Be Your Own Boss!
When I was growing up, my late Father ran a little hardware business at the bottom of the town.
Day after day he would sit in that little shop - waiting for people to walk by and perhaps come in. He spent 25 years of his life waiting for his customers to turn up to buy something and put some cash in the till. He always dreamed of being his own boss - of having his name above the door - of being a successful businessman.
True - he was his own boss - but as far a making money and securing true financial freedom, the whole retail business model is flawed... at least for the small business person... and it simply DOESN'T WORK!
I know that's a bold statement, but it's true. In all my years I have yet to meet a well-off shopkeeper. I have yet to meet a shopkeeper for instance who can pay himself 125,000 a month... even if they spent most of the year out of the shop. You and I know, it just doesn't happen in traditional business set-ups.
In fact, its just plain impossible to earn a great living traditionally because the business model used is basically that of a small shop. One where you are essentially just opening your doors in the morning and waiting in all day for people (customers) to walk in and browse/buy. What a waste of time... what an awful waste of a life.
Its so, so sad. And it's a situation which especially touches me as I watched helpless as my Father did exactly that for 25 years of his valuable life. I've seen it first hand how it destroys a person's life. How it kills their dreams and leaves their hopes in tatters.
But there is an alternative....one where you can work WHERE you want, from your laptop computer...where you can work WHEN you want - you choose your own hours....where start up costs are low - no big overheads, no premises to buy or rent...where your customer sends you the cash for his order before you send the products - and you never have to keep loads of stock.
In my Dads shop, he used to carry something in the order of 16,000 items of stock just to meet the possible future demand of his customers. It was no good having just one size of screw or nail - you had to stock all sizes and finishes to meet your customers demands.
But with a 'Cash On Demand' business, you sell DVD's, CD's and manuals - items that can be run off on your PC AFTER you get an order. Of course, if you get a lot of sales in, you can also use outside duplication houses to help you meet the demand - but certainly when starting out you can maintain a positive cash flow through keeping stocks to a minimum.
It's a great business and one that I now teach in Bootcamp seminars and through my step by step monthly Cash On Demand course.
I still have that sad image in my mind of my Dad hanging around in a cold shop waiting for customers to come in and buy something. And all just so he could make enough money to clothe and feed us each month. It was a depressing sight as he struggled day to day just to try to 'keep his head above water'.
And I find it sadder... as I still do when I see so many others going it alone down the traditional business route... that even before he started his shop (traditional business), he spent years dreaming about 'being his own boss'.
If only he (and others) realised that his desire was misguided, that in most cases 'being your own boss' is more like 'being your own prison warden' in reality. You create a situation you can't escape from... you become entrapped.
Its one of the factors which influenced me in writing my 'Cash On Demand' course - to genuinely help other ordinary people like me to start and run a business of their own... but to make sure they don't make the same terrible mistakes my father did.
For more information on the Cash On Demand course visit http://www.andrews-secret.com
Day after day he would sit in that little shop - waiting for people to walk by and perhaps come in. He spent 25 years of his life waiting for his customers to turn up to buy something and put some cash in the till. He always dreamed of being his own boss - of having his name above the door - of being a successful businessman.
True - he was his own boss - but as far a making money and securing true financial freedom, the whole retail business model is flawed... at least for the small business person... and it simply DOESN'T WORK!
I know that's a bold statement, but it's true. In all my years I have yet to meet a well-off shopkeeper. I have yet to meet a shopkeeper for instance who can pay himself 125,000 a month... even if they spent most of the year out of the shop. You and I know, it just doesn't happen in traditional business set-ups.
In fact, its just plain impossible to earn a great living traditionally because the business model used is basically that of a small shop. One where you are essentially just opening your doors in the morning and waiting in all day for people (customers) to walk in and browse/buy. What a waste of time... what an awful waste of a life.
Its so, so sad. And it's a situation which especially touches me as I watched helpless as my Father did exactly that for 25 years of his valuable life. I've seen it first hand how it destroys a person's life. How it kills their dreams and leaves their hopes in tatters.
But there is an alternative....one where you can work WHERE you want, from your laptop computer...where you can work WHEN you want - you choose your own hours....where start up costs are low - no big overheads, no premises to buy or rent...where your customer sends you the cash for his order before you send the products - and you never have to keep loads of stock.
In my Dads shop, he used to carry something in the order of 16,000 items of stock just to meet the possible future demand of his customers. It was no good having just one size of screw or nail - you had to stock all sizes and finishes to meet your customers demands.
But with a 'Cash On Demand' business, you sell DVD's, CD's and manuals - items that can be run off on your PC AFTER you get an order. Of course, if you get a lot of sales in, you can also use outside duplication houses to help you meet the demand - but certainly when starting out you can maintain a positive cash flow through keeping stocks to a minimum.
It's a great business and one that I now teach in Bootcamp seminars and through my step by step monthly Cash On Demand course.
I still have that sad image in my mind of my Dad hanging around in a cold shop waiting for customers to come in and buy something. And all just so he could make enough money to clothe and feed us each month. It was a depressing sight as he struggled day to day just to try to 'keep his head above water'.
And I find it sadder... as I still do when I see so many others going it alone down the traditional business route... that even before he started his shop (traditional business), he spent years dreaming about 'being his own boss'.
If only he (and others) realised that his desire was misguided, that in most cases 'being your own boss' is more like 'being your own prison warden' in reality. You create a situation you can't escape from... you become entrapped.
Its one of the factors which influenced me in writing my 'Cash On Demand' course - to genuinely help other ordinary people like me to start and run a business of their own... but to make sure they don't make the same terrible mistakes my father did.
For more information on the Cash On Demand course visit http://www.andrews-secret.com
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