Archives for February 2009

I added the following post to Rich Schefren’s blog. Why the title I used for it in this blog won’t become evident until the postscript at the end. The important message here draws attention to certain reports Rich offers freely to struggling Internet marketers abroad.

Rich is a super successful entrepreneur who has marketed both off, and on-line. Some of the most famous internet marketing experts with wildly successful businesses consult Rich Schefren. He is known as the “guru of gurus!”

I get no compensation to write a post like this. I aim to bring great benefit to my readers. It is what my chosen name, “Euergetes,” means. I strive to be your benefactor in bringing you the best possible information gold nuggets you could ever find.

With no further adieu, the article I published on Rich’s blog…

It’s information like this that I love to share with my friends! The very idea that marketers know there are opportunity-seekers and try to shove their garbage up their yin-yangs. I’m not one of those who fall for the usual hype found plastered all over the Internet. Adjectives and power words do not fool me. Nor do the headers full of yachts, Lamborghini cars, falling money, mansions, hammocks, ocean beaches, and exotic moods.

I could not describe the feeling I get when I see the rubbish just everywhere, the hyped-up sales copy, empty promises, large numbers, the little or no work involved. C’mon! I’d say…common sense tells you…and it stops right there.

Yes, I know what this is but I can’t put a handle on it. There’s a name for it but what is it??? I’ve seen this before in television ads, in junk mail letters meant to look personal, exclusive.

Offer after offer after offer…”it’s the buzz!” It’s what’s happening…now…tomorrow’s another story! Better get it now because tomorrow the price will go up…and it’s going to get sold out. It all makes me sick and sadly, this is the way of the Wild Wild Web.

Millions of “newbies” and intermediates alike get suckered in to this course, that program, and this other opportunity over here! This one’s cutting down these gurus, pointing out the flaws of each one in a long list…and then unveils the ultimate no-brainer opportunity that defies all logic! Nothing like this has ever happened before…so cash in in this new and exciting program and make more money than you know what to do with!

Yes, I’ve seen it all and who hasn’t if he’s been on the Internet for any length of time. I’ve got ten email accounts full of b.s. marketers pushing the same old crap in their messages…this teleseminar, that free report, promises of great luxury for the taking…

This is not to say there are no great courses, e-books, and other absolutely worthwhile content out there! However, it can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack (if I may use a rather quoted to death expression.) Great educational materials can be found on the Internet if you know what you are looking for.

The door of truth is plain and as a consequence many many people walk right on by it not knowing it is there. Some people stand right in front of such door and not even bother to open it even when it doesn’t require a key! Yet they’ll use battering rams to bust down down locked doors which feature elegant gold-trimmed motifs…often in return for small fortunes of their hard-earned cash to get on through!

The same goes for the secret door to success…Very few fortunate souls will ever find it. There’s really not one door, but several, all leading to the same truth, the same success. There’s not really any difference in the content behind each. However they stand, unchanged, sometimes with peeling paint, forbidden-looking, outright ugly at times.

There are a few good products out there. They’re to be found behind such doors. It takes a lot of effort to find them but once found, will put those who enter in “unfair” advantage over the masses. The Business Lyceum is one such door. ‘Ol Jim Straw can’t be beat! I invite you to explore his website! It offers free reports you won’t be able to put down for more than one sitting! He’s had the same opportunities and educational features on this website for some time. The reason is very clear – they are timeless and still work better than the garbage products and opportunities that won’t sit still much longer than the twinkling of an eye! They’ll be there tomorrow and you have time to make decisions on them you deserve to do for yourself. Any of his products for sale are well worth every penny you will pay for them.

Rich Schefren is another! The free reports he passes out freely shock and reform those who find them! But they can be hidden like the plain door they are! The Business Manifesto sat on my hard drive for many months until I found one of those “guru” review sites which did offer an excellent positive review on Rich. Curiosity got to me when I noticed that most of the other well-known high-ranking gurus were given negative reviews. So I looked up the report on this hard drive…

The contents blew my mind! They made me very angry!! I sat there with feelings of helplessness which gave way to empowerment! Indeed this is information which is suppressed from the millions of souls out there who think they are entrepreneurs but are really opportunity-seekers sitting like ducks in the scopes of voracious hunters bent on doing whatever they can to separate them from their money!

This is no come-and-go product launch! It behooves anybody who reads this to look into these free reports! Don’t let the “free” fool you that these are a throw-together of more rehashed and out-dated junk content. You are in for a real pleasant but eye-opening surprise! Get ready to wake up! It’s your wake-up call and the time is ripe.

There’s no strings attached. There’s no ulterior motive behind them. If you pan for gold you’ll be very fortunate to find any gold nuggets. Yes they are there, but they are very hard to find especially if you don’t know what you are looking for…

All I can tell you after this long post is that it behooves you to get ahold of these reports and read them for yourself! You will get set straight! It will pop out at you like you never thought possible. You will change the way you are doing business forever. Get Rich Schefren’s Business Manifesto and the companion reports as well. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and find “Reports” in the in-line selections. All his available free reports are found in the short menu under this heading. They won’t cost you anything except the confusion you now have in the overall puzzle you’re now trying to piece together. Want the solutions?

You’ll be glad you did!

By the way, Rich offers courses at nominal prices too. If you can see how valuable his free reports are, you know his courses and services are well worth the money you will pay to obtain them.

