In my continuing quest to find truth in marketing, advertising, and money-making systems I’ve sacrificed myself once again to explore behind the curtains. I put aside my duties at Dreamscape for a while to gain first-hand experience of various work-at-home systems. What I tried this time was home-assembly. And no, that doesn’t mean I built a house. You’ve seen the ads: “Make Money in Your Pajamas”, “Assemble Products and get Rich”, “Get Paid for Everything You Make.” Well, that’s what I tried. Let’s take an inner look from someone who’s been there and seen what these programs are all about. First off, before I cast aspersions on an entire industry let me set it in stone that there is nothing wrong with making products at home. Millions of people are doing just that and selling their wares on their own websites, eBay, etc. But this is NOT the same thing as a program that touts itself as a money-making system whereby you can get rich making products for other people. In fact, in my experience these are some of the worst scams I've seen. One of the plans I signed up for cost me $30 for which I received a box of doll parts and a list of addresses. I was supposed to put the dolls together myself then contact people on the address list and sell the dolls I made to them. And all the selling in this instance was done without the help or advice of another, on my own and at my own expense. Moreover, the dolls themselves were terrible. Not even the neediest child would ever want one so how I was supposed to sell these to other people is beyond me. And that also uncovers the major flaw with this first plan: it's based on a lie. The lie was that a person can get rich by making products at home. The truth is you get NOTHING for making the products, only for SELLING the products. I gave up that program, hoping it was a fluke, and tried another program, then another and another. Each time I was making products out of supplies I'd just paid for: beaded bracelets, dolls, wooden toys, etc. Some of the products were absolute trash and some took hours and hours to make just a single one. And that is another failure point of these programs. See, the concept of profitable business is that you sell something that is DESIREABLE to someone who wants it, repeating the process enough times to justify production costs and time. But the products you make on these programs are terrible. You'd be very lucky to sell them on eBay for twenty-five cents and if you did you'd probably get bad feedback. And if it takes six hours to make just one of them...well, you can see the math just doesn't work out. C. Pabst is an author, entrepreneur and the owner of Dreamscape Publishing. He is also the creator of the revolutionary money-making system Sitting on a Goldmine, based on simple, applicable and practical concepts, not positive thinking or luck.
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