I sense a new "Don Alm" project comin' on. Hire a couple (few?) local gals to solicit jobs/orders and perhaps organize flyer distribution, etc. They could work for several different sales-shy entrepreneurs at the same time on some sort of commission basis. I'm sure you could work out the details a lot better than me. Sounds like an opportunity...

> I live in a high UNemployment area. Men
> whose families were loggers for years are
> now having to look for other ways to earn a
> living.

> I know a lot of these guys so I try and come
> up with programs that takes little cash to
> get going and has the potential to earn them
> 10 times what they would be earning cutting
> down trees.

> Deck Renewal and Oil Stain Removal for 2
> recent examples.

> I put the programs together AND even go out
> and get them their first few jobs BUT...for
> some reason they just will NOT even try to
> get jobs themselves. I do not know what the
> heck scares the bejeebers out of people as
> to "Selling" something.

> All they have to do is drop off some flyers
> and they'll get calls....or just simply ask
> the people where they just finished a job
> (that I got for them)...if they can give a
> name of a friend or relative who might want
> to have similar work done.

> Simply pick up the phone and CALL! Ya think
> they'd do that? No way Jose!

> They want ME to make the phone calls and get
> the jobs.

> Maybe their genes tell them that they are
> ONLY to "take orders"...do NOT
> initiate anything on your own...you might
> fail.

> Who knows. Whatever it is...they refuse to
> even try and get jobs on their own.

> Such is the mind of the "working
> class"...I guess.

> Don Alm