My experiments with Pay-to-Read and Paid-to-Click programs have now grown so big that it is easy to spend an entire man-day or more just tending to them. Blogging is just about a perfect medium to record my progress, because it proceeds in fits and starts.
Karen's cookbook has almost met the original goal we set for 101 recipies, and she is considering whether to expand it. When we have it finished it will most likely be sold as a direct PDF file, and represent my first self-developed product.
This bring out the need to discuss payment processors, as I had been promising to do for quite some time. So I will be listing five or six of my favorites in my next post.
I have a dinner party to plan and a Harvest Festival party to attend this weekend, so I suppose this will have to be the end for today.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Friday, October 29, 2004
Monday, October 18, 2004
Concept #14: How to Invest on Welfare
Everybody likes free publicity.
That's the real secret to all these highly successful affiliate programs I am finding every day. That was the secret to my very first conscious investment, which was with a young man named Don Lepre.
Don is one of "those guys on late night TV," and probably the king of newspaper classified ads.
He revises his original money-making course quite regularly, and he has plenty of critics...mostly people who haven't bought his material yet and aren't likely to.
It's now a few years later, and Don still hasn't seen a penny from that original investment. But he will. Let me tell you what he sold me. For less than $400
(which I had to borrow from a friend at the time) he sold me an open ended rights contract, to allow me to help grow HIS business FOR him. That business also paid by the minute.
The catch: I had to do my own advertising.
I still have that contract today.
The difference is that now I have a much better idea of what to do with it.
So why am I still on welfare?
Because advertising is expensive (or so I used to think), and "The System" doesn't believe in entrepreneurship. (So they want you to think.)
Enter my friend Tony Q.
Tony Q put me in the way of an internet based opportunity I still wasn't ready for, and thought I wasn't doing anything with it. He was right...I was too busy trying to "convince" my then-caseworker of the "value" of my next upcoming novel...the one I hadn't written yet.
The government man was worried about how my latest psych evaluation had turned out, and made special mention that the person filing the report had most unprofessionally described me as,and I quote, a "very strange person," unquote.
This made me angry...so angry, in fact, that I actually STARTED the phantom novel that very night!
Tony Q was a little less optimistic one evening driving through town, when we ran some of what he considered some of the "real" numbers together...after all, I was recieving SSI, home health care, AND medical assistance services, as well as vocational training at the time. If I became a taxpayer, he said, I would still have to make something between $3000-$5000 a month just to cover the kinds of services the state was already providing!
It was then that I first began to understand the basic fallacy of what the government workers were (and were not) telling me.
You see, government, like any living organism, will always act FIRST in IT'S OWN best interests, rather than yours. Any "help" you get from the government is designed only to protect IT (the city, county, state, nation, etc...) from the possibility that without that help, you might turn toward illegal activity as a means of survival.
What the government is GOOD AT is basically limited to two things...
1) Analyzing and enforcing laws about any WORK WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE...(and guess who just did it?)
[ Hint: Everybody's favorite answer is a simple three letter word, starting with Why, leading to an involuntary exclamation of surprise, and ending with the person who gets the resulting tax bill! This is why I am a Republican...we seem (at least for now) to have "fairer" ways of arranging such organized theft, on average. Get it? Got it? Good!]
2) Applying certain ECONOMIES OF SCALE to work which has yet to be done, once that work has first been proven to be TO THE GOVERNMENT'S INTERESTS.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE: These may or MAY NOT (usually not)be the same as the interests of any individual, or group of citizens. Yes, ok, democracy stinks...the only thing that saves it most of the time is that the alternatives are MUCH, MUCH worse without it...as most of our current political scene's "professional victims" would be the first to acknowledge, the moment they lost their passports!
An ECONOMY OF SCALE is what happens because the government is so much bigger than you are...TIME SAVINGS that happen because the government has bought and paid for thousands and thousands of it's own CONTACTS with, hundreds, thousands, and millions of dollars it got from YOUR (collective)taxes.
This is the reason most welfare recipients usually get treated as LITTLE BETTER THAN CRIMINALS...because the training of the "social workers" who analyze their qualifications for benefits, FREQUENTLY SUGGESTS that they very well might BE criminals, or at least thinking hard about becoming such.
This is the WELFARE TRAP...and that was the beginning of the project.
The next time I approach the government, it will be with MY OWN hard numbers, statistics, and other LEGAL PROOFS of what I want to do FOR THEM by becoming a taxpayer (and thus leaving their pocketbook alone!)
Success,
Wolfspyder
That's the real secret to all these highly successful affiliate programs I am finding every day. That was the secret to my very first conscious investment, which was with a young man named Don Lepre.
Don is one of "those guys on late night TV," and probably the king of newspaper classified ads.
He revises his original money-making course quite regularly, and he has plenty of critics...mostly people who haven't bought his material yet and aren't likely to.
It's now a few years later, and Don still hasn't seen a penny from that original investment. But he will. Let me tell you what he sold me. For less than $400
(which I had to borrow from a friend at the time) he sold me an open ended rights contract, to allow me to help grow HIS business FOR him. That business also paid by the minute.
The catch: I had to do my own advertising.
I still have that contract today.
The difference is that now I have a much better idea of what to do with it.
So why am I still on welfare?
Because advertising is expensive (or so I used to think), and "The System" doesn't believe in entrepreneurship. (So they want you to think.)
Enter my friend Tony Q.
Tony Q put me in the way of an internet based opportunity I still wasn't ready for, and thought I wasn't doing anything with it. He was right...I was too busy trying to "convince" my then-caseworker of the "value" of my next upcoming novel...the one I hadn't written yet.
The government man was worried about how my latest psych evaluation had turned out, and made special mention that the person filing the report had most unprofessionally described me as,and I quote, a "very strange person," unquote.
This made me angry...so angry, in fact, that I actually STARTED the phantom novel that very night!
Tony Q was a little less optimistic one evening driving through town, when we ran some of what he considered some of the "real" numbers together...after all, I was recieving SSI, home health care, AND medical assistance services, as well as vocational training at the time. If I became a taxpayer, he said, I would still have to make something between $3000-$5000 a month just to cover the kinds of services the state was already providing!
It was then that I first began to understand the basic fallacy of what the government workers were (and were not) telling me.
You see, government, like any living organism, will always act FIRST in IT'S OWN best interests, rather than yours. Any "help" you get from the government is designed only to protect IT (the city, county, state, nation, etc...) from the possibility that without that help, you might turn toward illegal activity as a means of survival.
What the government is GOOD AT is basically limited to two things...
1) Analyzing and enforcing laws about any WORK WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE...(and guess who just did it?)
[ Hint: Everybody's favorite answer is a simple three letter word, starting with Why, leading to an involuntary exclamation of surprise, and ending with the person who gets the resulting tax bill! This is why I am a Republican...we seem (at least for now) to have "fairer" ways of arranging such organized theft, on average. Get it? Got it? Good!]
2) Applying certain ECONOMIES OF SCALE to work which has yet to be done, once that work has first been proven to be TO THE GOVERNMENT'S INTERESTS.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE: These may or MAY NOT (usually not)be the same as the interests of any individual, or group of citizens. Yes, ok, democracy stinks...the only thing that saves it most of the time is that the alternatives are MUCH, MUCH worse without it...as most of our current political scene's "professional victims" would be the first to acknowledge, the moment they lost their passports!
An ECONOMY OF SCALE is what happens because the government is so much bigger than you are...TIME SAVINGS that happen because the government has bought and paid for thousands and thousands of it's own CONTACTS with, hundreds, thousands, and millions of dollars it got from YOUR (collective)taxes.
This is the reason most welfare recipients usually get treated as LITTLE BETTER THAN CRIMINALS...because the training of the "social workers" who analyze their qualifications for benefits, FREQUENTLY SUGGESTS that they very well might BE criminals, or at least thinking hard about becoming such.
This is the WELFARE TRAP...and that was the beginning of the project.
The next time I approach the government, it will be with MY OWN hard numbers, statistics, and other LEGAL PROOFS of what I want to do FOR THEM by becoming a taxpayer (and thus leaving their pocketbook alone!)
Success,
Wolfspyder
Weekly Update #11: The Buzz Goes National
My success spiral has definitely started.
I recieved word yesterday that one of my potential charity partners is now evaluating the hub site at a national directorship level. My first block of 100 links has been reached, each one representing a new STREAM of income.
My new email empire is literally growing by new leaps every 30 seconds or so. I am now being PAID to grow new streams of income by the MINUTE, even without referrals.
My room-mate's new cookbook project is also proceeding nicely.
Now, it's time to get serious about connecting these 100 businesses to one another.
Otherwise I will lose out on product and advertising resources without number.
That doesn't even begin to describe the projects in development.
I am now starting to recieve offers by the dozen for new startups BEFORE they go public.
I have no competition.
Why?
Because at the end of the day, the internet is still a CONTACT-POOR environment.
So far, 90% of my success is still just showing up.
In my next post, as I promised Anna in her "lost" NJAE issue #71, (Don't worry...I'll be back soon to repost the interview) I will show you the key secret to investing while on welfare...yes, there is a way to do that, and it is 100% perfectly legal.
Success,
Wolfspyder
I recieved word yesterday that one of my potential charity partners is now evaluating the hub site at a national directorship level. My first block of 100 links has been reached, each one representing a new STREAM of income.
My new email empire is literally growing by new leaps every 30 seconds or so. I am now being PAID to grow new streams of income by the MINUTE, even without referrals.
My room-mate's new cookbook project is also proceeding nicely.
Now, it's time to get serious about connecting these 100 businesses to one another.
Otherwise I will lose out on product and advertising resources without number.
That doesn't even begin to describe the projects in development.
I am now starting to recieve offers by the dozen for new startups BEFORE they go public.
I have no competition.
Why?
Because at the end of the day, the internet is still a CONTACT-POOR environment.
So far, 90% of my success is still just showing up.
In my next post, as I promised Anna in her "lost" NJAE issue #71, (Don't worry...I'll be back soon to repost the interview) I will show you the key secret to investing while on welfare...yes, there is a way to do that, and it is 100% perfectly legal.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Saturday, October 16, 2004
The Pebble in the Pond
Today I'm going to show you how to invest. I am not going to tell you anything about what to invest in...what loses money, what gains money, or how quickly. That would be "professional advice" of the sort prohibited by law.
What I am going to tell you is...if you want to invest, learn how to save.
If you want to SAVE time, then SPEND money.
