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To: Janice Shell who wrote (989)9/7/2000 5:04:23 PM
From: Quahog  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 1426
 
Secret #1

Double coupon day at Super Stop & Shop.
"I bought a case of Carnation Instant Milk," said Bill G., "and by doubling my manufacturer's coupon, made a quick 25 cents."



To: Janice Shell who wrote (989)9/7/2000 6:29:56 PM
From: davealex  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1426
 
I really DO wonder what the "secrets known only to multimillionaires" are...

Here is the one secret:

Package up your own flavor of "Secrets Known Only to Millionaires," make it pretty and glossy, market the living hell out of it, and sell it for 20 times what it is worth.

Pick something that has not been done to death -- real estate, stocks, MLM, commodity futures, porn, medical transcriptions, viatical settlements, etc. are all too tired. In order to to pique interest, you must pick something that will seem cutting edge, relatively riskless and ground floor. All the smart people want the ground floor. The really smart people nail the floor together so there's something to stand on in the first place. Just pick your floor material.

Hmmm... "You Can Become a Millionaire Bandwidth Broker"! sounds like a good one. That's starting to become a reasonably hot area -- just enough on the fringe so people might think it's the coming wave, but just enough reality to have some substance for those checking into it. It's about where brokering electricity was four or five years ago. PERFECT time for it. Has all the good hot buttons -- commodity, Internet, work at home, yada yada yada

Write a nice little short-run vanity publisher book (filled mostly with "Do you want to be a poor schlub all of your life or not?" diatribes and Pump speeches that make them want to change their life, but with 20% of content about how a person would actually go about brokering bandwidth). If you want to go really cheap, just password-protect the book on the net and tell them you are doing that so you can "update" it with "the latest news and happenings in the world of bandwidth brokering."

Start with $99.95 as your MSRP on your web site.

Get the ball rolling: begin posting all over the net with aliases saying "...I just ran across this [your idea] and was wondering if anyone knows if it's a scam." Don't say how much it costs, just put a link to your page. No one will flame you because you appear to be helpfully saving people from scams.

Your will get a lot of hits. You want to capture them, so run a special for $69.95 and you'll get a nice revenue spike. Impulse is required; you must accept credit cards on the net or they may change their mind. It must be a nice site, not cheesy, or they will think "fly by nite" and leave. You can inexpensively hire a student web designer from your local College of Art and Design to make it nice. They work cheap so they can build a portfolio.

"You Can Become a Millionaire Bandwidth Broker"! -- seed planted, ground staked. Let's see what rolls in.

Now, start over at the top and move on to the NEXT idea that can make people millionaires...

As each idea begins to pay off, take 30% of the net revenue as profit and roll the other 70% back into marketing the same idea. Just pay to have the marketing done so you can spend your time on the new ideas. Keep taking 30% and plowing back 70% until you can gauge that at least 20 other people/companies/sites have copied your idea. Then start taking 100% and let it die a natural death as competition overwhelms it.

You should have a good 8-10 ideas running concurrently at any given time.

Pretty soon, you may actually be a millionaire if you have enough good ideas to keep the plates spinning.

Dave



To: Janice Shell who wrote (989)9/7/2000 11:39:17 PM
From: ISOMAN  Respond to of 1426
 
I
really DO wonder what the "secrets known only to
multimillionaires" are...


Send me a PM...

I'll give you a teaser...

Thrift shop.



To: Janice Shell who wrote (989)9/10/2000 5:31:40 PM
From: Robert Graham  Respond to of 1426
 
**OT** There is no "secret". They simply think differently than most other people. They operate from a different place. In many cases they were trained to think differently as they were growing up by parents who were already financially successful. And a few actually were able to train themselves. Just look at traders who are successful and compare them to those who gave up trading because of their reliable losses. Is it that one had the "secret" while the other did not? Or one was just more lucky than the other? I suspect the two minds work very differently, particularly with regards to how they pursued success and also importantly how managed the associated risk. Matter of fact, they altogether may end up having a different outlook on life, particularly how they relate to success in their life. This perspective you cannot learn from a book or be given a formula for.

This IMO is also the reason many who find themselves on welfare stay on welfare. They were bred to lose. Their psychology is just not able to allow them to pursue, or even understand or even conceive of the life that most of us lead here that permit us to hold down jobs and manage for success in other areas of our lives. And these unfortunate people will remain so, as their children will, and their children's children will also. For this mentality is learned from their parents when they were young. No amount of physical help like money will change this. And the availability of education as far as job skills go will not help this situation either. Of course this is aside from genuine disability, drugs, or serious emotional problems that may be preventing many from holding down a job, which does represent a significant percentage of those on government assistance. I think the solution may involve separating the children from their parents for a period of time while they are re-programmed. And following this experience, provide them with a different support network of individuals in their which will allow them to retain their new approach to their lives. Only then may there may be hope. I suppose this is the reason the armed forces are so successful in recreating individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Not onyl are they trained with new skills, but also with a different way of thinking about how they approach their life.

Just some thoughts here. Better stop before I cause more trouble here on this way off topic post. :-)

Bob Graham

PS: I once has a conversation with the ex-head of the welfare program for the State of California. This proved to be a very interesting conversation, indeed! :-) BTW he married the investigator who was charged to investigate his department for fraud. I had the opportunity to talk to them both.



To: Janice Shell who wrote (989)9/11/2000 2:40:41 PM
From: Teddy  Respond to of 1426
 
OT: This sounds like an easy way to Get Rich Quick <G>
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