It spreads around the profits rather than restricting profits to only a few people, which is what happens in the traditional retail model. With network marketing, you can create as much income as you like.
Network marketing supports a flexible, home-based lifestyle.
Some people prefer to market just enough to pay for their own product consumption. Others create full-fledged businesses, supporting themselves and their families quite well. In network marketing, one enters the business opportunity first by using the products yourself and finding products that you really, really like. It doesn't make sense to market products that you don't genuinely support. Read the marketing plan of the company or companies which you have chosen.