As nearly everyone knows--often from personal experience--there is very little security in having a job these days--no matter how "good" it may be. Most jobs are at high risk of being eliminated in an eyeblink through corporate mergers, downsizing, and being out-sourced, to name a few of the major causes. As a result, instead of having a single career spanning 30 to 50 years, as was the norm a half century ago, most working people now are likely to have multiple careers during their working lives.
Another inherent downside of all jobs, however, is less commonly recognized due a deeply-ingrained prevailing belief that having a good job is sufficient for financial well-being. In today's world, this belief is as illusory as the Emperor's New Clothes.
As Robert Kiyosaki has pointed out so trenchantly in his best-selling book, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," the inherent financial limitation of all jobs, including all forms of self-employment, is that they entail trading time for income. The income that they can generate, therefore, is intrinsically limited by the number of hours that one can work. For this basic reason, it's highly unlikely for anyone to achieve true financial independence through even the very best of jobs.
Actually, however, there is massive evidence that for the vast majority of working people, their job is aptly described by the increasingly prevalent acronym, J.O.B ("Just Over Broke"). Not only are most jobs not a route to financial independence, but even worse, they're a source of great stress and dissatisfaction. With married couples, this is often compounded by two jobs, instead of one.
Here are six of the main sources of this job distress:
1. Not being able to spend enough quality time with children. Parents working a full-time job pay a high price in terms of missing out on being with their children, especially during their early formative years. Correspondingly, their children often pay an even higher price by not receiving the degree and quality of nurturance they need. This is especially true when both parents are working.
2. The rising costs of commuting to and from work, along with the massive stress this commonly entails.
3. The high cost of daycare for pre-school children. When this cost is subtracted from the income earned by working, the net gain is often miniscule. If the long-term emotional costs entailed for both parents and children are taken into account, even this apparent short-term gain may actually prove to be a liability.
4. Not having adequate time or energy to prepare healthy meals. This often results in eating fast food that is nutritionally inadequate. This, in turn, commonly contributes to obesity and sub-optimal health.
5. Lack of control over working hours. Constantly being controlled by an inflexible work schedule is often a major source of chronic stress and dissatisfaction. Since chronic stress contributes markedly to all forms of illness, the cost of which is rising at an ever-accelerating rate, this is another massive long-term cost factor of a J.O.B.
6. Conflict with work supervisors and co-workers. Although this is not universal, research indicates that it's one of the most common sources of job dissatisfaction. To the degree that it's a problem, it's obviously another source of chronic stress with all of the immediate and long-term costs that this entails.
So is there a better alternative to a J.O.B.? There is, indeed, and it's one that increasing numbers of people are discovering and opting into. Generally speaking, this alternative consists in a carefully-chosen home business. The words, "carefully chosen" here are very important, however, because there are a huge number of potential options available that vary in quality from superb, through mediocre, to outright scams.
Therefore, in making the transition from a J.O.B. to a highly satisfying and financially rewarding home business, it's crucially important to proceed with great caution and on the basis of some important guidelines and caveats. These will addressed in a second companion article.
Also, you'll find some very important information by listening to the audio above and by reading other articles on this blog.
You can learn about a superb home business by going to:
********************************************************************************* The Key To Home Business Success--Getting On The Right Track with the Right Network Marketing Company
By George Shears,
September 11, 2006
Increasing numbers of people are waking up to the reality that their jobs--regardless of the short-term security they may seem to provide--are actually a dead end. This has given rise to the cynical acronym, "J.O.B.,"(Just Over Broke). Even two-income families often find themselves living from paycheck to paycheck, with little left to save for a rainy day.
Recent research shows, for example, that average Americans save only 4% of their income; consumer and credit card debt, moreover, along with bankruptcies, have reached an all-time high. People are also refinancing their homes at a record pace, eroding the equity that, historically, has been a common source of retirement security.
For those with long-range vision, then, the writing on the wall is quite clear--the vast majority of people who trade time for dollars in a conventional job will never attain financial freedom. Moreover, in view of the increasing erosion of pension plans and Social Security benefits, the dark cloud of retirement poverty looms ever larger on the horizon for increasing numbers of people.
Not surprisingly, then, more and more people are opting to start their own home business. Not only does this offer many immediate advantages, but it also holds the potential of generating a high level residual income and financial freedom.
"Fire your boss, throw away your alarm clock, and set your own hours," has become an ever more popular rallying cry of a growing cadre of would-be entrepreneurs who launch themselves on this new career path. An estimated 50,000 of them join various network market companies every week.
This highly attractive alternative career has, indeed, proven to be very rewarding for tens of thousands of people, many of whom have achieved a high degree of personal and financial success; sadly, however, a far greater number have been equally unsuccessful and have become very disillusioned.
Since this is a relatively new career path, most people enter it with inadequate preparation and guidance and with minimal awareness of its major potential pitfalls.
Choosing The Right Company:
To avoid the first big pitfall, it's absolutely essential to choose the right company. There are many excellent ones to choose from and there are hundreds, or thousands, of others to avoid. Here's a brief checklist of some of the most important qualities of a really great company:
1. It's well-established and financially stable.
2. Its growth has been steady and continuous.
3. Its leaders are highly qualified professionals with impeccable integrity.
4. It has high quality consumable products.
5. There is a strong consumer demand for these products.
6. It provides excellent training and support for distributors.
7. A high degree of mentoring and support is provided by sponsors.
8. The retention rate for distributors is high--the higher the better.
9. The compensation plan is generous and understandable.
10. The company strongly emphasizes high quality service to distributors and customers.
Getting On The Right Track:
Of equal importance is choosing a business building strategy that fits for you. In the past, there has been little choice here, because the traditional network marketing model has been monolithic and has used a highly standardized business building approach.