If you want to MAKE time, then INVEST money.
If you want to MAKE good money, then MAKE good contacts.
If you want to INCREASE your money VALUE and SAVE TIME, then INVEST more time with better CONTACTS.
If you want to MAKE good contacts, then SPEND TIME, but NOT necessarily money.
BUT....
If you want to make a good business deal, always SHOW your money FIRST, and SPEND it LAST.
The secret to finding a correct NICHE is also very simple...learn to do one thing, very, very well. Turn it into your own personal COOKIE CUTTER, and do it over and over and over again.
Let's go back to what defines a "good job."
You make a "good job" out of some form of emotionally satisfying TIME-WEALTH, attached to adequate, fair packages of financial reward.
To build TIME-WEALTH, you first create CONTACTS that people enjoy making.
It's a hard fact...some investments are going to make money, and some are going to lose money.
I know that my job is a good job for me...it ought to be, because I created it for myself.
My main JOB, is to save you TIME, by showing you some of the best mentors in the world.
My WORK, on the other hand, is to write. To write, to read, to "steal" other people's ideas, show you where they have been "hiding" in plain sight, and put them back into my own words in the simplest language possible.
Here's one I "stole" once from real estate millionaire-maker John R. Burley...
The first secret to investment success reads exactly like a slogan for Nike(tm) shoes...JUST DO IT.
To be more exact...ignore, for now, which investments you think are going to make money, or which ones you hope are going to make money...and simply make a firm, regular practice of investing in *something*, *somewhere*, every single time you get paid.
Anybody can sell you information.
I'm showing you how to make money, by getting some of the best infomation in the world, for free. The only catch, of course, is that this deal won't stay free for long.
Drop a single pebble into a pond, and it creates unpredictable ripples. Tell enough of the truth to one, single person, for long enough, and you just might create an earthquake...or conquer the world.
I stole that one from fantasy author, Terry Goodkind, while reading "Blood of the Fold."
Many thanks, Terry.
Success,
Wolfspyder
What I am going to tell you is...if you want to invest, learn how to save.
If you want to SAVE time, then SPEND money.
If you want to MAKE time, then INVEST money.
If you want to MAKE good money, then MAKE good contacts.
If you want to INCREASE your money VALUE and SAVE TIME, then INVEST more time with better CONTACTS.
If you want to MAKE good contacts, then SPEND TIME, but NOT necessarily money.
BUT....
If you want to make a good business deal, always SHOW your money FIRST, and SPEND it LAST.
The secret to finding a correct NICHE is also very simple...learn to do one thing, very, very well. Turn it into your own personal COOKIE CUTTER, and do it over and over and over again.
Let's go back to what defines a "good job."
You make a "good job" out of some form of emotionally satisfying TIME-WEALTH, attached to adequate, fair packages of financial reward.
To build TIME-WEALTH, you first create CONTACTS that people enjoy making.
It's a hard fact...some investments are going to make money, and some are going to lose money.
I know that my job is a good job for me...it ought to be, because I created it for myself.
My main JOB, is to save you TIME, by showing you some of the best mentors in the world.
My WORK, on the other hand, is to write. To write, to read, to "steal" other people's ideas, show you where they have been "hiding" in plain sight, and put them back into my own words in the simplest language possible.
Here's one I "stole" once from real estate millionaire-maker John R. Burley...
The first secret to investment success reads exactly like a slogan for Nike(tm) shoes...JUST DO IT.
To be more exact...ignore, for now, which investments you think are going to make money, or which ones you hope are going to make money...and simply make a firm, regular practice of investing in *something*, *somewhere*, every single time you get paid.
Anybody can sell you information.
I'm showing you how to make money, by getting some of the best infomation in the world, for free. The only catch, of course, is that this deal won't stay free for long.
Drop a single pebble into a pond, and it creates unpredictable ripples. Tell enough of the truth to one, single person, for long enough, and you just might create an earthquake...or conquer the world.
I stole that one from fantasy author, Terry Goodkind, while reading "Blood of the Fold."
Many thanks, Terry.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Banner Vs. Broadcast
One more secret to an Email Empire... Make sure you know the difference between text links, which can safely be promoted through email. and banner ads, which can be placed on your website. Confusing the two can easily be taken for SPAM.
As I am writing this post, I have just spotted a new, hot email script with less than 200 members. That means that as long as the script owner is honest, my own actions could also be a big help in generating new referrals. The nice thing is that the banner also provides me with an instant link back into that script...and I also have prior rights to brodcast it across several other banner exchanges.
I can create an explosive growth for this owner, even before anyone sees my article.
It's taking more time to write this post, than it did to find the actual trade.
So...as soon as I see any interesting content to fill this brand new script, I will in turn begin to place it on my available banner exchanges...and of course I will also be contacting the owner privately to secure book-rights for the screen-shot and/or the link.
We'll see what that produces.
Success,
Wolfspyder
As I am writing this post, I have just spotted a new, hot email script with less than 200 members. That means that as long as the script owner is honest, my own actions could also be a big help in generating new referrals. The nice thing is that the banner also provides me with an instant link back into that script...and I also have prior rights to brodcast it across several other banner exchanges.
I can create an explosive growth for this owner, even before anyone sees my article.
It's taking more time to write this post, than it did to find the actual trade.
So...as soon as I see any interesting content to fill this brand new script, I will in turn begin to place it on my available banner exchanges...and of course I will also be contacting the owner privately to secure book-rights for the screen-shot and/or the link.
We'll see what that produces.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Bryan Learns A Lesson in Contact Management
This morning I got to talk to Bryan again. I think he still has very little idea of how fast I am growing. He hasn't been to the site in a week or so. We exchanged a few new ideas off of our personal reading lists, and of course he was thrilled to hear about my new partnerships with various large clients.
I also discussed my frustration at discovering that a firm which I thought would be paying cash for my time, may instead be paying me in advertising credits. Of course, those credits will also help site traffic to grow as well, so I don't mind all that much.
He's still waiting for the first bit of traffic from this site to lead into his first sale. Meanwhile, I have another book to sell if I like, through at least three different distribution channels, all because of a simple morning chat about computers and how to delete spyware.
The Secret: Contact referrals can happen every day. Only SALES require cash.
I also discussed my frustration at discovering that a firm which I thought would be paying cash for my time, may instead be paying me in advertising credits. Of course, those credits will also help site traffic to grow as well, so I don't mind all that much.
He's still waiting for the first bit of traffic from this site to lead into his first sale. Meanwhile, I have another book to sell if I like, through at least three different distribution channels, all because of a simple morning chat about computers and how to delete spyware.
The Secret: Contact referrals can happen every day. Only SALES require cash.
Terror Alert Indicator
This is another little Public Service item I picked up at random.
I think maybe I will be installing Amber Alerts soon as well. That makes three Charity items with the Dave Pelzer article, so I would only have seven more to go to fulfill this block.
I think maybe I will be installing Amber Alerts soon as well. That makes three Charity items with the Dave Pelzer article, so I would only have seven more to go to fulfill this block.
Friday, October 15, 2004
Secrets to an Email Empire (FML#098)
Earlier I told you that it was the script-master at any given email site who was making the "real" money. There is just one problem with that statement...I have to assume that you are here because you don't yet HAVE several hundred dollars to invest in a new email site script.
If you did, and you had access to a server to host it on, you certainly wouldn't be wasting your time with me! In fact, the chances are that you still have more money to spend on shortcuts than I do. That's what money is, really... just a shortcut between TIME and CONTACTS.
You must always build the right CONTACTS, to make a bridge between YOUR Time and Other People's Money.
You must always build the right TIMING to close the connection between YOUR Contacts and Other Peoples Money.
And...whenever someone is giving away something for FREE, they are looking for your TIME, a repeated CONTACT, and later on, your MONEY.
Let me show you exactly how my income is increasing every day now, even without you.
In the back of each Pay To Read email script, there is at least one individual new person, whose entire responsibility is to pay me. That individual person has set a certain price on a few seconds worth of my time...and as long as he gets those few precious seconds, inside of about a week or two, he doesn't much care what I do with the rest of it.
But, suppose someone wanted to give you a penny, every 30 seconds, for the rest of your life...would you be interested? Same principle.
Remember when I told you that the downside to PTR and safelists was that they were mostly cannabalistic? That's still true...but let me show you another secret.
Do this for long enough, and nearly all the scripts begin to look the same...they even lead into the SAME providers and search engines!
Do you know what that means? You can get paid 5, 10, 20 times, at different rates, for EXACTLY the SAME tiny amount of actual work! What was your work? Point. Click. See the ad. Wait out the script timer while you listen to your favorite music or talk on the phone. Click any word on the search engine page in a search ad. Click again on the results page. View the resulting site in a fully open window. That is what is known as a "valid search." Elapsed time: 1-3 minutes or less. THE CONTRACT IS COMPLETE. Collect your money. That's all there is to it.
What is the ad PROVIDER looking for? Your CONTACT. Your name, address, phone number, and so forth, in HIS database. BUT...he also doesn't care (yet) HOW MANY different people or companies you are contracting your TIME out to...he only wants those precious few seconds.
If you have access to webspace to PROMOTE his script on, he will like you (and pay you) even better!
Why not give it a try?
Success,
Wolfspyder
If you did, and you had access to a server to host it on, you certainly wouldn't be wasting your time with me! In fact, the chances are that you still have more money to spend on shortcuts than I do. That's what money is, really... just a shortcut between TIME and CONTACTS.
You must always build the right CONTACTS, to make a bridge between YOUR Time and Other People's Money.
You must always build the right TIMING to close the connection between YOUR Contacts and Other Peoples Money.
And...whenever someone is giving away something for FREE, they are looking for your TIME, a repeated CONTACT, and later on, your MONEY.
Let me show you exactly how my income is increasing every day now, even without you.
In the back of each Pay To Read email script, there is at least one individual new person, whose entire responsibility is to pay me. That individual person has set a certain price on a few seconds worth of my time...and as long as he gets those few precious seconds, inside of about a week or two, he doesn't much care what I do with the rest of it.
But, suppose someone wanted to give you a penny, every 30 seconds, for the rest of your life...would you be interested? Same principle.
Remember when I told you that the downside to PTR and safelists was that they were mostly cannabalistic? That's still true...but let me show you another secret.
Do this for long enough, and nearly all the scripts begin to look the same...they even lead into the SAME providers and search engines!
