ACN, alleged to be the world’s largest direct selling telecommunications company operates in twenty countries across three continents. So if you are a network marketer in US, Europe or Asia Pacific, you would have surely come across the prospect of earning as a rep for this company’s products.
First, let’s glance at the background of the company and judge the feasibility of this job?
· ACN – A brief introduction
Four entrepreneurs, Greg Provenzano, Robert Stevanovski, Mike Cupisz and Tony Cupisz founded this company in Farmington Hills, Michigan in 1993 to offer local and long distance telephones, internet, wireless, satellite TV with DirecTV and Home Security. The company adopts MLM system to sell their products,tha is by hiring representatives to promote products and recruit more distributors. ACN supposedly has a MLM payment system that’s unmatched in the industry; distributors get to earn a residual income.
· What is Residual income?
As a distributor for ACN, your commission is a percentage on your client’s service worth according to the level in which you’re placed. You earn a residual income for your service, that is, you earn money for as long as the customer uses the product.. This means, all you have to do is sell a product to earn a lifelong income. Are you tempted? You might want to think about that again!
· Criticisms
Just think. If this prospect were really as good as claimed, wouldn’t the company be flooded with reps?
1. The commission is very low This is because the company cannot afford to pay more in an industry with such high rivalry.
2. Starting your business will put you back 499 bucks to begin
3. Though you get a commission based on your customer’s usage, it’s payable only when the minimum usage is 10000 bucks .
4. As a previous employee claimed, it’s more profitable to sign in new recruits to ACN than in making sales
5. ACN marketing training emphasizes “warm market” which is your friends and family for your leads. Soon, you’ll start getting cold stares from your warm market
· So where does this leave us?
Do not quit. You could still work in ACN and be successful.
Be creative to make the most of this business. Project yourself to a global audience and reach people who are outside your warm market. The secret to this is going online. Get people to approach you with bookings.. Adopt a new approach to marketing and conduct your business in style using the best tools in the net.
