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What are the Top Direct Selling Companies for 2012?

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BusinessForHome.org, the leading authority for MLM and Direct Selling Companies Worldwide made a short list of the top Direct Selling Companies for 2012, based on the Top Earner rankings, Leadership, Momentum, Growth, Revenue, Conventions, Alexa Ratings, International Presence, Facebook presence, and Interviews with MLM VIP’s.

This list of the Top Direct Selling Companies for 2012 is a good measuring stick if you are looking at starting a home based business.  In case you haven’t noticed yet, there is soooo much junk out there to be perfectly honest, and you need to be careful when you decide to start your home based business that you don’t fall prey to some of the following….

1. Undercapitalization – Many MLM or Direct Selling Companies fail because they are undercapitalized and the owners are looking to make a quick buck with very little strategy or business plan involved.
2. Unique Product – There are so many “me-too” products out there in the Direct Selling world and many people have already been approached by the same tired products.  Many start up Juice Companies, or Nutritional Companies just don’t have a compelling story that people haven’t heard before.  In order to have success in Direct Selling, you don’t have to have the best product, but it needs to be unique and offer a good value to the end user.
3. Professional Website – It amazes me that almost weekly I get approached by someone wanting me to join their Gas Club of the month club, and the corporate website is just…well…awful!  This should be a huge red flag to anyone looking for a legitimate home based business.  If the company didn’t spend any money on the site, or make it user friendly, it’s not going to attract the kind of individual that is really looking for a solid opportunity.
4. Window of Opportunity or Timing –  You’ll notice that Amway is on this list, and it is still the Granddaddy of all the Direct Selling Companies.  I for one would not choose Amway as my main opportunity because so many people have been exposed to the opportunity.  It’s best to choose a company that is at least 2-5 years old so you can see how their management company is going to hold up.  Older companies are fine, but make sure the market is still there or they have Global Reach which of course lends to future growth.

These are just some of the factors considered when ranking the top Direct Selling Companies for 2012.  The companies on this list all meet this criteria, so it’s a good indicator that you’re safe to join any of them.  Consider your passions, and choose based on what you enjoy or a product that is inline with what you’re already doing.

If your company is not listed and you want to nominate your company, leave a comment below. Please put in facts and figures, not hype.

We like to receive facts such as: Company Revenue, Growth rates, Number of active distributors, open countries, leadership, ect.

Is below list the ultimate truth? No, there are thousands of opportunities in the direct selling world and this is a “living list”, however the listed companies do have something special: Growth, Momentum, Products, Leadership and often a global presence.

We encourage you to do your own “Due Diligence”.

Below list is in “alphabetical order” the number is NOT a ranking

Nr.	Company	Country	CEO	Leadership	Website	Why?
1	ACN	USA	Greg Provenzano	George Zalucki	www.acninc.com	Products
2	Amway	USA	Doug L. DeVos	Barry Chi & Holly Chen	www.amway.com	Growth
3	ARIIX	USA	Fred Cooper	Tim Sales	www.ariix.com	Momentum
4	BHIP Global	USA	Terry LaCore	Masa Cemazar & Miguel Montero	www.bhipglobal.com	Growth
5	FM Group	Poland	Artur Trawinski	Andrzej Wyszynski	www.cosmetics.fm	Growth
6	Gano Excel	Malaysia	Leow Soon Seng	Robert Hollis	www.ganoexel.com	Products
7	Global Wealth Trade	Canada	Ramin Resgarlou	Reza Mesgarlou	www.globalwealthtrade.com	Products
8	Market America	USA	JR Ridinger	Elizabeth Weber	www.marketamerica.com	Growth
9	NuSkin	USA	Truman Hunt	Giselle Sexsmith	www.nuskin.com	Products
10	Organo Gold	USA	Bernardo Chua	Holton Buggs	www.organogold.com	Momentum
11	Oriflame	Sweden	Magnus Brannstrom		www.oriflame.com	Growth
12	Scentsy	USA	Orville Thompson	Mark Stastny	www.scentsy.com	Growth
13	Tahitian Noni	USA	Kerry Asay	Jeff Broome	www.tni.com	Products
14	Talk Fusion	USA	Bob Reina	Minh & Julie Ho	www.talkfusion.com	Momentum
15	Unicity	USA	Stewart Hughes	Rick Jordan	www.unicity.net	Growth
16	USANA	USA	David Wentz	Collette Larsen	www.usana.com	Growth
17	Vemma	USA	BK Boreyko	Tom Alkazin	www.vemma.com	Products
18	Visalus	USA	Ryan Blair	Kyle Pacetti	www.visalus.com	Momentum
19	Worldventures	USA	Mike Azcue	Matt Morris	www.worldventures.com	Growth
20	Xocai	USA	Jeanette L. Brooks	Paula Pritchard	www.xocai.com	Growth
21	Zeekrewards	USA	Paul Burks	Dwan Wright-Olivares	www.zeekrewards.com	Momentum