Do you know what that means? You can get paid 5, 10, 20 times, at different rates, for EXACTLY the SAME tiny amount of actual work! What was your work? Point. Click. See the ad. Wait out the script timer while you listen to your favorite music or talk on the phone. Click any word on the search engine page in a search ad. Click again on the results page. View the resulting site in a fully open window. That is what is known as a "valid search." Elapsed time: 1-3 minutes or less. THE CONTRACT IS COMPLETE. Collect your money. That's all there is to it.
What is the ad PROVIDER looking for? Your CONTACT. Your name, address, phone number, and so forth, in HIS database. BUT...he also doesn't care (yet) HOW MANY different people or companies you are contracting your TIME out to...he only wants those precious few seconds.
If you have access to webspace to PROMOTE his script on, he will like you (and pay you) even better!
Why not give it a try?
Success,
Wolfspyder
One Link Every Day
If necessary, that's all it will really take.
I don't need a huge share of anyone's market in order to prosper.
I'm already sitting here making money before anyone has ever heard of me.
I do one post, at least, every day.
I try to find at least one new blog to post on, every day, looking for the new profile view.
By this time, I have control of three out of four email accounts.
I also have a large arsenal of business tools, and a small income stream working for me, and growing every day.
How do I choose partners? That depends on both my needs, and yours.
Right now, it depends on how well I can integrate what you are providing into my own program.
But something else has also begun to happen...I am now being offered certain programs BEFORE they come to the general public. Why? Because after only about three months of my own work, I am beginning to be positioned to help in PRE-LAUNCH operations.
Some people believe that in order to really succeed, it is necessary to study from only one mentor at a time. I agree. I don't even insist that the mentor you choose is me, myself. In fact, I might prefer it if it wasn't...what if you keep trying and trying, and later decide that you "just don't get it?" Then you will want to come after me for my "bad advice."
So, what am I really looking for in this book or on this website? Why do I know with such certainty that you will succeed if you use my material? What's the real point of building up a 1000 site webspace empire, especially now, when only about 500 people even know about it?
The Secret: Abundance first begins from a MINDSET, not a circumstance. What you are seeing today is actually a grand list, and that is just about all it is. All the text in between these links might just as well be more advertising.
If that's so, then how am I getting away with it?
Because, it is happening slowly. Carefully. So slowly and so carefully as to be almost imperceptible. But the site and the project are growing. Exponentially. Every day.
I don't need a huge share of anyone's market in order to prosper.
I'm already sitting here making money before anyone has ever heard of me.
I do one post, at least, every day.
I try to find at least one new blog to post on, every day, looking for the new profile view.
By this time, I have control of three out of four email accounts.
I also have a large arsenal of business tools, and a small income stream working for me, and growing every day.
How do I choose partners? That depends on both my needs, and yours.
Right now, it depends on how well I can integrate what you are providing into my own program.
But something else has also begun to happen...I am now being offered certain programs BEFORE they come to the general public. Why? Because after only about three months of my own work, I am beginning to be positioned to help in PRE-LAUNCH operations.
Some people believe that in order to really succeed, it is necessary to study from only one mentor at a time. I agree. I don't even insist that the mentor you choose is me, myself. In fact, I might prefer it if it wasn't...what if you keep trying and trying, and later decide that you "just don't get it?" Then you will want to come after me for my "bad advice."
So, what am I really looking for in this book or on this website? Why do I know with such certainty that you will succeed if you use my material? What's the real point of building up a 1000 site webspace empire, especially now, when only about 500 people even know about it?
The Secret: Abundance first begins from a MINDSET, not a circumstance. What you are seeing today is actually a grand list, and that is just about all it is. All the text in between these links might just as well be more advertising.
If that's so, then how am I getting away with it?
Because, it is happening slowly. Carefully. So slowly and so carefully as to be almost imperceptible. But the site and the project are growing. Exponentially. Every day.
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Email Cleared Away...
I got past a large stack of emails today, and got direct credit for a lot of them.
Last night I also heard from Evan, who didn't quite understand much about my original post (now several weeks lagged) to him, except perhaps for my strong desire not to defraud anyone. Once again, it was a pleasure to hear from someone so courteous, even if I remain a relative stranger to him.
In my response to him, I made special mention of the fact that I will be upgrading my blog account to a paid "premium" type as soon as possible. The same goes for my email, and each of the programs and sites in my building webspace "empire."
By now, you see, I already have hundreds of products to get my commissions on.
Perhaps thousands, since each new STREAM of income, each program, has a few dozen, hundred, or thousand more. To make the sale, I bring the right CONTACT, to the right BENEFIT, from the right PRODUCT, and the money hits the table LAST.
So what is the constraint? What is slowing me down? The other True Currency...TIME.
The other half of my emails, the ones I didn't get the most direct payout on, have so much new information for me to process, that they take sometimes half an hour or more, each, to implement directly into the main site.
Some of them can't be placed here at all, because they may involve page rotators, start exchanges, pop-ups, pop-unders, or even a strong cash outlay of some kind before they can be properly tested. So in order to place them properly throughought my multi-server "empire," I first have to review Terms of Service agreements for each individual site, to make sure that my participation there remains effective for both myself, and the provider company.
Remember, it's always the invisible BUZZ, not the visible HYPE, that authentically promotes the business, and it's always the HUMANS, not the programs or the bots, that do the actual work.
So what is the advantage of intellectual property?
Simple: Any piece of software, written document, film, song, game, story, etc. only needs to be DEVELOPED once...but then it can be SOLD over and over again.
What did I trade to make such effective contacts?
Again, simple. I traded a spare piece of MY time to establish the contact, and then GAVE AWAY a small piece of my own intellectual property, in public, to contribute to THEIR project, making a WIN-WIN situation in each case, using a piece of my own WORK to simplify the other person's JOB and save her TIME.
At the beginning, my main constraint was MONEY. Now the more pressing problem has become one of balancing my MONEY with my CONTACTS. Only one thing is a certainty. If you are visiting this site, you are going to pay me sooner or later, and probably more than once.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Last night I also heard from Evan, who didn't quite understand much about my original post (now several weeks lagged) to him, except perhaps for my strong desire not to defraud anyone. Once again, it was a pleasure to hear from someone so courteous, even if I remain a relative stranger to him.
In my response to him, I made special mention of the fact that I will be upgrading my blog account to a paid "premium" type as soon as possible. The same goes for my email, and each of the programs and sites in my building webspace "empire."
By now, you see, I already have hundreds of products to get my commissions on.
Perhaps thousands, since each new STREAM of income, each program, has a few dozen, hundred, or thousand more. To make the sale, I bring the right CONTACT, to the right BENEFIT, from the right PRODUCT, and the money hits the table LAST.
So what is the constraint? What is slowing me down? The other True Currency...TIME.
The other half of my emails, the ones I didn't get the most direct payout on, have so much new information for me to process, that they take sometimes half an hour or more, each, to implement directly into the main site.
Some of them can't be placed here at all, because they may involve page rotators, start exchanges, pop-ups, pop-unders, or even a strong cash outlay of some kind before they can be properly tested. So in order to place them properly throughought my multi-server "empire," I first have to review Terms of Service agreements for each individual site, to make sure that my participation there remains effective for both myself, and the provider company.
Remember, it's always the invisible BUZZ, not the visible HYPE, that authentically promotes the business, and it's always the HUMANS, not the programs or the bots, that do the actual work.
So what is the advantage of intellectual property?
Simple: Any piece of software, written document, film, song, game, story, etc. only needs to be DEVELOPED once...but then it can be SOLD over and over again.
What did I trade to make such effective contacts?
Again, simple. I traded a spare piece of MY time to establish the contact, and then GAVE AWAY a small piece of my own intellectual property, in public, to contribute to THEIR project, making a WIN-WIN situation in each case, using a piece of my own WORK to simplify the other person's JOB and save her TIME.
At the beginning, my main constraint was MONEY. Now the more pressing problem has become one of balancing my MONEY with my CONTACTS. Only one thing is a certainty. If you are visiting this site, you are going to pay me sooner or later, and probably more than once.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Concept # 13: Criminals Create Nothing
You've probably heard it all before. The stuff that fuels every political debate, for every culture in history. "Why? Why? Why?" we ask ourselves and each other. "Why is it that the RICH are always getting richer, and the POOR are always getting poorer?" "Why can't the AVERAGE WORKING JOE ever get a break?"
Well, here is the bottom line, folks. The "break" from the ordinary that he needs is all around him, every day...except that he has been TRAINED not to notice it.
The Secret: To break away from your failure, you first need to break away from your resentment, and move toward full responsibility.
Example: I have a social worker I'll call "D." "D" has been with her department a long time, and has an established reputation for being snobbish and short with both her clients and her co-workers. Every time I call her on the phone, she makes me feel like a criminal who is out to "milk" the System and commit a new brand of fraud, probably one that no one has ever seen before.
"D" has only one basic passion that I can see...ferreting out con artists. This has become so intense with her, that basic civility and politeness make her nervous, so that she is no longer capable of recognizing or acknowledging them when she sees them.
It actively annoys "D" that I know my legal rights, let alone that I am prepared to assert them.
"D" is undoubtedly what my old friend, Julia Cameron, would call a "Crazy-Maker." By now it is getting so bad, that her reputation for caustic words and running roughshod over clients follows her all over town
But now that I am actively changing circles, I can at least begin to understand how she came to that sort of thinking. She's probably confronted every single day by people who do abuse The System. She works every day in a place where people's worst mistakes follow them, not merely for years, but across the generations. Her job sometimes involves taking unpleasant information, in meticulous detail, from angry and hostile people. She has, quite frankly, far too many superiors to answer to every day, in too many different ways. One look at her face or her attitude speaks volumes about the personal death of the ideals that put her there.
Finally, someone comes along who makes no secret of his opinion that she ought t0 be fired for negligence...I would be scared and irritable too!
But there is one difference between me and a criminal...my basic motive is to put something INTO the world which makes it a slightly better place than I found it. Criminals. by the end of the day, leave big gaping holes in the world where their most creative work should have been, and create nothing.
Well, here is the bottom line, folks. The "break" from the ordinary that he needs is all around him, every day...except that he has been TRAINED not to notice it.
The Secret: To break away from your failure, you first need to break away from your resentment, and move toward full responsibility.
Example: I have a social worker I'll call "D." "D" has been with her department a long time, and has an established reputation for being snobbish and short with both her clients and her co-workers. Every time I call her on the phone, she makes me feel like a criminal who is out to "milk" the System and commit a new brand of fraud, probably one that no one has ever seen before.
