These days, all we hear about all around us, is get-rich-quick income-making schemes, bogus money making scams, or pie-in-the sky kinds of ventures or business ideas. Overnight riches without work or efforts! Often spoken of basically in terms of one engaging in some sort of "home-based business" or other money-making internet operations that are basically online-based ventures, these schemes almost always fail, however. In deed, they fail woefully! They're simply a scam, a cruel hoax on job-hungry Americans who would try just about anything, more especially in the current grim american economy and anemic job market, to get employed or a source of income!
One present viable solution: seek for a federal job; federal jobs, job openings and hirings, are abundant right now, and that's a fact that I can easily prove to you with easily verifiable public data. Unfortunately, however, the get-rich-quick idea seem to be the tantalizing notion that's increasingly promoted, and attractive to, Americans these days, as they are frequently dazzled before an unsuspecting, job-needy American public (in deed, the internet world), by online marketers and prominent online sales promoters in newspaper and magazines columns, in radios and on the television, and, yes, are most especially hammered home in the internet marketplace by these entities.
But, America, you had better beware! Americans, you've got to get off the hoax bandwagon. And get on the reality wagon - properly apply for federal or fed jobs, using a new "informed key" to federal jobs, called the federal jobs handbook, and get yourself a recession proof federal job, and you're home free!
What is probably most dangerous and most potentially harmful to the people about the frequent resort to the get-rich-quick notion, is that, especially since these times of increasing unemployment and economic stress in the nation, this notion of getting rich quick essentially through leisure and lack of work is often presented, wittingly or otherwise, as some sort of a credible "answer" to finding real employment and as an alternative means of making a living by the average citizen who would opt to engage in such home-based business or online endeavor. To hear (or watch) the promoters of this easy-go-lucky, get-rich-quick idea describe the (their) real world reality, you need not really seek true employment, or to seek a job or business which will require that you do some work or labor in return for your living. Why would you want to do that when you can simply lay back in leisure and enjoyment in, say, your yacht and "in your underwear," and just "get rich the lazy man's way" doing essentially nothing!?
Whether it is through their ubiquitous seminars, or their TV infomercials, books, CDs or their sales pitch tapes, or through their pervasive advertisements in the offline media or the internet, this has been the central notion that is constantly hammered home by the marketing "gurus" of the society, most especially the operators in the cyberspace. Their message is simple: it is easy and effortless to get rich fast and quickly in online business, without much work or efforts!
But, is this rather rosy picture really accurate? Is this notion really true, or accurate or even realistic - namely, that it is generally easy and common for the average person engaged (or intending to engage) in online venture, to become ecstatically successful and rich overnight?
The answer, quite frankly, is an emphatic no! Simply put, the objective data that's available simply does not support that claim. In deed, the available objective hard data, and the facts one finds on the ground in the very lives and experiences of those who play their hands in online ventures, directly contradict that claim, overwhelmingly indicating precisely the opposite reality for the participants.
The available hard data on claims of the getting rich quick online
in the first place, a fundamental fact now well-established and incontrovertible, is that the shorter a business venture is able to stay afloat in operation, the higher the possibility of immediate failure, and on the other hand, the longer it is able to operate, the higher the possibility of its long-term survival. It is bad enough for businesses in general, new or old, to make it at all, in the first place, as anywhere from 75% to up to 90% of all businesses have been determined by experts to fail within the first 10 years. However, when it comes to new or start up business ventures, in particular, the mortality rate is known to be particularly more severe and astronomical. For example, roughly some 7 out of 10 new businesses would not make it to their third year, and then (and this is very important for our purposes here), if you now further take most so-called dotcom startups into consideration, that figure shoots up astronomically to 9 out of 10! The exact figures vary somewhat according to the source, but in general, what is not disputed by anyone is that the overwhelming majority of business startups of all types end up failing.
For example, the following statistics supplied by David Birch, former head of a research firm specializing in studying small business data, on the survival rates of new businesses, seem to fall in the generally accepted or expected ballpark:
" First year: 85%
" Second: 70%
" Third: 62%
" Fourth: 55%
" Fifth: 50%
" Sixth: 47%
" Seventh: 44%
" Eighth: 41%
" Ninth: 38%
" Tenth: 35%
in the same vein, more recent research from the u.S. Bureau of labor statistics (the direct link for the report which was for may of 2005, had to be removed from this articles because EzineArticles would not allow downloadable links in articles), strongly show that, in fact, most of the new establishments in America disappeared within the first 2 years after their birth, and then the rate slowed and only a smaller percentage disappeared in the subsequent 2 years. Its data, for example (see chart at the 2nd link at end of this article), shows, that only 66 percent of new establishments were still in existence 2 years after their birth, and 44 percent were still in existence 4 years after. (See, also, "research summary" by Amy E. Knaup, in monthly labor review, may 2005, at p. 50, for a summary of that data.)
the said chart from the bureau of labor statistics, shows business survival rates by each sector. Please note that, quite interestingly, the sectors with the highest survival rates are education and health services, while the sector with the lowest survival rates, is the information industry - the sector which includes generally the internet type operations. Of course, you should note, as well, that this study tracked new business startups from between march of 1998 and march of 2002 - the height of the so-called dot com boom!