There is actually 21 but I really like this list for a variety of reasons.  If you’re unsure about whether or not you’re choosing a solid company, this should help you narrow it down.  There are all kinds of different products to choose from as well because no one company speaks for everyone.  Do what you enjoy and you’ll never work a day in your life!

I do hope you find your perfect fit, and if I can do anything to help, please let me know.  Have your best day ever!

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Courtesy of: http://deanethridge.com/network-marketing/top-direct-selling-companies-for-2012/

FM Perfume | Inspiration vs Imitation - I WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH!

A fellow FM member shared with me a conversation found in a blog between a person who believes FM is a fake and a reply from an FM consumer defending FM as a company and for its quality. Read the excerpt, I found it compelling for all of you members! Enjoy!

The Atheist  FM (Federico Mahora) is essentially a company producing fakes. For that purpose only, I never tried them, because the quality of such scents is always low and it is pretty much stealing other people’s ideas, and i would not try even their original fragrances since most of their business is based on reproducing cheap equivalents of known scents…

The Client: Excuse me!!!???

First of all, FM is not producing ‘fakes’. A ‘fake’ is when the fragrance, bottle, and box are made so that you think it is a real Chanel. With false control numbers, the same bottle etc.

By your own admission you said you never tried FM-fragrances and you will never try them and yet you shoot them to pieces.

Secondly, you obviously don’t know that there is an economic crisis going on in the real world. A lot of people simply can’t afford niches anymore, can’t afford the excruciatingly high and obscenely expensive prices shops ask for mainstream fragrances to funnel that hard earned cash that customers buy to the bonuses of CEO’s of perfume conglomerates and shareholders dividends.

Because the real cost of a fragrance is very low, the profit margin is very, very high for the big perfume conglomerates. The money not spent on the cost of production, we’re talking about 80 to 90% or more of the price you pay in the shop, goes to PR, CEO bonuses and shareholder dividends. FM and Avon show how less it really costs to produce a decent fragrance. And thus how much money these perfume companies really earn at your expense. Why do you think that celebs launch fragrances massively? Out of love for perfumery? No, because they can make tons of money on the hard working people’s back. It is widely known that the perfume divisions are the ‘cash cows’ of a lot of conglomerates.

Thirdly, FM fragrances are not ‘fakes’ because they are sold in simple boxes and bottles with FM on it. Each FM fragrance has a number. The seller will tell you on which number corresponds with the fragrance it is inspired by. FM sells like Avon: mostly not in shops but by direct selling at home. You have the ‘Avon Ladies’ and the ‘FM Reps’. They are very driven and knowledgeable, passionate about having encountered a company created by the people and for the people and they sell in places and part of the world where the expensive fragrances aren't even necessarily available or way over priced. That’s called ‘fair trade’. I have much more respect for an ‘Avon Lady’ or ‘FM Rep’ than for a bored, unknowledgable, grumpy shop assistant in an ‘exclusive perfume shop’ in NYC, London or Paris.

It is totally legal and legit, contrary to the ‘fakes’ sold massively everywhere. By the way, I assume you know that ‘a fragrance’ is not protected, only the name and the package. Like a taste or combination of tastes to make a certain menu can’t be protected. I can make ‘Sauce Béarnaise’ without having to pay copyrights to some celeb, CEO or shareholder, thank God. Same for fragrances. Even you can duplicate Chanel 5, if you are able to and sell it. Only not under the name ‘Chanel 5′ in the same box and bottle. And FM does none of these things. So their fragrances are not ‘fakes’, I’m sorry. It is like the fragrance oils that are ‘based upon’ a known fragrance for soap making, candles, body oils… You also find those oils ‘theft’ and the makers of it ‘thieves’? You haven’t tried FM, would never try FM and yet you execute them. Well, well…

And FM gives the opportunity to less rich people to enjoy a great fragrance with a great quality for a fair price. FM is totally legitimate and upfront about what they are: fragrances very close (in some cases even almost spot on, certainly in the more linear fruity-floral and weak aquatic categories) to the original.

