Researching the Best Home Base Business to Start. Learn to Avoid The Scams by These 6 Red Flags

There are literally millions of home base business out there today.  All of which claim to promise you the ability to quit your job in 30 days, become a millionaire overnight, own 15 houses or more, etc. The problem however is that 99.9% of what is said is never backed up with facts.  You'll more often see pictures of 20 year old kids driving $500,000 cars or the story of the 18 year old who retired.  Behind all the "bait" you never seem to find the actual math of what you would need to do to create that income.  Because 99% of business statistically will fail the average person, it's important to learn the red flags to avoid when researching which home base business is right for you:

RED FLAG #1
Company is less than 10 years old (not enough time to prove it will stand the test of time).  Don't fall for the "get in now" or "ground floor opportunity".  That's bait to get you to think you need to act soon or miss out.  Even if it was true, that would suggest that the business is only profitable for those who start now and later down the road you'll have to lie to people bc it will no longer be profitable.  You want a business that has a great opportunity today, 10 years from now and 50 years from now.  Make sure it's a stable company with over 10 years experience or you may find yourself starting and the company not being around in the near future.
RED FLAG #2
Company pays out less than 40% of it's earnings to distributors.   Most companies pay out as little as 10% and most won't even show you the financials.  You obviously are going into business to make money - not only in sales but in residual income.  Make sure the residual income is over 40%.  Still the highest I've found has been with market america / shop.com - more info at thestackgrp.com
RED FLAG #3
Company doesn't publish a annual report.  Transparency is a must in todays market - if they don't publish a annual audit for you to review - there is something negative they're trying to hide. Get the report or find another company.  
RED FLAG #4
The Company structure is Horizontal or Hybrid Binary (the average person can only build less than 2.8 legs successfully.  Any more than 2 legs and the average person will fail.  Also Hybrid Binary is a system that combines horizontal flaws with binary building.   You want to start a company that is Binary based which maximizes the profits in the entire group.  The structure should share profits from the newest owners to the oldest as well as from the oldest to the newest.  To this day the highest paying plan is shop.com
RED FLAG #5
One industry or one product line company.  Market conditions change all the time - if you are a one industry or one product company - you will experience challenges that could wipe out your business.  Also, not only are you limited on your customer base, but also on who you can bring on as a partner.  Find a company that is a product broker.  Brokerage companies can move with the markets and always be where it's profitable.  
RED FLAG #6
MLM's.  MLM's were created in the 1950's and have failed the majority of builders.  The idea was to pay people different percentages to a specific level to encourage expanding the business.  Problems in this system include:
- Top experienced leaders don't help the new people bc there is no payout on their level - ends up with new people teaching new people
- People build wide (horizontal) to get paid the highest % and spread themselves too thin
- Competition is created and begins to errode your business
- Break-a-ways.  If a partner does well, the MLM company could take that person and move them to pay you less.  This creates a structure where you don't want anyone to succeed bc then you'll be paid less on their success. 

For more information on researching shop.com , check out www.thestackgrp.com

Market America Home Base Business Leaps from 70 to 57 on the Internet Retailers Top 500 List

Internet Retailers top 500 List is the industry standard for analyzing the top internet retailers.  The Top 500 Guide provides 235 key data points for each retailers, comprehensive analysis of the past decade of growth and more!

Market America has been a major player in not only revolutionizing the home base business structure, but now they've evolved as a e-retailing giant.  This past year alone, Shop.com powered by Market America has jumped from #70 world wide to 13 spots ahead to #57.  In addition to this incredible growth, Internet Retailer shows Market America as rating 14th in top mass merchants which includes major companies like Wal Mart, Target, Amazon and other online retailers.

For those looking for where the profits are, they are clearly in mass merchants and ecommerce.  Internet Retailer has shown yet again that there is no recession in the internet retail world - 15.8% Growth rate in 2012 U.S. e-commerce sales!

I'm so incredibly proud of this company and all the franchise owners world wide that work together to make this happen.

This is the 4 year in a row market america has remained in the top 100 world wide.  For those of you looking to start a business, this would be the franchise to own. 

For more information on owning your own shop.com business, review the details at www.thestackgrp.com

shop.com Launches New Search Engine

Hints during Market America's 20th World Conference was a new launch of a state of the art search engine powering shop.com and the 180,000 independent owners websites.  A short 3 weeks after the convention and they not only delivered on time but they over delivered! 
Here is a message from Market America's COO Marc Ashley:

I am excited to announce the launch of SHOP.COM's new search results engine as promised at the WC. This is now live in the US, CAN, Mexico, UK & Australia. The new features on this new search results platform is revolutionary. Most of our customers and Distributors use search to find the products they are looking to buy so it was paramount for us to create a new revolutionary search results engine. See below just some of the features of this new enhancement to your SHOP.COM site.
1.  The speed of the search results are so fast. You have to see it to believe it. Also when you drill down to refine your search there is no page refreshes or when you go to the next page to see more results it changes the display instantaneously without a page refresh.
2.  When you want to change to display to show on "one-cart" products again no page refresh and the results change right on your screen. We also make it much easier for you and consumers to understand the benefits of one-cart stores.
3.  We rewrote this program from scratch and have made the user experience so much better and easier to navigate for you and your customers
4.  There is also a new free-shipping indicator for MA brands to remind your customers of our ship free program.

It's hard to describe all the new features of this new technology. You will love it. This is live!!!!!!!
Thanks again.
Marc Ashley COO

Market America is ranked #70 on the internet retailers top 100 list.  Learn more about this powerful company at www.thestackgrp.com

Market America and Shop Turns into a Global Franchise Opportunity

Internet Retailer Market America and Shop.com have expanded their reach and opportunity to open up globally. With growing demand to sell products internationally, Market America will be launching a new global shop.com ecommerce site and equip it's already large franchise owner base with this new technology.

The global site will allow all home based internet franchise owners of shop.com to now expand their business overseas.  All of the technology, shipping, currency, fulfillment and more is all handled by market america. 

Market America and shop.com is now ranked #70 in internet retailers top 100 E-businesses.   Read the full article from Internet Retailer.