subject: What Makes An Entrepreneur Different From A Comfort-zone Employee? [print this page] Almost everyone has heard about millionaires being made with internet marketing but if you made a hundred calls and offered those people the opportunity, a high percentage would pull that cushy feeling of a regular job up around their neck. They'll blow you off like a bad temptation.
Unfortunately, entrepreneurs make a small percentage of our population at this time. The idea of starting their own business has been unfairly stamped with a big warning label "High Risk." This is a major change from a few decades ago. We've gone soft and it has shown up in our economy.
Fortunately, an attitude can be changed. If we look at this from the viewpoint of a job interview, it would bring to light that it is only a point of view.
"I'm calling you about a job offer, Mr. Jones. We are a debt-free company with a terrifically popular product and we will train you. The job we're offering you is in the marketing department. You can put as many people on your team as you want. The pay is commissions and there is no limit to how much you can make. Your income will depend on your expertise. Some of our sales reps have retired after only a few years on the job. So how about it, Mr. Jones?"
If Mr. Jones is a comfort-zone employee he will turn this job down in a flash. One thing he is certain of is that he cannot count on a production based income. He needs a wage with which he can predict no matter how badly he does his job. He cannot count on himself. How did he get like this? One thing you can do for him is ask him and let him talk. He may just figure it out for himself. But if he doesn't, let him go. He won't be a leader until he comes out of that groove he is stuck in.
If he can tell you, he might spot that it is not a fear of his failing in the future that is stopping him. He's stopping himself right now and ever since he decided that he could not count on himself. Don't sign him up unless you are sure he will train.
If, like any other job, Mr. Jones put in the hours, got trained, got the experience and believed in himself just enough to persist through the uphill climb to success? If he got the training and experience during his employment, no matter what happens with the company, he would walk away with something valuable -- knowledge and experience.
Comfort to Mr. Jones is predictability and not rocking the boat. An entrepreneur's idea of comfort is having his destiny in his own hands. While Mr. Jones may consider luck played a part with those who come up with ideas like pet rocks and hula hoops, the entrepreneur sees those examples as inspiration. Why so different?
It is not age, color, creed, nationality, race or even personality. In fact, internet marketing is one place where none of that matters. At an awards seminar for a network marketing company, you will see people of all characteristics going up on stage to get their bonus check and/or luxury car. At one awards dinner, an eighty-year-old lady wheeled herself onto stage with a huge smile on her face as she collected her half-million dollar bonus.
Network marketers often call this drive, motive, your "why" or the dream and it is common to all human beings. The variable is the force behind it. They'll say you have to want it enough. That's a big difference from the 9 to 5 wage earner. Bank tellers do not go to meetings that pump them up on their dream. And that's why it's a trap. Life has become a soft couch with a TV facing it.
Every business needs a few of these fired up people and most do. The girl who remembers everyone's birthday, the one who tells jokes and even the guy who insists things get done. Without them, people would not want to come to work.
MLMs or internet marketing teams concentrate on bringing out that quality and so keep the team moving forward, make leaders, keep the challenge there. If the drive is strong enough, the rewards can be amazing. Which are you? A couch potato or a leader?