"D" has only one basic passion that I can see...ferreting out con artists. This has become so intense with her, that basic civility and politeness make her nervous, so that she is no longer capable of recognizing or acknowledging them when she sees them.
It actively annoys "D" that I know my legal rights, let alone that I am prepared to assert them.
"D" is undoubtedly what my old friend, Julia Cameron, would call a "Crazy-Maker." By now it is getting so bad, that her reputation for caustic words and running roughshod over clients follows her all over town
But now that I am actively changing circles, I can at least begin to understand how she came to that sort of thinking. She's probably confronted every single day by people who do abuse The System. She works every day in a place where people's worst mistakes follow them, not merely for years, but across the generations. Her job sometimes involves taking unpleasant information, in meticulous detail, from angry and hostile people. She has, quite frankly, far too many superiors to answer to every day, in too many different ways. One look at her face or her attitude speaks volumes about the personal death of the ideals that put her there.
Finally, someone comes along who makes no secret of his opinion that she ought t0 be fired for negligence...I would be scared and irritable too!
But there is one difference between me and a criminal...my basic motive is to put something INTO the world which makes it a slightly better place than I found it. Criminals. by the end of the day, leave big gaping holes in the world where their most creative work should have been, and create nothing.
I tried my best to be courteous to "D" when I was sitting in her office in late January. It's something between funny and tragic that after nearly a year, and only two phone calls between us in all that time, I am still hearing her name now and then from the mouths of her many previous "victims."
As for me, I've already taken all the "revenge" I really wanted, just by writing this article. Maybe she will wake up and realize what damage she is doing to her clients by keeping this attitude...or maybe her supervisor will read it and call her on the carpet. None of that is really my business. It all fell down when I couldn't properly "sell" myself to her, and that was that. My apologies.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Monday, October 11, 2004
Find A Publishing Agent! (FML#096)
I believe in doing as much of my work in advance as possible. I also know that sometimes the boundary between a dream, a plan, and a goal can be very fluid. But now that I have actually gathered almost 100 client companies into the project, it is actually starting to look like something.
Wherever the project goes from here, it might be nice (and greatly increase my chances of an eventual book sale) if I have someone advocating for my work to publishers...so I need to
Find a Publishing Agent .
Of course, if I let you find one first, I can also get paid again... Nice, isn't it? :-)
Success, Wolfspyder
Wherever the project goes from here, it might be nice (and greatly increase my chances of an eventual book sale) if I have someone advocating for my work to publishers...so I need to
Find a Publishing Agent .
Of course, if I let you find one first, I can also get paid again... Nice, isn't it? :-)
Success, Wolfspyder
Weekly Update#10: Circles and Streams
Bryan sent me a petition from Mothers Against Drunk Driving yesterday, which makes a wonderful addition to my charitable links list.
Although I can't yet share specific details, I have already proven that I can use various links from this site to earn a little bit of money by the day, using various affiliate and Pay-To-Read programs...all without any personal contact.
There's just one little problem. That kind of thing is time-intensive, and takes me away from my writing.
Contacts, though...contacts are going wild. I have had to sub-divide my email into several new folders, just to deal with the fact that each new program introduced is a separate STREAM of information.
Result: each new provider wants to TEACH me, in the new emails, how to put together each new STREAM of income, for free. Of course, I'm not allowed to share the details with anyone else...that information belongs to the individual firms which send it out.
So I have just run into another time constraint.
What am I trying to do next? I want to change CIRCLES...to make myself someone that a newbie marketer will WANT to come to. It doesn't satisfy me to be just one faceless person among a few thousand others on a given list.
The Secret: If you really want to make a million...don't just let yourself be one of a million. Make OF yourself, THE One IN a million.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Although I can't yet share specific details, I have already proven that I can use various links from this site to earn a little bit of money by the day, using various affiliate and Pay-To-Read programs...all without any personal contact.
There's just one little problem. That kind of thing is time-intensive, and takes me away from my writing.
Contacts, though...contacts are going wild. I have had to sub-divide my email into several new folders, just to deal with the fact that each new program introduced is a separate STREAM of information.
Result: each new provider wants to TEACH me, in the new emails, how to put together each new STREAM of income, for free. Of course, I'm not allowed to share the details with anyone else...that information belongs to the individual firms which send it out.
So I have just run into another time constraint.
What am I trying to do next? I want to change CIRCLES...to make myself someone that a newbie marketer will WANT to come to. It doesn't satisfy me to be just one faceless person among a few thousand others on a given list.
The Secret: If you really want to make a million...don't just let yourself be one of a million. Make OF yourself, THE One IN a million.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Spider Signs On (FML#095)
Well, we now know I can write a good business letter.
Spider Robinson just gave me permission to include him in the project. I picked up a few cents this morning from email, even without my glasses on, and I've even found an amusing way to do my bit for the present incarnation of the War On Terror.
But I can also see that I have a few things to learn yet about the real value of reciprocity.
Anna jumped on early, of course, because her chosen niche is helping out new marketers.
Using Bryan as a business contact was almost absurdly easy, since he was an old friend and part of my "cheering section" already.
Someone named Victoria already understands reciprocity, as she was kind enough to give me 1000 shares in my own blog, jacking up the Blogshares value thereof. If I followed up that simple courtesy thoroughly enough, it might even lead to a reciprocal link, and begin to snowball on itself.
Tonight, a close personal contact of mine confirmed that he had been reading the site regularly, but that he found it "somewhat confusing" because he didn't have time to really sit down and discover everything that I was trying to do here.
"That's OK," I told him. "I'm just getting started."
Remember...my obligation is to stay with this new job I have just created for myself, until I have earned at least $5,000,000 right in front of your face, period, end of discussion.
Deals like that take time to build.
There are certain things I can't do as I complete the project.
I won't be able to share the specifics of what each particular program pays me, because I can't guarantee that you will be paid as well as I was, or even that the programs I told you about will still be in business by the time you read this book.
What I can do is to show you the basics...not just how I did it, but what the mindsets and tools are that will help to get you there. You won't be able to follow my exact path, because followers don't really qualfy for wealth until the mentoring process is much more complete...and by then, you will be much more interested in blazing your own trail than in following after mine.
To do this, I'm going to be making reference to a lot of different people, at least some of whom are likely to disagree with me, perhaps violently or irreconcilably so. Over time, I will gain one sort of audience, and lose another, as my reputation improves and the criticisms change. With practice, my writing voice will change as well.
The Secret: There are no real success secrets. The "secrets" are all hiding in plain sight, amid all the other things you think you "just can't" do. George Lucas and Frank Oz had it right all along...There is no "Try." There is only your reputation, and what you have done, and what you are prepared to do, and why you are prepared to do it. Everything else is just The Matrix.
If and when, you become The One...you will know it.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Spider Robinson just gave me permission to include him in the project. I picked up a few cents this morning from email, even without my glasses on, and I've even found an amusing way to do my bit for the present incarnation of the War On Terror.
But I can also see that I have a few things to learn yet about the real value of reciprocity.
Anna jumped on early, of course, because her chosen niche is helping out new marketers.
Using Bryan as a business contact was almost absurdly easy, since he was an old friend and part of my "cheering section" already.
Someone named Victoria already understands reciprocity, as she was kind enough to give me 1000 shares in my own blog, jacking up the Blogshares value thereof. If I followed up that simple courtesy thoroughly enough, it might even lead to a reciprocal link, and begin to snowball on itself.
Tonight, a close personal contact of mine confirmed that he had been reading the site regularly, but that he found it "somewhat confusing" because he didn't have time to really sit down and discover everything that I was trying to do here.
"That's OK," I told him. "I'm just getting started."
Remember...my obligation is to stay with this new job I have just created for myself, until I have earned at least $5,000,000 right in front of your face, period, end of discussion.
Deals like that take time to build.
There are certain things I can't do as I complete the project.
I won't be able to share the specifics of what each particular program pays me, because I can't guarantee that you will be paid as well as I was, or even that the programs I told you about will still be in business by the time you read this book.
What I can do is to show you the basics...not just how I did it, but what the mindsets and tools are that will help to get you there. You won't be able to follow my exact path, because followers don't really qualfy for wealth until the mentoring process is much more complete...and by then, you will be much more interested in blazing your own trail than in following after mine.
To do this, I'm going to be making reference to a lot of different people, at least some of whom are likely to disagree with me, perhaps violently or irreconcilably so. Over time, I will gain one sort of audience, and lose another, as my reputation improves and the criticisms change. With practice, my writing voice will change as well.
The Secret: There are no real success secrets. The "secrets" are all hiding in plain sight, amid all the other things you think you "just can't" do. George Lucas and Frank Oz had it right all along...There is no "Try." There is only your reputation, and what you have done, and what you are prepared to do, and why you are prepared to do it. Everything else is just The Matrix.
If and when, you become The One...you will know it.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Mentor: Dave Pelzer (FML#094)
Now that I have defined my niche, I can literally find several new client referrals every day.
For example, I stroll into my local superstore to go shopping, browse by the book counter, and "casually" pick up an eye-catcher that I would have read anyway.
Little did I know just how good this referral was going to be.
I try to design this book and website so that the more often you take positive action, the more thorough your reward becomes. Now I want you to see the example of a man who has made a brilliant career out of simply sharing his survival story...and if you think I have overcome anything, believe me, his story makes mine look like a $1000 Free Pass day at Disneyland.
Here's the link:
http://www.davepelzer.com
Don't miss him...today he is already on his fifth bestselling book, and has had multiple nominations to the Pulitzer Prize.
For example, I stroll into my local superstore to go shopping, browse by the book counter, and "casually" pick up an eye-catcher that I would have read anyway.
Little did I know just how good this referral was going to be.
I try to design this book and website so that the more often you take positive action, the more thorough your reward becomes. Now I want you to see the example of a man who has made a brilliant career out of simply sharing his survival story...and if you think I have overcome anything, believe me, his story makes mine look like a $1000 Free Pass day at Disneyland.
Here's the link:
http://www.davepelzer.com
Don't miss him...today he is already on his fifth bestselling book, and has had multiple nominations to the Pulitzer Prize.
Friday, October 08, 2004
Paid To Read Programs (FML#093)
Once again I have come Full Circle. I started to understand the keys to making money from the web by participating in Paid-To-Read Email (PTRE) programs.
