Doha: The direct selling model has showed how people without a business background can learn new skills and attitudes to provide significant additional income, say experts.
JR Mayer (pictured), Managing Director of Asian Direct Selling company QNET, who recently visited Dubai to support the Network Seminar Series 2014, which motivates Independent Representatives and give updates about the multi-level marketing business, said direct selling or network marketing is perfect for all nationalities and genders regardless of business acumen.
Regionally, it is interesting to note that the Direct Selling business is making inroads into many emerging economies, especially in the Middle East and North Africa region. This is confirmed by the WFDSA report that states that the industry is seeing a strong growth in emerging economies around the world, demonstrating the solid economic and entrepreneurial opportunity direct selling offers to people from all walks of life.
Ranked in the top 30 direct selling companies in the world, QNET’s sales have jumped 70 percent in the last five years and the company is targeting $1bn in sales and a top 10 ranking in the world by 2018.
In the Middle East, QNET is in the process of expanding its warehousing and logistics capacity and capability, to serve an ever-growing customer base across the Mena region which is on schedule for completion by the first quarter of 2014. “Product sales have continued to show strong growth during 2013, ratifying our decision to expand our warehouse (to 500 shipments per day),” said Mayer.
QNET product sales transactions are averaging over 10,000 per month in the Mena as a whole, and peaked at 11,200 per month during the second quarter.
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