Posted on Jun 29, 2009 under Uncategorized |
You’re already conducting teleseminar sessions from which people gain great benefit. Teleseminars are easy to do because you can do them from the comfort of your own home. That’s very convenient for you and for your potential clients. Ask yourself…what are other entrepreneurs doing to grow their teleseminar selling? Analyze what other online businesses are already doing and improve upon it to grow your teleseminar selling. The possibilities are unlimited and to get you started, here are 5 ways to do it.
1. Use your imagination. See yourself as a creative genius at improving teleseminar contacts. What would that look like in your mind’s eye? What would people be saying as they learned about your upcoming teleseminars? What would you be focusing on to attract more people to your teleseminars? What kinds of special community events could you connect with to increase your teleseminar selling? Each of us is already a creative genius. Just imagine the possibilities and act on them.
2. Commit to finding a way to get more people to benefit from your teleseminars. What other online places could you visit to spread the word? We already know that ezine articles dot com is a great article marketing directory. One of the best in my research. But what about going to niche specific news forums? Could you talk about your great teleseminar in that forum? Commit to finding a way to grow your teleseminar sales and make it happen.
3. Maybe you could go to associations related to your niche market. Become a member or offer a free article to benefit the members. Make sure if you do something like this that the association has members with money to support your offer. Nothing in life is free. If you’re going to be in business, you must put forth the necessary effort to stay in business. So, check out associations related to your niche.
4. Ask yourself if you’re procrastinating. If you are, notice when you’re doing that to yourself. Ask yourself the reasons you are doing that to your business, keeping it from thriving. Once you get to all the reasons you may be doing that, vow to change. We all procrastinate now and then. Recognize when you’re doing that and choose to confront and resolve whatever the conflict is so you can get back to growing your business.
5. Check out ways to make yourself known. Internet radio might be a great way for you to get your business some free publicity. If you are willing to write a program to share with a certain radio station’s audience, radio stations need content. You can provide that content by showing people the value of attending your teleseminar classes. Ask the radio station what they need in the way of programming. Then, give it to them. Give them what they say they need, not what you think they need. When you make the customer’s needs first, that’s a great way to grow your teleseminar classes. Just go do it!
By the way, do you want to learn how to sell high ticket classes and coaching programs via the internet?
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Posted on Jun 29, 2009 under Uncategorized |
Lyme disease is primarily spread to both dogs and humans through the bite of an infected tick. Many different species of ticks can be involved, including the deer tick, the western black-legged tick, and the black legged tick. Ticks are tiny parasites that are difficult to see with the naked eye and can easily hide on people and pets.
Ticks, however, are not the only way the disease can be spread, fleas and other biting insects are capable of spreading it as well. There have been incidents in which Lyme disease has been transmitted by direct contact with infected body fluids. This ease of transmission has made Lyme disease one of the most commonly reported tick-borne diseases.
The symptoms of Lyme disease in dogs include lethargy, loss of appetite, high fever, swollen lymph nodes and joint, and/or a sudden onset of lameness. Veterinarians have the ability to test for this disease in house and should be consulted immediately if any of the symptoms develop. Rapid treatment of a diagnosed case of Lyme disease is essential to prevent permanent damage to the joints on internal organs.
To lessen your dogs chances of contracting lyme disease, you should vaccinate him. After the initial immunization, a booster is recommended three weeks later, followed thereafter by annual re-vaccinations. The symptoms of Lyme disease in humans are similar to those found in dogs, and vaccination of the family dog will help to prevent the spread to humans.
A tick must feed on the host for approximately 24 hours before spread of the disease takes place. When you return from an outing, carefully check your dog’s skin and coat, including the groin, around the ears and tail and between the toes. If a tick is found, remove it immediately with an alcohol swab and tweezers. After applying the alcohol to the tick, carefully pull the tick upwards. Try not to squeeze the tick while removing it as this may force bacteria from the tick, back into the animal.
If possible, save the tick in a jar or sealed container. If the dog becomes sick or exhibits any of the symptoms described earlier, your veterinarian can identify the type of tick to aid in the choice of antibiotics to use. When it comes to ticks, do not take any chances.
Randy Jones and his partner Brent Jones have been in the pet industry for a long time. Recently they formed http://www.joncopets.com. On the site, customers can shop for the latest dog collars, dog clothes, pet supplies and more. Check them out at http://www.joncopets.com.
