What to Look for When Starting Your Own Business - Scam Or Legit?

Beware-if it Sounds Too Good to Be True, it Probably Is!

Starting a home based business can be a very exciting time, an adventure that makes you feel in control of your destiny, empowered and in control of your future finances, and hopeful for the future. There are unfortunately, traps out there that look very legitimate, however you later find out that your business adventure didn't work for you, or worse yet, that you had been scammed.

Let me give you some background. I have been involved in home based business opportunities for 28 years. I have not really been scammed, because I knew what to look out for. I had a gut feeling that something didn't seem to "add up". Were all of the businesses legitimate? Yes, they were...however not all of them worked for me. There are various reasons for this, which will be mentioned later, but let's first look at what is, and is not, a legitimate opportunity.

You may have heard the term MLM, or multi-level marketing, and you may have been told to avoid it. I cannot disagree more with this. Multi-level marketing is NOT a pyramid scheme, which is what you may have heard. Avon, Mary Kay,Slumber Parties, Herbalife, Meleleuca, and other legitimate companies work with either multi-level marketing or consumer direct marketing models, all of which are legitimate. They have product to offer, and you quite often can do very well with them, in fact, it's possible to make more income than the person who sponsored you. This doesn't hold true with a pyramid scheme, as there is not a product involved, and the only person making money are the few at the top of the pyramid. Don't let the term multi-level marketing or consumer direct marketing frighten you into not affiliating with a company.