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Do you really want a home-based business?

The future of network marketing begins with you, today.

Network Marketing, also known as Multi-Level Marketing, offers an incredible opportunity to the go-getters of today's marketplace. The concept has born the criticism of skeptics and been tested by time, as well as the courts. According to industry records, nearly $100 billion in goods and services are sold around the world each year via network marketing, and over 25 million people are involved as distributors. How big of a piece of this pie do you want?

Network Marketing is a viable tool for achieving lofty financial goals, but it does not come easily, nor is wealth assured for the greedy and dishonest. Network Marketing is not about using people, but about getting other people involved in the business as your partners. I won't tell you recruiting people into your business will be easy, in fact it may be your biggest challenge, but according to national surveys, well over 90% of all adults in America dream of owning a home-based business.

There is nothing new about engaging other people to help you attain financial goals. Capitalists have known for generations that true wealth was built upon the shoulders of huge labor forces and the control of production machinery. Exploitation was the name of the game, and soft-hearted, philanthropic businessmen were often short-lived.

Adam Smith revealed the secrets of capitalism to the world in his book The Wealth of Nations. Smith's book goes into painstaking details of the manufacturing process and how the use of capitalistic concepts, such as the division of labor, mass production, and the use of a carefully orchestrated labor force, can enrich the entrepreneur and allow the consuming society to benefit from higher quality products, sold at lower prices than what competitors offer.

Smith used the example of a pin factory to demonstrate how a one-man operation may be able to produce a handful of pins per day, where the individual steps in its production may include drawing a thin strip of steel from a spool, cutting it to size, flattening an end for the eye, sharpening an end for the point, and finally packaging it. Each of these steps, accomplished by one individual, takes a considerable amount of time, and the proprietor of the pin factory is limited in his sales by his production capacity.

Using Smith's principles, a pin factory entrepreneur could hire five workers to complete the individual tasks of producing and packaging pins. The production


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