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Bernama.com:

In the midst of the economic crisis in 1998, Puziah Saad boldly resigned from her teaching career.

Puziah who had taught for eight years made up her mind to venture full time into multi level marketing (MLM).

Though she had no formal qualification in marketing, the daughter of a settler born in Selangor 44 years ago has been highly confident of the prospects in MLM and of her ability to excel in the field.

Though Puziah may not have a marketing background, her most valuable asset is the gift of the gap and her confidence in selling the products.

“As for me the entrepreneurship skill has been part and parcel in me even since I was young. During my school days I used to sell guava and corn to friends to sustain myself.

Reminiscing her early days in business, Puziah said she had to mortgage her house, sell her jeweleries and even her car to start the business.

“I managed to amass about RM200,000 as working capital and my husband told me that if our business fail we have to live under the bridge but I begged him for a chance,” said Puziah.

She added that, at the initial stage, she operated her business from her home. When the first stock arrived, it was stored in the terrace house filling up all the free space available.

“I could not sleep for almost a month, my body weight came down from 65kg to 48kg. Here is where I built up my strength. The first month I sold stocks worth RM60,000, the second month it touched RM200,000 and the third month, RM300,000. In less than five months the stocks were depleted.

Puziah’s earnestness in helming her MLM business saw good returns from 1998 to 2003. From the wealth that she gained she bought some real estate that became part of the company’s assets.

Among her asset is the Wisma De Bella worth RM2.5 million located at Jalan Jejaka, Taman Maluri here.

Apart from being the managing director, at the initial stage of the operations she herself trained `leaders’ for her MLM business.

“I did not want to undergo courses to train others, I only learned the art by reading and through my own experience. I was also successful in moulding highly determined leaders. I hold training sessions every week among others to motivate them and show them the way to do business,” noted Puziah.

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PR-AU.com:

People seeking to venture into internet marketing in Malaysia can now get help from a new MLM resource center launched by GVOMalaysia.com.

The MLM (multi level marketing) package consists of a range of services and products to help newbie online marketers.

GVO (Global Virtual Opportunities) has brought together a team of online marketing gurus to mentor budding internet entrepreneurs. These experts include: Frank Raumbauskas, Jeff Johnson, Frank Kern and Ewen Chia.

Global Virtual Opportunities aims to ensure that people venturing into internet marketing in Malaysia get it right first time, allowing them to develop a sustainable business to bring in money long-term.

GVO offers a comprehensive suite of products and services for people who want to succeed in MLM marketing, including website monitoring software, domain reseller hosting, an autoresponder system and a video marketing operation. The company also provides coaching in multi level marketing.

GVO team member Nizam Shapie said: “Now is the ideal time to become involved in internet marketing in Malaysia and get a multi level marketing venture up and running. The GVO team can show anyone how to set up and develop a profitable internet business that requires no technical knowledge. Budding web entrepreneurs now have the chance to join an internet business team that has a wealth of experience in the MLM industry and is willing to share that expertise to enable others to follow in their footsteps. “

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MetroNews.ca:

Breaking the mould of the traditional direct sales model, Silpada Designs is showing Canadian women they can make their entrepreneurial ambitions sparkle by selling jewellery in a casual, party setting that focuses on fun instead of formality.

Silpada was founded in 1997 in the United States by stay-at-home moms and self-made entrepreneurs Bonnie Kelly and Teresa Walsh who had wanted to come up with a way to earn some income while still being able to take care of their kids.

They took their combined passion for designing and selling jewellery and started Silpada on the philosophy that direct sales works best when there is no pressure and customers can explore the product with their friends.

The formula is simple: Silpada reps set up parties where women and their friends try on and buy jewellery without any formal sales speeches to wade through. Arrival times are casual, there’s no pressure to buy and parties usually run for a few hours.

At the end of the night the rep earns a commission of 30 per cent of the sales total and the hostess who offered her house to be used for the party receives the same 30 per cent of total sales in credit for free jewellery.

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Ocala.com:

Going to a party these days involves food, friends and a checkbook.