How These Programs Make You Money...
1. you set up a FREE email account.
(Hint: Use an account with lots of available memory, such as Yahoo.)
2. Find the PTR Site (1 click away...)
3. Put your Email Address into the PTR Script. (FREE)
4. Register for one of the site's valid payment processors {Paypal, StormPay, E-Gold, etc...}
(if you don't already have an account there.)
5. PTR Script sends you a Confirmation Email. (Login to your New Email to read it. Click the link.)
6. Link from the Confirmation Email goes back to PTR Script...put in your Payment/Password info. This is actually your CONTRACT, to recieve emails to get paid on.
7. Get several emails PER DAY, PER SCRIPT (Multiply the scripts to get more income.)
8. Emails contain a Link to the Sponsor Site, framed by a little top bar that says something like,
"Earn 2 Cents in 30 Seconds."
9. If you get sent to a Search Engine, it's a good idea to click on to the Search Results page. (that's how the AD-SPONSOR is getting paid...some PTR programs will REQUIRE this to give YOU credit for YOUR clicks.)
The Downside: Secrets of the One-Click Empire!
Like most "real" jobs, the downside here is a TIME TRADE-OFF.
It's fine for somebody like me, who is TIME-RICH, but your standard HOURLY WAGE actually pays MUCH BETTER on average for the amount of processing you are doing AFTER the contract goes in.
You usually have to commit to about 2 weeks or more, PER SCRIPT, before you reach a MINIMUM PAYOUT (which you may or may not get, depending on how many ads the script-master has actually SOLD that week.) Then you have to log back in to make a PAYMENT REQUEST, and then ANOTHER payment request from your Payment Processor to clear money into your bank account.
So who is making the real money here?
You got it! The Scriptmaster is taking advantage of your desire to earn money for nothing.
Some advanced email scripts will even PAY YOU in advertising, using free "points" to make you think you are meeting your own goals, when you are actually meeting THEIRS.
If you think that is a con game...WRONG AGAIN! It's a con game ONLY if you allow yourself to be discouraged by it. Remember: Everything which is legal, works for someone, even if it isn't you.
The way to win is to persist. Persist until you reach payout. Multiply your scripts. Keep your registration information current. Most important of all...REMEMBER THE CONTACT.
Like this...back in my article on SAFELISTS, I told you that the solution to boredom was to SPEND MONEY.
This actually works the same way in most, if not all, of the everyday TIME-MONEY trades we call JOBS.
The Secret: Just like real "BUZZ" is always different from false "HYPE," WORK is always DIFFERENT from THE JOB.
The Down & Dirty Secret: There are ONLY good people...there are NEVER good JOBS, even though there is ALWAYS plenty of good WORK.
The "Buzz" that drives every MLM business is very simple: JOB is spelled J-O-B, for
"Just Over Broke."
Rich Thinking Solution:
Remember, that every so-called "good job" is actually made up of some rewarding combination of simple, adequate financial rewards, with some form of TIME FREEDOM and
CONTACT-WEALTH.
Success,
Wolfspyder
How These Programs Make You Money...
1. you set up a FREE email account.
(Hint: Use an account with lots of available memory, such as Yahoo.)
2. Find the PTR Site (1 click away...)
3. Put your Email Address into the PTR Script. (FREE)
4. Register for one of the site's valid payment processors {Paypal, StormPay, E-Gold, etc...}
(if you don't already have an account there.)
5. PTR Script sends you a Confirmation Email. (Login to your New Email to read it. Click the link.)
6. Link from the Confirmation Email goes back to PTR Script...put in your Payment/Password info. This is actually your CONTRACT, to recieve emails to get paid on.
7. Get several emails PER DAY, PER SCRIPT (Multiply the scripts to get more income.)
8. Emails contain a Link to the Sponsor Site, framed by a little top bar that says something like,
"Earn 2 Cents in 30 Seconds."
9. If you get sent to a Search Engine, it's a good idea to click on to the Search Results page. (that's how the AD-SPONSOR is getting paid...some PTR programs will REQUIRE this to give YOU credit for YOUR clicks.)
The Downside: Secrets of the One-Click Empire!
Like most "real" jobs, the downside here is a TIME TRADE-OFF.
It's fine for somebody like me, who is TIME-RICH, but your standard HOURLY WAGE actually pays MUCH BETTER on average for the amount of processing you are doing AFTER the contract goes in.
You usually have to commit to about 2 weeks or more, PER SCRIPT, before you reach a MINIMUM PAYOUT (which you may or may not get, depending on how many ads the script-master has actually SOLD that week.) Then you have to log back in to make a PAYMENT REQUEST, and then ANOTHER payment request from your Payment Processor to clear money into your bank account.
So who is making the real money here?
You got it! The Scriptmaster is taking advantage of your desire to earn money for nothing.
Some advanced email scripts will even PAY YOU in advertising, using free "points" to make you think you are meeting your own goals, when you are actually meeting THEIRS.
If you think that is a con game...WRONG AGAIN! It's a con game ONLY if you allow yourself to be discouraged by it. Remember: Everything which is legal, works for someone, even if it isn't you.
The way to win is to persist. Persist until you reach payout. Multiply your scripts. Keep your registration information current. Most important of all...REMEMBER THE CONTACT.
Like this...back in my article on SAFELISTS, I told you that the solution to boredom was to SPEND MONEY.
This actually works the same way in most, if not all, of the everyday TIME-MONEY trades we call JOBS.
The Secret: Just like real "BUZZ" is always different from false "HYPE," WORK is always DIFFERENT from THE JOB.
The Down & Dirty Secret: There are ONLY good people...there are NEVER good JOBS, even though there is ALWAYS plenty of good WORK.
The "Buzz" that drives every MLM business is very simple: JOB is spelled J-O-B, for
"Just Over Broke."
Rich Thinking Solution:
Remember, that every so-called "good job" is actually made up of some rewarding combination of simple, adequate financial rewards, with some form of TIME FREEDOM and
CONTACT-WEALTH.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Benchmark: The First Three Months
I've been online just a touch over three months now.
From the three different email addresses I have in working order, the traffic is something between 200-300 emails a week, (I.E. it "hovers" at about 200 messages or so every time I try to take it down) and there have been less than 500 hits since I have installed my site counter.
I want you to understand something very clearly.
I have something close to 90 clients already, and I have not spent one red penny to find them.
My only advantage has been that I know how to write reasonably good, grammatically correct copy.
I can see a day coming when even that advantage might "disappear, " as voice-process capable systems proliferate.
I am already seeing the desire for them...inherant in the terrific corruptions of text language I have also seen among many younger bloggers, who seem confident that semi-phonetic spellings of all kinds will enable friends to read their "minds" rather than their words.
I shudder to think what comes next...it may turn written English, at least, into a dead language.
That is one reason I am proceeding so slowly.
90 clients is SLOW? Yes. Because I didn't have to write this book at all.
Let's take another example:
I could choose any one of these income streams, and if I implemented it fully, I could easily allow the rest of my book to be about that...about the technical aspects of doing that business effectively.
Or I could simply hide all my Pay-To-Read accounts in this space and never bother anyone, while I pulled a modest income from clicking through other people's ads all day.
So why don't I?
Are you starting to get it yet?
Because...real money is never *about* the money.
HAVING your money is about TIME-WEALTH.
MAKING your money is about CONTACT-WEALTH.
KEEPING your money is about spending TIME wisely.
CREATING your money is about using CONTACTS wisely.
THE JOB is about creating TIME-SAVINGS between two people
THE REPUTATION is what MAKES the money.
THE INVESTMENT is what MAKES the Time.
IF you are still BREATHING, then your TIME-POVERTY is an ILLUSION.
and finally...GIVING from your WEALTH is what MAKES your CONTACTS.
Let me tell you who I am really writing for.
I am writing for the next disabled child who is constantly being told by The System (or the Underground) why he "just can't" succeed.
I am writing for the next gang-banger-don't-wannabe who has the courage to take his advice from an elderly 39-year-old arrogant White Boy punk. The next princess with a drunk or drug-stupid That's-Not-My- Daddy trying to turn her out, or keep her for himself. The next starry-eyed kid trying for a new niche in the jungles of HollyWierd, Canada. The next no-prospects 30- something who NEEDS to make people laugh today because yesterday hurt so bad that if at least 100 people don't laugh with her right now, she will absolutely have to SCREEEEAAAAAM!!!!!
Last time, I told you I was SELLING MENTORS. Before I'm done, my dears, I'm also going to be showing you once and for all, how Mentors are BUILT.
Political agenda? Not on your life! So far, this is all just been there, done that.
The Secret: It always looks easy from the Outside.
Enjoy the ride...
Success, Wolfspyder
From the three different email addresses I have in working order, the traffic is something between 200-300 emails a week, (I.E. it "hovers" at about 200 messages or so every time I try to take it down) and there have been less than 500 hits since I have installed my site counter.
I want you to understand something very clearly.
I have something close to 90 clients already, and I have not spent one red penny to find them.
My only advantage has been that I know how to write reasonably good, grammatically correct copy.
I can see a day coming when even that advantage might "disappear, " as voice-process capable systems proliferate.
I am already seeing the desire for them...inherant in the terrific corruptions of text language I have also seen among many younger bloggers, who seem confident that semi-phonetic spellings of all kinds will enable friends to read their "minds" rather than their words.
I shudder to think what comes next...it may turn written English, at least, into a dead language.
That is one reason I am proceeding so slowly.
90 clients is SLOW? Yes. Because I didn't have to write this book at all.
Let's take another example:
I could choose any one of these income streams, and if I implemented it fully, I could easily allow the rest of my book to be about that...about the technical aspects of doing that business effectively.
Or I could simply hide all my Pay-To-Read accounts in this space and never bother anyone, while I pulled a modest income from clicking through other people's ads all day.
So why don't I?
Are you starting to get it yet?
Because...real money is never *about* the money.
HAVING your money is about TIME-WEALTH.
MAKING your money is about CONTACT-WEALTH.
KEEPING your money is about spending TIME wisely.
CREATING your money is about using CONTACTS wisely.
THE JOB is about creating TIME-SAVINGS between two people
THE REPUTATION is what MAKES the money.
THE INVESTMENT is what MAKES the Time.
IF you are still BREATHING, then your TIME-POVERTY is an ILLUSION.
and finally...GIVING from your WEALTH is what MAKES your CONTACTS.
Let me tell you who I am really writing for.
