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ACN, the world’s largest direct selling telecommunications company operates in twenty countries in three continents. So if you are a marketing rep in the United States, Europe or Asia Pacific, you would have surely chanced upon the opportunity to earn money as a distributor of this company’s products.

First, let’s glance at the background of the company and then explore the income opportunity to find out how best to make money from this business.

ACN - A brief introduction

This company was founded in Farmington Hills, Michigan by four businessmen, Greg Provenzano, Robert Stevanovski, Mike Cupisz and Tony Cupisz in 1993 to offer local and long distance telephones, internet, wireless, satellite TV with DirecTV and Home Security. These products and services are sold through Network Marketing, that is by hiring representatives to market products and sign up more reps. This company claims to be different from other MLMs by offering reps a residual income for the work done.

How do you earn in ACN?

As a distributor for ACN, your commission is a percentage on your customer’s usage value according to the level in which you’re placed. You earn a residual income for your service, that is, you earn money for as long as the customer uses the product.. So once you’ve closed a deal, your client just has to use the service you’ve sold to allow you to earn.. Tempting? Think again!

Criticisms

If the income opportunity was really as lucrative as advertised, why should there be just a lukewarm response to this opening?

1. The commission is very low This is because the company cannot afford to pay more in an industry with such high rivalry.

2. You’ll have to make an investment of $499 to join.

3. Your residual income gets activated only when the client usage exceeds $10000

4. As a previous employee pointed out, you earn more in ACN by recruiting people than by selling products.

5. The company trains you to target your “warm market”, that is, friends and relatives to do your business. In a few days, you’ll find that this market is not warm anymore.

So where does this leave us?

Don’t quit. These criticisms don’t mean ACN Inc is a wasted venture.

Be creative to make the most of this business. Find a way to make your business visible to vast market and get them to approach you The secret to this is going online.Now, you’ll have customers contacting you instead of you going from person to person. Follow new tactics in making your business visible to all and be happy with the results.