Almost Had It-Welcome to the Home Based Business Bloopers Show!
Whoa! Maybe it would have been wise of me to borrow my son’s baseball catcher’s facemask today. 2:35pm on a Wednesday afternoon and there has been no less than 5 baseballs catapulted my way from the end of various bats. I’m here to meet up with my frat brother Tom to talk about what’s been happening in both of our home based businesses.
The Braves and the Padres are playing but the winner will be unimportant to us because we’re there just to reminisce and trade stories about life and the home business arena since we’ve last seen each other. We usually start our get together with a grossly over-dramatized salute to our employers for letting us take the day with compensation. Funny thing is, since we run our own home based businesses we’re the guys that let us off today.
While most people are slaving at their job, we’re at a ballpark dodging baseballs and eating peanuts. Great thing about being here is that I’ll still make about $200 bucks today from my home business and I haven’t even done any work. An eight year quest has culminated into me having my ideal life.
Home Run! Hey, that’s coming straight at me so I conjure up the spirit of the athlete in me that has long passed, but instead of grabbing the home run ball it grabbed me; Ouch! I need ice now and my laughing friend to my right says I need to stick to running my home based business. But somehow, this has given me a glimpse to an interesting business idea.
I started to blame my injury of my home business- claim that if I still had my nose to the grindstone at my old job there would be no ballgames- just work, work, work, then death! Though I’m a little bruised, I was the one who lunged for the ball, so I’m the fool, not my home business. And this pain is nothing compared to the pain of complacency-the pain that comes from being afraid to follow a passion.
At the sight of two more speeding flashes I duck and cover and continue talking shop with my buddy. He’s telling me about some new marketing technique that grew his earnings from the previous two years. And I school him on how to further monetize his home business efforts. And like the aligning of stars or something, we start spewing about new partnerships we’ve forged with an advertising company. His partner sounds a lot like my partner- and without even discussing it until now, we’ve positioned ourselves and our home based businesses in a prime spot for rapid growth.
My, how time flies as we compare the specifics of each other’s deal with the new rising startup. After expounding on a lucrative 75% commission split, my old frat brother thinks he’s won the free beer the other has to buy for the one with the “Best Strategic Move of the Week”. I quickly rebut with the fact that I may not be getting a seventy-five percent payout but I did convince my new partner that in order to use my home based business as a conduit for their products’ mass consumption, they would have to match my advertising costs with money of their own; and they did.
Walking towards the parking lot after the game gave me an opportunity to access my progress in my home based business. To be truthful, I started with a lot of passion but not much action. But as soon as I figured out how to follow my words with actions I was well on my way to enjoying finer things. I believe that everyone is destined to do great things you just have to make sure you stay on your path.
About The Author
On the Author:Mr. W.F. Shut is a home business writer who writes about different topics that have to deal with what motivates people to start their own home based businesses.