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Posted on May 31, 2009 under Uncategorized |
With rising costs of living, employee downsizing, corporate layoffs, constantly increasing gas prices and long commutes to work, more and more people find it now necessary to find a work at home job or to start a home based business. A vast majority of these individuals turn to the internet for their work at home salvation. There are literally thousands of work at home and home based business opportunities out there on the World Wide Web but of course all that glitters is not gold.
Upwards of 90% of the marketed home based businesses I would say are scams. These are schemes designed with the sole purpose of making the individual marketing the product to you rich, while you are left holding the bag as it were. Having said this however there are many legitimate home based business opportunities on the internet. The problem then is weeding out the good from the bad. Unfortunately this is a matter if trial and error and a LOT of research.
Finding legitimate opportunities to make money from home can become an extremely time consuming and ultimately a very expensive undertaking. There are a few things one must look for when searching for a legitimate work at home job or home based business opportunity. Any aspiring web entrepreneur must look for these important factors before selecting any work at home business opportunity, work at home job or affiliate program.
The first thing you should do is to review their standing with the various Business Regulation Agencies such as the Better Business Bureau. You should check on any complaints that may have been filed by consumers and whether or not it was satisfactorily resolved. In most cases this can be done online at the agencies web site.
They must have very good products and or services to promote. No matter their claims, if no one finds it useful no one will buy. On this note beware of any “opportunity” where you have to buy-in before you know exactly what you will be getting for you hard earned cash. As you can imagine there are many of these out there with a slick sales letter but absolutely no mention of what the product or service is.
There must be a reliable support system in place with training and good leadership. Any program that just hands you the material and expects you to just figure it out on your own isn’t worth your time and money.
Paychecks should be sent out on time and at least once per month. Some home based business opportunities make you wait until your account reaches a preset limit before you get paid. Others let you choose your own limit and or frequency, you be the judge of what is acceptable for your individual needs.
Longevity is most important, so they should have been in business for at least three years. The scammers and con-artist usually cannot stick around this long with any individual program. They pack up and leave to return with something new. If a company is around this long on the internet I would say they must be doing something good.
I must also add here a simple rule to follow; if it sounds too good to be true it probably isn’t. We’ve all seen those ads with claims such as you can make $8,000 a day or in a few hours, just a little common sense goes a long way with these. While I’m not saying that it’s impossible to make thousands of dollars a day, it’s impractical to think it will just happen over night.
Any home based business venture you get into will take time and effort; there will be a learning curve. Anything worth doing is worth doing right, so take your time and learn the ropes. There is no such thing as a get rich quick scheme or we would all be millionaires.
Juan Mendez is a web entrepreneur and aspiring writer.
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What if you were able to buy a decent two bedroom home for about $30,000, fix it up a little and put it on the market for $80,000? Do you think you could make some money that way? This is the story of a man who lost it all that way, followed by a few lessons to be learned from his sad tale.
The story takes place in 2002, in a mountain town in Montana, where the last of the good jobs had left town twenty-two years earlier when the copper smelter closed. It is a beautiful town, but the resulting economic decline caused a population decline of more than 30%, down to about 7,000 or 8,000 people. My wife and I bought a great little house there for $17,500, so home prices had obviously tumbled along with the population.
A neighbor, at eighty-years-old, decided to become a real estate investor. He bought the house next to us for around $30,000, and borrowed more from the bank to fix the place up. Given the price of our own home and the fact that this other house wasn’t nearly as nice, I wondered if he had overpaid. He seemed sure that he had a good deal, though and could make some money.
As the weeks went by, he did get the place looking better. He put in an incredible fireplace, and new carpeting. The electricians worked on the old wiring on and off for a long time, always finding something else that needed to be done, and then taking their time doing it. The old guy was paying by the hour, with no contract, of course. The heating system needed replacing, at which point our neighbor mentioned, “I didn’t know the house had so many problems.” At some point his enthusiasm started to fail.
His bank account started to fail too. Eventually he admitted to me that he had over $65,000 into the place, but still seemed certain he could sell the home for $80,000. I politely nodded. It was too late to say anything anyhow. He didn’t even have money to fix up the rusty iron fence around the house. In fact, from the outside, the appearance had hardly changed at all, since all his money went into the interior.
The sign went up, though I am not sure why the real estate agent wanted such a listing. Perhaps it was with the hope that he would maintain the listing when the bank took the house and dropped the price. In the end, that is exactly what happened. “I gave the house back to the bank,” the old guy told me one day.
