Secondary Income

More and more of my customers are discovering the advantage of having a secondary income.  I have had business associates in the past bring this subject up, but I have never explored the concept before.

Near the end of last year I had a customer come in and we got around to talking about the shape of the construction industry.  Toward the end of the discussion, he mentioned that he was involved in a MLM company and his income from that business was now greater than the income from what he considered his primary business.  He has been involved with a company, Mona Vie, for just over 5 years.  2 years ago, his wife quit working.  His side business was netting them more than she made.  Now, 2 years later, the secondary income is enough to sustain their household easily.  And it will continue to be residual income.  He still runs the contracting business because he loves the work and doesn’t want to retire.  So, intrigued,  I have been looking at a few of the MLM companies around.

I had been exposed to nutritional drinks by my relatives a few years ago, due to an injury I sustained in 1986.  Along with a strict nutritional regimen, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic, Acupuncture, hydro therapy, Magnetic therapy and a host of other therapies (hot tubs work the best for me), None had made a discernable difference.  Then I was introduced to eXfuze Seven+   This drink made a measurable difference.  So I have now made the plunge into MLM.  We’ll see how it goes……..

eXfuze meeting

The first eXfuze meeting in the Sacramento Valley area is coming up.  We will meet in Vacaville in the Comfort Suites.  The room is open at 6:30p, but will start at 7pm.

If you want more info on what the commotion is all about, go to http://www.exfuze.com/keithhartsuiker and look around.  You can catch my eXfuze blog at http://exfuze7plus.spaces.live.com 

Getting in on the very first floor of a company is really fun and really frustrating.  They are still working some of the kinks out, mainly due to the speed in which eXfuze is taking off.  If you are interested in joining a company that’s still on the ground floor and working to build a skyscraper, contact me about eXfuze.

2009 at a fast walk

2008 was truly a year of ups and downs.  As I spoke to my fellow business owners, we all talked about how the business started to show an upswing just to down turn and level off just about where it started.  As a whole, this meant that the top and the bottom numbers kept changing, but the average stayed about the same.  Commercial construction stayed fairly even through all of this.  The residential market is what hit bottom and brought the average to it's lowest point.
2009 seems to be the year that we had hoped 2008 would be.  We still are having our ups and downs, but the yearly profits are showing an increase over 2008.  We admit to having sharper pencils though.  This cutting of all wasted advertising and overhead is what is making this a better year.  It was too easy in the years up to 2007 to spend money on advertising and promotions and not have the time to really check on their effectiveness.  This has definitely changed how we think about ad campaigns.