Please Prove Me Wrong!
My colleagues and I in our Home-Based Business Owners Consortium known as KOG Unity PLUS Group ponder this conundrum almost daily. Consider our points of agreement. Opportunities to succeed abound today as never before in history. Immutable and powerful principles govern success and deliver prosperity to everyone in alignment with them. The Internet provides us with one of the most powerful tools of opportunity for success ever in human history. Now consider our point of contention. About 90 percent of my more than 1,000 colleagues around the country believe that if you construct an amazing opportunity and set the investment at a price almost everyone can afford, thousands of people will flock to the offering. I, on the other hand, believe that most people’s minds have become so adapted to failure and so accepting of the so-called inevitability of horrendous circumstances that skepticism and fear hinder their progress.
Consider examples of my evidence
Thousands of non-profit organizations around the country struggle to make ends meet, vying for grants, donations and other traditional fundraising efforts that have long since proved to be insufficient to meet the needs of these organizations, many of which remain committed to outstanding community work. Meanwhile, the opportunity to become affiliates of a few online stores and educate their supporters to shop online safely and conveniently seems to never occur to most non profit organization leaders. These leaders, both policy makers and administrators, seem to be trapped in the quicksand of inadequate fundraising efforts, while overlooking the potential “goldmine,” of opportunity in social entrepreneurialship. This example also applies to churches and other faith-based groups who recognize that they can’t get enough money from the collection plates to adequately finance long term ministry. Yet, they continue passing the plate, while ignoring the many “promised lands” of internet-based economic opportunity.
Despite the fact that homebased businesses constitute one of the fastest growing segments of our economy, with thousands of fearless individuals reaping bountiful monetary benefits, most people who desperately need to establish leveraged, multiple revenue streams cower on life’s sidelines in fear. Meanwhile, they continue struggling, day-by-day to make the nation’s 40-40-40 plan work. This plan requires you to work 40 hours a week for 40 years so you can be forced into retirement to try and support yourself on 40% less than you need fo minium living expenses.
According to Henry B.R. Beale in his report for the SBA (Small Business Administration) Office of Advocacy, in a report published in February 2004: “Home-based businesses, which make up roughly half of all U.S. businesses . . .are defined as businesses that are conducted out of a residence with no other headquarters location.” Joanne Pratt, who tracks these businesses for the SBA, found in her most recent study that ” . . .about two-thirds (68%) of sole proprietorships, partnership, and S corporations are home-based.” These businesses comprise: 34% of the nation’s construction companies, 33% of the nation’s services companies, 19% of the nation’s transportation firms, 12% of the nation’s retail trade firms, 11% of the nation’s finance, insurance and real estate firms.
Michael Gerber, an internationally known small business consultant says: “There is an estimated 20.3 million small businesses in America alone. Small businesses contribute 47 percent of all sales in this country and employ 53 percent of the private non-farm workforce. Small businesses are responsible for 51 percent of the private gross domestic product (GDP). Their health is critical to the overall economy. Within any given year, close to 1 million people start a small business in the U.S. Sadly, at least 40 percent of those businesses fail within the first year. The failure rate over time is nothing short of staggering. Of the 1 million U.S. small businesses started this year, more than 800,000 (80%) of them will be out of business within five years and 96% will have closed their doors before their 10th birthday.”
So the majority of small businessesd are home-based. In fact, in the Retail Trade sector, the Direct Selling Association (DSA) reports that 13.3 million home-based business owners operate as Independent Representatives of national Direct Selling companies that are DSA members. These home-based business owners account for $29.55 billion in annual retail sales. Almost 80 percent of these home-based business owners are women.
Why are so many people reluctant to take advantage of outstanding opportunities? Why do they rather struggle in the rat race, complaining with every step, but doing absolutely nothing to conquer their dismal circumstances?
I believe that most people doubt, even fear, anything that appears to contradict what they feel is true
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