Like most direct salespeople, she earns a modest part-time income from her work. Most earn about a 25 percent commission on sales. Typically, they also receive a 40 percent discount on their product purchases. There is no time clock to punch. No one supervises you.
Most successful representatives are entrepreneurial to the core.
They love governing their own lives. Larger earnings begin when salespeople begin to recruit other salespeople in multilevel staffing systems. They then earn a percentage of their recruits' sales. The majority of direct-sales organizations are legitimate, but investigators for the DSA hear complaints about some companies from their salespeople. Some companies masquerading as direct-sales firms may actually be pyramid schemes, in which money making depends on continually recruiting new salespeople.