Marcia Brown started selling Tupperware as a part-time business 26 years ago. She was pregnant with her second child and wanted to earn some extra cash to make ends meet.
Now, Brown and her daughter, Corinne Martin, are featured on the May cover of Tupperware Today, the sales force magazine for Tupperware, North America.
The cover story highlights the local mother/daughter duo for their success in direct sales. In addition to bringing in top sales, they were one of the first mother/daughter teams to train at a leadership summit in Las Vegas in November.
“The company wanted to highlight family members who work together, but who are successful in their own right. We are, in this business,” Brown said.
Prior to launching her career in the airtight industry, Brown, 51, of Ballantyne, was an environmental scientist with the N.C. government. She commuted daily more than an hour each way and often traveled days at a time.
After three years she was earning three times what she made using her degree. Brown’s husband, Charlie, 53, later stepped down as a research biologist for the federal government to join his wife. “He realized that we could do so much more together,” she said. “Two people can do so much more than one.”
Their daughter, Corinne Martin, 25, got on board while in college — mainly, Brown jokes, to satisfy a shoe addiction.
By age 21, Martin bought her first home in Chantilly with the money she made selling Tupperware. She’s now in the business full time.
Photo by Tupperware.com.
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