"It's expensive to be poor." Fast Company Magazine, 10.02

In this issue of Fast Company magazine, the editors relate what author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in her new book: 'Nickel and Dimed':

"I'm baffled by failed executives who demand huge severance packages to 'maintain their lifestyle'. They should try to get by on $7 an hour. I did...

The biggest surprise: It's expensive to be poor.

Without a bank account, you have to pay to get your checks cashed. Without extra cash, you can't buy in bulk to save money. And it's almost impossible to find a place to live, even if you can make the rent, because you can't make the security deposit...I had a co-worker at Wal-Mark for whom buying a polo shirt on sale or $7 was out of the question. I drove in car pools to housecleaning jobs where a tollbooth presented a crisis: Would the boss reimburse us?

What struck me when I returned to my real life was how easy it felt. With money, things just happen. Need to get across town quickly? Take a cab.

Don't feel like cooking? Order takeout. The ease of it is miraculous..."

She shows what many know: It's expensive to be poor.

So why not be part of the miracle and NOT be poor? Lincoln said the best thing we can do for the poor is "don't join them."

According to author Thomas J. Stanley, author of "The Millionaire Next Door":

"The average self-employed person has a net worth five times greater than people with jobs. Most people who love what they do work in businesses that they started."

Direct sales and network marketing are a business of your own. Yet, despite years being in that business, making income eludes most of those in it.

But it doesn't have to be that way.

Learn how to earn a steady bonus check with OR without active downline.

Learn how to get a customer base, like cable TV companies have, that give you (and them) regular monthly income even without anyone in a downline.

Yes? Do some of you pay for cable each month?

You get the idea. The cable comnpanies make a little on each payment you and millions of others make each month.

Why not you?

Can you picture yourself with several hundred customers a year from today?

If their orders average $65/mo, how much will you be making each month?

From 313 regular customers?

Then you'll be part of the miracle, life WITH money. And you can become part of that sef-employed group with "a net worth five times greater than people with jobs."

Here's a way hundreds of people are making their network marketing business work. Try to get in on the Dell Advantage course, which shows you how to ASK for pepole who want the product or service you market for the same reason you do. Who will stick with it like you.

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First 48 for each class only.

We do mixed company, or 'just one company' as with Shaklee.

Unless specified, the Dell class is mixed, with people from all different companies.

Chapter 17 of the new book, "Do you have a Plan B" shows you how to find those people who want the product or service for the same reason you do, and who will likely stay with it. See excerpts here.

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