Direct Sales

During hard economic times, one industry remains impressively robust: direct selling. Door-to-door sales exploded during the Depression, and since then, women (and men, but mostly women) have been peddling Tupperware and Mary Kay cosmetics to friends and neighbors in ever-growing numbers. By last count, 62 ...

If you told Daniel Cook in 1981 that selling vacuums while hitchhiking to and from work would be his key to a lucrative career in direct sales (DS), he probably would have laughed in your face. Cook had been happy to get a job as a junior expeditor with IBM. It was manageable work that provided a decent income ...

William Heerema is a family man with a good full-time job, doing golf course rehabilitation and maintenance for the county he lives in, in New Jersey. He works 40-50 hours per week in this role. Happily married, he and his wife Karyn have a 7-year-old son -- who is the main reason he also works on the side, ...

MLM Company: Discovery Toys Becky Gaviola of Boise, Idaho, always thought of herself as the corporate type. Someone who went to work in an office, on a set schedule, and someone who had no time for things like MLM companies or home-based businesses. Until she had lunch with another mother and her toddler, ...

Direct sellers are hiring both for their front-line sales force and for sales management positions in corporate and overseas, reports Sales-Jobs.Fin.com. Those include Avon, Mary Kay, Tupperware, Arbonne International, and Jafra. The biggest kept secret in job search is that the only segment in the sales ...

MLM Company: Mary Kay Cosmetics, since 1963 You know the company. You know the name. You or your significant other has most likely attended a Mary Kay beauty party and you've probably even gotten a glimpse of one of the Mary Kay signature cars -- a pink Cadillac awarded to the top consultants in the United ...