At the urging of my sister I joined as an ACN Independent Rep in 1995. With ACN people could save money over the dominant Big Three traditional telecomm carriers. However being curious, I Googled the competition and found another company offering similar savings on long distance, which also included a fair income opportunity, with no signup fee or recurring costs. I was busy working 12 hour days and weekends in a new career, and could not verify personally that the ACN service ws good, so I never even tried to market ACN. Later I did promote Cognigen because it is a known fact that 95% of people who start a business fail. At least I would know they did not lose money trying out the free Cognigen opportunity. The Cognigen commissions were quite a bit smaller than possible from ACN but with Cognigen there was no risk of losing money.