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A Home Business should Not Be Complicated
Written by: Peter MacInnesArticle Overview: I take a week or two, I work in my home office planning and sorting the necessary from the unnecessary. It's at this time I reflect on both the good and the bad, and examine how I can keep things focused and simple. The week between Christmas and New Years is usually a good time for me to do that.
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A Home Business should Not Be Complicated
Most of the year I work from my office and car in Direct Sales or MLM. I specialize in helping non-profit organizations raise money, and train others my procedure. However, there are a couple of months each
year when I work as an independent contractor publishing a tourism and economic
development guide. Whether online or offline, I build partnerships for profit.
Building a home business does not need to be complicated. Working solo, however, offers
some distractions. For example, the
Internet is like a candy store and keeping focused with a work rhythm is absolutely vital
for success. Great events in life are almost always like that, are they not, focused
and relatively simple. Take for
example, the apostle Paul's preaching and teaching. He wrote in his first letter to the Corinthians, "I
resolve to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him
crucified. My message and my
preaching were not with wise and persuasive words..."
A personal illustration of keeping business simple can be illustrated this way. Several years
ago, when our children were very young, I started a conventional business from
our home. In a few short years I
employed over fifty full time people and the business became very profitable. With visibility and profitability came some
healthy curiosity from friends and colleagues. One question often asked was this. "What inspired you to start
your business around that idea?"
My answer was almost always the same: "My family had to eat”. This was a simple and uncomplicated response. But, when I gave it with a smile, it was
fun to say and appeared to be fun for those who asked the question.
Within a few short years, I sold that business and got into Network Marketing. In those early years of MLM growth, it
was the MLM companies that held most of the power, and that created uncertainty for the independent marketer. However, thanks to the growth of the Internet and the
explosion of new MLM companies, that power has been balanced. The Network Marketer nao have so many more
choices today. that the power is more equally balanced between the company and
the Independent Affiliate. Companies are no longer the sole drivers of the
ship.
Network Marketing continues to mature as an industry. The evidence is seen in the broad cross-section
of people quietly starting and running a home-based business. Among my friends who own a Home
Business are Doctors, Teachers, Executives, Stay-At-Home Moms, Health
Professionals, Coaches, Pro-Athletics, Scientists, Bankers, Attorneys,
Secretaries, and the Retired and the Tired. They are Ordinary People from all walks of life. Some are over 75 and others barely out
of their teens.
MLM is an industry that embraces everyone.
"The answer is simple"
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