I am writing for the next disabled child who is constantly being told by The System (or the Underground) why he "just can't" succeed.
I am writing for the next gang-banger-don't-wannabe who has the courage to take his advice from an elderly 39-year-old arrogant White Boy punk. The next princess with a drunk or drug-stupid That's-Not-My- Daddy trying to turn her out, or keep her for himself. The next starry-eyed kid trying for a new niche in the jungles of HollyWierd, Canada. The next no-prospects 30- something who NEEDS to make people laugh today because yesterday hurt so bad that if at least 100 people don't laugh with her right now, she will absolutely have to SCREEEEAAAAAM!!!!!
Last time, I told you I was SELLING MENTORS. Before I'm done, my dears, I'm also going to be showing you once and for all, how Mentors are BUILT.
Political agenda? Not on your life! So far, this is all just been there, done that.
The Secret: It always looks easy from the Outside.
Enjoy the ride...
Success, Wolfspyder
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Play With Fantasy Stock Shares! (FML#092)
I just found a wonderful fantasy stock sim tonight. (10-07-04)
This is nice way to keep in practice for the future. Once again, entry is absolutely FREE, so you don't risk any real money unless you want to.
I've placed the link below inside my blog, but I have to assume that what they mean by "claim" involves placing it "permenantly" in my sidebar.
So now I thik I will go and ask Spider if he minds somebody "capitalizing" on his and Jeanne's wonderful Zero-Gee Dance Troupe idea...unless I find, of course, that somebody had already thought of that!
How This Link Makes You Money: If you can't concieve a dream first (such as a lucrative position in the stock market) then you will never be able to achieve it!
This is nice way to keep in practice for the future. Once again, entry is absolutely FREE, so you don't risk any real money unless you want to.
I've placed the link below inside my blog, but I have to assume that what they mean by "claim" involves placing it "permenantly" in my sidebar.
So now I thik I will go and ask Spider if he minds somebody "capitalizing" on his and Jeanne's wonderful Zero-Gee Dance Troupe idea...unless I find, of course, that somebody had already thought of that!
How This Link Makes You Money: If you can't concieve a dream first (such as a lucrative position in the stock market) then you will never be able to achieve it!
Mentor "K" SECRETS REVEALED! (FML#065.2)
Fabulous news! Mentor "K" has officially revealed herself!
That's right folks, I have officially signed MLM marketing expert, "Ms. Stud," KIM KLAVER herself, into the Wolfspyder Project!
Kim is the author of several wonderful books on THE REAL TRUTH about MLM...I mean the stuff that your uplines and corporates will NEVER tell you, including my personal favorite: "If My Product's So Great...How Come I can't sell it?"
Let me tell you just how smart, how low key and good her material is...so good, that even when I used an on-the-fly variation of it to PITCH HER, she never noticed! :-)))
Another income stream CONFIRMED...
Hey BRYAN! WE DID IT!
That's right folks, I have officially signed MLM marketing expert, "Ms. Stud," KIM KLAVER herself, into the Wolfspyder Project!
Kim is the author of several wonderful books on THE REAL TRUTH about MLM...I mean the stuff that your uplines and corporates will NEVER tell you, including my personal favorite: "If My Product's So Great...How Come I can't sell it?"
Let me tell you just how smart, how low key and good her material is...so good, that even when I used an on-the-fly variation of it to PITCH HER, she never noticed! :-)))
Another income stream CONFIRMED...
Hey BRYAN! WE DID IT!
Anna's Interview (FML#068.2)
Anna's interview just went up a little while ago...
Francis Carmody wolfspyder100@yahoo.com
1. Can you tell me about your business background?
Most people might say that I don\'t really have one to speak of...I was sort of "forced" into business about a year ago by a seemingly insurmountable debt problem.
I have Cerebral Palsy, and there have been some other strong dysfunction issues in my family for at least two generations I know of.
Funny thing about being disabled...even with the "mainstreaming revolution" of the past couple of decades, a lot of people have a mentality that you "can't" work.
For me...well, I haven't believed that sort of pessimist nonsense since I was first told by an authoritative doctor that I would "never" walk.
Anyway, a couple of months ago I actually started my first website-affiliate business. One thing I will say for you, Anna...you really know how to approach and inspire a newbie! :-)
2. As a person on the Internet, how did you get started?
I started serious internet use at my public library back in the early days of Hotmail, before anybody had really begun to demonize Bill Gates (at least that I knew of.)
The online romance that developed a little later out of my experimenting with chat rooms and personal pages became strong enough to draw me across the country.
When I tried to go back to college for the third or fourth time, New York State decided to GIVE me a high-end computer...one night another "random" search led me into my first Paid-to-Read Email program, and BANG! I was hooked! :-)
3. How long have you been in business online?
About two months. I used to be trapped by the thought that I would have to pay one of the "big boy" companies like Yahoo or MSN through the nose for good webhosting. Two or three months ago, I discovered BLOGGING.
I already love to write...so tracking the natural progress of my business (or yours! :-)) from INSIDE my blog site, AS it developed and WHEN it developed...well, if I can keep an audience interested in what I do and how I do it, it seems like a "natural" for a book project.
4. How did you learn what it takes to succeed?
You mean apart from that whole "learning to walk" gig sort of "burning" persistence into every nerve and muscle I own? :-)
No, seriously...I've had a lot of wonderful mentors in my life, and I guess one of the first lessons I ever learned is that complaining is far too easy, but happiness takes a conscious choice, a decision...even a mindset.
I don't believe in shortcuts...but if you "just gotta" have one, then I'd have to say that Julia Cameron's book, "The Artist's Way" was one of the most powerful self-help programs I have ever seen...she was the Mentor who taught me how to successfully FIND Mentors, if that makes any sense.
The Three Books I would want to take with me to a desert island are probably The Bible, the Complete Works of Shakespeare, and The Silmarillion.
5. Do you do all of your business online?
Almost. A few of my investments (yes, I am still on welfare but I do have perfectly legal investments...for details you will just have to email me or visit my website!
:-))
...Anyhow, a few of them are offline, but the largest majority by far are all or partially web-based.
6. What do you like most, and least, about the Internet?
What I like most is the sense of having so much power and information at my fingertips. What I like least is that it doesn't yet know how to talk back to me...not in the sense of the "True AI" computer that Majel Barret-Roddenberry gave us, anyhow.
The "players," who falsify information for fun (and the spammer/cons who do it for profit!) are a real headache.
People's universal assumption that computers keep "real" records is extremely arrogant...especially when lazy people take small, accumulated data errors for Gospel Truth.
But...I like the fact that we haven't even BEGUN to understand the full potential of the net.
7. Do you have any tips or advice you would like to offer?
1. NEVER, ever, ever, ever, ever QUIT on a dream.
2. Remember...even on the net, ALL of the business MUST still be done BY HUMAN BEINGS.
3. The Customer IS the gold. He who keeps the Gold, MAKES the rules.
4. Luck is MADE, not born. You MAKE your own luck whenever you invest effort at the intersection of people's talent and opportunity.
5. First, find out what people think "can't" be done. Then find out WHY. Last, no matter how hard the critics screech, find out HOW to do it anyway. This is the secret, "instant" formula for fame and success everbody keeps talking about.
8. What are your goals and aspirations for the future?
Teach as many people as possible the fundamentals of how to make $5,000,000 or more. That may keep me busy for about 5 years...after that, I don't know...by then I'll have a new set of dreams laid in.
9. Do you have an alltime favourite book?
I cheat...I usually think in SETS of books, or Complete Works Anthologies. Robert Jordan, Robert Heinlien, David Eddings, Alan Dean Foster (Spellsinger). Newberry Medalists. Many, many others.
10. Can you tell me a little about YOU, as a real everday person? (likes, dislikes, hobbies, pet peeves, fave food etc.)
Intellectually, I have been reliably classified by several of my closest friends as a "taining junkie." Socially and politically...my pet peeve is propaganda. Centrist propaganda in particular...mostly because people think they know what/where the "center" or "normal" is.
Normal ain't much more than a small Illanois town to someone like me...I'm too used to having to MAKE a niche rather than "fit" one.
All of my most rewarding positions are much more extreme than most people realize.
Love Thy Neighbor, for example...that one tends to get people martyred.
Or, Honesty is the Only Policy...Politicians like to get that one backwards far too regularly: Policy (or worse yet, POLICING) is the Only Honesty. Recipie for disaster, that is. Worth thinking about...
Francis Carmody wolfspyder100@yahoo.com
1. Can you tell me about your business background?
Most people might say that I don\'t really have one to speak of...I was sort of "forced" into business about a year ago by a seemingly insurmountable debt problem.
I have Cerebral Palsy, and there have been some other strong dysfunction issues in my family for at least two generations I know of.
Funny thing about being disabled...even with the "mainstreaming revolution" of the past couple of decades, a lot of people have a mentality that you "can't" work.
For me...well, I haven't believed that sort of pessimist nonsense since I was first told by an authoritative doctor that I would "never" walk.
Anyway, a couple of months ago I actually started my first website-affiliate business. One thing I will say for you, Anna...you really know how to approach and inspire a newbie! :-)
2. As a person on the Internet, how did you get started?
I started serious internet use at my public library back in the early days of Hotmail, before anybody had really begun to demonize Bill Gates (at least that I knew of.)
The online romance that developed a little later out of my experimenting with chat rooms and personal pages became strong enough to draw me across the country.
When I tried to go back to college for the third or fourth time, New York State decided to GIVE me a high-end computer...one night another "random" search led me into my first Paid-to-Read Email program, and BANG! I was hooked! :-)
3. How long have you been in business online?
About two months. I used to be trapped by the thought that I would have to pay one of the "big boy" companies like Yahoo or MSN through the nose for good webhosting. Two or three months ago, I discovered BLOGGING.
I already love to write...so tracking the natural progress of my business (or yours! :-)) from INSIDE my blog site, AS it developed and WHEN it developed...well, if I can keep an audience interested in what I do and how I do it, it seems like a "natural" for a book project.
4. How did you learn what it takes to succeed?
You mean apart from that whole "learning to walk" gig sort of "burning" persistence into every nerve and muscle I own? :-)
No, seriously...I've had a lot of wonderful mentors in my life, and I guess one of the first lessons I ever learned is that complaining is far too easy, but happiness takes a conscious choice, a decision...even a mindset.
