Right now with the economy tanking in a global recession and the governments try to do its best to kick start their own economy, more more people are finding themselves out of working. As well as facing enormous amounts of stress in their lives. People now faced with job loss and huge mortgage debt have come to realize that job security is not what had used to be. More and more people are starting to look at self employment as ways and means to gain more independence.

Perhaps you maybe one of those who are looking into a MLM business opportunity as an avenue to a new career. With this particular industry, you are free to setup your own hours and work as much as you want. If you consider yourself to be a real people person with an aggressive entrepreneurial spirit, then the MLM industry just might be for you. The facts are there are countless people out there who are making a full-time living from this particular industry.

First off, let\'s define what an MLM company is. Multi-level marketing (MLM), also known as Network Marketing, involves a parent company that sells a product or line of products to sell directly to consumers by means of personal referrals and direct marketing. The sales people are self employed non-salaried distributors, or dealers, if you will, who sell for the parent company MLM Business Opportunity and earn commissions on the amount of product sold through their independent efforts and also by those people whom they recruit.

Possibly the best known MLM business Americans of age can remember is Tupperware. Invented by Earl Tupper in 1942, Thomas Damigella and Brownie Wise sold household products through Stanley Home Products and started selling Tupperware as part of the product offerings. Their volume of sales initiated a 1948 meeting with Mr. Tupper and Damigella, Wise, and other distributors in Worcester, Massachusetts and theye devised a new marketing plan, designed along the lines of the home party plan sales avenue invented by Stanley Home Products. Ten years later, Earl Tupper sold the Tupperware company for 16 million dollars and retired a multimillionaire.

The Tupperware style home based \"party\" sales approach is the mainstay of many MLM companies to this day, where products are displayed and ordered or purchased immediately by attendees, and new sales representatives or recruits are developed and attracted into the marketing company. These recruits become part of a pyramid organization with the recruiting sales rep reaping a percentage of the new recruits profits, who then go on to recruit more representatives for the MLM Business Opportunity, thus growing the organization as large as the market will bear.

People who get in on the \"ground floor level\" or at the beginning of a brand new network marketing company are capable of making some serious money before the market starts to get saturated. The good news for most people with regards this industry, is that there are always new products and services coming out on the yearly basis. So if you are one of those individuals that are sales oriented, then the opportunities are virtually limitless.

Amway/Quixtar and Mary Kay are 2 very well recognized and respected MLM companies. They have been around for a very long time and are very well respected with in this particular industry. However, it\'s always a good idea to keep an eye out for new opportunities and new companies. Sometimes it\'s much easier to build a business around a new opportunity simply because people have not heard about it yet and as a result, the market hasn\'t been saturated get.