A Few Real Estate Lessons
I like this story because my old neighbor did so many things wrong. This makes it a great teaching story. Often real estate success consists as much in avoiding common mistakes as knowing intricate techniques. Here, then are some of the mistakes he made.
1. He had no plan. He had only a vague idea about what he would do and how much the home would sell for.
2. He had no idea of how to value a house. If he had compared the home to recent sales (like our $17,500 purchase next door) he would have realized that the most he would get for the home was probably around $30,000, if that.
3. He had no concept of his market. This was a two bedroom starter home. Buyers for these homes are not looking for a fancy fireplace.
4. He had no contracts or firm quotes from contractors. He let them find as much as they wanted to do and charge him by the hour.
5. He didn’t get an inspection. Had he gotten the home inspected, he might have had some idea of how many problems it had, and how much it would take to correct them.
6. He didn’t understand the concept of return on investment. Even if buyers liked the fireplace and other features he put into the home, these features probably increased the value less than what they cost.
7. He didn’t have enough money or financing lined up. This was a fortunate mistake, perhaps. Since the project was doomed to fail, it may have been good that he ran out of money.
Why not learn from the mistakes of others? As a side note, we selectively put $1,900 into our home there for a total investment (with purchase price and closing costs) of $19,800, and sold it for $28,000 four months after we bought it. We might have been lucky, but we also avoided some common real estate investing mistakes.
Copyright Steve Gillman. For a Free Real Estate Investing Course, visit: http://www.HousesUnderFiftyThousand.com.
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Posted on May 31, 2009 under Uncategorized |
What if you were able to buy a decent two bedroom home for about $30,000, fix it up a little and put it on the market for $80,000? Do you think you could make some money that way? This is the story of a man who lost it all that way, followed by a few lessons to be learned from his sad tale.
The story takes place in 2002, in a mountain town in Montana, where the last of the good jobs had left town twenty-two years earlier when the copper smelter closed. It is a beautiful town, but the resulting economic decline caused a population decline of more than 30%, down to about 7,000 or 8,000 people. My wife and I bought a great little house there for $17,500, so home prices had obviously tumbled along with the population.
A neighbor, at eighty-years-old, decided to become a real estate investor. He bought the house next to us for around $30,000, and borrowed more from the bank to fix the place up. Given the price of our own home and the fact that this other house wasn’t nearly as nice, I wondered if he had overpaid. He seemed sure that he had a good deal, though and could make some money.
As the weeks went by, he did get the place looking better. He put in an incredible fireplace, and new carpeting. The electricians worked on the old wiring on and off for a long time, always finding something else that needed to be done, and then taking their time doing it. The old guy was paying by the hour, with no contract, of course. The heating system needed replacing, at which point our neighbor mentioned, “I didn’t know the house had so many problems.” At some point his enthusiasm started to fail.
His bank account started to fail too. Eventually he admitted to me that he had over $65,000 into the place, but still seemed certain he could sell the home for $80,000. I politely nodded. It was too late to say anything anyhow. He didn’t even have money to fix up the rusty iron fence around the house. In fact, from the outside, the appearance had hardly changed at all, since all his money went into the interior.
The sign went up, though I am not sure why the real estate agent wanted such a listing. Perhaps it was with the hope that he would maintain the listing when the bank took the house and dropped the price. In the end, that is exactly what happened. “I gave the house back to the bank,” the old guy told me one day.
A Few Real Estate Lessons
I like this story because my old neighbor did so many things wrong. This makes it a great teaching story. Often real estate success consists as much in avoiding common mistakes as knowing intricate techniques. Here, then are some of the mistakes he made.
1. He had no plan. He had only a vague idea about what he would do and how much the home would sell for.
2. He had no idea of how to value a house. If he had compared the home to recent sales (like our $17,500 purchase next door) he would have realized that the most he would get for the home was probably around $30,000, if that.
3. He had no concept of his market. This was a two bedroom starter home. Buyers for these homes are not looking for a fancy fireplace.
4. He had no contracts or firm quotes from contractors. He let them find as much as they wanted to do and charge him by the hour.
5. He didn’t get an inspection. Had he gotten the home inspected, he might have had some idea of how many problems it had, and how much it would take to correct them.
6. He didn’t understand the concept of return on investment. Even if buyers liked the fireplace and other features he put into the home, these features probably increased the value less than what they cost.
