A real work at home business allows you to sit naked at your desk without being arrested, just like this guy here. It’s not something I tend to do myself (even though I hope I look a lot better naked than this guy!) but I love the fact that I COULD if I wanted to!
How do you tell a real work at home business from a scam?
The first sign of real work at home businesses is their age. Obviously that’s not to say that all brand new home business opportunities are scams but the longest lifespan of a scam is usually a year or so at most.
That’s because nowadays, in the Internet age, if something is a scam you’ll find enough people shouting it from the rooftops, writing home business reviews on forums, message boards and blogs about how they’ve been taken for a ride.
Be wary though, because lots of Internet marketers play on people’s natural desire not to be ripped off by crying scam about perfectly legitimate home business opportunities.
It’s just like the school yard all over again – a grown up version of “Don’t play with Billy Bob, he’s horrible and he’ll steal all your toys. Be my friend instead”.
Same as in the school yard, do the good guys need to run down others to make friends? Of course not.
So every time you read something negative about a company you’re researching, ask yourself if there’s an ulterior motive. Is the writer using the “riding on the backs of giants” tactic to gain your attention and scare you off the business you were originally looking at so you’ll join their supposedly top home business instead?
As a rule of thumb, if a company has lasted three years or more then the odds are extremely good that it’s a legitimate business opportunity and you have nothing to worry about.
As the old saying goes “you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time”.
In fact, three to five years old is probably the ideal time to join a homebased business because statistically speaking, most companies enjoy their biggest growth spurts between years 3 and 5.
The hardest period for any company is the start-up phase which is the equivalent of getting a Jumbo jet off the ground.
This is followed by the first couple of years which you could liken to the aircraft gaining height and speed, before reaching its optimum altitude and then it’s travelling at full throttle, or in business terms, its momentum growth period.
That’s the period when there’s a buzz around the business, it’s making news and attracting attention (which can also be negative attention, the “riding on the backs of giants” I talked about earlier) and is nowhere near market saturation so it’s still very easy to generate leads and recruit new members.
Clearly, no business can sustain rapid growth indefinitely and what generally happens is that by year 7 the business has reached its plateau. Still growing but no longer at full throttle.
That’s why if you’re looking to replace your income fast and make a full-time income from home, you’ll find it easiest to do with a company at that all-important “buzz stage”.
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