HERE ARE THE TOP INCOME PRODUCERS...
BIOREMEDIATION - Let nature make $$ for you.
CRAFTING - Make a good living helping others.
GIFT BASKET SERVICE - Set your own hours...be creative everyday.
INFORMATION BROKER - High pay, high tech researching.
MAIL ORDER - Plenty of opportunity remains.
DESKTOP PUBLISHING - Conceive it...Publish it. Make money.
WEDDING PLANNING SERVICE - Those wedding bells ring $$$ for you.
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"The career is dead. You'll need new techniques to find employment in the future, including computerized assessment, on-line networking, and telemarketing your skills. "
--Jul/Aug '94, p. 5
"Lifetime jobs are a thing of the past. Creating a strategy for one's career will require new, more portable skills that can be marketed to a variety of potential employers. You'll work as a temp at one place and a consultant at another."
--Barner, Sep/Oct '94, p. 10
"Job resiliency will be more important than job security in the twenty-first century. How well you can apply your skills--and develop new ones--will be more important to tomorrow's employers than loyalty to a single organization."
--Barner, Sep/Oct '94, p 10
"All workers will have personal agents--not just writers, performers, and sports figures. Your agent will find buyers for your talents and negotiate employment contracts, as well as be your coach or mentor."
--Sep/Oct '94, p. 41
From: The Futurist - Outlook '95
Vocational rehabilitation engineering is mostly about having technology resources you can trust. What usually sets the practicing rehabilitation engineer apart from the merely enthusiastic is actually hands on experience with the products and technologies specified to solve problems.
We have had the opportunity to use a product recently, and its performance resulted in two "job saves." The product is the MAGNICAM from Innoventions, Inc. The MAGNICAM is a portable magnification device for low vision workers. It does not require a computer to operate. It is available in both a portable and fixed place version. For situations where reading is required, e.g. labels, price lists, some computer screens, etc., it can solve the problem in a convenient easy to use package.
More information on this product is available from Mr. Tom Winter at 800-854-6554.
ARE YOU GOING TO FILE FOR DISABILITY INCOME
Before you can use any of the ideas usually presented in this column, you must accomplish one thing. You must be receiving SSI or SSDI. Many of the people we know are either about to file or have file for benefits and they have been denied. REAch has skilled personnel to assist you in your initial filing or to coach you through the appeal process.
Our portfolio clients and their consumers receive this assistance as a regular part of our service and it is available on a private pay basis to others. The fact is this:
Before you can receive SSDI, you must prove that you are disabled.
Performing your role as claimant is easier when you understand it and how it relates to the roles of others. The role of SSA is to pay valid claims. Your role is to prove that your claim is valid.
Federal and state governments lack money (did we need to tell you that?) to operate social programs at their full potential these days. SSA is no exception. SSA has limited funds for handling claims. The agency cannot deliver all-inclusive service to people with disability claims because the President and Congress severely restrict administrative funds. SSA invested an average of $345 to handle a disability claim in 1991.
SSA must pay the claims it approves. With limited funds SSA has no incentive to pay claims that look weak, nor to spend much money documenting them. SSA approves well documented claims because these justify the payment and withstand the scrutiny of all the auditors.
You have responsibility for assembling the substantial medical evidence required by SSA's definition of disability. Although SSA will help, they cannot do the amount of evidence-collecting often necessary to document disabilities. Nor can the doctor.
Basically, this is what you must do to speed up the process of getting accepted into the program.
We know the process is time consuming and complicated. SSA is trying to re-engineer the process, but it is apt to take some time to do it. We can help preview you claim or tell you what your options are. The program is designed to help you, but you must help yourself first.
This Editor's Note preceeded the June, 1995 issue of "SUCCESS".magazine. We liked it so much, we asked for permission to reprint it here. New technologies are doubly important to the person with a disability. Each new technology presents the opportunity for better access to the world, and it also represents a new opportunity to explore for self employment possibilities.
