BECOMING A REPRESENTATIVE And that's where Business Network Communications (BNC) comes in. BNC makes a monthly purchase of millions of dollars of long-distance usage from AT&T at a big discount just like the giant corporations do. But BNC then resells this service at a wholesale rate, passing the savings on to its customers and paying its representatives a commission for signing those customers up. There's nothing new about this concept. It's the same principle of "combined buying power" used by cooperatives, and by chain stores like Wal-Mart. Their high-volume discount purchases lead to big customer savings. BNC decided that commission sales representatives were a more effective way of selling than spending millions on media advertising, and that's where the opportunity part comes in. You offer customers up to one-third off their monthly long distance bills, and you reward them for signing up with four free hours of long-distance service, compliments of BNC. BNC billing is in six-second units, instead of one-minute units. This is also a major source of savings in addition to the discount. With other long distance companies, a call just over one minute is automatically billed as two minutes, even thought the call was only one minute and five seconds. For your efforts, BNC pays you a generous 5% commission on all of your customers' long-distance phone bills. Figure that a typical small-business long-distance bill runs an average of $300 a month (and bills of businesses that have 800-numbers can go sky- high). What's more, many people can easily run up $100 or more in their residential bill. Besides the four free hours offer, they have two other programs that can make selling the service easy. One is a fund-raising program for organizations. The organization gets a lifetime commission on all the calls placed by its members, and you get a commission for signing up the organization, and a lifetime commission on all of the calls placed by the members. All the organization has to do is hand out brochures to the members. A similar program exists for business accounts, which lets the business give a certificate for four free hours to its customers, and the business gets a lifetime commission on the calls of its customers. And of course you get the commission for signing up the business, and an ongoing commission on the calls of their customers as well. Besides the direct sales option, if you qualify, you can become a supervising independent representative for BNC, which lets you earn a small overriding commission on the sales made by direct representatives you recruit. But that's as far as it goes -- this is not a multi-level program. And supervising independent representatives must be qualified, although anybody can be a direct independent representative. To get started, you must order "Unleash The Entrepreneur Within", the company's agent manual, for $29.95 plus $4.50 shipping and handling. There is no additional cost to become a representative. You simply send in the contract form that comes with the manual, and can start earning commissions. The payment for the manual is refundable if you start selling. But if you decide this isn't the opportunity for you, just return the manual and you will not only receive a full refund but also a certificate for 4 free hours of long distance calls just for having considered it. To order with your MasterCard or Visa call 1-800-945-1333, operator 3642. By mail send $34.45 to BNC Fulfillment Processing Center, 2770 Ridgway, Suite 3642, Walled Lake MI 48390. Audio & video tapes about the BNC opportunity are included with the manual.