NWAnews.com:
Until November 2007 Janet Miller was an administrative assistant, a career she had begun 20 years earlier. That career ended when she was let go by her employer. “From that point, I decided that I didn’t want to go back into the corporate world,” says Miller, 37, of Conway.
“I’ve always wanted to be a stay-at-home mom … [and] never thought I was able to.” After her layoff, she and her husband, who have a 13-year-old son, looked at their finances and decided it was possible. So home Miller stayed, also baby-sitting her two nephews.
In January, Miller saw an Avon commercial urging viewers to “start your own business for $10.” Bells went off. Miller met with an Avon district manager and that very night decided to become an Avon representative. She has been selling in the Little Rock, Conway and Greenbrier areas ever since.
Miller is just one of a growing number of people turning to direct sales during the current recession. They serve as independent consultants for companies that, according $ to the terminology of the Direct Selling Association, “manufacture and distribute goods and services sold directly to consumers.”
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