Urgent Report: Nation-Wide Bicycle Scam

Is bike riding the biggest scam of the last century? Remember when you were a child and your parents first took the training wheels of your bicycle. You jumped on, enthusiastically, and rode around the block a few times, going past your house, no-handed, yelling “mom, look at me, no hands,” popped some wheelies, and then cruised on over to your best friend’s house and rode him on the handlebars down to the park for the afternoon. Wrong! You probably rode a few feet and fell off and skinned your knee. After that you spent weeks, maybe even months, adjusting your speed and balance until you could finally ride to the end of the street, and even then it took years before you could ride around town, learn to ride double, and do any tricks at all. Now, of course, you’re a pro, even if you take 5 years off from riding. But you’ve forgotten about all the years of struggle it took to get there.

Did you consider, back then, that bike riding could be just a big fraud? A scam designed by some manufacturer to take your money and sell you some contraption that only works for a few lucky people who could somehow figure it out? No, of course not, because you saw all the older kids riding them just fine.

The problem our society has with business today is that for most of the last century, corporations have taken care of the business side of the work world for most people, and all we had to do, and all our parents, grandparents, relatives, and friends had to do, was to get an education, and then go out and get a job. We didn’t have to run a business.

Furthermore, corporations desperately did not want us to know how to run a business, or manage money effectively. Those topics were purposely left out of our education system, so that the business-savvy corporations could have a society of slaves to work their jobs, keeping us docile and satisfied with just enough pay and benefits to avoid a revolution. And they wanted a culture of frivolous spenders who would squander their pay checks on every new TV, or designer T-shirt they manufactured, rather than a society that knew how to budget, invest, and build competing companies.

In fact, the average person today doesn’t even know very many people who do run businesses. But prior to the Industrial revolution, about 80% of people who had a job, also owned and ran a business. If your job was being a butcher, you also owned and ran the butcher shop; if your job was repairing shoes, you also had a shoe shop you owned and needed to run. Back then it was usually your family who taught you the business skills you needed to survive, in addition to your trade. And now, as the security of a job in a big corporation is gradually becoming a thing of the past, and our prestigious giants our beset with greed and corruption, the small home-based business Industry is rapidly re-emerging as the solution to a dying promise of living comfortably, and being replaced with the possibilities of total financial freedom.

Yet many people who are new to this idea have fears that the whole home-based business industry, with its network marketing companies and Internet marketing systems, is just a big scam. Well, if you didn’t see the bigger kids riding bicycles when you were a child, you might have thought that it couldn’t be done. And that is the problem our society faces today. We have become an entire culture of grown-ups who have been riding around with training wheels on their entire lives. And honestly, to home business owners who work hard and make big profits, this looks pretty silly. When those training wheels first come off, a lot of grown ups are falling and skinning their knees in multilevel marketing companies and with Internet marketing systems, and this looks pretty silly too. But the adults aren’t running home to their moms who encourage them to get back up on the business and try it again tomorrow. There aren’t enough bigger kids around who ride by on their new home business everyday, to look to for role models. No, the adults riding with training wheels on will run to the Internet and to their lawyers. They will stomp there feet and scream that they have been scammed to anyone who will listen. And they will often quit before they ever learn how to get anywhere in business.

There are, of course, a few companies out there that don’t provide a good system or business model, and there are some that might not fit your personality very well, just like there are a few manufacturers of bicycles who make bad bikes, and there are some bicycles that seem to ride better than others. That is not a scam; it is normal statistical variation in any industry. There is a problem, however, with that rampant lack of professional marketing training in the home based business industry, and not enough successful “big kids” to model and learn these skills from. But that is a whole other topic.

The sad truth of the matter concerning business today is that adults were never taught as a kid how to ride, and it is a lot harder to learn as an adult. When learning to ride a bike, you had to get back on again and again and keep “failing forward” until you finally succeeded. But with a network marketing opportunity people will normally fail once and then complain that the whole industry is a big scam. Why should learning to run a professional home business be any different than the learning curve required to ride a bike, or any other skill in life for that matter? The problem lies in the fact that we have had employers babysitting us for far to long, and we have completely forgotten that learning in life comes from failing. Success is actually on the far side of failure. Every time you fail you have the choice of turning it into a step towards success by learning something from it, or dismissing any personal responsibility by blaming your failure on others, and not learning a thing. And most entrepreneurs will tell you that they became successful because they were willing to fail more than anyone else, until they got it right, just like when, as a child, there was nothing going to stop them from learning to ride that bike.

There is really only one solution to this cultural immaturity. Until our society, as a whole, catches up with this dilemma, and business ownership and marketing skills are taught again by parents and in schools, you need to take off the training wheels; you are going to skin your knee a few times, but you are a grown up now so stop crying. It is not a scam, it is just part of the natural learning curve.

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