USA Today: Direct Sales (Network Marketing) offer recession-proof jobs
This is a great article posted today on USA Today talking about how Network Marketing is truly the best “Plan B” you can find for your family. A friend once asked me, “You would never go on a road trip wihtout a spare tire so why would anyone go through life with only one source of income?”
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Here is a snippet of the story:
Not long ago, Craig Lapp made his living driving a truck that helped carve Southern California’s soil into new developments. But then housing sales slumped, and in November 2007 Lapp’s construction company let him go.
While he searched for another job, Lapp began working alongside his wife, Lynne, in a business based in their Temecula home, selling nutritional supplements made by the direct-sales company Isagenix. Nearly two years later and with no construction job in sight, Lapp says a one-time sideline has become the couple’s bread and butter.
“It’s paying our mortgage, our car payments … putting food on the table,” says Lapp, 55, who adds that he and his wife are earning a six-figure income. “It was our ‘Plan B’ that turned into our ‘Plan A.’ “
