces the costs of building and maintaining a website and purchasing the products to sell. There is also the purchase of a $200 starter kit to include in the budget.

The IBO makes money off of the retail mark-up to customers, just as any store would. In addition, each member makes 3-25% of business volume depending on productivity and both monthly and annual leadership bonuses and incentives based on group performance.

It may sound like a pyramid scheme but Quixtar is, in fact, not. Each member of the team is a legitimate business owner. And like many small business owners, it is up to each one to come up with their own method of making money. Within the company’s parameters, of course.

- Carin

Many things transform a house into a home. The smell of homing cooking. Game night, crowding on the couch and watching a movie as a family. However, ambience also includes aroma and that’s where Scentsy comes in.

The idea for the wickless candle company came to Kara Egan and her sister-in-law Colette Gunnell in Meridian, Idaho, inspired by an episode of an Oprah Winfrey episode. The two women took their product to a Salt Lake City trade show where entrepreneurs Orville and Heidi Thompson became intrigued.

The concept is simple: a warming plate sits on top of a decorative holder with a low watt bulb. A scented bar of wax is placed on the plate and whatever room the “candle’ is resting in is soon filled with one of 80 aromas. Flavors include standards such as lavender, vanilla and cinnamon as well as more complex emanations like banana nut bread.

Now, in addition to the four score aromas offered by the company, an endless array of holders is available as well. A variety of colors and designs make it possible to place one in every room of the house. In addition, the company’s website allows one to design their own warmers, and they offer a membership to a “warmer of the month club.” Perfect for the holidays that land throughout the year.

And lest the man of the house feel left out or overwhelmed by the homey, some might say the feminine aspects of the product, there are warmers for him, too. Scentsy offer warmers with the colors and logos of college and professional sports teams.

Since there are no open flames and the bulb is contained, one can enjoy that extra glass of wine without the worry of burning down the house.

The best part is, anyone can become a part of the Scentsy team. Most of Scentsy’s sales come from community parties like mom used to have with her Tupperware. In fact, only 12% of sales are generated through the web or other outlets, the sales process is as personal as the product.

After contacting a consultant, a mere $99 will get you everything you need to throw your first party. It all fits in one shopping bag and the price structure is so simple you can do the math in your head. Below is a picture of everything you get when you join the business.

After that, Scentsy takes care of everything but the fun!

Scentsy supports, sponsors and mentors all of their Consultants. Each recruit has a personal sponsor an online support as well as access to the Consultant Support Department every weekday from 7 am to 7 pm. And that doesn’t include the annual conventions and seasonal training events the company holds throughout the year.

Each consultant also gets a free website for three months (it’s only $10/month after that), an online “back office”, free credit card processing, no inventory to manage and free shipping on orders over $150.

Consultants make 20% – 30% commission on their own sales, and also receives bonuses on the sales of those they sponsor.  “Superstar Directors” can make six figure incomes per year.

So plan a party, sit back and smell your success!

Your Attraction Marketing Mentor,

Carin

Silver. More understated but just as elegant as gold, it can add sparkle to even the drabbest of ensembles. This is exactly what Silpada Designs co-founders Bonnie Kelly and Teresa Walsh realized when they met at their children’s school. The immediately became the best of friends and began brainstorming ways to make extra cash.

They began designing jewelry and hosting parties at friends’ houses. Soon, some of the partygoers saw how much fun the two were having and wanted in on the action. In 1997, Bonnie and Teresa created an exclusive line of jewelry and a catalog and invited friends and customers to share the wealth.

The Silpada catalog includes bracelets, cuffs, necklaces, earrings, belts and watches designed by women who actually wear the products made of .925. sterling silver.

For a $199 Initial Certification Fee, one can acquire all the necessary learning materials to get the party started. All the jewelry you buy is for a show, meaning you can wear what you sell at a 50 percent discount. And the more pieces you buy to start, the more you’ll save on the certification fee. For example, order $1500 worth of merchandise at a $750 cost to you and your fee is reduced to $100. Order $3500 worth ($1750 to you) and your certification is free!

However, this business isn’t strictly about the lovely, inexpensive silver pieces you get to wear, it’s about making money.