In general, this approach has required all distributors to promote their products and business personally and directly to large numbers of other people in their "warm" and "cold" markets. This approach is intrinsically inefficient in that--in order to be successful--it entails making presentations to extremely large numbers of people who are not highly qualified prospects. As leaders often state in this industry, "it's in the numbers," or "it's a sorting process."
Unfortunately,a large majority of people entering this industry are not adequately equipped, personally and/or financially, to be successful in using this approach. Without any doubt, this has been the single biggest pitfall for new distributors and also the main cause of disillusionment and failure.
But there is some very good news in this regard. Thanks to internet technology and some very talented leadership in applying it to network marketing, a highly effective and attractive new business building model has emerged. One of its greatest advantages is that IT COMPLETELY ELIMINATES ALL PERSONAL PROMOTION, RECRUITING, AND SELLING.
Instead, it utilizes a sophisticated and generic online system, along with a highly detailed, step-by-step action plan for utilizing that system, to build ANY primary network marketing business.
With this model, then, all business builders utilize a completely different promotional and recruitment strategy from that used in traditional network marketing. Their single purpose here is to attract as many targeted prospects as possible into their business building system through many different forms of internet advertising.
One result of this is that they have personal contact ONLY with prospects who have already enrolled in their business system. This saves a huge amount of wasted time and effort. And, for at least many network marketers, it's far more satisfying than trying to recruit large numbers of people who are not good prospects. It basically shifts one's prevailing role from that of promoter/recruiter/salesperson to that of mentor/guide/support person.
There's good reason to believe, then, that anyone who chooses the RIGHT COMPANY AND THE RIGHT TRACK has a MUCH greater probability of success than has previously been possible.
If you'd like to explore an easy way to get on the right track with the right company, you can go to my website:
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The Funded Sponsoring Franchise System--A Revolutionary New Approach to Network Marketing
(c) By George Shears - October, 2006
A revolutionary new approach is now available in network marketing. It provides a way to build ANY network marketing business entirely online and can be duplicated 100% by anyone who uses it. Not only does it eliminate all of the major causes for failure in traditional network marketing, but it has additional advantages besides.
First of all, it turns traditional network marketing upside down by eliminating ALL personal promotion, recruiting and selling. This saves a huge amount of wasted time and money that network marketers typically spend in working with vast numbers of highly unqualified prospects.
Network marketers using this system have personal contact with prospects only AFTER they have already enrolled into their business building system. This means that these prospects have already demonstrated that they are serious. This shifts the primary role of the business builder from personal recruiting, promoting, and selling to providing guidance, support, and mentoring. This is a far more satisfying role for the vast majority of network marketers.
Secondly, the prospects that enroll in the system generate income for the network marketer by enrolling in the highly attractive affiliate programs that it incorporates. All of these programs are designed to become quickly profitable. They provide quick financial benefits both to the enrollee and to the network marketer operating the system, whether or not the enrollee decides to join the marketer's primary business opportunity.
The system is specifically designed, however, to guide business opportunity seekers into recognizing the key importance of a primary network marketing business for building long-term residual income. It also guides them into considering the particular primary business of the person whose system they've enrolled in.
Once the system has provided comprehensive education about network marketing in general and the importance of a carefully-chosen primary network marketing business in particular, many of them will naturally opt in to the primary business of their sponsor.
So, once again, the business-builder who is utilizing this system waits for these prospects to approach him/her, instead of trying to recruit them actively.
But it gets still better. Not only is this Funded Sponsoring system very attractive to new business opportunity seekers, it has equal or greater appeal to the vast numbers of other network marketers who are struggling and/or failing using the traditional approach.
Further, since it is international in scope, its potential market is absolutely huge.
If you'd like to learn more about this exciting and highly refreshing new way to build a network marketing business, I invite you to go to my website shown below.
http://gshears.payitforward4profits.com
or, if you're new to network marketing, go to:
http://gshears.3stepsecret.com
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A Listing Of Links To Articles On Network Marketing
By George Shears
How To Fail In Network Marketing-Confessions of a Recovered Leads Junkie, Part I
How To Fail In Network Marketing - Confessions Of A Recovered Leads Junkie, Part II
Network Marketing For Work At Home Moms And Pops--An Introductory Primer, Part I
Network Marketing For Work At Home Moms and Pops--Its Advantages And Pitfalls, Part II
Considering A Home Business, Part I--Is Your Job An Asset Or A Liability?
Key To Home Business Success-Getting On The Right Track with Right Network Marketing Company
Network Marketing-Its Three Deadly Sins And How To Find Salvation From Them
Network Marketing--Its Major Pitfalls And A New Effective Way To Avoid Them
Network Marketing - 11 Ways To Be An Effective Leader
Network Marketing Outside The Box--Funded Sponsoring Franchises
Network Marketing--A Powerful Way to Increase Your Success Through Mindfulness Training
Network Marketing and Mindfulness Training--Four Ways It Can Increase Your Success
