The top network marketing company in 2012 is the one that’s been around the longest, is number two in worldwide sales and has been growing at a clip of more than 10% per year even during the recession. The top network marketing company is Amway.

When you have the world’s top selling dietary supplements in Nutrilite, a top 5 prestige skin care brand in Artistry, one of the top 5 best selling energy drinks and the highest rated cleaning products and detergents, you know you’re doing something right. Add on some high quality personal care and home care products along with dozens of brand name partner stores, and it’s little wonder that Amway did $9.2 billion in sales in 2010 and is projected to do $10.5 billion in sales in 2011.

As great and as in-demand as their products are, there’s even more to like about the Amway business opportunity. The compensation plan is the most lucrative in the industry, and it’s built to reward even the newest person with bonuses and healthy monthly income checks as long as the new business owner completes a few simple steps to lay the foundation for their business.

Amway supports its Independent Business Owners (IBO’s) with global advertising campaigns through several mediums like TV, Print, Internet marketing and more. They continue to innovate with product development, social media participation and improving their business opportunity to be unmatched within the industry.

I highly recommend taking a good look at the Amway business opportunity before you consider any other network marketing company by doing some research and talking to an informed IBO, such as myself.

For much more information on Amway and why I feel it’s the top network marketing company in 2012 and beyond, click on the link below and read all about the company, products, partnerships and business opportunity. I think you’ll see why starting an Amway network marketing business is becoming so popular among ambitious online entrepreneurs like yourself:

http://www.amway.com/JeffreyMirro/start-a-business

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The major reason is that Americans are much more likely to buy high quality health, beauty and home care products from you on a consistent basis than commit to a business opportunity long-term, even if that business opportunity is low-cost and no risk. Plus, being able to sell products online turns your business into more of a hands-off affiliate marketing business, or like I said above, a true direct sales business, rather than a multi level marketing or network marketing business. This can create a form of residual income that’s even more automated and less time intensive than if you had a huge downline producing the same amount of volume.

That’s been my experience at least. I’m not suggesting you take the “network” out of network marketing completely, or even shift your focus away from recruiting whatsoever. I’m just saying that it’s important to have a balanced business in terms of products sales and recruiting. And I’m also saying that selling your company’s products online, when done properly, can set up an even better lifestyle for yourself than building and maintaining relationships with a productive downline.

Think about it. Selling someone a product does not require near the maintenance or the commitment that sponsoring them does. When you sign someone up in your opportunity, you are almost making a promise to them to get involved in their financial and maybe even personal life, to stick with them throughout their career, and to be available to them around the clock. When you throw in the expected training, motivation and direct assistance you’re expected to give someone you personally sponsor, is it really worth it when you consider the unlimited income potential of selling products online?

For some it definitely is. For me, I’m not so sure anymore. I think from here on out I’ll sponsor someone if they really want to get into my company or learn from my marketing methods, but other than that, I’m a pure salesman. It’s less stressful, less time intensive and just as lucrative. The residual income potential still exists, and there’s nothing stopping me from sponsoring more people whom I’d like to help down the road. I now have the attitude of getting back to what direct selling was originally meant to be. Promote and sell your company’s products, establish a solid customer base, become profitable, and then develop a sales team that will duplicate your efforts.

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The economy has played a huge role in this, and so has the average American’s increasing desire to work from home and work for themselves. Most people don’t want to be controlled by a boss anymore. They don’t want to have their income capped, and perhaps most importantly, they want to create more free time for themselves.

Network marketing provides all of the above and much more. It has become the most appealing career in the world today, and as a result of its obvious positive characteristics, increased advertising and sponsorships by the major network marketing companies, and the downturn in the global economy over the past few years which has made jobs even less secure and less appealing, network marketing is poised to continue to see very strong growth in the near and distant future.

If you are already a network marketing business owner, or even if you’re just considering getting a network marketing business started, it’s important for you to know that your prospects, meaning average people, are more open to what you have to say and the network marketing opportunity you have to present to them. They are looking for a way to make extra money, and for alternative ways to generate income besides a job. In some cases, they are desperate.

The summer of 2011 will go down in history as the time when the network marketing industry surged to unprecedented heights with a massive wave of new distributors signing up with the major network marketing companies and a drastic increase in product sales. The future beyond the next few months looks even brighter.

