My Money Story: Amway Top Distributor | ABS-CBN News Online Beta

My Money Story: Amway Top Distributor | ABS-CBN News Online Beta: "My Money Story: Amway Top Distributor

By Lynda C. Corpuz, MoneySense magazine | 01/24/2009 9:15 AM

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Exhausted from the Worldwide Marriage Encounter Movement enrichment seminar they attended earlier that day, Mario “Mar” and Evelyn “Babes” Tero just fell asleep and woke up in the latter part of the Amway presentation they were invited to.

Mario recalls they hardly understood anything from the presentation of the global direct-selling company and all they remembered was they could earn big income in just two to three hours a day of doing the business for a year. The Tero couple, however, was not totally lured of the promise since they were busy as medical and drug distributors. “We joined Amway out of respect for our friends,” Mar recalls of the Amway presentation in 1997.

Doubtful

Coming from humble backgrounds, all the couple wanted was to succeed in life. Mar, a Commerce Accountancy graduate from the University of Mindanao, and Babes, who finished a degree in Commerce Marketing and Management from the University of Visayas, always worked hard for their five children. But tests came their way.

Although they joined Amway, Babes remained doubtf"