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Lighthouse, you do know that the US Chamber Of Commerce has stated that Network Marketing will be the Business of the 21st century, and both Robert Kyosaki and Donald Trump have endorsed Network Marketing, both have stated that if they were to start a business today that is the way they would go. (See Success From Home Magazine May 2007),
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Oh I forgot, I really don't like the concept to pay and be member of BBB, Vegan, and all the services like that to make money.

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I just read this thread and was left scratching my head.

While MLM is network marketing, not all network marketing is MLM.

For instance blogging and online communities (like this one) is online network marketing.

1. Do you feel Network Marketing will be the business of the 21st century?

Yes I do, fueled by technology changes in blogging and social media. Affiliate marketing will evolve into a much leaner machine that is based on referrals and recommendations by the people we know (which is a huge reason Facebook is attracting so many marketing dollar right now)

2. What are the pros to network marketing and what are the cons, do you feel the pros outweigh the cons?

The pros are moving into a relationship based selling model, rather than a product based sales model. You can jump several levels into the sales cycle by finding people who you already know or who trust a referral enough to make a business transaction. The con is that there is a tendency in folks to put too many eggs in one basket and not develop multiple channels of business.

3. Is there a database available to find people interested in Home Based Businesses, specific to the Network Marketing model?

Yes... its called Google. I've done a lot of research on home based businesses, which more and more businesses are adapting to the model. The technical / corporate version of "home based" is calling it "virtual". Everyone on my team is virtually based out of offices across the U.S. After having a decade of corporate life and cube farming under my resume, the need to have a physical office is getting less and less needed. One major shift is that physical mail is even going truly electronic, a professional contact in the northwest here received over ten million in funding to launch EarthClassMail (a virtual PO Box that scans physical mail and sends it to you via the net anywhere in the world)

I'm assuming you are referring to MLM type of network marketing?

Many large Fortune 5000 companies use network marketing... so I can' see how that includes "poor desperate people who usually are in debt."

For instance the Advertising and Public Relations industries both work offsliding scale percentages that often feed several layers down through vendors and affiliated business partners. The usual percentage in the advertising realm starts at 15% for referrral business, which trickles down into everything from online sales to national newspaper campaigns.

Network Marketing is also used by street salesforces with a high-turnover rate. For instance when I was at Verizon we had a salesforce of four to five thousand nationwide. Every single salesperson exposed us to a personal and professional network ranging from 50 to 5000. Basic math told us we had an inherent network of 200,000 to 25,000,000 word of mouth contacts in the circuit at any one time.

The MLM model used by companies like Amway (Quikstar) or a variety of other businesses often does present itself to people who are targeting the wrong demographic, but the successful salespeople and marketers within those groups have extraordinary professional networks. If you ever network with the diamond level of Amway for instance, they often have an inner-circle of succesful six-figure incomes representing a wide variety of industries.

If you look at the online model of network marketing (affiliate marketing) sites like commission junction have large groups in the tens of thousands of users working as MLM structured business networks. It is one of the fastest growing areas of online marketing due to things like blogging and online communities.