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How to Survive and Prosper in this Uncertain Economy by Jim Peterson

Posted by jcp at 8:13 am business, home based business Comments Off

Jul 112011

I heard yesterday that the economy has turned around. However, I heard today that the United States government may have to shut down.

Friends it’s a wake-up call. Big business and Big government have failed us. Not only have they failed us, they don’t seem to “Get It” that they failed us. What do you do to protect yourself? You start a home based businesses like the one in this 1:32 video

During the last economic melt down, I forget if it as the dot com, savings and loan, bank bailout or what the government decided to give us some great tax incentives to be a home base business person. I’m not going to go into that ask your tax person, however, make sure your tax person understands home based businesses and their tax advantages.

What I’m going to talk about is change. There is an old saying “If you continue to do what you have always done you will continue to get what you have always got.” Be flexible, open to change, aware of the opportunities that the universe presents to you – every day. I know its scary. I know you were not taught anything about business in high school or college. I also know that once you change, that is change your attitude about business, you will never turn back.

Did you know that business can be fun? That’s right fun! Ever thought that it would be fun to be in business with your friends and people you enjoyed rather than strangers that you are thrown together with because of a pay check? When you leverage your income and the income of your friends, it’s fun.

And you can start a home based business with very little up front capital. When I say very little I mean less than $50. What kind of business can you start for less than $50? An Internet marketing, direct selling or network marketing business. These 3 categories represent thousands of opportunities and BILLIONs of dollars in annual sales. My favorite is network marketing.

I don’t have a cheeky definition for Network Marketing (MLM). To me it provides all the advantages of the original franchise concept without the heavy initial investment and employees required of a typical franchise. It is simply the the most cost effective way for “we the people” to make money.

A network marketing company will create a product, do all the administrative record keeping, manufacturing, warehousing, shipping and customer service while you, the independent distributor, only pay a fee to join, usually less than joining Costco, and spend your energy building a wholesale business, much like a wholesale buying club, and an organization of business builders you want to work with.

A misconception that many seem to have is that network marketing is more like a chain letter than a business. Network marketing, like any business, requires an investment in time and money to make it work. However, when you find a company with a product like the one below you feel good about what you are doing.

Do not let others set the standards about how much money you should have— or about what you should do with it. you are the only one who can accurately define that. Come into alignment with what you want from your home based business and allow the opportunities that life presents to you to help you attain you goals.

Sometimes people take a short term view of their home based business. At times, on the Internet and in network marketing, some people consider selling taking advantage of others for a short term gain. Don’t do that! Don’t prey on each other, help each other. Find yourself a good company and build your business around it.

We will surface from these challenging times stronger than ever. And when we do you will have built your own business from which you will never be laid off.

Know some friends who would like to join you?

Ever consider working with your friends and family?

Call me at 808-333-5218

Small work from home business vs Big never see home business

Posted by jcp at 5:18 pm business, home based business Comments Off

Jul 072011

I think business is great. In fact I believe that business is the catalyst for all growth. Don’t take my word for it, look at your life and you will see that everything you perceive as good comes from business. Business provides you with the vehicle for freedom, joy and growth which is the path to make the earth a better place.

Business, ethics, integrity, these principles allowed us to expand from barter traders to entrepreneurs and from entrepreneurs to what? What, is up to you, because you are business.

What do I mean by you are business? If you don’t buy what business offers, business is out of business. Unfortunately, because there are so many of us BIG business seems to have forgotten that you are their business.

In business school these days they seem to be teaching students more about how to manipulate the system, and you, than why business exists or what makes a business last. The education system in the United States has produced a whole new breed of Business School trained executives, whose loyalty is to finance and the manipulation of investments; who feel no obligation to be familiar with a company’s employees, product, manufacturing process or customers.

There are exceptions, however, normally BIG equals bureaucracy and bureaucracy equals mediocrity. In a bureaucracy the cream does not usually rise to the top. The bureaucracy has forgotten that you are business, they have come to believe that they are business. It appears BIG business leaders don’t give “you” that much thought. BIG is interested in business.

Let’s talk SMALL. Small businesses, whether they are home based businesses, some franchises, a direct selling business or something in between, allow you to have a life, family experience, feeling of community with all the freedom, joy and growth that you are here to enjoy. That is why I like home based businesses, particularly, networking businesses, because that is what they do.

The ancient business pioneers were satisfied when business reached the point where farming, barter, trade allowed the formation of relationships that provided communities with a stable platform from which you could work together to make the earth a better place. As things were needed, someone in the community or a neighboring community developed it. When you found a product that you liked or worked for your health you shared it with your community and others. You cared about each other.

And that’s exactly what happens when you are dealing with a person, a friend, family member or associate. However, you are taught, by BIG business, to pay more attention to an actor dressed up like a doctor than to a friend or relative that talks to you, face to face. BIG has convinced you that when you look at the media (T.V., Internet, Newspapers, etc.) you are dealing with a person. You are not, you are dealing with a business that wants to sell you something and wants you to perceive that it is helping you.

How does a home based business work? The majority of the 100+ Billion dollar network marketing/direct selling industry is based on providing you a unique product or service directly from family, friends and associates. Home based businesses are a business model that allows you to have a life while you earn income.

Universities, the media, your parents and friends keep relying on the BIG business model even after the Savings and Loan mess, Dot com melt down, Bank failures, Real Estate debacle, etc. all caused by “traditional” business practices.

Heaven forbid that you start a home based business. Even though, while banks are failing and real estate is tumbling, small and home based businesses, which represent 50% of the Gross National Product, continue to provide more and more people with freedom and financial independence.

Find a home based business you like and begin to enjoy the freedom, joy and growth that it can bring to you.