Posted by Gordon Graham on December 27, 2000 at 10:50:03:
In Reply to: HAVE A BLESSED HOLIDAY FROM MY HEART & A IMPORTANT KEY TO SUCCESS posted by MIKE AKINS on December 25, 2000 at 15:19:25:
Dear Mike,
One of the many attributes that I appreciate about your organization is the level of honesty and forthrightness. For a variety of reasons I am not yet a member, but will become at least a customer of Franklin Salveson & Kent Ponder's today. Like you, I am putting in long work days often at the expense of my friendships with my family. One of my wife's objections to this industry, which I must overcome before I can go full time, is the start-up income curve. Right now we are just barely scraping by on my $15/hr job. As far as I am concerned, it is a dead end job with no future that is any better than my past 27 years in the real estate appraisal industry.
As with most middle aged men with a mortgage and a family to support, getting off the dock and in to the boat is very difficult. Some money now is more necessary than a lot more money in the future. I know there is no easy solution to building a business, any business, but particularly an MLM business if for no other reason than "Is is it scamway?"
Is there a particular profile of potential recruit in your experience? Based on my own experience that once someone gets "on the dock," "in a rut," it is much more difficult to make the transition in to MLM than if the potential recruit is either young and still in school and living at home, semi-retired or retired. Each spring I find myself wanting to go talk to graduating HS seniors about "piece work" or as Kent Ponder calls it "lateral income" v. "multiplex income."
For AARP types, it is the income curve that replicates their medical costs over and above their fixed incomes, that is the selling point.
Regardless, I just don't seem to be able to get past the need for income now, or the time and energy after finally getting home to my 7 year old son and wife to then change hats and leave them again. These may be the sacrifices one is supposed to make, but at what cost to the family?
Do you remember the song with the lines in it: "We'll get together soon, Dad. We'll get together soon." And, of course, they never do. I have that relationship with my Dad. I don't want my son to have the same kind of relationship with me.
It's a conundrum that we all must solve, and at the moment there does not seem to me to be an acceptable solution. Do you, or a member of your organization, have that piece of the puzzle?
Sincerely,
Gordon Graham