They are an affordable alternative for the obscenely priced perfumes in the regular shops. They cost about about one fifth (!!!) of the fragrance by which they are inspired or that were an inspiration for their version and are really close to the original. For the ones among us who experience hard times, but still want to smell great, it is a good alternative. Owners of perfume shops, shop assistants and people working in the ‘hot air’ big perfume industry where most of the money that a fragrance cost in the shops goes to packaging, marketing, the bottle, the CEO bonuses, the shareholders dividend and the ‘brand name’ hate them, like they hate Avon.

People who buy a fragrance to parade around with a bag where ‘Chanel’ or ‘Dior’ is printed in big letters are not the target market for FM. People who love affordable fragrances in modest packaging for a fair price, mostly love them. Like many people around the world love Avon!

Of course the ‘big name firms’ do everything to put companies like FM and Avon in a bad light. But their fragrances are not bad at all. And certainly more honestly priced than the crazy overprices big name-frags in the perfumery shops. Also because FM is legit, their fragrances are controlled for harmful ingredients just as strictly as the mainstream fragrances. It is the real fakes, controlled by organised crime, that can contain harmful ingredients, not the controlled FM and Avon fragrances.

For the economic crisis, that will hit the whole of Europe and maybe also the US very hard this year (2012) and throughout the world, people will have to adapt their lifestyle. Also in fragrances. So FM, Avon and Ebay are great alternatives to the regular perfume shops, who will simply become a ghetto for the wealthy and rich.

The big companies try to tarnish FM as much as they can. By spreading bad information on line. The big firms try to eliminate this competition in all manner.

So, maybe you can afford to pay hundreds of dollars for a bottle of fragrance. But I wouldn’t deny people less fortunate to smell good. And FM, I repeat, is a total legit bizz. Do you also put Avon down and Lidl’s version of ‘Coco Mademoiselle’?

Also I find it strange, when somebody hasn't tried a fragrance to shoot those fragrances down. And even say: ‘I would never try them’. I have tried FM’s and they are pretty damn good. And I am also a lover of Lutens and the big firms. But I also can appreciate FM’s line of products. You have different target markets for different budget. To tarnish firms that cater to the not so rich as ‘fakes is well… fill this in for yourself. But it is certainly not moral and ethical and just.

But the real fakes, that are by the way now even sold in regular perfume shops by shop managers on the brink of bankruptcy -I experienced it myself- have to be fought at all cost. They are totally uncontrolled, have possibly harmful ingredients and are produced propably by organised crime. FM and Avon are totally legitimate business, as are sellers of soap supplies. You blast the wrong enemies here.

What guarantees do you have when you enter a perfume shop that you are buying an original? There is a huge black market of fakes going around with identical packaging and bottles, smells similar but ingredients are harmful. Beware that this is happening even when you are buying these at a high price!

Avon and FM are excellent ‘bang for your buck’. Of course, if you don’t have to care about money, this argument doesn’t mean anything to you. But it means a lot for people who happen to have a tighter budget.

Rich people denying less fortunate people the right to enjoy a total legitimate fragrance of FM, that’s the spirit! And not having ever tried them and judge, well that defies every rule of objectivity and credibility in my book.

For the record, I have nothing whatsoever to do with the FM-company or Avon, or any other fragrance company. I’m just a perfume lover who happens to know a bit about the inner workings of the perfume biz. But as a perfume lover, I think that also people who have less money should get the opportunity to enjoy a fragrance. And I’d rather see them being able to do that, than not being able to do that simply because the big perfume firms want to destroy these competition to pay their CEO’s higher bonuses and shareholder dividends.

My sympathy lies with the perfume lover on a tight budget, not on the ‘big firms’ who should by the way battle more against the real fakes, instead of villifying, totally unfounded, companies like FM, Avon, Lidl… for letting us see how cheap good frags can really be produced. But of course it is easier to attack a legit bizz like FM than go after strong and cruel organised crime rings.

I have said my two cents. Have a great life and a word of encouragement to all those people who already face economic hardship and who will face even more in 2012 and in the following year 2013!

Be informed, learn about FM, don’t be scammed by the brands approach to the market but most importantly DO NOT buy these “Class A ~ Fake perfumes” as their ingredients are NOT tested and can be harmful. Learn the benefits of becoming a proud FM member!

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