{"id":6020,"date":"2012-03-26T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=6020"},"modified":"2012-03-26T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:44:36","slug":"most-direct-sellers-dont-earn-a-living-through-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/26\/most-direct-sellers-dont-earn-a-living-through-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Direct Sellers Don&#8217;t Earn A Living Through Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6021\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Maggie Clark talks with customers at a recent event in Nampa, Idaho.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/03\/Maggie_Customers1.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6021\" title=\"Maggie_Customers\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/03\/Maggie_Customers1-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/03\/Maggie_Customers1-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/03\/Maggie_Customers1-620x502.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/03\/Maggie_Customers1-220x178.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emilie Ritter Saunders \/ StateImpact Idaho<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maggie Clark talks with customers at a recent event in Nampa, Idaho.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Earlier today we introduced you to <a title=\"Scentsy Becomes A Multimillion Dollar Business\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/26\/scentsy-becomes-a-multimillion-dollar-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Clark<\/a>, an independent salesperson for the wickless candle maker <a title=\"Scentsy Becomes A Multimillion Dollar Business\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/26\/scentsy-becomes-a-multimillion-dollar-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scentsy<\/a>.\u00a0 Clark says she earns about $1,200 a month on her business.\u00a0 <del><\/del>That is well above the median income for someone in the direct selling industry.<\/p>\n<p>The Direct Selling Association, an industry trade group, says the median annual income is $2,400.\u00a0 That equals about $200 a month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There certainly are people who make the equivalent of a full-time income through direct selling,&#8221; says <a title=\"Direct Sales Companies Saw Spike In Sellers During Recession\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/20\/direct-sales-companies-saw-spike-in-sellers-during-recession\/\" target=\"_blank\">DSA spokesperson Amy Robinson<\/a>.\u00a0 &#8220;But by and large people are looking for supplemental income.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robinson says most people work less than ten hours a week at their direct selling business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today we introduced you to Maggie Clark, an independent salesperson for the wickless candle maker Scentsy.\u00a0 Clark says she earns about $1,200 a month on her business.\u00a0 That is well above the median income for someone in the direct selling industry. The Direct Selling Association, an industry trade group, says the median annual income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":6021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[147,146],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6034,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions\/6034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}