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.

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 me.

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