7. He didn’t have enough money or financing lined up. This was a fortunate mistake, perhaps. Since the project was doomed to fail, it may have been good that he ran out of money.
Why not learn from the mistakes of others? As a side note, we selectively put $1,900 into our home there for a total investment (with purchase price and closing costs) of $19,800, and sold it for $28,000 four months after we bought it. We might have been lucky, but we also avoided some common real estate investing mistakes.
Copyright Steve Gillman. For a Free Real Estate Investing Course, visit: http://www.HousesUnderFiftyThousand.com.
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Posted on May 31, 2009 under Uncategorized |
The only thing standing in the way of life and death for Ambassador Leo Wanta is he “knows where the money is hidden” and the Illuminati banksters don’t.
A former U.S. Treasury official appointed trustee to a large sum of money by President Ronald Reagan, Wanta holds the financial “golden key” to 27.5 trillion dollars, money he says now held in public trust for the American people.
To back up Wanta’s trustee status as protector of trillions, a federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, in 2003, ruled in his favor, saying Wanta’s trustee status is legally binding and the money is rightfully the property of the American people.
The federal court case, however, has left federal prosecutors in a perplexed state of mind, as they have not yet officially appealed the ruling, perhaps thinking it is better to let “sleeping dogs sleep” until they get their ‘cooked ducks or judges in the right government pond.”
But the real problem, as it stands today and why the money remains in limbo, is simply if Wanta returns the money to the U.S. Treasury, it will be immediately hi-jacked from the people and put into private Iluminati bank accounts since under the present Federal Reserve and the national banking system, there are no laws protecting the American people’s money.
“Dutch (President Reagan} always intended the money be returned to the American people to be used for roads, schools and health care,” said Wanta last Thursday on the Investigative Journal, where the former Ambassador spoke for two hours while still being held under house arrest in his Switzerland home.
During the interview that can be heard in full by going to The Investigative Journal archives at www.rbnlive.com , Wanta literally blew the lid off the Illuminati’s world wide banking scam, as well as providing detailed information about how Illiminati banksters with help from the Bush crime family and former President Clinton have already hijacked 752 billion dollars in what has been called by European investigators “the biggest bank heist in world history.”
Besides the large sums of money at stake and the need to revamp the Federal Reserve and national banking laws to protect the public not private interests, Wanta’s story involves undercover intrigue and espionage at the highest levels, providing a mystery story better than any Hollywood movie can offer.
Behind following the money, his story involves saving President Reagan’s life in a little known assassination attempt left unreported in the mainstream press (see rbn interview), authority to arrest Marc (Reich) Rich, a meeting with Vince Foster just prior to his untimely death and just prior to Wanta being placed in a Swiss dungeon for 134 days when he confronted Rich, who was allowed to go free through White House connections.
To better understand Wanta’s role and the importance of his story, not to mention how 27.5 trillion dollars could provide a good jump start to the American economy, it’s best to go back to his original assignment in the Reagan administration at the time the Cold War was coming to a close.
At this time, Wanta, a distinguished U5 Secret Service/Treasury officer was the primary US Financial Warfare officer engaged in operations to “collapse” the Soviet Empire through financial maneuvers to prevent the Soviet military devoting larger resources to military expenditure.
For his financial plan which destabilized the Russian currency and resulted in huge dollar profits, leading into the 27.5 trillion in trust, instead of being recognized for his service, he was set-up by the Clinton’s and the Bush crime family after being released from the Swiss jail, sentenced to a 22 year jail term on bogus Wisconsin state income tax evasion charges
Although recently released and protected in a sense by the 2003 federal court ruling in his favor, Wanta has languished much of the time since 1993 in jail and now under house arrest, the primary reason for his predicament being he audited the Illuminati’s giga-financing operation of 1989-92 too accurately far the liking of certain high-level official crooks controlling the purse strings.
Regarding the Rich arrest in Switzerland and his meeting with Foster, Wanta said this on The Investigative Journal last week:
“I was named Ambassador from Somalia to Switzerland and Canada as a cover to arrest Rich. When I go there, I found myself in a Swiss dungeon and Rich was set free. Foster was also there on behlaf of the Clinton’s, asking for $250 million to be used for The Children’s Fund, which Hillary was the chairman. I thought it was to be used for a good cause, so we gave him the money.
