RED FLAGS TO LOOK OUT FOR....

I will help you out with a BIG RED FLAG a lot of people will overlook as a good deal. I have been involved with direct sales for many years. If you are looking at a 2 UP, be very suspicious if someone offers just 1 training sale to be passed up to become a director/advisor, rather than the normal two.

I have seen many people struggle with directors that do that. Why? Because they are taking only 1 product sale from you, they USUALLY will not be as helpful in training you or as accessable to you. They are looking for the quick pops, because often someone will purchase from them thinking "they are getting a deal!" That's not a deal. When you join an opportunity for the income potential, you will want full support from your upline.

Also, the director accepting one training sale is decreasing the power of the compensation plan... and undercutting their fellow marketers.

You want to interview the person you will be purchasing from beside doing your due dilligence on the COMPANY. YOu want to know what kind of experience they have with network marketing, what they can offer you with regard to assistance and training, and if they are easily accessable or have special hours they work.

A director may have several methods one can pay for a product. Using a private shippers such as FEDEX is NOT A RED FLAG. As you see, Maw and a few others just don't like to spend the extra money for the features FEdex and others offer. MANY MANY businesses use Fedex, there is nothing shady about them -- unless you want to say they are incorporated in PANAMA as well as Emerald Passport is!

Just be sure to pay by money order or cashier check and MAKE A COPY of it before sending! You will need this for tax purposes, and is an added security measure.

As for being incorporated in PANAMA... there are tons of businesses based there. Kelly said, they can close shop tomorrow and we'd be out of money. That is not the case. With MLM's the company pays you... but with direct sales, you pay the company. We receive the money first, and then send the portion for the product to the company. SO in all actuality, they are working for us, not the reverse.

Do not be fooled into thinking if a company is incorporated in the US they are safe. I have seen companies that folded without notice, taking people's money.

OH, that brings me to another RED FLAG. Be sure a company is in business for a year or more. Statistics show that companies open for a year or more are much more stable than a "Start up" company. If you hear prelaunch, or brand new... be careful. I have seen many start up companies run into problems, and have to change directions all together or fold. You don't want to be associated with those, thats how you will loose money.

I hope I have helped. Those are LEGITIMATE RED FLAGS!