P.S.

You’ll notice many opportunity websites will tell you that you can do what so-called little it takes to make massive windfalls of money. Spend four hours a week and make thousands per day, or week…

…and you can even do it in your underwear!

Get this and get it now! If you follow through with most of these offerings and opportunities all you will be able to afford IS your underwear!

So put your pants on!

It’s good business practice anyway even if it’s in your own home office. You wouldn’t run around in a corporate office in your underwear would you? Why do it in your own home business? It really shows the same kind of disrespect for your own business as it would in any corporate setting.

If you see such expressions in sales copy, turn around and run like hell! …and make sure you have a belt on too, shirt tucked in, etc.

Get these reports and you’ll see what I mean about some of the important things being kept safely out of your sight and mind!

P.S.S.

Another important thing to bear in mind…

Unlike many of these “Better get it now because tomorrow it may be gone…” spiels, great and timely offers that have real value will still be there tomorrow. It’s not going anywhere soon. True it is not wise to wait forever, but be ever on the look-out for offers which feature such pressure to get-it-quickly-or-else-you’ll-miss-out. These are designed to push your impulse-buying buttons.

You want to shield these buttons so they cannot be pushed! Don’t let scrupulous marketers do this to you. It behooves you to sleep on something before you act on it. Most of the time offers like these are for things you don’t need!

Most working people rely on a single income to sustain their lives on. They become so dependent upon this source that they go to far length to protect and maintain it. Any disruption in income for about 40% of the entire workforce will cause total ruin and disruption in life that is almost unimaginable. The one and absolutely ominous reality to being employed is that there are numerous reasons an employee can lose his income.

It can be an economic decision on the part of the company when sales plummet and amongst the first people to feel the crunch are employees. In a layoff however, the employee usually has some sort of income to fall back on, such as unemployment benefits offered by the state when such emergencies occur. The layoff may be temporary or it may be permanent. Albeit this does cause major disruption in the lives of employees putting them in positions where they must restore their income. This situation is usually beyond their control and can cause great suffering and financial hardship.

The very nature of employment in the usual sense is that when a person cannot work for some reason or another, his income also stops. This certainly doesn’t take a rocket-scientist or even a firecracker-scientist to figure out. Sickness, relationship problems, and scores of other reasons cause interruption in face time of an employee that directly affects income. So far I have mentioned the more temporary conditions here. There is one other condition anybody could figure out reading this article – termination.

More of a slang word to denote termination is being fired. As early on as I am in the publishing and writing career I’m building on, I’m still in the position where I must rely on employment to obtain most or all of my income. There are perhaps thousands of people like myself trying to set up businesses in order to achieve what it is they feel they’ve been called in life to do. Like myself, building a business is not easy when having to work around a job and having limited financial resources, etc.

Today I’m subject to termination from my minimum-wage job over a very silly incident that happened yesterday. A coworker took immediate defense when I pointed out something he did that causes a problem for others in the workplace – loading a trash compactor incorrectly, causing it to jam up. The incident led to a loud confrontation between us in the kitchen where I work which caused management to intervene.

Today I’m sitting at this computer writing this article waiting for the decision of upper management to determine whether I will have my job anymore – all for the most part, over a personality conflict. I’m not here to say who was more wrong than the other. I’m attempting to show why it is imperative not to place all your eggs in one basket, to rely only on your employment. I suggest that in doing so you are subjecting yourself to wage-slavery and vulnerability to income loss.

When you get fired from a job it has a prolonged and undesired effect on you than you may bargain for. Again this is not rocket science but something many people do not want to think about. Deep down inside the souls of employees there is always this imminent fear of being fired. This fear is usually buried in the subconscious mind, “in the back of the mind” as some would have it. It may occur over something serious they may have done or over something so pathetically silly that it would make one really wonder. Being fired also destroys your reputation and makes it that much harder to become re-employed.

One of the other pitfalls of being employed is that many times you do not have control over who your coworkers will be. You get yoked up with whoever the company feels should be there. A company is not always in the business of putting its employees in situations that provides the most comfortable condition for them. Unfortunately being so yoked means having to work with others you may not like or can even deal with. Unlike employment, you meet someone in the entrepreneurship world you do not like you simply turn your back on that person and go another direction. Try and do that to your boss and see how far you get even if the boss is in the wrong. Very fortunately having a bovine for a boss has not been a problem in my case.

Employment is essentially like being caged up with other employees and you have little control over the actions of such employees and how they can affect your standing with the company. If you find yourself in a position of unpopularity amongst certain fellow employees this can adversely work against you. A wrong move on your part with regard to how you may have handled a situation at work can also put you on the street, lose your family, spouse, home, car, and go hungry. Today I’m sitting here waiting for the telephone to ring with the answer to what my fate is concerning the disruption at my place of employment. I work around some pretty foul-mouthed and uneducated individuals who could care less what happens to me. Maybe getting fired is a blessing in disguise. There is no way at this point to know this for sure.

There are no better words to describe the feeling I have now than “lack of control.” This is most every employee’s story. My strong suggestion to you who reads this article is to begin working on alternative means of income, preferably something you have strong passion for. Relying on just one income and having to force yourself to go to your place of employment is no less than wage-slavery. There are things you can do that produces passive income – that kind of income that works for you when you do NOT work.