MLM Dreams Do Come True

Holly Chen is a former first-grade teacher, just over 5 feet tall, with a taste for sequins. You wouldn't know it by looking at her, but this 68-year-old grandmother is one of the most prolific salespeople on Earth.


Late on this January night, in a cramped casino ballroom, some 1,100 people rise to greet Ms. Chen. Cameras flash as she strides across stage in black patent-leather boots. The mood takes an unexpected turn when she starts by talking about her late mother. Soon she is in tears.

"The most powerful weapon is to move somebody emotionally," she says later, speaking Mandarin throughout. "So if you send out a signal as love, you will receive the same signal back."

Ms. Chen is a kingpin of the emotions business. Over three decades, she and her husband have become the single largest Amway Corp. distributor in the world, motivating a commission-based army of some 300,000 salespeople. As members have recruited new reps, the network has spread from Ms. Chen's base in Taiwan across Hong Kong and mainland China to Chinese immigrant communities in the U.S., France, Spain and Russia.


They call this multilevel network chao fan, which means "extraordinary." It has grown more than 30% each year since 2009. Today, Ms. Chen directs one in every 10 Amway reps—getting a cut along the way.

Her total haul is estimated by one direct-sales magazine at $8 million a year. "I don't even know how much I make," she says to the group gathered in Las Vegas, part of the U.S. branch of chao fan.

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  I believe in the power and integrity of Multi-Level Marketing. Legal MLM companies like Amway, which is a product based and word of mouth advertised business, offers an opportunity to make an honest dollar to anyone, including the homeless or unemployed. The financial success that Holly Chen has accomplished with Amway can be duplicated by anyone with the same determination and persistence, even though as the above article points out the average Amway distributor makes only about $200 a month. In today's economy an extra two hundred bucks a month is nothing to scoff at. If a company offers a product or service you find value in and that company is willing to pay you  residual income to share that product or service with others in some sort of multi-level marketing compensation plan, then I say go for it. MLM Dreams do come true.