Sales parties are taking over more and more living rooms, but it’s not just Tupperware and Avon this time around. Women are being invited to people’s homes to buy cookware, candles, jewelry and scrapbook products. Parties are even popping up where guests leave with money, such as the popular gold jewelry parties.

Cindy Grimes of Ocala has invitations right now for three parties – Pampered Chef, PartyLite and a gold party – but she’s also busy being a hostess. Since March 2007, she has been selling lotions, oils, creams, lingerie and adult novelties and educating women about their bodies as an independent Slumber Parties distributor. The ladies-only parties, she said, have all the elements of a real sleepover – girls laughing, joking, bonding and talking about guys and sex.

“I always said, if I was ever going to sell anything, I would want to sell something you can’t find anywhere else. .●.●. Women are not as open as men when it comes to walking into that kind of place or buying items online, so these parties work out perfectly. .●.●. There’s no recession when it comes to sex, because people are still coming to the parties and buying.”

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STLtoday.com:

Sorry girls, but this home party is not for you. You won’t find Pampered Chef or Tupperware here. Or any fancy candles or jewelry or makeup for that matter.

It’s a Man Cave MEATing, and it’s just for the guys.

Man Cave offers grilling tools and accessories, premium meats, wood chips and planks, grilling spices, rubs, marinades and even apparel. Plus, men will find stuff for every man’s personal cave, including poker products and home bar accessories.

Nick Beste, 22, of Minnesota, and Kevin Carlow, 24, of Wisconsin, started Man Cave last year. Nick says, “It’s a good excuse to hang out with the guys, drink a few beers, eat some
brats and most importantly, learn some new techniques about grilling.”

One recent Sunday evening, Jim Mossey, 66, of Town and Country, hosted a party, his grill smokin’, chips and nuts ready for snacking, brats stacked in boxes and grilling products lined on outdoor tables.

Bill Maender, 63, a neighbor, said before the party, “This Man Cave concept sounds interesting. I’m looking forward to a good barbecue demonstration.” Roger Klumb, who says he’s “older than dirt,” from Wildwood, couldn’t wait to see a men’s version of a Tupperware party. “I’m looking for the next, best thing when it comes to barbecue.”

The MEATing began with beer tops popping and men talking up their favorite grilling rubs and recipes. Then, Jim began grilling brats, in four different flavors. As the brats sizzled on the grill, the guys sampled beef snack sticks in a variety of flavors, including teriyaki, jalapeño and cheese, and honey BBQ.

“This is the best feature of a Man Cave MEATing,” says creator Nick. “Besides viewing our product line, you eat hearty at the party.”

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NPI Center:

USANA Health Sciences, Inc., was recognized Friday by MountainWest Capital Network as one of the state’s top 15 companies for revenue growth. Top Revenue Growth award winners had the largest dollar amount of revenue growth from 2004 through 2008. This is the fifth time USANA has been recognized by MountainWest Capital Network.

“We are thankful that our Associates around the world are embracing the entrepreneurial spirit,” said USANA CFO Jeff Yates. “This award wouldn’t be possible without them, and I am grateful to be part of a company that offers entrepreneurs a way to be successful, especially in this tough economy.”

Yates accepted the award on behalf of the company at an awards luncheon at the Grand America. Governor Gary R. Herbert gave the keynote address at the luncheon.

“With an entrepreneurial background myself, I know what it takes to build a successful business and join those who value your accomplishments,” Herbert said at the luncheon.

MountainWest Capital Network sponsors the annual event to honor Utah’s top 100 fastest growing companies, the top 15 revenue growth companies, and a select group of “Emerging Elite” businesses in Utah. MountainWest Capital Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering deal flow, capital development and business growth in Utah.

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channelnewsasia.com:

The Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) received more than 160 complaints against multi-level marketing (MLM) firms between January and September this year, which is more than double the number received during the whole of 2008.

Three directors of MLM firm Sunshine Empire are currently on trial for running a fraudulent company, falsifying accounts and making false capital declarations, and the saga has left a scar on the industry.

