If you are thinking about starting a business, here are seven reasons you should take an honest look at the Network Marketing or MLM business model. No matter what you may have heard positive or negative, you owe it to yourself to get the facts.

Network Marketing or Multi-level Marketing (MLM) is not magic. It's wrong to even call your business a network marketing business. Network Marketing is simply a marketing strategy where you supply a product to people you know, people they know, and people you get to know. That's really no different than almost any other kind of business.

All these people (potential customers or business partners) make up your network, hence the name, NETWORK Marketing.

Multi-level Marketing or MLM is a reference to the design of the compensation plan. Commissions for products sold is paid over two or more levels. And that's not much different that most corporate structures.

So here are the seven reasons you should consider a Network Marketing plan when you think about starting a business of your own.

Reason 1 The financial risk is low or even zero. Usually for the nominal cost of a distributor