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Avon, Mary Kay, Tupperware, The Pampered Chef.
You’ve probably heard of those companies and their products.
More and more people are turning to direct sales companies as second jobs and a way to make extra money.
According to the Direct Selling Association, a trade group that represents about 200 direct sales companies, 15 million people across the county participated in direct sales and generated $30.8 billion, those numbers are from 2007 and continue to increase.
Sarah Kjosa is a single mother with two children and a full-time job. But she also has a second job as an independent consultant for The Pampered Chef. “I wouldn’t even classify it as work, I just have so much fun, I spend a little bit of time each night after the kids go to bed, if I need to make some calls or do some paperwork and then I have a show, try to do a show once a week on a Saturday and that takes me a couple hours.†Kjosa said the couple of hours she spent at a cooking show in Galivants Ferry will mean extra money for her family.
“It allows me to have a little bit of breathing room, I don’t quite feel the tightness on the purse strings that you can just working an average nine to five, it gives me the ability to enjoy time and do some extra fun stuff.“
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