So jump on board and be a part of the best time in history to start a network marketing business, or to at least become active with your current network marketing business. As entrepreneurs, we will be at the forefront of the economic recovery, and network marketing will lead the way.

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Among the other credible things you can do online to make money, I like providing a valuable service (such as Internet marketing/SEO/PPC) to clients, selling your own physical or digital products through an e commerce platform, and drop shipping. I also think a great way to make money online is to provide freelance writing services to clients, whether the content is for Internet marketing purposes or not. This can be a great way to earn a living.

I have to give a special recommendation to affiliate marketing as well. Promoting other people’s products for a commission is a phenomenal way to make money online if you know what you’re doing, and in my opinion it’s a very close second to network marketing.

But direct sales, mlm and network marketing is still the best industry to be in if you want to create a full-time residual income online by working part-time hours. The potential for profit with network marketing is the absolute best you will find, while the nature of the business model is very unique, in a good way of course. What other industry or career allows your income to go up over time as your work hours go down? You can make an argument that this can be accomplished through straight affiliate marketing, and I wouldn’t disagree, but nothing beats network marketing in this regard.

My top recommendation as an online entrepreneur is still to start your own network marketing business. Get going with it now, learn the ropes and be on your way to an unbeatable lifestyle using and selling superior products and sponsoring others to do the same. It’s simple, it doesn’t take forever to become successful, and you can develop a walk-away income by leveraging the power of the Internet and the network marketing business model. I highly recommend you get started right now with the right company, business team and leader who can propel you to success in the next 6-12 months!

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The amazing thing is, about 4,800 of these companies, or 96% of them, sell nutritional or health and wellness products. Most only deal with this type of product line, and many only have one nutritional product that their whole opportunity is based off of.

Health and wellness, and in particular, diet and weight loss, just might be the most competitive, saturated market in the world right now, considering all of the companies that aren’t in direct sales that carry these types of products.

But certainly within network marketing, health and wellness is the overwhelming favorite product line, and everyone thinks their liquid vitamin, superfood, or magic potion is the best, the purest, the most effective, etc.

You’ve heard all the claims. “It cures diseases. You’ll never get sick. You will have unbelievable amounts of energy. This is the only nutritional product you’ll ever need.”

Sure, they all sound great, especially when the people doing the talking and writing the reviews are all distributors and have a vested interest in you buying the product or joining their business team. And I’m not saying there aren’t some fantastic nutritional MLM products out there, because there are. But just like overall network marketing opportunities, you should only seriously consider a select few.

I’ve mentioned in previous posts that besides Amway, the only companies worth even thinking about joining are Avon and Herbalife. But when assessing product quality in terms of the health and wellness MLM’s, (this obviously excludes Avon) there are a few more that you might want to research.

First, let me say that Herbalife does have a very good reputation for their dietary supplements and by all accounts people are very happy with them. From the research I’ve done, they do appear to have very high quality products that undergo strict processing standards and are the result of much scientific research.

Shaklee is another one of the old guard companies that has a great reputation for nutritional products. They’ve been one of the leading companies in the U.S. for health and wellness since 1956.

Then you have fairly newer network marketing companies that have developed a solid reputation for vitamins and supplements such as Usana, Vitamark and Immunotec.

But once again, and I hate to be biased (actually I don’t), Nutrilite is way out in front of all of these nutritional network marketing companies and all of the non-network marketing opportunities out there too.

Nutrilite, exclusively from Amway, was the very first company in the world that used multi level marketing as a business model. More importantly, Nutrilite’s founder, Carl Rehnborg, developed the first multivitamin in North America in 1934, and that supplement eventually became the Double X multivitamin in 1948. Double X is still going strong as the top selling dietary supplement in the world today. Not to mention, Nutrilite is the top selling vitamin, mineral and dietary supplement company in the world, and has been for many years running now. They do more than double the sales of top competitor GNC.

But sales alone are not the reason why Nutrilite is the best nutritional company in the world. The real reason is quality. Nutrilite is the only global brand to grow, harvest and process plants on its own certified organic farms. They possess hundreds of patents and many more patent-pending products. Double X, the Nutrilite Daily multivitamin and the Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables supplement were recently named NSF Certified for Sport.

Nutrilite has just about every type of important vitamin, mineral or dietary supplement you could ask for, and all are made with the highest quality control standards to ensure maximum potency and unbeatable health benefits for consumers.

