Founded in 1992, Market America Worldwide is a global Product Brokerage and Internet Marketing Company that specializes in One-to-One Marketing. Market America has generated more than $8 billion* in accumulated estimated retail sales. Individuals have earned over to $4.1 billion* in commissions and retail profits.
*As of September 30, 2017, UnFranchise® Owners have earned the above (in USD).
Market America Worldwide | SHOP.COM is changing the way people shop and creating a whole new economic paradigm. It’s a growing global community of entrepreneurs who are economically connected and earning on virtually almost everything people purchase.
Headquartered in Greensboro, N.C., Market America Worldwide employs more than 750 people globally with international operations in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Indonesia. Emerging markets include the Bahamas, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, New Zealand and Panama. Market America Worldwide is divided into three geographic regions: The Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific.
The company continues to have an A+ ranking from the Better Business Bureau and has been awarded the Torch Award for business integrity, trust and performance.
Market America Worldwide provides systemization, standardization, state-of-the-art management systems, merchandising and marketing tools, growing visibility, and the opportunity to own multiple business locations. Best of all, UnFranchise Owners can begin on a part-time basis with flexible hours.
Market America’s UnFranchise Business is a proven plan for your financial success. UnFranchise Owners follow a detailed plan and are provided a SHOP.COM site, products and services, marketing materials.
The company empowers entrepreneurs with the UnFranchise Business System, a Two- to Three-Year Plan to build a foundation for your financial future. The UnFranchise® Business System is for entrepreneurs to create a supplemental income, while providing consumers a better way to shop.
There are three ways to earn income:
The UnFranchise Business allows you to earn between $300.00 and $3,600.00 per week per Business Development Center.
The income potential is unlimited because you can own multiple Business Development Centers.
The company handles the shipping and distribution and most of the administrative and operational duties of an UnFranchise Business. UnFranchise Owners leverage these and many other resources so that they can focus on serving their customers’ needs and creating a strong business.
In a digital age where the only borders are the limits of one’s imagination, the company is experiencing explosive growth. No company is better poised to take advantage of the global marketplace than Market America Worldwide | SHOP.COM, a pioneer in internet marketing with strategic programs in place for continued expansion.
All Market Countries feature products and provide business-building services that are tailored to each country’s unique culture and business environment. Each Market Country has a local corporate team and product managers who work closely with the Market America Worldwide Corporate Team and staff to fully support that country’s customers and UnFranchise Owners.
The Emerging Markets Program (EMP) is a simple, streamlined and modular strategy designed specifically for testing new markets around the world. Current EMP countries within the Americas include Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Jamaica, the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic — and each has access to the company’s exclusive products. Currently within the Asia-Pacific region, New Zealand is an EMP country.
The EMP helps to build a foundation in a new country through SHOP.COM Global (GLOBAL.SHOP.COM), thereby building toward becoming a Market Country. EMP UFOs participate in the same Management Performance Compensation Plan (MPCP) as their region and can sponsor in any other EMP or Market Country within that region. Market America Worldwide | SHOP.COM is creating a true global economy
Market America was started as a means to empower entrepreneurs and has evolved into a global phenomenon. It was an idea ahead of its time that has helped create more than 400 millionaires worldwide.
SHOP.COM and Market America Worldwide are leveling the playing field by giving the power back to the consumer and helping everyone convert their spending into earning with a revolutionary concept known as the “Shopping Annuity®.”
As an UnFranchise® Owner, you’re in a position to capitalize on the growing industry of online and mobile shopping and convert your spending into earning through SHOP.COM and the UnFranchise Business.
The Shopping Annuity helps smart shoppers convert their spending into earning through SHOP.COM. Unlike a typical annuity from a bank, you don't have to invest a massive amount of money to get started; your investment is what you already spend on everyday purchases. By shopping through SHOP.COM, you can earn up to 50% Cashback.
How does it work?
The Shopping Annuity Assessment identifies:
By leveraging our collective purchasing power, we’re helping people around the world generate supplemental income with the UnFranchise Business.
Market America Worldwide has built its success on a solid foundation of four cornerstones:
The Binomial Marketing System with the Management Performance Compensation Plan (MPCP): The most advanced and realistic compensation plan ever created, the MPCP addresses the problems associated with traditional direct-sales and network-marketing programs with its emphasis on organization building in depth, not width, thus avoiding group competition.
The MPCP offers better cash flow, higher retention, higher and more consistent earnings, and the ability to attract a wide variety of people. It was based on what an individual can actually and realistically do, thus ensuring long-term profitability and stability.
Market America’s Management Performance Compensation Plan is exceptional and fair, rewarding UnFranchise Owners not only for their retail success but also for their leadership and their management in motivating and training other UnFranchise Owners to conduct their businesses according to the proven business system.
The UnFranchise Business and SHOP.COM track all of your purchases from our Partner Stores and exclusive products. When you or anyone you lead to shops online, you get 100% credit for those purchases.
The UnFranchise® Business System: The UnFranchise Business System provides a systematic means to conduct business, and it features the standardization and uniformity necessary to facilitate duplication — the key to the business. The UnFranchise Business guarantees your success when you make others successful. You are in business for yourself, not by yourself!
