Home based businesses

[Clint]

This new “home based business” thing is becoming more and more intriguing to me. Does anyone know if any of them actually work? I hear they have a high rate of failure.

[anastrophe]

Originally Posted by Clint

This new “home based business” thing is becoming more and more intriguing to me. Does anyone know if any of them actually work? I hear they have a high rate of failure.

they work great for the people selling the 'starter' kits. for everyone else (their customers), they're just a fast way to throw away from $24 to $240.

[Clint]

Originally Posted by anastrophe

they work great for the people selling the 'starter' kits. for everyone else (their customers), they're just a fast way to throw away from $24 to $240.

I came across one that wanted $1495 to get started. They came right out and said the profit was $1,000 on each sign up and that's how the money is made. It didn't look legal and it sure didn't feel right, so I bowed out.

[Betty Boop]

Don't even go there. Please..

My freind here in the UK has been suckered in, she claims she is making money, I hope so, but I know she has invested a lot of money and time in something that is basically a pyramid.

I very nearly joined one company, then I found out the products they were selling are banned in Canada, which led me to do some research on the 'net', the results were not nice.

Take a look at this site:


www.mlmsurvivor.com

[gmc]

follow the money, if you have to buy stock up front rather than order just as you need, don't go there. If making money depends on building up a network rather than selling a product be careful. Amway was one of the worst, their products may be good but are too expensive for what they are, they've changes their name in the UK. I've only ever met one that made money but plenty distributors that want to talk about a business opportunity but won't tell you exactly what it is without a two hour presentation.

[john8pies]

Generally speaking, but not exclusively, I think you will find that the MLM thing is designed to ensure that only the top couple of `pyramids` make all the money, and by the time that it filters down to those poor folk at the bottom, there is no money left to be made.

To quote an imaginary example, if they say, for example, you only need to sign up 5 other people to make a profit, and this carries on the `downline`, then those 5 people will need to sign up 5x5 =25, and those 25 will need to sign up 25x5= 125 and those 125 need to sign up 125x5= 625 and then it become 625x5 = over THREE THOUSAND RECRUITS and this is only at the fifth level down! Before too long you`d need to sign up everybody in the country or whatever - and at the same time everybody else in the country is also trying to sign up everybody else !!!

[Clint]

Does anyone know of a solid home based business? I’m not out to get rich (it would be OK though) and I have no desire to solicit business from my friends.

[gmc]

Best one I've seen in UK is kleeneze-basically it's door to door selling but the only stock you buy is what you have sold you can see where the money is being made and it's hard graft. You must have something similar in the states.

Other than that how about consultancy of some kind? Know a couple IT guys that are now building up good businesses, they are good at what they do the key is building up a customer base. most of the busines growth is in sme's there is a demand for bespoke software and IT support

[LottomagicZ4941]

I hate how people get front end loaded.

I like Lotto Magic's 50% on team captins which means that people who join can be making money quickly and we do it with out front end loading people.

And Clint if you don't want to pester family and friends we have post cards and flyers as well as a free website for recruiting.

Due to having a kid and thus not as much time to goof around on the computer I'm going to be doing some pay per click advertizing.

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[devist8me]

I friend of mine sold Amway for years, more as a supplement to his regular job. He worked in a factory making good money/benefits/etc. Someone then got him hooked into pre-paid legal services. He said he made so much money the first 3 months that he quit his factory job and just did Amway and Pre paid legal service. After about another 6 months, he was broke! Another year and he lost his house. I've heard too many horror stories to ever look into it as my only way of income.