“Later Vince attempted to help me out of my situation, but I was later notified he was found dead and I never found out what happened to the $250 million.”
Although Wanta had no idea what The Children’s Fund was all about, later a financial investigator, Marco Saba of the Organized Crime Observatory in Switzerland wrote this about turned out to be a secret fund:
“One component of this information concerns the activities of the CIA operative known as Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton. For some years prior to the elevation of her husband, Bill, a CIA operative like his ”CIA wife”, Hillary had been in control of an organization calling itself the Children’’s Defense Fund. Executive Order 12333 (1981) of President Reagan, the US intelligence services were authorised to operate what became known as Title 18, Section 6 USG corporations for intelligence purposes, and to deny any intelligence community connection (that is, to lie about their real purpose). Some of these entities have touchy-feely, welfarish titles, like The Children’’s Defense Fund. It is alleged, un the basis of intelligence community leakages, that Hillary became accustomed to treating this fund as her own private slush fund.”
However, behind the scenes of Rich, Foster and the Clinton’s, a bigger game of world politics and deception was being played out, as Wanta unknowingly was caught in the middle of the U.S./Soviet double-cross of the American people, as the two collaborated to bring about an orchestrated fall of the Soviet Union.
In the simplest of terms, as the dust has finally settled from the Cold War, the issue of the 27.5 trillion held by Wanta in trust for the American people still remains in limbo. According to Wanta, though, the issue is simple: change the banking laws so the money can be used for the people, not put into accounts of criminals.
Marco Saba, the Italian financial investigator involved with the Organized Crime Observatory (OCO) in Switzerland, investigated and traced Wanta’s behind the scenes accounting. An excerpt from Saba’s article from the Centro Studi Monetari, Arab-Asian Affairs, Vol. 29, Numbers 8&9, December 2005, explaining the backstabbing and double-crossing, as well as the details of $742.5 billion which were stolen from Wanta’s giga-fund, can be found at http://www.arcticbeacon.com/26-Mar-2006.html .
To learn more about the Leo Wanta saga and other stories vital to our world, go to independent journalist Greg Szymanski’s http://www.arcticbeacon.com and listen to his international radio show at http://www.gcnlive.com Monday-Friday from 4-6pm central.
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A wrapping of fur is not all there is to your dogs skin. It is also a factory for vitamin D production, it protects the internal parts from injury, bacteria, and viruses, and it contains a sensory system that is unsurpassed. The network of skin nerve cells goes to work when your dog is cold, has a cut, or receives a pat on the heat. In cold weather, the hairs stand erect and form air pockets that insulate against the cold.
Healthy skin and hair coats are flexible, glossy, and free of excessive oiliness, redness, dandruff, scabs, eruptions, or parasites. Run you hand against the hair coat and check for growths or blemishes. There should also be no areas of hair loss. Each dog has its own shedding cycle, which may change from year to year. Some pets shed a small amount all the time, while others lose large clumps at various levels.
Pets can have freckles, concentrations of cells containing the brown pigment called melanin. These can be found anywhere on the skin and even in the mouth. Be sure to check the skin’s special alterations, the mammary glands, the foot pads, the claws, and whiskers.
Frequently check your dogs paws. The thick, pigmented, tough footpads are excellent shock absorbers. The pads are named for their location. Pets have sweat glands in the footpad area. If your dog gets excited at the veterinarians office, you may see sweaty paw prints on the exam table. Check the spaces between the toes. Since your dog walks barefoot and this is a very moist area, the interdigital area can be easily irritated and infected by briars, stones, foxtail, sand, and salt.
Your dogs whiskers or tactile hairs as some veterinarians refer to them, are long, stiff hairs located on the muzzle, upper eyelids, cheeks, and legs. They are used as feelers and are especially handy for navigation at night or in dark areas. There is a fable belief that a dogs sense of balance will be lessened if the whiskers are cut or shortened, but there is no truth to this at all. If any unusual changes or defects are found on your pet, do not hesitate to take him to the veterinarian, as changes can indicate an internal illness or parasite.
Randy Jones and his partner Brent Jones have been in the pet industry for a long time. Recently they formed http://www.joncopets.com. On the site, customers can shop for the latest dog collars, dog clothes, pet supplies and more. Check them out at http://www.joncopets.com.
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Obviously, most problems with barking dogs result from dogs that don’t have their owner around to quiet them down. In fact, the owner’s absence in many cases is what’s rousing the dog’s vocal chords.