Based on the national Home Party retail average of $950, even hosting one party a week would net you $285. Even more of the pieces sell like gangbusters. And that’s only three to four hours of time put in. Spend 20 hours a week showcasing the jewelry and making new friends, and you have the potential to make $1425. For the time spent at a part-time job! That yields a possible yearly income of nearly $70K!

However, that’s only the money you can make off the merchandise itself. With your first recruit, you make 4% of their wholesale sales. As you move up in the ranks, your earning potential increases. As a Star Director, you look forward to making 16% of wholesale sales.

Other incentives exist as well. To get started, you receive a certificate worth $200 in free jewelry when you organize and submit your first party within your first year. Based on your sales of the first 100 days, you could earn up to $3,000 in free jewelry. And every qualified recruit you sponsor in the first 100 days will earn you another $500 in product.

What’s more fun than showing off beautiful accessories?

Getting paid to do it!

- Carin

It’s no secret that people love to eat. It is a celebration of life as well as a necessity. However, sometimes overindulgence can lead to unsightly bulges and with a busy work schedule, a heavy exercise regimen isn’t possible.

Ardyss knows this and they’re here to make you look and feel great through the BodyMagic 2Step System. This system can drop a person two size in a matter of minutes.

The body shaping products they sell reduce the size, improve posture and prevent aging from taking a toll on what was once a shapely figure. Bras, corsets and girdles help you put things back in place and allow you to wear the outfits that have been banished to the back of the closet again.

Even men benefit. Ardyss offers a “corseymen” that will hide and eventually get rid of that spare tire you’ve always fretted about. No frills for the men, this undergarment looks like a lumbar belt, so any fear of emasculation is alleviated.

However, the products are not just cosmetics; they relieve tension and fatigue, provide support, and stimulate optimal internal organ function. This will lead to better overall general health and increased fitness.

Ardyss cares about what you put in as well as on your body. They offer an entire line of nutritional products, from multi-vitamins to anti-oxidants, energizers to fat reducers. Their great-tasting LaVive drink helps with vitality, leading to more exercise and over-all wellness. They even have coffee!

Not only that, Ardyss offers skin products to combat the effects of aging and the often-polluted environment. They’ve been in business for 18 years, so the products are proven in the market.

Ardyss wants nothing more than to increase quality of life for its customers and provides a way for them to spread the word and make money doing it.

The company affirms to possess an easily duplicable procedure that like their quick Body Magic accomplishment, guides to an instant Compensation. Their compensation plan boasted to be profitable enough that their internet site suggests 8 distinctive ways to pay its customers. They brag a 40% advantage on immediate sales bonus, Presidential Pool, Rank Maintenance Bonuses, Prevailing Car Bonus, Generation Commissions, Unilevel and Enrollment Percentages, Express Benefits (team building), and Power Start Benefit.

Their business model is based on Network Marketing, meaning wholesalers, marketing houses and retailers are skipped altogether. There are only two steps in this system: the manufacturer and the representative.

Ardyss promotes the Power of 5. Each representative invites 5 people with the desire of changing his or her life to try the product. Then the representative helps those five to turn around and do the same for five others. And they only ask for a commitment of five (see a pattern?) months to one year.

Each representative earns a commission of his or her own sales as well as a percentage of recruits’ sales. After a few months, the income potential is off the map!

Get healthy, help others get healthy and make money doing it.

What’s not to like?

- Carin

Yoli is the most recent health drink available in the market that literally stands out for its uniqueness. The company sells you a Blast cap that carries all-natural components in powder form unlike those pre-mixed drinks that are filled with loads of preservatives and other artificial ingredients. By simply filling the special Yoli bottle with water, placing the Blast Cap inside the lid, twisting it shut and then pressing the top down, you can have your own instant Yoli drink at any desired time. The powder gets forcefully released into the water immediately; just shake it for some time and your Yoli drink is done. This Yoli business opportunity review focuses on showing you the beverage’s many health benefits as well as an opportunity to earn revenue by propagating this amazing product and by recruiting other dealers.

