Heritage Makers is a company with the following tagline: “Celebrating life stories.” Heritage Makers celebrates life stories because that’s what it’s in the business of doing—it’s a company that creates storybooks and other keepsakes based upon events from your life.

Maybe there’s been a recent wedding in the family, or there’s been the birth of a new child. Heritage Makers will give you the publishing tools you need to create a personal memento to preserve these memories. Think about it this way: have you ever heard the expression, “We all have a book in us,” before? Well, Heritage Makers makes it a little bit easier to see that book in all of us become a reality.

Is publishing something you have a passion for? Or maybe you’re a family person who cherishes your own memories, and you’d like to expand that into a small business. Well, Heritage Makers will give you the opportunity to do so, but first you’ll have to understand how they operate as an MLM company.

Heritage Makers is a fairly new company, having started only in 2000. Your role as a “consultant” at Heritage Makers is to show your potential customers product samples, offer them ideas of what to create, and provide assistance during the personalized creation process. But before you can jump into building your own business, you’ll have to purchase one of two kits.

The business kit is $99 and contains two storybook samples, training materials, and business supplies for your first Heritage Makers party or workshop. The demo kit is more or less like the business kit, except this one has additional product samples and business materials to help you further promote your Heritage Makers products. You’ll also have your own personal website, which comes at a yearly fee of $49.99, but it’s granted to you for free the first year.

Once you become a Heritage Makers consultant and you start to sell, you’ll earn 20 percent of commissions on all personal sales. You’ll also have the chance to build a team, allowing you to earn up to 22 percent of group earnings along with your own personal commissions. Another nice feature to keep in mind is that there are no minimum sales requirements, which can oftentimes be burdensome and stressful.

In order to make the most money, Heritage Makers presents a few sets of numbers as examples of how much money you can make as a consultant. The company encourages workshops, for instance, and a new consultant hosting one workshop a week could earn $280, whereas an experienced consultant hosting one workshop a week could earn upwards of $600. But the keyword here is “could.”

Whether or not you make a lot of money at Heritage Makers dependents upon the same factors as in any other MLM company: how much are you willing to work only to see small commission increments build up? Heritage Makers appears to be a friendly enough company with products that should interest people, but everything comes down to dollars and cents, so evaluate this decision closely.

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April 15, 2010