Way back in the last century (1991) a survey was conducted by my research firm, MarketWave, Inc., of almost 7,000 people who were not, nor had ever been, business owners of any kind. The question was a simple one:
If all obstacles were removed, would you like
to own your own business?
In other words, if what ever was stopping you from starting a business didn’t exist, would you at least attempt it? Would you prefer to be an entrepreneur, or an employee?
Eighty five percent said Yes, they’d prefer to work for themselves. Which means 15 percent misunderstood the question on the survey. After all, if what ever concerned you enough to not attempt a business venture didn’t exist, then you’d have no fear of doing so.
I mean, who wouldn’t want to be in control of their own life? To have the freedom to make their own decisions, work their own hours, and write their own pay-check?
Even using the conservative 85 percent figure, that would mean about 200 million Americans want to start their own business, but have never even attempted it! We thought there must be some pretty compelling reasons why, so we set out to find out what they were.
To no one’s surprise, it was never about
preferring to work for someone else’s business,
but rather the incapacitating fear of starting
your own.
And it was the same four fears, every single time.
It takes too much money.
People didn’t have tens-of-thousands, or hundreds-of-thousands of dollars to invest in a business (and they didn’t know anyone else who did).
It takes too much time.
People didn’t want to work 80 hours a weeks for the first year or two to get their business going.
There’s too much risk.
Over 56 percent of all businesses fail in the first two years, and they’d have to quit their job, so there was no safety net.
They didn’t know how.
Most people had never taken any business courses. They had no business experience. They don’t know anything about taxes, accounting, marketing, and they myriad other skills a good entrepreneur must possess.
terminatedramp on September 13th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Leonard Wayne Clements was awarded a pre-existing distributor position from USANA Health Sciences near the end of August 2008. This was after Len attempted to defend USANA for the past 18 months against a flood of fraud allegations that hit the company. The company never once defended themselves against the allegations, but Len Clements did it for them. Now USANA gave him a vacated Distributor Position within the company that already has well over 100 distributors in its downline.
Len Clements claims that he was not “awarded” the distributor position, and followed the company’s policies and procedures for a Transfer of Distributorship. However, the policy requires the distributorship be transferred from the previous account owner to the new account owner. Unfortunately for Len, the previous account owner had already left the company and the position was an empty spot that remains within the hierarchy of distributors.
The policies and procedures does not allow the company to give existing distributor positions to their buddies.
Len Clements recently left ZENZA. He was their Vice President of Market Research of Zenza Life Sciences, LLC. The word now is that he also used to be a distributor for the company as well! Does he plan to move his existing downline from Zenza to his new position at USANA? I will be keeping a very close eye on that!
Here are three questions I ask Len:
1) How many people are in your downline on the leg you claim “doesn’t even always max out”?
2) What else did USANA give you?
3) Did you converse with Christine Cunningham personally to buy her USANA Business? Or did you converse with USANA, and USANA gave you that business center after Christine already left?
Here is Len Clement’s response:
QUOTE
term, I’ve explained in detail exactly why I am not going to answer any more of your questions about my acquiring this position. I clearly told you that I know you are not seeking any truths here, you are simply trolling for more fodder that you can spin and distort. Yet, you continue to ask these same questions over and over. So I must ask you…
1. Are you just ignoring my answer?
2. Are you illiterate?
3. Are you just stupid?
Len
UNQUOTE
Why does Len REFUSE to answer 3 simple questions? Seems obvious to me!