I have personally been taking Double X for close to five years now and I can’t say enough good things about this supplement. From the unsurpassed, all-day energy to the immunity benefits, Double X is without a doubt the single best dietary supplement you can consume on a daily basis. If you were to take nothing else, or even do nothing else for your physical well-being, I believe you should be taking two servings of Double X each day.

I’ve taken many other Nutrilite supplements and have nothing but praise for each and every one of them. I take vitamin C and vitamin D on almost a daily basis. I’ve taken Rhodiola 110, which will give you more physical and mental energy than any other supplement, food or beverage in existence, hands down.

Other supplements I’d highly recommend to anyone include Ocean Essentials Balance Health, Veggie 150 Omega, CalMagD, Coenzyme Q10, Glucosamine 7, the Daily Multi, Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables, Milk Thistle and Dandelion for liver health, Garlic Heart Care and Clearguard for seasonal allergies. Heck, I’d highly recommend their entire product line, including their weight management and sports nutrition products. You simply won’t find quality or variety like this with any other company, network marketing or not.

I’ve said it before, but as much as I love Amway’s other products, like XS energy drinks, Legacy of Clean and all of the personal care stuff, I would still be an Amway distributor if Nutrilite was the only product line they had. Actually, if Double X was the only product they sold, I would still be an Amway independent business owner. I believe that much in the product, and I believe that much in Nutrilite as a company.

Read up on this company, their history and its premium quality products. It’s very interesting stuff. I recommend reading The Nutrilite Story by Dr. Sam Rehnborg, who is the son of Nutrilite founder Carl Rehnborg. I am not exaggerating when I say it is the best, most fascinating, most inspirational book I’ve ever read, period.

Also check out the official company website at http://www.nutrilite.com. And of course, if you want to sample some of the products, take a look at Amway’s Nutrilite section at the following link: Nutrilite Vitamins and Supplements

Don’t forget to take a look at their sports nutrition and weight management products too. The meal bars, protein bars, snack bars and my personal favorite, the energy bars (you have to try the chocolate nut roll flavor) not only are good for you but also taste amazing.

So I think you get the picture. Nutrilite is a one-of-a-kind health and wellness company that is committed to quality and organic farming practices. They are head and shoulders about the competition, especially in the MLM nutritional niche. Yes, there are some other quality products out there from some different network marketing opportunities, but why settle for anything less than the best?

Start with Double X and then try out some of the other vitamins and supplements as needed. Believe me, you won’t be disappointed. And to make things even better, the prices have come down in the past couple years as well, making Nutrilite products the best value on the market.

Amway is the best network marketing company for so many reasons, but in my opinion, the high quality of their products, and the Nutrilite product line in particular, is probably their most attractive feature. Whether you want to make money selling these exclusive dietary supplements or you just want to experience optimal health, there is no higher recommendation I can give you than to start a daily regime of taking the world’s leading brand of vitamins, minerals and dietary supplements.

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Let’s be real here. There’s only so much that can be said and so many tips on building a successful network marketing business that can be given before virtually every topic and strategy has been covered. Sure, things are always changing, and new information and motivational writing is always in demand. But for the most part, it’s all been said before and now it’s just a matter of presenting the information in a different way to reach and affect the most amount of people possible.

That’s why Pro Network Marketing has started to include posts about not only our network marketing company and their high quality products, but also about things closely related to network marketing like self development and personal growth. This is reflected in the decision to start the brand new Self Development Shop, which is an e commerce store that will be debuting in the next couple weeks. It will feature products for success in business and life. They will mostly consist of ebooks, audio books, audio training and software.

So while Pro Network Marketing will continue to be your leading source of fresh information and advice on building a successful network marketing business, my goal is to also to provide true and accurate information about my network marketing company, their many products that can positively impact your life, and information about the upcoming Self Development Shop and the plethora of products provided there that will hopefully lift you to whatever financial and personal goals you have set for yourself.

Look for this and other brand new, interesting topics of discussion on this network marketing blog in the future. Trust me, we are just getting started.

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That’s not to say that I blame our economic issues solely on our lack of leaders and forward thinkers, but this problem has definitely been one of the things that’s contributed to the downturn.

We need more people to start their own businesses, whether it be in network marketing or some other field. We need more innovative entrepreneurs to lead the way towards the next revolution that will spur our global economy to new heights and rescue it from the recession it’s been in. To put it simply, we need more leaders.