Like a franchise, the company provides a systemized and standardized business, proven management systems, professional marketing tools, standardized training systems, and branding and increased visibility.
However, unlike a franchise, there are no franchise fees or royalties, minimal start-up expenses, potential tax advantages, no large monthly overhead, and no territorial restrictions. You can start part-time with flexible hours and little to no risk.
UnFranchise Owners are equipped with the finest sales, marketing and management tools. The Global Meeting, Training and Seminar System (GMTSS) provides Independent UnFranchise Owners with a coordinated and comprehensive training and support system. Thousands of meetings are coordinated and publicized for every geographic location where there is organizational development and growth.
The GMTSS comprises UnFranchise Business Presentations (UBPs), training sessions, seminars and conventions. Utilizing this system allows everyone access to expert speakers and trainers within Market America Worldwide and provides a means to build an UnFranchise Business anywhere.
The Product Brokerage System: As a product brokerage company, Market America Worldwide identifies the highest-quality market-driven products and services. By moving with the marketplace, the company doesn’t rely solely on the sales of any single product or service. Without the costly burdens of manufacturing, mass marketing and advertising, greater resources are placed in product development and quality assurance, which guarantees that every Market America Worldwide product is backed by substantial science, rigorous testing and peer-reviewed research.
With hundreds of exclusive products and services, UnFranchise Owners can capitalize on numerous multibillion-dollar industries including health and nutrition, cosmetics, skincare, personal care, age management, weight management, home and garden, baby and children’s care, pet care, entertainment, internet services, financial services, and more.
The product brokerage concept through Market America’s Mall Without Walls® positions the company and you for continued growth and unlimited potential. Market America doesn’t incur costs such as research and development, inventory, or advertising, allowing more value to be put into the products. As a result, Market America will always provide products that are unique, innovative and competitively priced.
Market America Worldwide believes that quality must be built into a product. Our quality-control process involves dedicated scientists, strategic relationships with manufacturers and a rock-solid commitment to customers. Product excellence is more than one department or group of people assuring quality — it involves every individual at Market America Worldwide. The company oversees all stages of the process, from product concept to manufacturing and delivery.
This concept, product brokerage, allows the company to swing with the marketplace and capitalize on current consumer demands.
Every year, new products and product lines are being created to stay ahead of the competition. We invest in long-term relationships with manufacturers that will produce quality products from year to year. As product brokers, we store limited quantities of products at any given time, which cuts down on consumer cost and ensures the freshest potency.
The product brokerage concept goes beyond exclusive brands. Through SHOP.COM, the company can offer millions of additional products and services from well-known stores like Target, Nike, Apple and more. The cost is the same as it would be shopping directly from the store's site, but SHOP.COM is able to pay Cashback, whereas individual sites do not.
With stores constantly being added as the company's partners, there’s opportunity for smaller, lesser-known retailers to offer their products and services alongside dominant ones. It levels the playing field for all retailers while providing consumers worldwide with a better way to shop and discover new products.
The Best Science and Ingredients Make the Best Products: Ingredients are sourced from only the most trustworthy suppliers. The raw materials used in each of the company’s products undergo a comprehensive evaluation by the manufacturers to ensure they meet stringent purity and potency requirements. Verification and approval by a Certificate of Analysis (COA) is required for each raw material. Approved raw materials are subject to laboratory confirmation of physical characteristics and material potency before being used in manufacturing. Each product is then carefully prepared following a written master-manufacturing record and every batch is reviewed and approved by the manufacturer’s highly trained quality-control personnel. Products are also inspected at the company’s lab for damage, label accuracy, appearance, taste and identity prior to release.
Quality and science take precedence over what is popular and trendy. The company’s products are made with ingredients backed by clinical research, as Market America Worldwide finds suppliers that have clinical studies backing up their application in a formulation.
As a product broker, not a manufacturer, Market America Worldwide can act as an independent quality inspector between the manufacturer and the customer. If something doesn’t satisfy the standard, it’s returned. Every product is scientifically engineered and must be manufactured consistently with regard to purity, performance, strength and uniformity.
The company forms long-lasting relationships with vendors and manufacturers and doesn’t just shop around for the best prices. The company prefers to develop relationships and stay with the same manufacturers, which will produce top-quality products from year to year.
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP): Obviously, good quality control involves high standards. Market America Worldwide not only has them but holds its manufacturers to the same. For example, all Isotonix® health and nutrition products are produced under Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs). GMP is a recognized standard for dietary supplements, and the company’s exclusive Isotonix manufacturer carries a current GMP certificate by an independent auditor. In addition, manufacturers are audited by our Quality Control unit, which includes reviewing batch records, laboratory test results, building and facilities, label control, sanitation procedures, and ingredient-control records. Rigorous adherence to GMP minimizes the risk of adulteration or misbranding of products.
Being GMP-compliant means complying with regulatory Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), which provide details about managing the manufacturing process to produce a consistent product that meets all specifications. This would include inventory procedure for raw materials, facility security, vendor qualification, employee training and so on.
