My friend Steve Lawson has written this below on his facebook wall and I thought it was so good that I decided to not only share it to my timeline wall but also post what he said here on steemit.
Here's Steve's post below:
Here's a Dose of Reality for you !
If you think paying $37.50 per month to create your own Business is expensive then let me show you the real world of Business and how much it costs !
So in 1999 we purchased a Franchise called Interlink Express..
Purchase Price was $454,000
Basic Overheads
Staff Wages: $70,134 Per Month
WareHouse Costs: $13,421 Per Month
Vehicle Costs: $9,000 Per Month
Fuel Costs: $16,000 Per Month
Insurance: $3500 Per Month
Office Costs: $2000 Per month
Basic Monthly Operating Costs $114,055 Per Month
These are very rough figures and there actually is a whole lot more money spent over the course of the month.
So in order to keep the business operating each month I had to cover well over $114,000 every month in turnover. In a highly competitive environment this was a huge task given that as a Franchise we only had a specific territory that we could operate in.
I had to work regularly 70 to 80 hours per week and had very little time off and was never able to take days off sick. The stress and the worry was huge and the sheer aggravation and hassle of the job was often times debilitating. My staff didn't care about the business but were only concerned about getting paid each month.
We had a huge turnover of staff each year and we were constantly having to train new staff whilst trying to meet strict performance targets from our Franchisors. The job was physical and dirty and as an owner I had to be able to do every task in the business and I often did.
For all the effort and the stress and the worry and aggravation I used to pay myself about $2599.00 per month which was all I could afford to pay myself whilst meeting the obligations of the Huge loans that we needed to buy the business in the first place.
Was it worth the years of struggle ? Well by christ NO it was never worth it and when I now see people complain about spending $37.50 per month on their Online Business I have to simply wonder what PLANET are they living on where they think that investing that little into a business that they can operate from home with zero staff and zero stress could possibly be seen as expensive.
I think sometimes that people who come online looking for ways to make money should actually try running a business in the real world first before coming into the network marketing industry.
For me there is no better way to earn money and the possibilities are endless and the earning potential is limitless..
I would never go back to running a so called real business again !
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