would you work for my company? see question.?

I have an idea for a business, and my husband and I have been debating if my business model would work.

I want to start a home based business for stay at home moms ( or anyone interested for that matter) that sells organic/natural personal care products. (Facial/skin care, body care, hair care.) The company that will manufacture these products for me is super ethical.
The products would be sold in home demonstrations, like a spa party. Part of the demonstration would be educating women about the benefits of living the organic lifestyle, and how it can be incorporated into anyones life.
My husband and I agree up to this point.
He says no one will want to do this unless it is a multilevel marketing business where they can earn commission on what people they recruit sell.
I don't want to use a multi level marketing strategy. I have done Mary kay and still have a very bad taste in my mouth from my experience. I want to give end of year incentives based on sales and recruiting.
I really want this to be an ethical, real situation for women that want to stay home with their families but still contribute to the family income. My husband says I am being to idealistic. I think alot of women would like this opportunity. (I know I would)
Mary Kay can say they are a "dual marketing" company all they want. It is simply a multi level marketing company,except the company pays the commissions and not the consultants. As far as my involvement, I was in director qualification when I left the company. The benefits with Mary Kay are all an illusion. They say the are the #1 selling skin care line in the US. They base these figures on what consultants order...not what they actually sell. How much do consultants actually sell for the full retail price? Check out eBay if you want the full story. You pay for your prizes and your commissions. Think you don't? Send product back under the company's "liberal" buy back program. The cost of the prizes will be deducted from your refund and your recruiter will have to pay back any commissions they earned on your inventory. In my DIQ, I was under a director whose director was in national qualification. I saw really bad things happen to get her national unit,which she got.

Comments

fancy says:

July 31, 2009 at 6:38 pm

sounds good but i don’t think it will do good
Skin Lady says:

July 31, 2009 at 6:38 pm

What was your bad experience? I work for a skin care company (not Mary Kay) that’s multi-leveled and I think it’s great. We all truly help each other out, since we all benefit and reap the rewards of being successful…
SandraD says:

July 31, 2009 at 6:38 pm

Sorry you had a bad experience with Mary Kay however it is dual marketing not MLM. It is a shame that your experience sounds so different from mine. I am very fortunate to have great director and I think that is really what it comes down to . In any business you have good and bad and it is really hard to insure everyone does things the way it was interned with integrity and honestly living by the Golden rule. All you can do is clearly reinforce the values you want your business to run on and hope everyone abides.
If you do not want to have any recruiting incentive then you can offer finders fee like corporation do a one time commission or bonus check for bringing someone into the company. Good Luck!
Terra Moms says:

July 31, 2009 at 6:38 pm

Yes I would work with your company if I was not already eith a realy great home based business that also thinks about the enviroment and the peoples health. You should contact me becasue the company that I am partnered with is not an MLM or dual marketing like Mary K. People do not get hurt with the compenstaion plan. My web site is http://www.terramoms.com and my email is listed. Good luck
Julie C says:

July 31, 2009 at 6:38 pm

I guess it would depend on the benefits for each person–with regards to recruiting people to sell your product, you would actually be in direct competition with other comparable companies, so you would probably have to offer an almost better profit percentage or incentives.
One thing that could help you, though, if you do think about MLM is that you could offer people a ground-level opportunity, so they might be more willing to sign up to sell.
It is a great idea, though, so as long as you know that it could be a struggle, and you never quit at it, you could do great–Mary Kay, herself, had to start somewhere!
Good luck!