All manufacturing equipment that comes in contact with our products must be cleaned according to mandated procedures between production runs and verified to ensure sanitation has been performed. Product samples are collected at various stages of production for chemical and microbiological analysis to ensure consistency and purity. Lot code confirmation, weight checks, label and material checks are performed according to exact written procedures.
The Importance of Testing: Market America Worldwide’s headquarters in Greensboro, N.C., has an excellent in-house laboratory with ever-expanding capabilities that can perform such testing as microbiological contamination, isotonic range, presence of gluten allergens, pH, microscopic analysis and spectroscopic analysis. Every shipment received into the Distribution Center must be inspected and approved before it can go out to our UnFranchise® Owners and customers.
Understanding what happens behind the scenes gives a better sense of how much Market America Worldwide emphasizes quality. This is the company’s commitment — we will not ship anything that falls short of superior quality.
One-to-One Marketing: One-to-One Marketing represents the future of business, and Market America is a pioneer in this realm. This evolving concept centers on tracking customer data, identifying commonalities and sourcing them out so customized products can be produced and delivered to customers.
Internet activity through our state-of-the-art UnFranchise Business System and SHOP.COM facilitate and accelerate the marketing process while personal relationships are established and maintained through UnFranchise Owners.
Market America’s Preferred Customer Program is the principle One-to-One Marketing vehicle. Market America’s strategy for its implementation revolves around three simple core principles:
Selling more products to fewer people, which is more efficient and profitable than the time-honored mass-marketing rules of pitching products to the greatest number of people
Concentrating on building unique relationships with customers on a one-to-one basis
Establishing, sustaining and maintaining dialog with customers, and obtaining feedback from those customers.
The era of mass production and mass advertising has run its course and Market America intends to build on its Four Cornerstones to implement a One-to-One future that will revolutionize the way people purchase products as it changes the face of business, one customer at a time.
Market America Worldwide integrates cutting-edge technology with the latest social media tools in the pursuit of revolutionizing the way people shop.
Through SHOP.COM, UnFranchise® Owners are instantly able to offer millions of products, allowing customers to find anything they want, anytime they want it.
SHOP.COM provides access to thousands of popular brands and retailers, as well as thousands of exclusive products. With its intuitive search and comparative shopping engine, customers can find the best prices on more than 40 million products. SHOP.COM is on the forefront of the latest technology and is positioned to capitalize on the growing social and economic impact of online and mobile shopping
The one-stop SHOP.COM site combined with the power of people ensures a friendly and efficient online shopping experience.
With no cost to register as a Preferred Customer, SHOP.COM offers unlimited shopping including millions of products and services, thousands of Partner Stores, and hundreds of exclusive products.
With SHOP.COM Global (GLOBAL.SHOP.COM), there are virtually no geographical boundaries when developing your UnFranchise Business.
In order to take control of your financial position and future, you simply need to be aware of the facts.
Market America is a global Product Brokerage and Internet Marketing company that specializes in One-to-One Marketing. Through the Shopping Annuity®, the company provides a blueprint for success with the UnFranchise® Business, allowing average people to attain supplemental income by creating their own economy.
The following are departments at Market America’s World Headquarters designed to support the development and growth of UnFranchise Owners’ businesses:
Collections: Responsible for ensuring that UnFranchise Owners resolve any insufficient-funds issues, and that Market America recovers any monetary losses due to bad checks or bad bank drafts, including service charges.
Compliance: Responsible for approving Same Household issues, changes of I.D. numbers, name changes, transfers of sponsorship, and transfers of genealogy lines, and for researching other compliance-related issues.
Computer Support: Responsible for ensuring that all telecommunications and written communications from UnFranchise Owners concerning computer-related problems are handled in a timely manner.
Creative Services: Responsible for creating and ensuring the printing of any corporate literature, including but not limited to the monthly UnFranchise Owner Magazine.
Data Processing: Responsible for processing all applications, product orders, UnFranchise AutoShip forms, Sales Tax certificates, Preferred Customer data, etc.
Distribution Center: Responsible for ensuring all orders placed are filled and shipped in the most efficient, effective manner available.
UnFranchise® Services: Responsible for ensuring all telecommunications and written communications concerning policy, procedure, commissions and shipping issues are handled in a timely manner. It also forwards other inquiries to appropriate company personnel for resolution. In addition, the department keeps the Market America Management Team aware of trends (i.e., problems) in the field. Conversely the field is kept up to date regarding policy and procedure changes.
Field Development: Responsible for referring non–UnFranchise Owners who express interest in Market America products or the marketing plan to a reliable UnFranchise Owner in their area who will assist them.
Mail Processing: Responsible for opening and sorting incoming mail and ensuring that all documentation is delivered to its proper destination within the company for timely processing.
Preferred Customer: Responsible for ensuring that all telecommunications and written communications concerning Preferred Customers are handled in a timely manner.
Product Information: Responsible for providing as much technical product support information as is practicable. The department also serves as a centralized liaison between manufacturers and vendors and Market America UnFranchise Owners for effective, efficient dissemination of product information.
Refunds: Responsible for processing any refund or credit that results from returned product, including refunds resulting from termination of UnFranchise Businesses, and for enforcing the buyback policy.