I can’t believe that so many people out there today are still comfortable being in the rat race and working for other people. There is no security, no upward mobility in most cases, and no fun. It sucks having to bend over backwards to make other people happy (like your boss) just so that you don’t get fired. It sucks having to work more hours than you’d like to, doing things you’d rather not be doing, all the while dreaming about what you’d rather be doing.

Many people see this, but they can’t see a way out. It unfortunate that there are so many uninformed people that don’t know that self-employment, entrepreneurialism and owning your own business are the ONLY way out that will get you on the path towards living the life you want to live.

Even if you don’t believe in network marketing (for whatever stupid reason), you should consider being an entrepreneur of some type, unless you want to work 40+ hours per week for 40+ years in a cubicle doing something that you at best tolerate and at worst despise so you can try to enjoy the weekend. Living for two days per week, or two weeks per year, is not something I envy, and I bet you don’t care for it either.

So why not? Why not try network marketing? Why not try starting an e commerce business? Why not try starting any type of business?

Your success is obviously not guaranteed, and the initial set up of these businesses and others can be just as much if not more work than taking the traditional employee route to earning money, but in the long run, it’s worth it. And if you happen to fail with your first, second, or even third foray into owning your own business, stay persistent, and eventually you’ll get there. If you refuse to be denied, you are truly unstoppable and you will ultimately be a successful entrepreneur.

The world is in more need of leaders and entrepreneurs right now than at any other point in our history. We need people to step up to the plate and move us forward as a nation. We need people to take responsibility for their own paychecks and their own lives. I ask you today to stop sitting on the sidelines of life and get moving with your own business.

Start working on yourself as a leader and others will follow you. Then you teach them to be leaders and entrepreneurs as well. It’s a beautiful cycle, and one that is absolutely necessary right now if we are to realize our true potential and experience financial and personal freedom.

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This new website will be called the Self Development Shop, and it will provide not only network marketing business owners, but other entrepreneurs and people from all walks of life with a valuable resource for self development and personal growth products. It will be your one-stop shop for the most important and life-changing information and education that can vault your business to new levels of success.

If you apply the knowledge in these self development books and products, then this website could have a tremendous, positive impact on your overall life. For this reason alone, I think you are going to love the Self Development Shop.

So get ready, because in about one month you will have easy access to the most essential information and resources that will literally propel you towards a successful and happy lifestyle!

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The best method to grow and develop yourself over the long haul is one of the most basic, old-school practices that a network marketer or other business owner could partake in, and that’s reading.

While there are other things you can do to work on your mindset and stay motivated, nothing provides the type of success training and education you need like reading good self development books does.

That’s why I’ve decided to open a new offshoot business of Pro Network Marketing called the Self Development Shop. We will be offering self development books and other related products to grow yourself and vault you to financial and personal success.

This new online store will be opening its virtual doors sometime in May, and I am eager to share these valuable products with you. I know that they will help thousands of people achieve the kind of success and happiness in life that they’ve been searching for. So keep up to date with this blog and watch for more updates on the Self Development Shop!

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The Internet has made this thinking even more pervasive. Sure, online marketing has helped the network marketing industry as much as any other type of business out there, but it doesn’t mean that profits are automatically going to flow in overnight with little time or effort put forth.

You need to take a long term approach to making money online through your network marketing business. This means taking the time to learn and implement key Internet marketing strategies, learning how to use online systems and websites that will help you grow your network and sell products, and not burning through your monthly advertising budget in two weeks.

Always remember that network marketing is a marathon, not a sprint. You are in this for the long haul, right? Then take your time, be patient, and continue to work gradually toward the future. You will get there. But it does take a long term approach and long-term thinking. That’s how all successful business owners think, and that’s how successful network marketers get ahead as well.

The more entrepreneurs we can convince to slow down and develop a long-term attitude toward their business, while ridding themselves of the impatient, get-rich-quick-overnight attitude they likely came into the industry with, the more retention we’re going to see and the more success stories we’re going to hear. After all, it’s a proven fact that the majority of people who have developed this long-term thinking approach to their network marketing business, and have stayed in the game and persevered for 10 plus years, are extremely successful.

So if you’re interested in running a profitable network marketing business, and developing a long-term residual income that will not only take care of you, but can be willed to your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, then you need to develop a long-term thought process toward your business.

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