BEEN BURNT, SCAMMED, TAKEN FOR A RIDE……..
Well don’t worry, we have all been there. I doubt there is a
single network marketer or homeworker out there who hasn’t at
some point in their career fallen for an envelope stuffing
scheme, been talked into selling potions and pills, tried chain
letters etc. But the important thing is to learn from your
mistakes and take something from every experience.
My first venture into working from home came when I answered an
advert in a local paper which stated I could be earning £2000 a
week part time, all I had to do was call. So I did and ended up
trailing along to a meeting about how much money one could make
from selling herbal diet supplements and how easy it all was. So
I signed up and paid the £200 for the starter pack. Full of
enthusiasm I started my 68 year old gran off on the diet. Well
the first week she lost a few pounds and all was going well. I
paid out another £100 to have a load of leaflets printed and
spent hours putting these on car windscreens. By the second
week, gran had given up on the diet as the stuff ‘tasted funny’
and she was bored with a milkshake three times a day!
Then I decided to try selling the products via the internet. It
was a slow process but I taught myself html coding and built my
first website. Then came the hard task of trying to market my
site and get people to visit it. This is when I discovered that
you could apparently make thousands very easily and with no
effort online, simply by signing up for a website and placing a
few free classifieds. So I joined every ‘next big thing’, every
site promoting untold riches, only to find that the program
disappeared after a few weeks, along with my money. But along
the way I learnt what I should look for in an online business,
the best ways to market online and my web design skills improved
drastically. At times I became very disillusioned and felt like
giving up when yet another program folded, or sponsor failed to
get in touch and offer support but I learned valuable lessons.
And after one such online opportunity disappeared and having
convinced a number of people to join me in this, I thought
enough was enough and started my own online program. Even that
involved a steep learning curve, the site had to be revamped
numerous times, parts of the program changed but I put the
knowledge I gained from being a ‘newbie’ into building a good
stable program. People need support, they want to see proper
products and a realistic and achievable pay plan.
So don’t give up, from every bad experience you will learn
something, be it a new skill, what to avoid next time, what
advertising works or doesn’t and so on…Like life home based
business, especially on the internet, is a learning experience
which you must embrace.
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