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| A History Of Prepaid Legal Services, Inc.: | | | | numbers across the US and Canada. With that said, |
| Prepaid Legal Services, Inc is a multilevel marketing | | | | they have recently instituted online presentation, lead |
| company that sells legal membership plans. The plans | | | | capture pages and webinars for reps that want to |
| provide for legal service benefits, including unlimited | | | | leverage the internet to build their business. |
| attorney consultation, letter writing, document | | | | What Are The Pros And Cons Of Prepaid Legal |
| preparation and review, will preparation, traffic violation | | | | Services, Inc.? |
| defense, automobile-related criminal charges defense | | | | Prepaid Legal Services, Inc. has many benefits if you |
| and a general trial defense. In a nutshell, Prepaid Legal | | | | are searching for a home based business opportunity. |
| offers people the opportunity to obtain legal access | | | | Prepaid Legal's leaders are very good at teaching and |
| for a fraction of what it would cost without the | | | | promoting the fundamentals of building a business. The |
| membership. | | | | techniques that are taught are pretty simple and |
| Founder, Harland Stonecipher, started Prepaid Legal in | | | | effective, assuming you don't mind approaching your |
| the early 70s after noticing an enourmous need in the | | | | warm market. Another attractive feature is, if you are |
| market place. Prepaid Legal's flagship product is the | | | | uncomfortable at giving presentations, there are a ton |
| Life Events Plan and currently there are more then | | | | of tools, resources and systems you can use to recruit |
| 1,500,000 customers in the US and Canada. A few | | | | people into your business. Another feature that might |
| years ago, the Identity Theft feature was added to the | | | | interest you if you are looking at Prepaid Legal as a |
| membership giving the membership more benefits. The | | | | business opportunity is that there is a significant income |
| power of Prepaid Legal's concept is that it sells a very | | | | you can generate just from marketing the service and |
| unique service that people from all walks of life can | | | | acquiring customers. In short, Prepaid Legal is a great |
| get value from. It virtually doesn't have any real | | | | vehicle for the average person to come on board and |
| competition in the traditional business arena or the | | | | see some success. |
| network marketing industry. | | | | One disadvantage, if you want to call it that, that |
| Training And Leadership In Prepaid Legal Services, Inc. | | | | Prepaid Legal has is the possibility for someone to get |
| Prepaid Legal Services is led by some of the most | | | | a commission chargeback. This means that if a |
| dynamic and documented leaders in the network | | | | customer cancels their membership within the first 12 |
| marketing industry. Besides founder Harland | | | | months, the rep will incur a commission chargeback, |
| Stonecipher, the corporate team contains many | | | | due to the customer falling off the books. Personally, I |
| seasoned MLM veterans like Jeff Olson and co-CEOs | | | | don't really see this as a disadvantage because all |
| Randy Harp and Mark Brown. On top of that, there | | | | businesses, traditional or MLM, have some sort of |
| are many seasoned veterans that sit on the Board of | | | | chargeback feature when commission is paid on a |
| Directors. A good exmaple is Board of Director, | | | | customer that cancels, ex. life insurance. |
| Stephen Hague, a 40-year veteran of hte insurance | | | | In summary, Prepaid Legal Servcies is a documented |
| industry, and has serves as CEO of a couple of | | | | corporationthat's selling a product in a ground-floor |
| insurance companies. Hague replaced former Board | | | | industry. Besides having a quality service and a strong |
| member, John Addison, co-CEO of Primerica, when | | | | pay plan, the fact that people who have no interest in |
| Addison resigned in 2003. | | | | MLM will still buy and keep the service is a major |
| Prepaid Legal Services, Inc. mainly focuses on building | | | | factor you need to be aware of if you want to build a |
| a business using offline building methods like contacting | | | | large customer base that will pay you residuals for |
| your warm market and handing out company DVDs to | | | | decades to come. |
| sharp people you come across. This DVD-approach | | | | |