Company

ACN is an network marketing company based in Concord, North Carolina. It operates in the United States, Canada, Austalia, New Zealand and at least 16 European countries including Poland, Germany and Norway. Robert Stevanovski,Greg Provenzano, Tony Cupisz and Mike Cupisz founded the company in 1993.

The company website claims that they are the world's largest direct seller of telecommunication services.

Products

Digital Video Phone

ACN has a digital videophone called the Iris 3000 videophone. This device allow you to see the person to whom you are speaking to but only if they are also equipped with a video phone. You will need to have a high speed internet connection, router with Ethernet connection and an Iris 3000 videophone. They offer a 2 year plan with unlimited calling within the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. Other international calling plans are available.

ACN Wireless

The company offers wireless plans that includes Blackberries and PDA's. In Canada, the ACN carrier that they use is Telus. Telus is one of Canada's major wireless and landline companies. In the United States, ACN uses carriers like Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile.

Local and Long Distance Plans

Local and long distance plans are available for many areas. One would have to determine if the pricing is competitive enough for people to switch their carriers.

ACN Internet Service

High speed internet service is provided and you can bundle this up with your local and long distance plans. However, high speed is not available in all areas but they do provide the option of dial up internet service.

ACN Home Security

The company provides this service as an authorized dealer of the well know ADT home security provider. ADT (not to be confused with ACN) is a company that has existed since late 1874 when it was formed through the actions of 57 telegraph delivery companies.

Business Opportunity

ACN is a company that has products that are in high demand but there is also substantial competition.

However, they have ensured that they use major well known carriers for their wireless services. As well, ADT home security systems are very well known and very popular. Home security is a major growth industry and ADT itself is present in 44 countries including the huge populated nations like China and Malaysia.

So ACN does provide an excellent opportunity to those that know the wireless world is large and that home security is also a major growth industry. Unfortunately, the need for security systems for the home is unlikely to diminish.

But there is a lot of competition in the products that ACN offers. And regardless of the popularity of ACN products, it will be a numbers game. You will need to sell these services to a large group of people on a consistent basis to make any substantial money.

There are people who do make a lot of money in ACN and are extremely successful. Anyone joining ACN today has the potential to earn a significant income. However, the majority of people who join ACN to make money will never make any significant income.

But if you like the products ACN offers and you know that you have the ability to successfully market the products, then ACN might be the right company for you.

If you decide that ACN is the right business for you despite the difficulty most will experience in creating any substantial income with the company, you need to learn effective online and offline marketing strategies and techniques to succeed. Failure to learn these strategies and techniques put you on the certain path of failure with an ACN business.