The point of this analysis should be rather crystal clear. The point is that, if the fact (as we've seen here from the hard data) is that start-up establishments are notoriously failure-prone, an even more stark but related other fact, is also that internet-based establishments, just like their brick and mortar business counterparts, are known to be even much more notoriously prone to short lives and rapid failure, and are still more so with regard to the newly established ones! Meaning simply, that based purely on the objective truth - rather than merely hype or unsupported claims of some promoters of some products - this factual reality in the matter flies directly in the face of the lofty rapid wealth-generation claims made by those ubiquitous internet gurus and TV infomercial marketers and the online peddlers of the you-can-get-rich-quick mantra through online ventures. For, just on the face of it, just how can there be so many people "getting rich" so fast in these internet ventures, or even being able just to make it, when so many of them barely make it still being alive just by age 2 or 3? When, by some other informed estimate, barely 95% (yes, a whopping 95%!) of online ventures survive or earn any decent income at all over all!?
Here is the point......
In point of fact, what is brutally true and honest, even if not sweet or pleasant, is that making money on the internet is actually not at all easy. (If it were, and there were such a gold mine of millions and millions of dollars online open and "easy" for everyone to take merely for the asking, how come there had not been a rush to the internet, with almost everybody on earth who works quitting even their day jobs to rush for the multi-millions!?). In fact, it is not only not easy to make money on the web, it is very difficult - except, perhaps, for a few hard working 'lucky' ones. In other words, put very simply and in all honest, there are really simply no shortcuts, or real substitutes for hard work and efforts even (in deed, more especially) in online business! Do yourself some good and keep this famous adage in mind: "no pain, no gain."
It is significant to note one other reality here, as well. These online businesses generally fail for precise specific causes which are somewhat understandable to a trained, objective eye, but are not particularly unique to online-based enterprises. In fact, they fail for reasons which apply, as well, to traditional businesses, but which online businesses and their operators are especially notorious for in not particularly adhering to or obeying. These are actually precisely the same reasons that the average good book on business operation 101 found in the library shelves of america (and probably the world), books such as how to start late, finish rich, or become the next millionaire next door, among others, have outlined in great details for generations as the basic examples of what business operators should studiously avoid if they are to survive for long. Such advice essentially boils down to the same rather simple prudent rules that are now pretty age-long for business survival, such as the following: save up; live prudently; spend less and even below your means; consume less; maximize (make use of everything you have or own, and stretch them out as long as possible ); set clear, defined goals and take calculated risks (do a lot of careful planning); do good market research; diversify your investments; invest in yourself; and constantly improve yourself and increase your market value (attend seminars, workshops, classes and trainings, and engage in healthy lifestyle), etc..
A central characteristic of online business which is a critical major causal factor for the greater rate of online business failures, is what David Birch, former head of a research firm specializing in studying small business data, called the "i had no idea" syndrome - that is, the fact that the average would-be entrepreneur does not realize what's truly involved with running a business; they do not generally devote enough time, and yes, the hard work or possess the right mindset, to it as much as is done by operators in the traditional brick and mortar businesses, before expecting dramatic results!
Does this sound to you like an ingrained get-rich-quick mentality among newer or younger online marketing crowd, the same as is espoused by the more established "gurus" of online business?
Hence, the message....
In sum, the point is that if you are an entrepreneur or a marketer involved in any online operation, or planning to engage in one, you had better just thown the lofty but false message of the preachers of quick, immediate, riches online without much work or efforts, wholly and totally into the waste basket for there is just no such thing existing. And rather, get this into your head, that in this business called the online venture, the same good, old adage consistently apply, just as well, no matter who tells you otherwise: "no pain, no gain!"
Sure, as red-blooded Americans who're imbued with that good, old 'American dream' of wanting to live the good, opulent life still flowing naturally in our veins, certainly it should be understandable that some of us might at one time or another in our lives merely fantasize that it could be them winning the lottery or having the ceremonious publisher clearinghouse van pull up at their front door steps, with the camera lights flashing and all, to hand them the big million dollar check. But, come on now! Letting someone indulge in his (or her) god-given right to nurture his "american dream" of wealth and riches sometimes, is one thing. But surreptitiously seducing some innocent, unsuspecting poor fellows while relieving them of their hard earned money, into believing the fantasy and a mere pipe dream as though it were a reality, is quite another matter altogether. It is called a scam, a cruel hoax. It should be viewed and treated as criminal scamming of innocent Americans!
As one recent observer on the issue has noted, sure, one can readily concede that it is "tantalizing imagining yourself on your tom vu yacht in the Caribbean or driving the new deluxe hummer model while others slave away at jobs they hate." However, it is the deceit, the cruel hoax, the scamming, the diabolical scheming and lulling of the people - entrepreneurs, the jobless, the opportunity seekers who are looking for a means of work and for honest living through some online operation - into believing in what is, in fact, a mere unattainable pipe dream that wealth is just around the corner and that they can, in fact, just sit around and "get rich quick" and need not therefore bother with trying to make much efforts or to engage themselves in work, that is the dangerous, in deed, the criminal part. And the society must begin to raise their voices and to make this abundantly known in no uncertain terms to these scammers who peddle such patently false and unwholesome notion, before it might get truly and irreparably ugly and harmful.
Finally, you want to know one real, almost sure, viable solution in the present environment of American joblessness? Simply seek a federal job. Federal jobs, job openings and hirings, are abundant right now. You've got to do all that's possible and force yourself to get off the cruel hoax bandwagon. And get on the reality wagon - properly job search for, find a federal job, and apply for the jobs using a new "informed key" to landing federal jobs, and get yourself a recession proof federal job, and you're home free!
2. http://www.smallbiztrends.com/2005/07/business-failure-rates-highest-in.html/
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