Are You A 'Get Rich Quick' Junkie?

It amazes me how many ads I see online that are out and out scams -- yet people still fall for them. Some of these things were old 50 years ago and yet they keep turning up in one form or another.

Take this one:

Easy money! Pay $5 (or up to $500 in some cases) to the person above, who is your 'sponsor'. After that, anyone you bring into this 'opportunity', you will make $5 (or $500 if you're lucky) and in 2 weeks - HOT DAMN! You will be a millionaire!

If you have been reading my posts for any length of time, you know I don't go in for hype, lies or thinking the world is ruled by stupid lazy people. When it comes to ads like the example above - Would you really want to be involved with these people? I don't!

There's something inside all of us that refuses to take crap and pay for the privilege. Atleast in my case.

Building a successful, real business is hard work! Sometimes it's hard enough to make you want to quit and go find a job picking peas, cleaning toilets -- any damn thing except spend one more day trying to find customers who will buy your product or service.

Hang in there - it will get better! Most of the time what it will take to make your business succeed comes down to Persistance & Guts! That means not expecting to make a gazillion dollars next week.

My suggestion is - First try to make back the money you invested to get started. For some of you, especially if you bought a business or franchise, it may take you a year to break even. So what! Be willing to get your money out the deal!

Is your business online only? You spent money to either buy pay-per-click ads or paid for hosting a website or maybe you just bought a course on internet marketing. Whatever you spent - That's the amount you want to make in your business first!

Ok Georjina, who will get the most from this blog?
The short answer is: if you're still reading - you are probably in the right place.

The long answer (for those of you who have been reading entirely too many target marketing ebooks lately:

The Solo Gazette is about and for

Women and men who understand English (or my version of it anyway)

Are serious about being self employed in a small enterprise they can operate without employees (you know what it's like to be scared of losing your next paycheck - why do that to someone else?)

Refuse to allow minor set backs or hold-ups stop them from living their dream

Willing to think for themselves.

Know that they will have to give up something - whether it be time or money to make it happen.

Does this sound like you? Then post a comment, tell me I'm full of it or if you want to 'get rich quick', go find another blog to read.

That's it for today and I'll leave you with this

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, You risk even more - Erica Jong