Job Market Versus Home Based Business

Unless you’ve been hiding under rock for the past year, you read a lot of economic ‘gloom and doom’ in the news. While the current set of problems are certainly unique, the normal cycles of economics include both growth and contraction (recession). That’s been going on for a quite a long time and the current recession probably won’t be the last one. 

The problem I’m seeing over the past 10 years is that the last period of growth didn’t really include a lot of prosperity for job seekers. The growth in the job market was mostly in low paying service jobs and the high paying jobs continued to dry up.  I think this trend will continue on as companies look for ways to be more efficient and run their businesses in the most cost effective manner.

One group of people that became prosperous in the last period of growth were people who built their own business. This is why there is so much interest in home based businesses now. I think a lot of people are waking up to the fact that good paying jobs are becoming scarcer and more difficult to compete for. 

I gave up competing in the job market around 2004 because it felt like I was spinning my wheels. Schooled and trained in Information Technologies, I grew tired of having to always chase after the latest and greatest technical certification in order to stay current. I got tired of having to go out on endless interviews that never went anywhere. Talk about time consuming! That’s about the time I decided to pursue my home based business. I mean after all, if you’re going to compete for something, it may as well be building your own business against your competitors. That sort of competition pays off!

Effective use of Magazine distribution

A lot of network marketing companies come with printed marketing and promotional materials that you can use to ’spread the word’ about the company. MyWirelessRep is no exception. With their system you can purchase packages of magazines to distributed to prospects and leads. Notice I said ‘purchase’. That means it’s going to be expensive to just leave them laying around anywhere.

The best thing to do is think about leaving them in places where there is likely to be some interest. What about a job fair for example? There may be people there who might consider a well presented opportunity versus a job. Or if you have addresses of leads you have talked to in the past, how about mailing them a copy (the ones who have not yet signed up of course). Use your imagination a bit and you will see cost effective ways to distribute those magazines that you must pay for.