The
Distributor Rights Association is a grassroots organisation dedicated to preserving
the promise of residual income for ALL network marketers.
It does this mainly through education, and by practical measures like publishing
information to help network marketers and MLM companies create fairer contracts,
establish industry standards for reference in arbitration and litigation and liaise
with companies to try to bring about more equitable resolution of disputes with distributors.
Is this relevant
to you, though? What kind of protection could YOU possibly need? Protection from
what?
Imagine
you've achieved all your goals and dreams in your network marketing business. You're
earning $100,000 per month, with a fabulous lifestyle, travel, a beautiful home...
and your company is acquired by another company, perhaps with no MLM industry experience.
Or the company owner resents paying out so much money, month after month. (These
scenarios happen all the time, believe it or not... this is no hypothetical, 'blue
sky' theorising.)
Your contract with the company says that the company can choose not to renew your
distributorship when it comes due. It can suspend your bonus payments for real or
alleged infractions of the often draconian, one-sided provisions of your contract.
If you decide to take the company to court, you'll have to do so without your bonus
income, and the company's attorneys may tie you up in legal arguments and technicalities,
hoping your money will run out. (They've got your bonus income, too, don't forget.)
Or, as happens more often, the company will exercise its right under your contract
to choose binding arbitration — often with an arbitrator ignorant of MLM or who is
used regularly by the company (so their income is largely dependent on company patronage!)
If the judge or the arbitrator asks what the industry standards are, chances
are that they'll be referred to the Direct Selling Association's documentation.
But the DSA is the industry association for the companies! Can you see the risks to YOU in all of this? Scenes like this are played
out more often than most network marketers could believe. And the more successful
you become, the more likely it is to happen to you.
Sometimes this kind of unfair, unilateral action is due to predatory attitudes by
management. Sometimes it's just due to poor legal advice. And sometimes it's due
to ignorance and inexperience. Whatever the motivation happens to be, it won't
make much difference to you... you'll be on your own, left to foot the
mounting legal bills in a one-sided case that could easily see you having
to pay the company's costs on top of your own.
Better
to prevent it before it happens to YOU. That's why the DRA exists!
Founded and supported by a Who's Who of the international network marketing
profession, the Distributor Rights Association deserves your financial
support. The annual membership fee is just US$50 – less than US$1 a week – for what
could be the most timely and effective protection you'll ever find for your
residual income. Visit the DRA's web site for more information, lists of present
and past disputes, warnings and useful information.
The Profit Clinic is pleased and proud to support the DRA. Our founder and
CEO, John Counsel, is the DRA's honorary Executive Director for Australia.
If you have questions or concerns about the DRA and its role, or if you have a concern
or dispute with your MLM company about any aspect of your agreement with them, please
contact
John.
The
Distributor Rights Association is a grassroots organisation dedicated to preserving
the promise of residual income for ALL network marketers.
Imagine
you've achieved all your goals and dreams in your network marketing business. You're
earning $100,000 per month, with a fabulous lifestyle, travel, a beautiful home...
and your company is acquired by another company, perhaps with no MLM industry experience.
Or the company owner resents paying out so much money, month after month. (These
scenarios happen all the time, believe it or not... this is no hypothetical, 'blue
sky' theorising.)