Finding, Seizing, and Exploiting Opportunities
How do the entrepreneurs we profile in this issue identify, evaluate, and exploit new opportunities? They do the following:
Unlike employees, who may toil diligently to produce smashing reports for others, they aim at coming up with a genuinely thoughtful concept that may for a time defy quantification; yet, it personally makes sense to them on a gut level. As one put it, "I step out of the confusion and take a long walk in the woods, and I listen to what I really think."
Unlike "normal" people, entrepreneurs place a higher value on good ideas than they do on capital.
They are eager and curious about change - in demographics, lifestyles, technology, the market, government regulation, and the competition.
They understand that a "great idea" is not the same as a business opportunity. It must first have a high profit margin - high enough to provide for the unforeseen, and to withstand new, low-priced competitors.
They match the opportunity with their personal strengths.
They are connected. They may have hundreds, even thousands, of contacts to draw upon - from school, from former businesses, from trade shows and conferences.
They move from making rapid, "quick and dirty" financial projections in the prebusiness plan phase to creating strong, detailed budgets and schedules.
They use both top-down and bottom-up thinking to integrate the numbers with their overall strategy.
They prove - first to themselves and, later, to others - that customers will want what they have to offer.
In the pre-startup phase, when the value of their venture can increase dramatically, they tenaciously hold on to as much ownership as possible.
They relinquish equity in multiple rounds of financing, not all at once, and only after exploring other alternatives.
They understand the needs of their suppliers, and thus acquire resources at the lowest possible cost.
When an idea is not right, they have a gift for cutting their losses.
Once an opportunity has been identified, they use creative brainstorming as a way of looking at all the possibilities.
They personally possess - or figure out how to hire or acquire the technical know-how to launch and run the business.
They know that markets - especially high-technology markets become less forgiving as they mature, and that simply being first is no indication of staying power.
They excel at working outside of normal channels.
And, they sell their vision to everyone who matters.
When you read our stories of leading-edge entrepreneurs, I know you'll share the excitement we experienced in reporting them.
Scott DeGarmo, Editor
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"First appeared in SUCCESS in June 1995. Written by Scott DeGarmo. Reprinted with the permission of SUCCESS Magazine. Copyright ©1995 by Success Partners."
Editors Note: I personally dedicate the above to all those entrepreneurs we have helped start up their businesses. We know it's not easy. If it were easy, everybody would be doing it! Hang in there!
Do you think your consumer is a candidate for a home-based business? Are you concerned that you may not get the follow through you will require to get a closure on a risky IWRP? Relax, you are not alone. Here is the bad news and the good news.
With all the wonderful business resources we have available, the bad news is that nobody knows for sure who will be a succesful business person. According to the SBA, many of all new businesses fail (improves drastically with a franchise!), and it is often more difficult for a person with a disability to succeed in a new business venture. The good news is that we know the reasons why businesses fail, and we can do some things up front to tilt the balance in favor of a successful closure. Most business people fail because they can't make enough correct decisions fast enough to save their enterprise.
REAch can show you-upfront-what kind of a decision maker your consumer is. Can your person take the right risks and avoid the wrong ones? We can show you with the "DECISION MAKING ASSESSMENT INVENTORY". Many business people fail because they simply can't sell. In today's world the people who cannot sell themselves and their ideas face a handicap to success not protected by the ADA. Is your consumer able to sell? REAch can provide you with a set of scores which will show you how a person measures up in specific selling situations. Using, "THE SELLING SKILLS INVENTORY" you will gain insights about a person that can prevent funding an IWRP which is doomed to failure from the start.
REAch has other inventory tools available which can profile LEARNING STYLES and the ability to handle CONFLICT each is an essential aspect of an individual's propensity to succeed in a home based business.
Are any of these tools guarantees of a successful business enterprise? No. But it has been said that it is better to light one small candle than to stumble around in the dark.
Call us at 800-485-5040 to talk about our business success prediction tools.