Drinks and Home Business - It’s all about Choice!

I was in the grocery store the other day and couldn’t help but ponder on the drinks aisle. Only 20 years ago, there was no drink aisle. It was maybe a quarter of one side of an aisle that offered very few choices - Coke, Pepsi, and maybe a few others. Now look at the aisle! In just about any grocery store you go into, the drinks aisle is an aisle of its own. And often it takes up both sides. What has changed and what does this have to do with Lightyear Wireless?

Well it’s all about choice isn’t it? With the introduction of energy drinks, healthy drinks, exotic juice drinks, the drink industry is suddenly alive with a multitude of choices that didn’t exist 20 or even 10 years ago. The same has happened with home business opportunities.

20 years ago, if you wanted to start your own home based business, you had limited choices. Probably Amway, HerbaLife and maybe a few others. And then you wouldn’t have even had the technology to use to market those businesses - you would have had to do it the old “door to door” way.

There is no home based business opportunity aisle in the store. But there are an even bigger plethora of choices. So many that sometimes it’s overwhelming! There are so many choices that I see some people (including people in my own Lightyear Wireless organization) hop from one thing to the next big thing. Not me, I am staying put.

If you are feeling overwhelmed by the choice, download my free book below to help you sort out and sift through those choices. It’s not about how to start a cell phone business; it just keeps it general. Although I am admittedly biased toward Lightyear Wireless, the book does not mention it (expect in the bio at the end).

Don’t be Overwhelmed!

When some people think of starting a home based business, they tend to get overwhelmed just thinking about it. They are plagued with questions like “how do I get started?” and “how will I grow the business”, and “how will I make any money?”. The best thing you can do if you are feeling overwhelmed is to step back and take things one piece at a time.

So if you are feeling overwhelmed, first take a look at what’s overwhelming you. For example, some of my team have a hard time understanding the compensation plan. My advice for them is to put down what they are doing and spend some time focusing on the plan to learn more about it. And of course, I make myself available to them as well.

Whatever is overwhelming you, take a step back and then focus solely on that for a bit. Usually a better understanding will emerge through focused work. Sometimes it helps to just put that thing aside that is overwhelming you - and do something else for a bit. Something simpler but still productive. With a home based business, there is always something to work on whether it be catching up on filing or building links to your website. But don’t get overwhelmed!

Companies that Hide Details

The other day I talked about being on the lookout for home based business scams. Similar but not necessarily scams are home based businesses that don’t put many details up front. You probably know the ones - you might have run across a page that talks about making a lot of money and shows pictures of nice cars and beautiful beach scenes. But when you get to the end of the ‘blah blah’, you have no idea what kind of business or how you might make money in that business.

These kinds of home based business opportunities do this for any number reasons. In some cases, the company does not allow business owners to use their name in marketing materials. Or it might be something else - the company has a bad reputation and/or has a lot of negative press and they must get your interest first. This way they overcome any objections - or so they think.

I become very suspicious of a home based business opportunity that isn’t up front about who and what they are. To me, that is important. If a company is not willing to be upfront about their business, how does that make a new prospect feel? Not good. Stick with companies like Lightyear Wireless where just about everything is made available up front. No surprises although it does take some time to fully understand the compensation plan.

Don’t Fall for Home Based Business Scams

Unfortunately there are a lot home business scams out there. They generally indicate that you can earn great wealth or sizable amounts of money along with not doing very much work. And people still fall for them!

I think people are always looking for that simple way to make lots of money. There is only one way that I know of: it’s called gambling. Like the lottery. The lottery offers the dream of winning a boat load of money for not very much effort. Just takes a ticket and a kiss from lady luck.

Oh don’t get me wrong; I buy lottery tickets myself. But I buy them for fun. I know what my chances are for winning a large lotto prize and the odds are not very favorable. So it’s fun to see how many numbers I can guess.

But a true legitimate home based business will take effort and hard work. They do offer the ability to make lots of money but not unless you put in a lot of effort. And this is the part that many people just don’t seem to get. If you are willing to put in the effort, try a legit home based business like Lightyear Wireless. If you want the chance for easy money, try your luck at lotto or some casino.

5 Ways to Earn Income in Lightyear Wireless

The first questions people usually ask me when we’re talking about the Lightyear Wireless home business opportunity is : how does the pay plan work? and how do I get paid?

Well for complete details, there is a detailed explanation I send them, but here is a quick 5 point overview. Basically, we make money in Lightyear Wireless in any of 5 ways.

1) Wireless Credits - You can earn enough wireless credits by bringing in customer to offset your entire phone bill! That’s a way to get paid indirectly because it saves you money on your wireless bill.

2) Customer Acquisition Bonus (CABs) - Every time you enroll a new representative, you get a customer acquisition bonus (CAB). The CAB can be as much as $295 depending on the options they choose.

3) Residual on Wireless Bills - You get paid a percentage of your customer’s phone bills! How good is that?

