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Growing up I always had the desire to be in business. And I knew what type of business it was going to be. I was an avid athlete so I planned to open my own sporting goods store. Well. the opportunity came when the owner of one of the local sport stores was getting out of the business. When I think back that should have been a warning signal to me: he was getting “out” of the business! Any ways, myself and two others decided to purchase the business. I often ask myself why I didn’t just look at some home base business ideas and go from there.

But things were different in the 1970’s. There was lots of work available and the concept of having a home base business just wasn’t the thing to do, especially when you could make some good money at one of the local industries. I was different though. I wanted to have some control over my time and my financial future. If there had only been the number of home base business ideas that there are today, maybe I would have chosen a different path. But I didn’t and for the next two years of my life I took part in what I like to call a “learning experience”. Some would call it the school of hard knocks!

Well, after putting in sixteen hour days and working almost seven days a week, I had to close the business. The sales were just not there. It just so happened that many of the large sporting goods suppliers began to sell to the large department stores around the time my partners and I bought the business. It was impossible for us to compete with their prices. Good service only goes so far and then price becomes the issue. Regardless, we closed up the business and I headed to work at the local steel plant. At this point in my life if any one had approached me with some home based business ideas I probably would have told them to get lost!

Well, guess what? I hated my job at the steel plant so much I began to look for another business. And I found one! It was a franchise for a hair salon and it was going to be the next McDonalds! Did they pitch me a line and I went for it! Well, after about eighteen months, I simply broke my contract with the franchise because they did not fulfill their promises. I stayed in business for about thirteen years and sold it. Again, it was the learning experience and I certainly learned about business. After these two ventures in the world of business one may think I was ready to give up. Well, not quite. I began to look at some home based business ideas!

The big thing now was Multi Level Marketing. Yes, good old MLM! And I jumped around in this industry for a number of years making a little money but nothing substantial. I figured my time was up as far as the world of business went. Then a good friend of mine from another part of the country contacted me. He was researching some home based business ideas and told me of a unique business model that was based on the acquisition of customers rather than the acquisition of distributors. So I decided to look into this new concept and I haven’t looked back. I finally found a home based business that has a business plan that makes sense and is made to help build a business on customers. It only makes sense because without customers you have no business. It’s unique and it works.

Scott Cameron

Tri Power Team