Most of what you can do to get your dog’s barking under control is done directly by you when you catch your dog in the act. For instance, if you know that your dog is barking at, say people who walk their dogs past your house when you’re away, then it is possible to recreate this scenario with you present so you can correct the behavior. However, intermittent barking such as this may be tolerated, by you, the neighborhood, and indeed your local dog legislation, provided your dog is not menacing passers-by through a crumbling fence.
A lonely dog barking or whining can be both much more of a nuisance and much more difficult to address, but there are still some things you should be doing. Try to come home more often, or try to arrange for a friend to visit, ideally with their friendly and energetic dog. It may nip the problem right in the bud. Enough said.
If you know you’ve got a barking dog problem that has the potential to anger neighbors, a little public relations work can go a long way. If possible, ask your neighbors if there is a barking nuisance coming from your place and, if there is, tell them you’re working on it. Then work on it.
You might also try staging a false exit. Walk once around the house or whatever it takes so they think you’re gone. When your dog barks, correct the behavior with a “Quiet” command (though your sudden appearance will likely be enough).
You can use special bark collars, that either use sonic or electric power to correct your dog. Others squirt a substance such as citronella when they bark, a scent they despise. I don’t use them, and the ones I have seen in use were awkward and not 100 percent effective. But I stay away from them less because they train through discomfort (they do not harm your pet), and more because they displace the source of authority from you to some device they don’t understand. Furthermore, they don’t differentiate between acceptable - even necessary - barking on one hand, and noise pollution on the other.
There’s also a medieval-like procedure whereby the dog’s voice-box is removed to render them barkless, or at least takes the bite out of their bark. This is simply abhorrent.
A better option for desperate dog owners is arranging some form of doggy day care, whether it’s a professional service or a personal arrangement. Some dogs simply do not get enough stimulation during the day, and they will let the world know about it until they do.
Martin Olliver is a proud member of the Kingdom of Pets team (http://www.kingdomofpets.com). For more great articles on problem barking, visit: http://kingdomofpets.com/dogobediencetraining/articles/barking_dogs.php.
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Most people know what stealing is. If you went into a clothes shop and came out the door later with a shirt or a blouse that you hadn’t paid for, that might seem like stealing. Trouble is, in a recent survey, about half the British residents interviewed admitted to taking something at some time from their place of work. It might have been the odd ballpoint pen, or a handful of paper-clips, but it went up to and included a laptop computer. What about the worker in a car factory who took home a small part every day. At the end of the year he had been able to build his own vehicle at home. Is that theft? Or do we secretly admire his initiative?
What about taxes? In another survey half the respondents admitted to playing down their income and beefing up their expenses when they made their annual Tax Return. That’s lying, but hey, you’re only stealing from the taxman, right? Well no, you’re actually taking from all of us, all those daft enough - or honest enough - to pay the taxes we owe and thus cover all the healthcare costs and social work that we happen to think is a useful part of our society. It’s not like finding a banknote on the street, is it? If we saw some money sliding down the gutter, well, that’s just good luck, isn’t it? It isn’t like we filled in any forms falsely or lied to anyone, if we just pick it up and run off with it, right? No? What about if you happened to be walking past my office and saw my wallet lying open on my desk? Would you feel justified in helping yourself to whatever you could find in there? I mean, it would involve strolling into the room casually and hoping that no one was there. Or that anyone else passing by noticed you being in there and thought you were acting suspiciously. And you would have to open the wallet and riffle through the private contents. That’s stealing, right? Or would you say it was all my fault for being so stupid as to leave my assets unattended in plain sight?
After all, people like ‘finding’ free things. A few nights ago, someone climbed up onto the roof of the Youth Centre near where I live and ‘found’ some strips of lead. They helped themselves and later that night, when it rained, water poured in through the open rafters and wrecked the computer room and boxing gym. It’s all bad news for the local children, losing facilities that they sorely need, but it’s not stealing is it? I’m sure the local thugs who did the deed will be excusing themselves right now and saying that ‘It’s insured’ or some such nonsense, and not worrying about the fact that it’s their younger brothers and sisters who are losing the facilities, however temporarily.
