{"id":882,"date":"2009-02-23T13:04:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T17:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/?p=882"},"modified":"2009-02-23T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T17:04:20","slug":"opportunity-knocking-buyer-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/opportunity-knocking-buyer-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity Knocking? Buyer Beware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week, one of the nightly news programs did a story about a woman who left her career as a therapist to sell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marykay.com\" class=\"extlink\">Mary Kay Cosmetics.<\/a> It seemed to be a good decision for her. Not only did she love her new business, she was exceeding her previous income and expected she\u2019d soon double her old salary. I flashed back to a story I\u2019d read a few months ago in an in-flight magazine about a freelance writer who had also added Mary Kay Cosmetics to her portfolio of profit centers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the world of business opportunities, Mary Kay is one of the good ones. Not only does this company have a long track record plus great products, they\u2019ve always been about more than just making money. Mary Kay\u00a0 has also seen its mission as helping people reach their full potential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not all marketing companies are so inclined. As soon as the media began talking about rising unemployment rates, I knew that the scam artists would be coming out of the woodwork. Sure enough, Work at Home, Get Rich Now schemes began to flood the Internet (not that they ever went away) and airwaves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When I see these rip-off artists (and I have to admit they can be creative in their sleazy way), I always hope people will be smart enough to avoid their scams. Of course, not everyone is. Too many people, I know, are going to turn over their money to the folks I call the Business Opportunistas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Seth Godin wrote a warning called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dkrknl\" class=\"broken_link\" class=\"extlink\">Get Rich Quick<\/a><\/em>, which I urge you to read\u2014even if you have no intention of getting involved. And I\u2019ve got an article posted called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/articles.html#dontgo\" class=\"broken_link\">Don\u2019t Go There<\/a><\/em> that also lists the signs that an offer is to be avoided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Just remember that Bernie Madoff isn\u2019t the only one who knew how to run a Ponzi scheme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>If money is your only hope for independence,\u00a0you will never have it.<\/em>~ Henry Ford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, one of the nightly news programs did a story about a woman who left her career as a therapist to sell Mary Kay Cosmetics. It seemed to be a good decision for her. Not only did she love her new business, she was exceeding her previous income and expected she\u2019d soon double her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/opportunity-knocking-buyer-beware\/\"class=\"excerpt-read-more btn btn-primary\"  title=\"ReadOpportunity Knocking? Buyer Beware\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[223,224],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postcard-from-barbara","tag-mary-kay-cosmetics","tag-self-employment-scams","jsn-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}