Watkins Home Based Business

I received the following email from a business prospect. I thought I would post it here, as it addresses a common misconception folks have about Watkins Products.  ------------------------------  Hi, I have been looking into the Watkins business and I just had a few questions about it. First of all, how is that you market yout home business to friends and family and people whom you do not know? Second, do you have to locate people who love to cook? What are your methods of advertising and generating sales? I find this business interesting, however, if people do not like to cook, why would they purchase the product. I find that you would have to try to find the chefs of the families for this to generate income.   Mary (not ...

A common question I hear quite often: "I don't want to be involved with a pyramid scheme that will eventually collapse or be shut down by the government. How do I know the difference between a legitimate network marketing opportunity and an illegal pyramid scheme?" "Pyramid" schemes focus on fast profits earned by selling the right to recruit others. They typically offer a product of dubious value to make them look legitimate. Actual profits are made by recruiting other people into the scheme, not through sale of the product (and some schemes don't even offer a product - they just move cash around). Legitimate network marketing (also known as MLM or multilevel marketing) and direct sales opportunities offer a tangible product that ...

Like many other folks who are interested in making money from home, I tried a number of MLM and network marketing businesses and failed to make money with any of them. I had serious reservations as to whether this type of business would work for me at all. Finally, I found a nice little program called Bykota in the late 1980's. Bykota sold a nutritional supplement pack that was delivered on autoship once a month. I actually sponsored a few people in Bykota and began to make some residual income. Guess how I felt around 1990 when Bykota closed its doors overnight without warning. I was shocked, and pretty much resigned that a home based MLM or network marketing business was NOT ...