I don't believe in shortcuts...but if you "just gotta" have one, then I'd have to say that Julia Cameron's book, "The Artist's Way" was one of the most powerful self-help programs I have ever seen...she was the Mentor who taught me how to successfully FIND Mentors, if that makes any sense.
The Three Books I would want to take with me to a desert island are probably The Bible, the Complete Works of Shakespeare, and The Silmarillion.
5. Do you do all of your business online?
Almost. A few of my investments (yes, I am still on welfare but I do have perfectly legal investments...for details you will just have to email me or visit my website!
...Anyhow, a few of them are offline, but the largest majority by far are all or partially web-based.
6. What do you like most, and least, about the Internet?
What I like most is the sense of having so much power and information at my fingertips. What I like least is that it doesn't yet know how to talk back to me...not in the sense of the "True AI" computer that Majel Barret-Roddenberry gave us, anyhow.
The "players," who falsify information for fun (and the spammer/cons who do it for profit!) are a real headache.
People's universal assumption that computers keep "real" records is extremely arrogant...especially when lazy people take small, accumulated data errors for Gospel Truth.
But...I like the fact that we haven't even BEGUN to understand the full potential of the net.
7. Do you have any tips or advice you would like to offer?
1. NEVER, ever, ever, ever, ever QUIT on a dream.
2. Remember...even on the net, ALL of the business MUST still be done BY HUMAN BEINGS.
3. The Customer IS the gold. He who keeps the Gold, MAKES the rules.
4. Luck is MADE, not born. You MAKE your own luck whenever you invest effort at the intersection of people's talent and opportunity.
5. First, find out what people think "can't" be done. Then find out WHY. Last, no matter how hard the critics screech, find out HOW to do it anyway. This is the secret, "instant" formula for fame and success everbody keeps talking about.
8. What are your goals and aspirations for the future?
Teach as many people as possible the fundamentals of how to make $5,000,000 or more. That may keep me busy for about 5 years...after that, I don't know...by then I'll have a new set of dreams laid in.
9. Do you have an alltime favourite book?
I cheat...I usually think in SETS of books, or Complete Works Anthologies. Robert Jordan, Robert Heinlien, David Eddings, Alan Dean Foster (Spellsinger). Newberry Medalists. Many, many others.
10. Can you tell me a little about YOU, as a real everday person? (likes, dislikes, hobbies, pet peeves, fave food etc.)
Intellectually, I have been reliably classified by several of my closest friends as a "taining junkie." Socially and politically...my pet peeve is propaganda. Centrist propaganda in particular...mostly because people think they know what/where the "center" or "normal" is.
Normal ain't much more than a small Illanois town to someone like me...I'm too used to having to MAKE a niche rather than "fit" one.
All of my most rewarding positions are much more extreme than most people realize.
Love Thy Neighbor, for example...that one tends to get people martyred.
Or, Honesty is the Only Policy...Politicians like to get that one backwards far too regularly: Policy (or worse yet, POLICING) is the Only Honesty. Recipie for disaster, that is. Worth thinking about...
Questions Unlimited
The Only Stupid Question...is the one you never ask!
Today is kind of scary.
I'm trying to close two or three important deals at once, so I've had to let some people see where I keep my legal notes. Because I have never done this kind of deal before, I have no idea who will tell whom about what, or in what terms...let alone who legally CAN tell whom which sorts of details and why.
That might sound funny if you read it aloud.
I left the commas out on purpose. It's been that sort of day.
In my darker moments, I have a very unusual view of my own personal integrity. It might even be stated like this..."Whenever you are in doubt, always begin from the assumption that you are already guilty of a Felony Fraud...and then work to prove otherwise. "
It's actually a much more optimistic view than it sounds like at first glance...but it gives me a kind of obsession with knowing, and telling, the straight-on truth.
I won't bother to hide from my audience the fact that I am acting in my own self-interest, for the direct purpose of financial gains. But today, the time has come to reveal my secret master-plan for dominating the largest possible share of my niche market.
Today, the secret is out.
I am not selling anyone's "marketing secrets." I am literally giving them away.
I am not selling "the products." You will either buy those, or you won't.
I am not selling "myself," ( a young newbie punk on welfare), "my company"
( becauseI don't have one yet), or "the sizzle"
(because that's what sells YOU, not me...)
or even "the internet marketing tool of the decade."
(Because, to indirectly quote Robert Kiyosaki again, "The Deal of the Century actually comes along every few days or so...")
All of those would be "hype" and not proper "buzz" at all.
The Secret: I am SELLING MENTORS. From 1000 different positions, that I created, only two months ago, out of "thin air." Because this is how millionaires think.
What you wish to do with that, is left as an exercise for the student.
Success, Wolfspyder
Today is kind of scary.
I'm trying to close two or three important deals at once, so I've had to let some people see where I keep my legal notes. Because I have never done this kind of deal before, I have no idea who will tell whom about what, or in what terms...let alone who legally CAN tell whom which sorts of details and why.
That might sound funny if you read it aloud.
I left the commas out on purpose. It's been that sort of day.
In my darker moments, I have a very unusual view of my own personal integrity. It might even be stated like this..."Whenever you are in doubt, always begin from the assumption that you are already guilty of a Felony Fraud...and then work to prove otherwise. "
It's actually a much more optimistic view than it sounds like at first glance...but it gives me a kind of obsession with knowing, and telling, the straight-on truth.
I won't bother to hide from my audience the fact that I am acting in my own self-interest, for the direct purpose of financial gains. But today, the time has come to reveal my secret master-plan for dominating the largest possible share of my niche market.
Today, the secret is out.
I am not selling anyone's "marketing secrets." I am literally giving them away.
I am not selling "the products." You will either buy those, or you won't.
I am not selling "myself," ( a young newbie punk on welfare), "my company"
( becauseI don't have one yet), or "the sizzle"
(because that's what sells YOU, not me...)
or even "the internet marketing tool of the decade."
(Because, to indirectly quote Robert Kiyosaki again, "The Deal of the Century actually comes along every few days or so...")
All of those would be "hype" and not proper "buzz" at all.
The Secret: I am SELLING MENTORS. From 1000 different positions, that I created, only two months ago, out of "thin air." Because this is how millionaires think.
What you wish to do with that, is left as an exercise for the student.
Success, Wolfspyder
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Hi Gwen!
Today marks a milestone...I've actually gotten 5 business phone calls from HUMANS!
:-))))
I'll use a secret message to track progress of some negotiations...
SECRET MARKETING HYPE MESSAGE: HI GWEN!
All I need is a YES or a NO...
Success...
Wolfspyder
:-))))
I'll use a secret message to track progress of some negotiations...
SECRET MARKETING HYPE MESSAGE: HI GWEN!
All I need is a YES or a NO...
Success...
Wolfspyder
Update on The Texan...
I still have not called him back. Article Under Construction pending permission to use Name & Contact Info. Last Update: 09/24/2004.
I have just sent an email to request permissions (10-02-2004)
UPDATE! FLASH! The Texan has just called back! YESSSS!!!! My apologies sir... (10-06-04)
Of course, I still don't have permission to use his name. But it does mean that he probably won't be suing me.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Weekly Update #9: Humans, Humans, Who's Got The Humans?
Breathe, Francis. Breathe.
Today I discovered something that really ticked me off. The Texan won't be appearing in my book by name unless he sues me. I just found an instance where he was ofering a testimonial to another site, about a completely separate business arrangement, costing hundreds of dollars per user, which convinces me once and for all that he has bought whole hog into the myth of the One-Click Empire.
The Legend of the One-Click Empire goes something like this:
"You are just ONE CLICK away from hundreds of thousands of PAYING CUSTOMERS being driven to YOUR website AUTOMATICALLY...Just look at all these TESTIMONIALS!"
The catch..."all you have to do is pay $XX.9X for my SUPER-DUPER PEOPLE-FINDING WIDGET!"
The Truth: You are only "one click away" from EVERYBODY, at EVERY SITE, EVERYWHERE. That will NOT guarantee your success. Knowing when, where, and how to promote your own business, appropriately by your own efforts, leveraged by your own time, effort, and contacts, is THE ONLY "secret money formula" that ever works, in ANY business, ever.
Business is a continuum. Some people are going to succeed more than others, using the same materials and the same amount of work...the same 24 hours in each and every day.
Money-wealth is a numbers game...a learnable skill. Actually a set of learnable skills.
Let's go back to the first example of POOR THINKING I described a while ago. You remember the questiion, right?
"Why is EVERYBODY after my money?"
Two different problems at once...
A. The MYTH of the "good job."
B. What most people NEED money-wealth for, is actually TIME-FREEDOM.
The reason a rich man doesn't APPEAR to be working as hard as you are,is because you don't yet have his skills in building the right CONTACTS to get the job done.
But JOB SATISFACTION is ALSO about CONTACT-WEALTH. Most job DISCONTENT, is actually an improper balance of priorities leading to some form of TIME-POVERTY. How many managers and executives complain day after day, about taking a promotion which has created problems at home, DEPRIVING them of precious, un-repeatable, irreplaceable time with their wife and kids?
WHY is everyone else after your money?
Because MONEY is the BRIDGE between YOUR TIME and someone else's EFFORT.
It's as simple as that.
Now...let me show you how a "One-Click Empire" really works:
1. Someone develops the "Super-Duper-People-Finding-Widget" and legally protects it as their own intellectual property.
2. The designer then does a search through the personal CONTACTS he already has, and creates a SIDE-DEAL for link-trades, something like "hey, Mike...I've got this new widget I'd like for you to try out...if you like it, let's EXCHANGE some links and testimonials on our newsletters and splash pages, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, ok?"
3. "Mike" likes this idea, because it gets him a free publicity "plug" AND sets up a potential partnership between HIS contacts and yours. He writes a glowing testimonial about the widget, because it has already been debugged. He turns about and offers some FREEBIES to those of YOUR contacts who will now patronize HIS empire...
4. BOTH you and Mike are now on a joy-buzz because you just completed a successful Contact-for-Contact trade, with several natural side benefits, before the money has even hit the table!
5.It doesn't feel like either of you has done much work at all...it feels PLAYFUL, and EASY, as you each dash off a glowing testimonial comment...and add a SUPER-BONUS package (of your last "hot," previously developed properties, for example?) for the "early adopters" who will "ACT RIGHT NOW!"
6. Bingo, you have just created some marketing HYPE!
(Trust me...even if a developer says it isn't HYPE...it is.)
You see, generating market HYPE is a lot different than generating BUZZ, for reasons I will explain in a later post.