This ‘insurance’ issue raises the question: ‘Who pays?’ If it’s the taxman we don’t worry, it seems. Or maybe if it’s big corporations (especially if they are our employers), department stores, local government, the banks, insurance companies, that’s OK. But the clear fact is that someone does pay, somewhere, at some point. I’ve got a friend who was telling me proudly that he’s discovered a wonderful new hair salon where they serve free drinks while you get your hair cut. Tea, coffee, fruit juice, or mineral water, it’s your choice. I said: who pays? He laughed. ‘It’s free’, he said. Then I found out how much he paid for his coiffure, and it was double the bill I usually pay. Who paid? He did.
Now we get to the internet. For some reason, an incredible number of people expect it to be free. Why? Every email you send, every web site you visit, has been set up, programmed and built by people. Their time costs money. You expect them to work for nothing? The unusual thing about the web is that it mostly isn’t ‘big business’. Apart from the obvious software giants, it’s mainly people in garages and bedrooms, home dens and studies. Some of them are geeks, some hobbyists. Some happy to invent new stuff, work on new ideas, and give them out to the world (which is what Open Source software is all about). But if someone has spent time making something work, and you then take it for free, aren’t you stealing? If it’s their effort, then you’ve taken their energy, their resources, their inventiveness, their time. For nothing.
Ahh yes, someone pays, you agree, but it’s advertising. Web sites are flooded with small ads and links to commercial programs, so that’s what’s funding the work, you say. But who pays for ads? When I buy my tin of baked beans in my local supermarket, I know that that company has spent millions on TV ads. It means that for the price I pay, some small fraction of it is going towards the company’s advertising budget. If I buy books or toys or software on the internet, isn’t some small part of the price helping to pay for advertising it? After all, who paid for my friend’s ‘free’ cup of coffee? He did.
If you think anything is free from the internet, you’re deluding yourself, firstly. But secondly, and far worse, is the attitude that says, ‘Yeah, someone pays, but it isn’t going to be me’. Because that’s stealing, (just like taking from the taxman, or your employer, or my local Youth Centre). You want a program that will make you money, but you aren’t willing to pay for it? You want someone to teach you internet marketing, as long as nothing has to come out of your wallet? That’s a hell of a bad basis for starting to set up any kind of successful enterprise. That’s like going into the shop and seeing ‘Aunty Betty’s Cake Mix’ and thinking, ‘Okay, she invented the recipe and prepared the ingredients, but what do you mean - she isn’t going to cook it for me, for free?’ Or, just to rub the point in, she isn’t going to bake it in her oven and leave her front door open, so you can sneak in and steal the cake out of her oven, in her own house. She isn’t? She isn’t going to let you steal it from her and pay nothing? What kind of internet author is she?
Mike Scantlebury is an Internet Author. He currently lives in Manchester, England, home to soccer and The Smiths, where he outputs books, stories and songs, some of which end up at YouTube even. He has several web sites following his many interests, but you can make a start at his download area. Try http://www.mikescantlebury.biz
Posted on May 24, 2009 under Uncategorized |
If you are in an MLM company struggling to make money and looking for a quick way to get cash flowing in fast and steady, this article will show you how to accomplish it.
Listen to this:
Not long ago I got a consulting call from someone who was in an MLM company. He was having a hard time making any money at all — much less recouping his initial $1,800 investment.
He did not know where to go or who to turn to. All of the ideas and literature his company gave him weren’t working but he still believed in the product.
Here is what I advised him to do:
I told him, first of all, forget about selling any product or sponsoring anyone for the time being.
He can still do all that, but for now, he needs to do something a bit different if he wants to make any money in his MLM business.
I told him that there were two things he could do:
1.) He can call and interview the top ten or so distributors at his company and ask them how they are making so much money.
In other words, what are they doing? How are they sponsoring or selling so much? Are they doing what their home company says? Or are they doing something different?
And what I told him he could do is take these interviews and do mini “joint ventures” with each person he interviews, selling that product to their downlines and splitting the profits.
That is the first idea I suggested.
2.) The second idea is to do the same thing, except make it more generic. Take out all the company specific stuff and sell it to all MLM people in general.
In other words, you are selling all the best sponsoring and product sales techniques and showing all MLM people — not just those in your business — how to do them.
And that’s all there is to it.
The idea here is to merge your network marketing business with an “information” marketing business. Get the best of both worlds.
There are a ton of hungry prospects out there wanting to make it big in MLM. If you can be the person with the secrets — whether you are selling to people in your own company or people in all MLM companies — you can make a fortune selling this kind of information.
Copyright (c) 2006 Michael Senoff
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