MLM Australia – Why work from home?

To work or not to work from home. That is the question. Over time, it seems that more and more people in Australia choose the latter. Currently, almost a million have their own home business. 500,000 of them are in the direct selling industry, which also utilizes the MLM or multi-level marketing strategy.

So, why the huge number of Australians switching to work from home?

A cheap office, cheap marketing, fabulous impression

Work from home has minimum requirements. Phone, check. Internet connection, check. Computer, check. For just a few dollars every month, you already have your office. You can even be mobile, if you want to.

With everything online now, you cut down on overhead expenses. Getting a basic website does not cost a fortune with all the internet help you can get. You can use social networking sites as one of your marketing tools, which are actually free. Traditional flyers and print ads cost more yet not as effective as internet marketing strategies.

Choices – the more, the merrier

If you choose to work from home, you still have more options for the kind of job you want. The most common choice for home business is MLM. MLM is somewhat similar to having a franchise. You sign up with a company, pay the joining fee, and then operate your own business representing the MLM of your choice.

Bulk of the MLM operations can be done from home, depending on the company. The bottom line is you decide when to work and where to work. You can be working from Australia and get leads from Europe.

You can also choose to do some paid surveys. If you work smart, this can be your source of income. Otherwise, consider this work from home option for just extra cash.

Office related jobs are available online, too. You can work from home as a virtual assistant, a graphic designer, web designer, and more. The Franchise Council of Australia has about 150 home based business opportunities that you can choose from.

Not so risky investment

When you decide to have the traditional business as we know it, you risk letting go of hundreds of thousands to maybe more than a million dollars. All these for renting an office space, investment for your initial inventory, salary of employees, and fees for legal documents. On top of that, you have your monthly bills. Plus, nobody knows your name, so you still have several months to several years to work on that.

Most MLM companies’ start-up cost range from $10 to maybe about $500, depending on the kind of product or service they offer. I’m almost sure that if ever things do not work out for your home business, you’d rather just lose $500 than $1 million.

When you work from home, say with an MLM business, you invest on the name of the company you wish to represent. Most likely you already have your internet and computer at home. Now, instead of paying your internet bills for leisure, it becomes an investment, which means you can recover the cost.

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Basically marketing strategies are composed of two main strategies

Single-level Marketing Multi-level Marketing

Single-level marketing strategy is simple marketing strategy in which sale person is rewarded for selling the product only, and not for recruiting the other sale persons. While in multi-level marketing, the sale person is not only rewarded for the sale that he generates personally but also from the sale of others that he recruits and hence a chain of sale force is generated.

Further multi-level marketing includes the Network Marketing and Referral Marketing (ways to promote and sell his product to the new customers by oral communication). Mostly salespersons are expected to sell the product directly to the consumer through spoken words they relates the Multi-level marketing with the direct selling, although MLM is only one type of direct selling.

In start almost all companies were using the single-level marketing like Avon, Electrolux and Tupperware etc but with the passage of time as the business expanded globally, there were need of some more techniques to capture the market more effectively and hence MLM is one of the most effective technique that is used by these companies now-a-days. But MLM is the hottest issue of today’s business world with respect to its status.

The main contrast of view is consideration of MLM as a pyramid scheme that is totally a misconception. Then what is pyramid scheme? And why it relates to MLM? Basically pyramid scheme is an illegal, non-sustainable and risky business model that can cost a lot of people a lot of money. In a pyramid scheme, a member has to pay for joining and he is able to recover its money only by convincing other people to join up and to part with their money as well.

Actually in pyramid scheme there is no actual selling of any real product and that’ why it is considered an illegal activity. While in MLM, the actual product is in physical existence that is given to the distributors for sale not by recruiting process. Actually in multi-level marketing the investors or distributors make their money by selling the MLM products to other MLM distributors and if they are not already members of their MLM company then first sign them up, in this way the investors are in position to earn more money not only by their on sale but also get a handsome percentage of the income that is generated by those investors that have brought in MLM program due to their help.

Every MLM company has different compensation plans having different levels to motivate the investors.Hence, MLM provide the legal home based opportunity to the investors to earn a lot with negligible risk. So it makes the MLM quite different and legal from the pyramid scheme. Now-a-days, MLM approach is the common practice of all leading companies like XanGo, Usana, Team National, Neways and Xocai etc