Looking for a job..Pan for Gold…in the mountains or in a home business?
I came across an interesting article titled Lost your Job? Try Panning for Gold…
You can read the entire article at http://tinyurl.com/degrvu Posted: April 22, 2009 by: ArticleWriter
Here is a condensed version. My comments relating to home business are at the end.
COLOMA, Calif. — There's still gold in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, and a new rush is under way to find it. Not since the Great Depression have so many hard-luck people been lured by prospecting, hoping to find their fortune tumbling down a mountain stream. The recession and high gold prices are helping to fuel the latest gold craze, especially among workers who have lost jobs. There are hundreds there now standing knee-deep in an icy creek coaxing gold flakes from a swirling pan of gravel.
Miners who locate an unclaimed area can pay a $170 fee to the federal government for access to the public land. Most claims are along the 120 miles of steep granite outcrops and rushing riverbeds that are part of California's Mother Lode, a narrow band of gold-rich terrain.Many would-be gold panners are drawn to the South Fork of the American River, where the 1849 discovery of nuggets at Sutter's Mill launched the largest human migration in the Western Hemisphere. The Depression brought another wave of miners in the 1930s.
"It's hard to keep my equipment in stock," said Albert Fausel, the third-generation owner of the nearby Old Placerville Hardware store, which was founded to sell sluices, picks and pans to the original '49ers. Back then, the price of gold was $16 an ounce. Today it hovers around $1,000.
The store's wood floors used to creak under the weight of recreational rafters and fisherman. Now prospectors are some of the biggest shoppers."A lot of people are out of jobs and know where the gold holes are," Fausel said.
Between October 2007 and September 2008, the Bureau of Land Management in California issued gold miners 3,413 permits, or claims, to search for gold. That figure compared with 1,986 claims in 2006. So far this fiscal year, the agency has issued 1,444 claims.
Many miners believe that only 10 percent of the gold in the Sierra Nevada was discovered in the original gold rush. Now they attend classes about sandbars, cracks in bedrock and low-pressure eddies behind boulders are prime places to set up sluices, special channels designed to catch gold. Spring is the best time to hunt for gold as snow melt churns streams and rivers, potentially uncovering new riches.
They are also excited by the prospect of stumbling onto buried treasure.
"I was walking my dog once and went to pick up a rock and pulled a long nugget straight out of the sand," said one grizzled miner. "It was worth about $6,500 — and that was 13 years ago."
It is a common fact that the people who sold supplies to miners were the ones who stayed rich. One of the most notable examples was denim maker Levi Strauss.
So how can we apply this information to a home business based on network marketing principles?There are a few comparisons common to veteran networkers:
- you can compare building a successful multi-level home business to finding a gold mine that pays golden dividends…work hard to set up structure and function and then collect long term residual income…like royalties for life, in many cases.
- you can call prospecting the act of talking and sharing informaion with people who may also be interested in finding a “gold mine.” As with claims, some will be promising, some will be empty, some may take months or years of “digging”, a few can even be a brilliant success…and become millionaires. And some "nuggets" will lie undiscovered in your ownback yard because no one thought of looking there.
- you can call “tools of the trade” essential equipment to unearth treasures in the ground. You need hardware: shovels, picks, pans, boxes and physical labour powered by a dream. In network marketing, you share “intellectually” and use professional information tools to tell the story for you and help your prospects to open up new ways of thinking, planning, capitalizing and succeeding.
Finally, wouldn’t it be grand if you received a roadmap to the goldmine or a home business with perpetual profits? How would that change your fortune ratio?
The network marketing home business is based on a few fundamental principles which considerably simplify the road to success.
A roadmap is simple enough to draw from beginning to end. If you have a piece of paper, a pen or pencil, and the will to follow a dream to your “gold mine” we will be happy to share more information with you.
Sure beats slogging through spring run-offs..
Standing by to help,
Annemarie
