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CaptainCrunch · 01-24-2010, 11:41 PM

There was a decent article in the Sun today that talks about why most peoples small home businesses fail.

Basically with these ads for making $5000.00 a month the people that respond to them and get started fail to have the sales experience or ability to make it work.

As nice as it is to work from home, you tend to have to do a ton of prospecting and networking to make it work. Because of the low dollar amounts of most products you probably have to do 10 times the prospecting that a normal account manager would do to make it successful.

There's also very little help from the supplying company, they don't care if you succeed or not as long as you pay their fees.

01-24-2010, 11:41 PM	#15
CaptainCrunch Norm! Join Date: Jun 2002 Exp:	There was a decent article in the Sun today that talks about why most peoples small home businesses fail. Basically with these ads for making $5000.00 a month the people that respond to them and get started fail to have the sales experience or ability to make it work. As nice as it is to work from home, you tend to have to do a ton of prospecting and networking to make it work. Because of the low dollar amounts of most products you probably have to do 10 times the prospecting that a normal account manager would do to make it successful. There's also very little help from the supplying company, they don't care if you succeed or not as long as you pay their fees. __________________ My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!