This paper explores how personal networks and economic activities are articulated and transforming one another in the practice of direct selling distributors in Taiwan. I find that distributors are involved in a twofold activity: "commodifying" personal relations and "networking" economic transactions. They not only incorporate strong ties into business alliances, but also activate remote networks and build new networks with strangers. In order to consolidate trust in these weak ties, distributors analogize business transactions with customers as social activities such as teaching, helping and sharing; they also transform financial ties between frontlines and downlines into quasi-family bonds. In the mean time, distributors maneuver local cultural elements, such as familism, seniority hierarchy and gender segregation, to reconcile the conflicts between personal affection and economic interest, to legitimize frontlines' appropriation of commission, as well to reproduce the patriarchal division of labor among distributors.