Direct marketing appears to be a relatively new form of doing business, but this is definitely not the case. Many of the worlds largest corporations such as Excel Communications, Travelers Insurance, Microsoft, AT&T, Colgate, Gillette, Citibank, MCI, IBM, Toyota, Xerox, Texas Instruments, General Motors, General Electric, AOL, Netscape, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Skytel, Coca Cola, and many others, distribute some or all of their products or services through direct marketing, which is also called "network marketing." These large corporations are a firm testimony to the industries' success and credibility. 

Direct marketing is changing business methods around the globe, and those who understand it are wasting no time applying it where they can and adjusting their businesses and entrepreneurial energies to fit. Many are already declaring that, in time, all business will be based upon the direct marketing model to some degree. In fact, many predict even small businesses will not survive the future unless they adjust to it.

You have not merely stumbled upon this opportunity to become involved. First Trade Registry has sought you out and is committed to raising your level of awareness regarding direct marketing.

We’ll start making you money by advertising your business on our website at no cost! 

• We’ll reserve a page just for you. All the traffic that the “autos for sale” site generates will “see” references to the location where your business can be discovered on every one of hundreds of pages on our site. 

• Visitors will be informed that you have agreed to abide by FTR’s “Code of Ethics” and that you are validated and highly recommended by First Trade Registry. 

• On your page you may put whatever information about your business, photos, etc. you wish. 

• And, as a bonus, if you wish to extend your advertising to additional pages, we’ll give the additional information, photos, etc. to our web design department to create what amounts to your own website. That doesn’t come free but, unlike other hosts, there will be no monthly charge and the design rates will be very attractive. Please permit us to make it clear that designing web sites is a favor to our advertisers, not a scheme to make money. Go HERE to see the cost of various Associate Advertiser's websites we have created.

• Your business will be impacted by being visible to the volume of visitors to FTR’s website and this is easy to understand. As a business owner you have already realized that if this visibility costs nothing...every sale or job that results from it is.......free. Is it not?

• As an ASSOCIATE ADVERTISER, you are a member of or ASSOCIATED with other advertisers. You will all be visible to each other in an environment where “Cross Selling “ each others products or services is not only possible but encouraged. Our directory of advertisers will make it easy for you to find and contact other compatible businesses via the web.

• For those of you whose businesses are locally bound or, by their nature, competitive, membership in our program will be limited to the earliest advertisers.

• FTR’s Associate Advertisers immediately access one of the essential elements of business growth. First Trade Registry™ has created it’s own RAPIDLY EXPANDING MARKET. Small retail or service business owners are seldom concerned with expanding markets unless the owner becomes entrepreneurial and is willing to explore options outside the limitations of fixed location and retail sales. But, that usually means the owner must reshape the business or, in effect, start a second business. For some businesses there is no alternative other than closing it out and starting over. 

Please view the following Multi-Media Presentation on direct marketing and the internet. It is outstanding and will help put the concept of Associate Advertising into focus. 

After you have finished viewing it, click your back button and return here to finish this material. 

Thank you for viewing the presentation. 

• Traditionally, direct marketing companies build a network of individuals around a product or cluster of products or service. The individuals are recruited to sell the products or services and recruit more individuals to expand the network... which defines the term... “Rapidly Expanding Market.” The individual is also a user of the product or service which generates revenue which, in turn, is redistributed through compensation plans called: unilevel, hybrid, group breakaway, stairstep, binary, the matrix and given back to the individual in the form of commissions, bonuses etc.. Most of us are familiar with the concept and many have been or are involved with a direct marketing company now. It is well known that membership in more than one such company is usually forbidden. 

Not only does FTR’s system permit the individual to attach to multiple Networks (more than one directing company) but requires that they do. 

FTR has chosen to add a direct marketing company called Melaleuca to our system.
Partners, Locators, and Associate Advertisers who are already in our matrix are automatically placed in the Melaleuca matrix and will earn residual incomes even if they recruit no one. It is important to realize that, unlike other direct marketing companies, FTR does not require our members to recruit nor will it be necessary for Melaleuca members to be active. 

Melaleuca produces a superior line of ecologically responsible, consumable, household products, nutritional products, and services which First Trade Registry wholeheartedly endorses. Being able to endorse these products and services is extremely important to FTR. Melaleuca is a 15 year old company with impeccable credentials. It has appeared in Inc. 500 magazine 5 years in a row. More than Microsoft. Melaleuca has a 96% customer retention rate.

Melaleuca is a successful catalog/mail order businesses. We don't sell these products, nor deliver them, but we can show you how to order directly from the catalog for yourselves.

In order to understand "network marketing," and if you would like to know more about what Melaleuca offers, you FIRST need a clear understanding of "residual income." 

We have linked a multimedia presentation that will give you this understanding.  We HIGHLY URGE you to sit back - listen and really comprehend this information. You OWE IT TO YOURSELF to do it. The title of the presentation is,  "Brilliant Compensation" It is done by Dr. Charles King, Harvard Ph.D. and professor in marketing at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

 (Note - This is not the same short Multi-Media Presentation linked above)

1. Those who choose to become members of Melaleuca will pay a membership fee of $32 and place an order for a minimum of 35 base points. Please note that this is not a fee to become an Associate Advertiser. If you wish to receive a residual income automatically you must become a part of the system and these are Melaleuca requirements. In order for the system to work as it should, all Melaleuca members must be users of the product. 

You should understand that purchasing and using the products and services guarantees the success of the company and provides the revenue that is returned to you. As the company grows and more members are placed in your line, your monthly checks can increase while your expenses remain the same. If you wish to accelerate the growth of your residual income, you may become an active recruiter, but it is not required. It is your option. No one will ever exert pressure on you. You will see for yourself that your monthly check can increase with or without your active participation.

The 35 base point order requirement translates into approximately $42-$48. You will see that since Melaleuca has over 200 products it is easily met and amounts to nothing more than replacing items that are used everyday by every family. Thus there is no increased expense and the superior quality of the products is better, safer and often cheaper than those available in most supermarkets.

2. If you choose not to become a Melaleuca member you are still eligible to become an Associate Advertiser and there is no fee required. However, since you will not be “In the System”, and not generating income for FTR, 10% of the "net" of all business resulting from the Associate Advertising Program will be paid to First Trade Registry™. This is a reasonable fee which is only charged if it works and should cause no complaints. Failure to live up to this requirement will result in expulsion from the Associate Advertising Program.