HOW TO EARN LIFETIME RESIDUAL INCOME FROM LONG DISTANCE SERVICES Long distance reselling is a new industry that can create both immediate income and a lifetime residual income, but you have to enter the field with caution. It is a 60 billion dollar per year industry, with over 20 million business customers and 95 million households as a potential market for services. Long distance service is the ideal product -- something that everyone already buys again and again, month after month. The service you will offer is like giving money to your customers, and there is no charge for your service. You don't have to ask your customers for money. There are a number of the companies in this business who have been advertising business opportunities. Some are real bad deals. One multi- level plan pays you $3 for each person signed up, and paints a lovely picture of how much that could add up to after your network of distributors brings in thousands of customers. They give you $3 and they get a lifetime customer! Another charges a $10,000 franchise fee for the privilege of selling their services. Whether or not they'll be in business after they sell the franchises is another question. Yet another wants $1,000 for the privilege of selling their prepaid telephone credit card, another $1,000 if you'd also like to sell their payphone service, etc., etc. Yet another looks good on the surface, as a multi-level program, but it depends upon your remaining a customer of their service. So if you move in with someone and don't have a telephone billed in your name for awhile, you forfeit the entire distributor organization and commissions you have built up -- and the same thing happens if you pay your telephone bill late. But once you get through the hype and the junk, it turns out that you really can make a very good income as a long distance reseller. Every once in a while. a really "big" opportunity comes along. This is such an opportunity. It is not multi-level, although you can have directly recruited representatives working for you in one of the two options available to you. You get a commission, a percentage of all the long-distance telephone calls made by every customer you sign up for this service. But that's only the beginning, because you get passive, residual income too. Just like a movie actor who works one time, making the movie, but gets paid every time it's shown or every time a video of it is sold. That's "residual income" -- the secret to a large income. In the telecommunications business, you keep getting commissions for life, on every customer you sign up for the service. Do that "work" once, and get paid forever. This lets you stack up income, so that, after a year or a few years, you have big money coming in every month even if you do no work. Your customers can save up to 30% on their monthly long-distance bill, savings that not even MCI, Sprint, or other cut-rate companies can offer. And while they're enjoying these cheap rates, they get all the high-class benefits of AT&T. Major corporations pay a lot less for their long- distance service than most customers. This all changed with a new legal ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the government regulator of the telecommunications industry. AT&T, the FCC decided, must treat all of its customers equally. AT&T is now required to give discounts not just to corporate giants but to any resale company that can purchase long- distance services in the same high volume as corporate users.