Work-at-Home Related Frequently Asked Questions
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How do I use this website?
What is an Affiliate?
What are Direct Sales?
What is a downline?
What is MLM (Multi-Level Marketing)?
What does "No Inventory" mean?
What is Wholesale?

How do I use this website?
WAHStation has been designed for you to learn as much about work-at-home opportunities from our website without having to surf the internet, going from one work-at-home opportunity to another to find your right fit. If you've already got the right fit, our site will help you be the work-at-home sucess you've been dreaming about!

Use the "Search Work-at-Home Opportunities" portion of the navigation menu to browse the work-at-home opportunities represented at WAHStation. You can also visit the Work-at-Home Opportunities page and surf from there. For example, if you are only interested in work-at-home opportunities that do not require inventory, you will want to select the "No Inventory" link. You can also browse by sign-up fee, alphabetically, and more.

The "Work at Home Topics" portion of the navigation menu represent topics we believe are essential to your understand of the different work-at-home opportunities available to you, how to avoid losing money in your investment, or even to avoid being scammed, and how to advance your business.

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What is an affiliate?
An affilate is a representative of a company. Real affiliate programs require very little to no sign-up fees, no quotas and usually provide you with an affiliate link that goes directly to the company website or to a portal page where your name appears. Affiliate programs normally pay a flat commission on sales generated through your affiliate link. As an affiliate, your job is to promote their business either through your own shopping portal or by advertising on the internet or through other conventional means.

Some businesses call their programs an Affiliate Program when they are more closely related to how a Consultant or Representative in a direct sales or MLM program.

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What are Direct Sales?
Direct Sales is a term used to describe a type of business where you, the company representative, is responsible for selling directly to the public either face-to-face or through a website.

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What is a downline?
Your downline consists of the people you've recruited into your business, and sometimes their recruits, too. These are sometimes referred to "tiers." For example, you first downline would be a person you recruit. Your second downline would be the person they recruit. Third downline would the the recruit of your second downline, and so on.

Some businessess allow you to earn a percentage of your downline's sales. You may see terms like "commission on sales 3 levels deep" which would refer a downline three deep. Or another term would be "earning potential for up to five tiers," again referring the the number of downlines, in this case, five deep.

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What is MLM (Multi-Level Marketing)?
Multi-level marketing (MLM) is a business model that combines direct marketing with franchising. Multi-level marketing businesses function by recruiting downlines to sell a product and offer additional sales commissions based on the sales of their downlines.

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What does "No Inventory" mean?
When a work-at-home opportunity states that no inventory is needed for you to sell a product, it means you do not have to stock product in your home or office. When a company mails the product directly to the customer, there is no need for you to carry inventory. However, chances are that even if you are told that you do not have to carry inventory, BUT you are responsible for delivering the product to the customer yourself, chances are you will need to carry inventory. Read more about inventory options and whether or not "No Inventory" actually means what it says.

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What is Wholesale?
Wholesale is a form of product purchasing that allows you, the retailer, a chance to purchase a product at a discount rate, giving you enough pricing flexibility to resell at a profit. Wholesalers generally require a license number in order to make your purchase. This may include a wholesale tax id or business license id number.

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