You’ve invested in a beautiful **columbarium design**. Rows of **columbarium niches** sit perfectly aligned. The **columbarium wall** looks solid, respectful, and ready. You hired a sales team. You trained them on Buddhist traditions—how the Earth Store Dharma eliminates karma, how the Pure Land path guides souls to bliss.

And still, nothing moves.

Your salespeople quit after two or three months. Their parting shot: “The owner takes too much. We sell a niche for $10,000 and get maybe $2,000. Why stay?”

You feel wronged. You poured capital into the building, the **columbarium niches**, the land, the permits. Don’t they understand?

Here’s the truth they won’t tell you—and the math you refuse to see.

**You don’t know how to think big.**

Let me show you.

Say you make $10,000 on one niche. You keep $8,000. Your team splits $2,000. You think you’re generous because last year you only gave them $1,000.

What does your salesperson think?  

*“I’m in the field every day. I explain the columbarium design the culture, the karma purification, the rebirth vows. I close the deal. And 80% goes to someone who just owns the building?”*

They feel cheated. So they leave. And then they become your competitor.

Now flip it.

Same $10,000. You keep $2,000. Your team takes $8,000. Ask them: “Still want to leave?”

They won’t. Because starting their own **columbarium company** means dealing with taxes, permits, manufacturing, maintenance—all the headaches. Here, they get 80% and someone else handles the **columbarium wall**, the operations, the after-sales support. They’re thrilled.

“But 80% is too much,” you say. “How about 50-50?”

If that’s your response, stop reading. You’re not ready to scale.

**Now let’s do the real math.**

Today you have three sales teams. Together they sell 300 niches a year. You take 80% — $8,000 per niche. That’s $2.4 million. Feels good, right?

Now imagine you flip the ratio. You take 20% — $2,000 per niche. Three teams sell 300 niches. That’s only $600,000. You’d panic.

But you’re not thinking big.

With that new 20/80 split, your salespeople turn into owners. They recruit. They train. They work weekends. Because every niche they sell puts $8,000 in their pocket. Your three teams become ten. Ten become thirty.

Thirty teams. Each sells only 100 niches a year. That’s 3,000 niches. Your 20% share — $2,000 each — totals $6 million.

Compare: $2.4 million vs. $6 million.  

Which one is bigger?

**80% of 10,000 is 8,000. 20% of 100,000 is 20,000.**  

Simple arithmetic. Yet 90% of **columbarium company** owners can’t stomach it. Even when they understand the numbers, they still feel: *“But I built this. I paid for the **columbarium design** and the land. Why should I take the small piece?”*

Because you want to grow.

Here’s the deeper lesson—and it’s not just business. A columbarium rooted in Buddhist wisdom teaches exactly this: *give first, then receive. If you never give, you never gain.* You sell niches that help families release attachment and guide departed souls toward peace. But you yourself can’t release attachment to your own profit margin.

Your sales team isn’t working *for* you. They’re working *with* you to spread dharma, to help grieving families, to turn a **columbarium wall** into a place of healing and merit. When you let them earn what they deserve, they will pour their hearts into every call, every temple visit, every family consultation.

Your **columbarium niches** will sell faster. Your reputation will spread. And your business will finally grow beyond the three teams you’re stuck with today.

Stop counting pennies on a single niche. Start asking: *How do I turn $10,000 into $100,000?* Not *“How much of this $10,000 can I hoard?”*

Let your people make serious money. Then you’ll make serious money.

That’s not a pep talk. That’s the only way your columbarium project survives—and thrives.