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Family Finance
By Jim Sevy
Our road to financial freedom
My wife and I are together because of her efforts to build a in-home
business. I've often joked with her about the extent to which she went
to get me to be a part of that effort, namely, marrying me. We had both
been married and divorced before this effort began and were both
struggling as divorced parents, and looking for ways to better take care
of our family's needs. I have 9 children currently ranging in age from
21 down to my youngest who is 7. My wife has 5 children ranging in age
from 25 down to her youngest at 11. We are working at blending our
families and I'm sure that we will be working on that for the next 30
years. As my wife likes to say, "We only have 8 boys and 1 girl at
home." So the needs of our family are as above average as our family is.
I had been approached throughout my life several times by people
involved in many different home based, multi-level or network
marketing businesses. I had never signed up. I was put off by the talk
of eighty thousand dollar Mercedes, speed boats, and mansions. I was
especially put off by the lack of value in the "products" that fed the
businesses, as well as the talk about letting the product pile up in
your garage and just build your "network". I was put off by the large
investment required to "sign up" and by seeing these friends of mine out
busting their "butts" to make the business work, only to see them give
up because it was seemingly impossible to make money. That's my history,
my wife's experience is completely different.
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Early in her life she sold cosmetics door
to
door, she was the top seller in her district and was offered a
job managing that district. She turned that opportunity down for
one that she felt was an even greater opportunity, that of being
a mother. This was an easy choice for her but was definitely a
challenge, financially. She managed to provide music lessons and
opportunities to have horses for her children that have greatly
benefited and shaped their lives. When she found herself
divorced with the need to provide food, shelter and clothing for
those children she decided to again pursue a home based
business. She is a very talented sales person with an outgoing,
bubbly personality that is absolutely infectious. She studies,
listens and gets excited and is able to spread that excitement.
She was involved with at least 5 different opportunities and
gave them her best shot. Some of them had great products but she
just couldn't make any money at them. They required a fairly
large investment, of both time and money, to get involved and to
maintain. Some of the products offered didn't have the value
that they seemed to in the beginning.
When we got married, my mind was dutifully more open to
investigating these opportunities and the products that they
involved. One opportunity was focused on building leadership and
character and my wife most definitely benefited from the
products. That company essentially merged with another company
that offered some very good wellness products, but after much
consideration and investigation we determined that the value
assigned to the product by the company, which was required to
feed the compensation plan, just was not there. The product was
selling for around $40 and was only truly worth around $5 (if
you took it out of it's pretty and expensive packaging.)
Given our combined experience and study we have been
searching for a home based business that we can work together on;
that will allow me to continue to focus on my "day job"; and that
will allow my wife to continue to focus on being a mom. So we came
up with some criteria to evaluate the opportunities that were out
there. Those criteria follow:
- The
business will not distract us from providing physically,
emotionally and spiritually for our family.
- The
business will help us become more free, by giving us more
time with our family, and by giving us more financial
stability.
- The
business will be a legitimate business with products that
offer true value.
- The
business will offer a fair compensation plan that will
provide the means for us to get a return on our investment of
time and money.
- The
business
will provide to us the means to help others take
care of their families and to reach their goals.
After much study and consideration we have found an
in-home business
that we believe meets these criteria. This
business requires
very little investment to get started. It offers a great deal of
support to build the business and it offers a very compelling
plan. One of the main things that I found unique and very
attractive is that this opportunity doesn't require any "new"
money. They simply suggested that we change the store that we
bought what we already use everyday. They also told us that we
could make money simply by referring others to the products and
that our loyalty would be rewarded. They then showed us how we
could build a business that could help us better provide for our
family and build some financial security in these trying times
that appear as though they will become more challenging than
they are today. They also indicated that because their plan and
products are so compelling that there is a 95% rate of people
staying with the plan and the business.
My wife and I would love
to talk to you about this
in-home business, about the great products
and about how we are planning to get to our goal of financial
freedom. If you are interested in learning more about this
opportunity ple ase
click here.
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