4) Business Builder Bonuses - Reaching different levels in the company earn your Business Builder Bonuses that can total up to $76,000.

5) Wireless Store Residuals - You also earn residual payments on the wireless stores of your reps!

Click this link for Lightyear Wireless and scroll down the page to get your own PDF copy of the Lightyear Wireless compensation plan

Pills, Potions, and Cell Phones

A lot of home based business opportunities are founded on nutritional products or some sort of health and wellness product. In fact it seems like an overwhelming percentage of home based business opportunities fall under the “Jungle Juice” or “Magic Pill” categories. These kinds of product based businesses generally require the customers to stay on repeat shipping (also called Autoship) for a while in order to make real money.

Now I am not going to say all these products are scams or that they’re no good. In fact, some of them are very good products. But one problem with these kinds of products is customer retention. In economic times like we are in now, those kinds of products are the first thing people think of when they start to think about what to cut back on. That bottle of juice that costs 50 or 75 dollars a month on auto-ship will likely be one of the first things to go.

The Lightyear Wireless based business opportunity is a bit different. Yes, there is a product, but it’s not some exotic juice or some miracle potion. It’s a product that everyone uses: wireless phones and service. And instead of auto-ship on some dubious products, there is a commission to be earned from monthly cellular service. And it’s already been shown that people are not cutting out their wireless service in response to the economy. If there is any shift in the wireless market, it’s to pre-paid wireless service and that’s also part of Lightyear suite of phone services. Lightyear is a great way to start a cell phone business from your home.

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Can you Start a Business for $50?

Yes! I only know of one legitimate home based business you can start for less than $50 and keep running for less than $50 per month. That of course is Lightyear Wireless. People have a lot of fears about starting a business. One of the biggest fears is losing lots of money.

And that’s a valid fear. In many businesses you can invest a lot of money and as a result, lose a lot of money. Many businesses force you to operate “in the hole” for years before they become profitable. With Lightyear, you may have to operate in the hole for a few months let’s face it. $50 is a relatively small hole and usually it doesn’t take that long to make that up. Of course you want to go far beyond just making up your investment; you will want to grow that into profitability. Lightyear will allow you to go as a far was you’re willing to take it.

Blackberry Phone Scam

Make sure you get those cell phones from a reliable reseller like Lightyear Wireless rather eBay. If you see cell phones being sold on eBay, particularly the higher end smart phone like Blackberry phones, think twice. In the news we have 3 people facing criminal charges for re-selling stolen Blackberry phones on eBay.

This is a good example of why you should expect to pay a fair price for goods like smart phones. Anytime you see something like Blackberry phones being sold at ridiculously low prices, run the other way! As they say; if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Same goes for businesses. These 3 were making a business out of stealing cell phones and re-selling them, complete with fictitious business names and storage facility. If you want an honest home based cell phone business, no need to go that route. Sign up For Lightyear Wireless and you can sell the Blackberry phones without even having to stock them. No scam there; just an honest, legitimate home based business.

Three face charges for allegedly stealing hundreds of Verizon Blackberrys

Lightyear Wireless ATT and Rollover Minutes

Have you seen those hilarious AT&T commercial about family plans and rollover minutes? It’s a hard core rollover minute mom who chides kids about the value of saving rollover minutes. Rollover minutes in these commercials are represented by some round orange thingie that looks like it might a minute timer or something. Anyway the kid threw out his minutes because “they were old” and mom gives him a lecture about saving money by saving roll over minutes.

Roll over minutes are minutes that were not used in the prior month. Not all carriers offer this. This arrangement is particularly useful when you have a limited number of minutes each month. In situations like these, every minute truly does count and you can hoard them to build up more minutes next month.

Lightyear Wireless has this covered with their prepaid wireless plans. The unlimited plan of course eliminates the need for rollover minutes entirely. Since it’s unlimited, you can have all the minutes you need every month. The rollover is included with the limited plans (the 300 and 200 minute per month). These plans do offer rollover minutes so that any minutes not used in a month will be rolled over to the next month.

So Lightyear Wireless has you covered for rollover. Take that AT&T.

Cash Versus Courage

When faced with the idea of starting a home based business some people become afraid.  What are they afraid of?  I think it boils down to two things: losing money or lack of courage.

Since Lightyear Wireless is only $50 to join and only $50 per month to belong to, the ‘cash’ part of the worry goes away. Anyone who doesn’t want to spent that amount to start a business, is not serious about starting a business (in my opinion). So that leaves courage.

A lot of people think it takes something special to start a home based business.  Well it does; it takes dedication and willingness to work hard.  Does it take courage? Yes, it does because it requires for most people, stepping outside their comfort zone and doing things that are unfamiliar to them.  Using your courage is free.  All you have to do is act on your desires and act on your goals for success.

If you avoid both the cash and courage issues, you’ll be stuck on your couch.