Been
Burned, Scammed, Taken for a Ride ...
by
Rachel Gawith
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.
Keywords:
homebased business, scams, MLM, work at home, business opportunities
© 2004 Rachel Gawith Rachel runs her own online
business at http://www.computerincome.net
as well as publishing a weekly newsletter at http://www.freedailycash.com.
You'll also find a vast array of free tools there to help
you market any business effectively online and you can post
your classified ad free for 7 days. Email: Rachel Gawith,
rgawith@tesco.net
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