Real Business Owners Versus Employees

A distributor named Frank stopped off to leave a long and incisive comment to one of my posts. Too long to reprint here. Be a blog and a half itself! But I’ll give Frank props for taking the time to write. Most distributors past and present are too busy to take time off from building their Amway businesses.

To start off with Frank sets off all the female readers on my blog into fits of giggles by saying he is 20 years old going on 21 with the mind of a 28/29 year old. All the women I know (3 and that includes some relatives from the hill country) that men get to age 12 to 15 years old and they hold on for decades! Give them till their 60’s before they “might” get to the mind set of someone in their 20’s! Maybe not even then! Just joking! (but not about my relatives though!)

Like the typical 20/21 year old who leaves comments here they can appear to be know it alls at that age. They can come across as “big” important business owners whilst the rest of us are less knowledgeble who joined Amway but don’t try hard enough and aren’t hard workers and blah blah blah. They don’t realise what we’ve heard a million times before from the enthusiastic newbies in our Amway downline. Bless ‘em!

I’ve said it tons of times. Just because someone puts on a business suit, is glued to their cell phone, and marches off to 8pm meetings doesn’t make them a real business owner.

Serious business owners follow procedures in starting up/running their business. I’m going to put some of them here in no particular order and this not a complete list. Just off the top of my head right now.

1. research – is this a viable business opportunity that will earn them money: is the market already saturated or is there really no customer interest in this type of business?
2. purchase or lease a place to operate the business
3. choose and register a business name
4. get a license from the city to operate the business
5. get a lawyer to help with incorporation, etc if needed
6. get an accountant to help set up the business accounts, file taxes, etc
7. hire other professionals as needed for business set up or ongoing basis
8. hire employees
9. get a tax number
10. get insurance to cover business, employees, and customers
11. use the business plan
12. have a bank account under the business name
13. purchase inventory
14. decide on prices for the products or services
15. purchase equipment needed to operate business
16. decide on hours of operation

These are some of the steps taken by serious business owners and there is always a cost to starting, owning, operating a business. It can vary depending on the business and how much work/capital the owner can do themselves. People who are employees whether paid hourly, salary, or commissioned salespeople do not normally have to take any of the above steps.

Those are some of the differences between a real grown up business owner and an uninformed newbie starting out in any MLM business. And some of those newbies show up on my blog and accuse me and my husband of being lazy and not developing our own business, etc etc. Yeah right! We are people who are not lazy and do own their own business and take seriously those above steps and expenses for no particular reason other than to show you how real success is developed!!!

You can appear to be a moron who wants to insult us because we don’t develop our own businesses and have probably never taken any of the above steps to get their business legally operating. Stop and think and learn to listen to what your Amway uplines are telling you and get out into the real world and learn what its really like to own a business and quit playing at it and insulting others around you!. All distributors are a hard working bunch of highly paid commissioned salespeople and you have a fantastic opportunity in your hands. Pay attention to organizations such as WWDB or LTD and realise what a privilege it is of belonging to a business like this.

You’re just learning how to play on the same level as a real business owner. Learn to play the game the way your Amway upline would want you to.