“We feel that all these bad apples are tainting the industry, so much so that the livelihoods of half a million people who are involved in the industry are put at risk. So we are committed to weed them out,” said Leo Boon Wan, chairman, Direct Selling Association of Singapore (DSAS).

DSAS has teamed up with CASE in a bid to improve the direct-selling industry.

The organisations have submitted joint recommendations to the Ministry of Trade and Industry on amendments to the Multi-level Marketing and Pyramid Selling Act – which oversees direct-selling in Singapore.

These include simplifying definitions, identifying the types of products under the MLM umbrella, and providing investment tips for new marketers.

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kokomo perspective:

It may have been just luck or perfect timing in finding more ways to help “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

Cheri Semple of Pendleton volunteered to help out at the Indianapolis “Extreme Makeover” earlier in the year. She is employed as a consultant for Homemade Gourmet, a company that helps people with ideas and recipes on how to make cooking easy again.

During her time as a volunteer, she said, the Homemade Gourmet main office in Canton, Texas was in talks with “Extreme Makeover” on how the company could donate food to the families selected by the show.

From the Indianapolis site on, Homemade Gourmet has been sponsoring families by donating food.

On Monday, Semple, along with fellow consultant Mikki Perrine of Noblesville, returned to “Extreme Makeover,” but this time not as a volunteer.

“A lot of families want to spend more time at the dinner table but they just don’t have time,” Semple said. “The focus of our company is to bring families back to the dinner table and obviously with today’s society it’s busy.”

Homemade Gourmet is donating nearly $200 in food products to the Cowan-Brown family. The company provides dry mixes, microwave meals and how to turn leftovers into a second meal by turning them into “planned-overs” where the meal may be totally different than what it originally was. These meal preparation times are about 10 to 15 minutes.

“We just try to provide families with easy meal solutions to get them back to the dinner table,” Perrine said. “We’re helping families and that’s our focus and ‘Extreme Makeover’s’ focus, so it’s a match made in heaven.”

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pressofAtlanticCity.com:

Millions of Americans sell products – door to door, to friends, to family – on behalf of a company.

Those items include the time-tested, from Tupperware to skin-care creams to makeup. Also growing its audience are herbal and nutritional supplements, and not surprisingly, niche markets such as “toxin-free” toothpaste and “green” cleaning supplies.

With so much out there to be sold, the multibillion-dollar direct sales industry is benefiting from a resurgence brought on by the recession that began in late 2007.

Unemployment nationwide and in New Jersey is nearing 10 percent, and the desire – or need – to strike out on one’s own becomes stronger during a teetering economy that leaves people jobless or with a reduction in salary, according to the Direct Selling Association in Washington, D.C.

Since the recession of 2001, the number of people selling has grown an estimated 26 percent to 15.1 million Americans last year, the association said.

As is necessary in many of these multi-level marketing companies, sellers and their directors above them financially benefit when more products are being sold by more motivated people.

“There has been a very strong drive … to recruit, but really recruit quality because many direct sellers during these kinds of economic times will get just quantity in, and they’ll actually dumb down the sales force,” Tupperware Brands Corp. CEO Rick Goings told analysts last week during a conference call, “and you pay the price later.”

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Guardian.co.uk:

My only interaction with an Avon lady came when I was temping in a small office in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire. I recall a shadowy character who would turn up sporadically, basket over arm like the witch/queen from Snow White, sending the seven 55-plus ladies into something of a cosmetics frenzy.

Debbie Davis is neither shadowy, nor a witch. With partner Dave Carter (an Avon gentleman?), she’s Avon’s top earner, bringing in £250,000 a year.

Davis has turned what for many women is a sideline business or hobby into a huge earner, and the couple have been rewarded with a Mercedes, a BMW and a holiday to Mallorca from the company.

The 29-year-old turned to Avon after losing her job in the Sunderland factory where she had worked since school. Unsure of how to pay the rent, she went from consumer to salesperson.

“I’d been an Avon customer myself and my mum did it when I was younger so I had grown up with it,” Davis told the Daily Mail.

“I went round the doors selling products. The response I got back was great and in the first month I earned £500.”

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