Can You Get Through this Economy
Sallie Roberts January 30th, 2009
We are all being affected by the current economy. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? If you believe the media, the answer is NO. We are all feelilng the pinch and for some if feels more like a hard sock in the stomach. Pensions and Retirement funds have been cut in half or more. We are scared, we are panicky, but we are not dead in the water or at least not yet.
I have had a home business for many years and I have seen people come and go in this business, but I cannot think of anything that could truly help people more in this bad economy that to have a home business. Sure there is an investment, but it is usually between $50 and $500. Compare that to starting a traditional store front business and it is just pennies. Not to mention that you’d be crazy to start a new store front at the point in time.
What does a home business offer you?
- Extra income
- Tax benefits
- A way to build back your pension or retirement
Sure, it can do all that. So why isn’t everybody jumping in with all 4 feet? Well at least with both feet. Is the “stigma” of MLM or Network Marketing? Is it that people are already worked to death with their job? Is it time? Is it the investment? Is it because a home business requires work to be successful? Is it because it is easier to accept defeat than to triumph over success.It is probably a little of all of that.
People have lost the ability to dream.
They think the American Dream is dead. Well tell that to the Warren Buffet’s, the Kenny Trout’s, the Phil Mims, the millions of folks to have made millions in a network marketing business. The economy is not affecting them at all. They are all just regular people who followed their dreams and wouldn’t quit, wouldn’t make excuses, just hung in there until their dreams came true. They all started the exact same way as everyone else who enrolls in a MLM company. Every person who starts a home business, puts up an investment and starts working their busieness. There a millionaires who got in at the “top”, and there are people who got in years after the company started. They became millionaires in good economies and bad, new companies and old companies. You find them in every MLM company out there. The reason they became hugely successful is that they didn’t let anything stand in the way. They set aside their hobbies (golf, music, volunteering) the made time for the dream and their dreams came true.
We can make excuses or money, not both.
A home business is a terrific way to make extra income or better. The tax benefits alone are tremendous. People will find “time” to do whatever it is that is important to them. In this economy, we better realize that we are going to have to make some sacrifices if we are going to survive. People have lost their retirement, their jobs, their homes. Find a home business that has products that people will still buy. They probably are not buying high dollor cosmetics or water softners. Health products will stay on an even keel, especially since people have lost their medical insurance and can’t afford to get sick. Look at the trends and find a trend that is staying alive and better yet growing in momenteum then jump aboard and make it happen for yourself.
