Some will be OK with it and some will encourage you to look elsewhere based on their commission setup.  

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There are tons of people here to give you both encouragement and advice. 

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I encourage all to do their due diligence on free or paid training products and hopefully you can connect with a mentor/coach who has character integrity and experience as a mentor to help you navigate the waters. 

Even if you aren't going to issue a 1099, I STRONGLY encourage you to get TINs (EINs) for your vendors and document the corporate status of any corporations that you pay.

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If not, I encourage you to read the blogs, check out the forum posts, set up some keyword alerts like "Dubai", "Sharjah", etc. and your interests.

If anyone out there could give me some insight, encouragement, words of warning, tell me NOT to do it this way because xyz...I'd love to hear it.