Hi Theodore,
How can a disabled person with no marketing skills build a successful business with SFI?
The same way anybody with no marketing skills builds a successful business with SFI - by learning and acquiring the skills!
Disability is rarely a disadvantage to working online. I know many people with disabilities who do so very successfully. In fact, for many, it may be the only option available to them in order to create a purpose in their life and an income to live on. Because of this, they will be very committed to becoming successful and will work hard to do so.
If they are confined to home much of the time, they may have more time to spend on learning and running their business, and will very much appreciate the social interaction that comes with it.
You do not specify a type of disability. All disabilities. and the people who cope with them, are not the same, just as all people without disabilities are not the same. Most people with disabilities find techniques, strategies, tools and resources to help them with their daily living, so they can live as full a life as possible. Many have strengths and creativity that non-disabled people don't.
I attended a webinar a while ago where one of the speakers had no useful limbs, was in a wheelchair and had no arms. She ran her successful online business using a mouth-stick to operate her keyboard and tools.
Someone who is visually-impaired may use speech recognition and website-reading tools to interact.
Disabled people are often accustomed to looking for solutions to overcome challenges. Because of this, they may be more investigative and used to reading about new developments. They will be no stranger to learning new skills.
They will often have a network of people they are connected with, through support groups, common interest groups, etc. and use the internet a lot to interact with their peer group. So they are already connected to a niche market to which they can promote their business opportunity.
People with disabilities may be more like the tortoise than the hare, for instance, they may be less able to run around handing out gift cards and get out canvassing for new ECAs, but they can still be persistent and patient, and committed to improving their life.
As we often see in discussions in the forum, success is less about circumstances and more about mindset and, unless the disability is one which severely impairs the function of the mind, a disabled person is equally capable of success, even if their definition of success is somewhat altered by their viewpoint.
I hope this answers your question, or at least gives you some understanding that people with disabilities are at least as capable of building a successful SFI business as non-disabled folks.
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Hi Theodore,
How can a disabled person with no marketing skills build a successful business with SFI?
The same way anybody with no marketing skills builds a successful business with SFI - by learning and acquiring the skills!
Disability is rarely a disadvantage to working online. I know many people with disabilities who do so very successfully. In fact, for many, it may be the only option available to them in order to create a purpose in their life and an income to
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