Prior to getting qualified for commissions, you must become a member of automatic product shipment program (or autoship); another way is by producing the essential volume of product being bought, that can help you meet the requirements of a specific personal volume level and this can be done by enrolling sufficient customers. According to the Yoli business opportunity review writers, the company has a considerate compensation plan that provides you nine ways to earn money and is structured in such a manner, that even the new entrants find it quite easy to start making profits at once, while the diligent distributors who generate a lot of sale and active new recruits, are given more handsome compensation packages. The program also assigns caps on the weekly commissions each distributor rank can earn; this assures that the commissions are paid out on impartial and justifiable grounds. For example, if you qualify for the lowest rank of future star, you will get a weekly cap of $500.

Another important spotlight of many Yoli business opportunity review posts, are the Fast Start and break even bonuses which are considered as ingenious commission concepts, designed to promote new starters and to handle the problem of high attrition rates that have infested other multi-level marketing businesses. The Fast Start Bonus enables the qualified distributors to raise their earnings and grow their residual income, by paying them a commission of up to 20% on the initial orders of a member each distributor has sponsored. The distributors get a chance to cover their autoship from the Break Even Bonus, by recruiting a minimum of just two members, based on which they are paid.
But another major reason why Yoli stands out as a great business opportunity is, that it offers quite beneficial plans for the outstanding achievers, which is a major highlighted point indicated by the Yoli business opportunity review writers. Unilevel Matching Bonus provides an opportunity to the qualified sales leaders to earn an additional commission on the basis of the performance of the distributors they have sponsored personally as well as of those distributors they in turn have sponsored whereas the Global Bonus Pools provide them to share in the entire revenue generated by all Yoli distributors.

In order to intensify your revenue generation, Yoli business opportunity review posters commendably approve of the online marketing method where you can direct the targeted lead generation, instead of using out dated  steps of trying to sell the product to the people known to you or rather cold-call potential customers. For example, you can own a blog and publish some content on health issues that would direct the interested leads to your affiliate site. You can also utilize social networking sites to find targeted customers and leads.

- Carin

What is Arbonne International all about?

Arbonne International is a cosmetic company born in Switzerland in 1975. It markets over 300 innovative, high quality cosmetic products for skin care, anti-aging, hair care and weight loss food supplements. It offers products that are formulated with 100% natural herb, which is exceptional, in essence, safety, value, benefits and results.

Arbonne uses network marketing as their distribution system. Through an organized network of independent distributors, the company channels, its products to its consumers.  The company does not only focus on marketing their products and make a profit from it, but they lay a lot of emphasis on helping out its people. The hardworking independent distributors and consultants are given generous success plans, incentives and rewards, as well as travel opportunities. With these great people sharing the same vision of making their dreams come true, Arbonne has grown to be a successful business having its international markets in United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia.

What kind of products do they sell?

Arbonne products are focused on creating personal and wellness products that preserve the natural beauty of the skin, body and mind. These innovative products were well-researched and developed by several scientists of Arbonne Institute of Research and Development located in Switzerland. All products are based on botanical principles are proven to be scientifically pure, safe and effective.

What is the compensation plan?

The company offers the most generous compensation plan in the multi-level marketing industry. Its independent distributors and consultants are given up to 35% discount on Arbonne products. They can purchase discounted products either for personal use or for them to sell. An independent distributor can have a 53.8% retail profit when they sell products at its retail price. Moreover, independent distributors are also entitled to override and bonuses.

There are also the Preferred Clients. This is a certain category of clients wherein they can enjoy the 20% discount on all products. These clients are also entitled for special and monthly promotions by the company and are rewarded with gifts for referrals or presentations.

Here is a breakdown of income potential taken directly from their website:

How much does it cost to join Arbonne’s business opportunity?

It is very easy join the Arbonne International. First, you need to check out where you would like to be in the Arbonne organization. Would you like to be an independent distributor or consultant? Alternatively, start as a preferred client.

As mentioned above, being a preferred client, you can enjoy the 20% discount on all products which are purchased in the company. For you to start, you need to purchase the preferred client starter kit for $29.

To become an independent distributor or consultant, you need to purchase its starter kit for the price of $109. With this small amount, you can enjoy the 35% discount on all products and at the same time, you can have up to 53.8% retail profit whenever you sell Arbonne products at its suggested retail price.

I hope after reading this review you found answers to all your questions about the Arbonne opportunity. If you are thinking about joining them and want to be truly successful, just remember, it is going to  take training and a good leadership team to get the income you want.

Carin