7. Now, you and Mike SELL your new widget, backed by a " special license" (replicated webspace...I told you how those work a while ago...) to your own ad copy,to the next money-hungry joey who believes your version of the "Legend of the One-Click Empire!"
8. The replicated webspace is designed to do only one thing...pull your new Joey on to YOUR mailing list, and "automatically" close your sale "for you."
Here's the Dirty Little Secret: It's perfectly legal to sell your new prospect on the idea that "I've already done 90% of the hard work..." because that is also TRUE...but only about YOUR OWN hard work, NOT about HIS!
Remember: People who won't work, won't succeed.
If you don't want to work, then do me a favor...don't become one of my users.
Here's what you can do instead...
Run, don't walk, to your nearest Wal-Mart(tm), Sam's Club(tm) or Amazon(tm), and pick up the best book I have ever seen on jazzing up your job prospects: "Monster Careers: How to Land the Job of Your Life" by Jeff Taylor & Doug Hardy...or click the above title link.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Today I discovered something that really ticked me off. The Texan won't be appearing in my book by name unless he sues me. I just found an instance where he was ofering a testimonial to another site, about a completely separate business arrangement, costing hundreds of dollars per user, which convinces me once and for all that he has bought whole hog into the myth of the One-Click Empire.
The Legend of the One-Click Empire goes something like this:
"You are just ONE CLICK away from hundreds of thousands of PAYING CUSTOMERS being driven to YOUR website AUTOMATICALLY...Just look at all these TESTIMONIALS!"
The catch..."all you have to do is pay $XX.9X for my SUPER-DUPER PEOPLE-FINDING WIDGET!"
The Truth: You are only "one click away" from EVERYBODY, at EVERY SITE, EVERYWHERE. That will NOT guarantee your success. Knowing when, where, and how to promote your own business, appropriately by your own efforts, leveraged by your own time, effort, and contacts, is THE ONLY "secret money formula" that ever works, in ANY business, ever.
Business is a continuum. Some people are going to succeed more than others, using the same materials and the same amount of work...the same 24 hours in each and every day.
Money-wealth is a numbers game...a learnable skill. Actually a set of learnable skills.
Let's go back to the first example of POOR THINKING I described a while ago. You remember the questiion, right?
"Why is EVERYBODY after my money?"
Two different problems at once...
A. The MYTH of the "good job."
B. What most people NEED money-wealth for, is actually TIME-FREEDOM.
The reason a rich man doesn't APPEAR to be working as hard as you are,is because you don't yet have his skills in building the right CONTACTS to get the job done.
But JOB SATISFACTION is ALSO about CONTACT-WEALTH. Most job DISCONTENT, is actually an improper balance of priorities leading to some form of TIME-POVERTY. How many managers and executives complain day after day, about taking a promotion which has created problems at home, DEPRIVING them of precious, un-repeatable, irreplaceable time with their wife and kids?
WHY is everyone else after your money?
Because MONEY is the BRIDGE between YOUR TIME and someone else's EFFORT.
It's as simple as that.
Now...let me show you how a "One-Click Empire" really works:
1. Someone develops the "Super-Duper-People-Finding-Widget" and legally protects it as their own intellectual property.
2. The designer then does a search through the personal CONTACTS he already has, and creates a SIDE-DEAL for link-trades, something like "hey, Mike...I've got this new widget I'd like for you to try out...if you like it, let's EXCHANGE some links and testimonials on our newsletters and splash pages, you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, ok?"
3. "Mike" likes this idea, because it gets him a free publicity "plug" AND sets up a potential partnership between HIS contacts and yours. He writes a glowing testimonial about the widget, because it has already been debugged. He turns about and offers some FREEBIES to those of YOUR contacts who will now patronize HIS empire...
4. BOTH you and Mike are now on a joy-buzz because you just completed a successful Contact-for-Contact trade, with several natural side benefits, before the money has even hit the table!
5.It doesn't feel like either of you has done much work at all...it feels PLAYFUL, and EASY, as you each dash off a glowing testimonial comment...and add a SUPER-BONUS package (of your last "hot," previously developed properties, for example?) for the "early adopters" who will "ACT RIGHT NOW!"
6. Bingo, you have just created some marketing HYPE!
(Trust me...even if a developer says it isn't HYPE...it is.)
You see, generating market HYPE is a lot different than generating BUZZ, for reasons I will explain in a later post.
7. Now, you and Mike SELL your new widget, backed by a " special license" (replicated webspace...I told you how those work a while ago...) to your own ad copy,to the next money-hungry joey who believes your version of the "Legend of the One-Click Empire!"
8. The replicated webspace is designed to do only one thing...pull your new Joey on to YOUR mailing list, and "automatically" close your sale "for you."
Here's the Dirty Little Secret: It's perfectly legal to sell your new prospect on the idea that "I've already done 90% of the hard work..." because that is also TRUE...but only about YOUR OWN hard work, NOT about HIS!
Remember: People who won't work, won't succeed.
If you don't want to work, then do me a favor...don't become one of my users.
Here's what you can do instead...
Run, don't walk, to your nearest Wal-Mart(tm), Sam's Club(tm) or Amazon(tm), and pick up the best book I have ever seen on jazzing up your job prospects: "Monster Careers: How to Land the Job of Your Life" by Jeff Taylor & Doug Hardy...or click the above title link.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Monday, October 04, 2004
For a Few Cents More...
It's official...I am now making money from my email. I bet some of you thought I was ragging on safelists & PTR Email programs, right? Nope. Remember, PTR programs and safelists are where I really started to "get it" that I could make money off the web...if you read the article again, you'll find that what I was ragging on were SPAMMERS!
I did tell you the downside...that some safelists are mostly cannibalistic, and the actions required to go through their copy are boring and repetative...but hey, the scent of MONEY can cure boredom FAST!
So, while I wait for the copyright permissions notices on some of these bigger affiliate deals, I also click through some of my email ads and earn a few pennies on the side.
The Secret: ALWAYS close the small deals FIRST.
The fact is that most of the people who aren't rich, are losing money and opportunity because they NEGLECT details.
I know. I did it myself for many years.
The Truth: People who don't DELIBERATELY PLAN for wealth, are AUTOMATICALLY planning to be POOR.
Like it or not, the difference is a difference in thinking patterns.
Examples: Consider attitudes on...
1. JOB SECURITY
POOR THINKING: I am not being paid enough...I wish I knew how to ask for a pay raise so the boss would LISTEN to me!
MIDDLE-CLASS THINKING: This job is not going to pay me enough by itself. I had better invest some money so it can be working toward my future needs.
RICH THINKING: NO job, ANYWHERE, any time, EVER, can pay me enough by itself.
Hmmm...that's sure a nice Lexus (tm) over there. I WANT THAT CAR...so how do I set up my next job? Who can I* give* it to, and how do I make the True Currency trades a WIN-WIN situation for everybody? Who are my best contacts to set up the NEW INCOME SOURCE? HOW DO I STRUCTURE MY NEXT DEAL TO MAKE THAT CAR PAY FOR ITSELF?
2. Doing The Job
POOR THINKING: I don't get enough time off. On top of that, this job isn't paying enough to meet my expenses. Maybe I need to take a second job. Why is it that everybody is always after MY money?
MIDDLE-CLASS THINKING: Maybe I can get some good overtime and put some of it into my investments. I like this job. There are some good incentives here if I do my job well. My boss...well, he's a good guy, but someday I might want my own business...he doesn't seem like he works all that hard, and yet he is ROLLING in money!
RICH THINKING: I am always in business for myself, no matter who is cutting my next check.
The SMARTER I work, the more effective CONTACTS I can make, so of course I need to do MORE than I am being paid for right now. Eventually I can TEACH this job to someone else, so that I can move on to the next, bigger deal...
3. Abundance/Paying Bills
POOR THINKING: Gas bills, electric bills, phone bills, cable bills, internet bills...Everybody wants my money! My credit cards are maxed out, I'm working two jobs already, the kids need new school clothes, my rent is going up next month, and I haven't even bought smokes or groceries yet!
Meanwhile, Uncle Bill wants me to invest something for Baby Susan's COLLEGE FUND...INVEST?!? Are you crazy? There's not enough money to go around as it is!
MIDDLE CLASS THINKING: I'm sure glad Uncle Bill turned us on to that financial planner at XYZ Associates. If I follow the budget plan she helped us set up, we can be free of all of our unsecured debts within three to five years, and so our investment strategy will see serious improvement, unless inflation eats it all up within that time...
RICH THINKING: The Smith & Jones stock split deal will close next week, and net about $25,000,000...That's the perfect amount to close on that duplex house up the hill, and I'll immediately put the property in trust for Little Susie...with inflation as it is, it should appreciate nicely, so by the time she really needs it, Vassar will be paid for.
"Hello, Jack? Did you get the codicil? That's right...If Susan should fail to attain a Net Worth of at least $2.5 Million by age 35, her general share of the estate reverts to the charity of her choice, Excepting the maintainance account. Read it back to me, please?...OK, you got it, fax it back and close by end-of-business tomorrow. Yeah, I read the reports on that new IPO by the Wolfspyder Project...looks good, but I still have a question or two. Drop by next week, we'll hammer it out. Golf next weekend? Beautiful! Thanks!"
Are you beginning to see the difference?
Congratulations...you are well on your way!
Success, Wolfspyder
I did tell you the downside...that some safelists are mostly cannibalistic, and the actions required to go through their copy are boring and repetative...but hey, the scent of MONEY can cure boredom FAST!
So, while I wait for the copyright permissions notices on some of these bigger affiliate deals, I also click through some of my email ads and earn a few pennies on the side.
The Secret: ALWAYS close the small deals FIRST.
The fact is that most of the people who aren't rich, are losing money and opportunity because they NEGLECT details.
I know. I did it myself for many years.
The Truth: People who don't DELIBERATELY PLAN for wealth, are AUTOMATICALLY planning to be POOR.
Like it or not, the difference is a difference in thinking patterns.
Examples: Consider attitudes on...
1. JOB SECURITY
POOR THINKING: I am not being paid enough...I wish I knew how to ask for a pay raise so the boss would LISTEN to me!
MIDDLE-CLASS THINKING: This job is not going to pay me enough by itself. I had better invest some money so it can be working toward my future needs.
RICH THINKING: NO job, ANYWHERE, any time, EVER, can pay me enough by itself.
Hmmm...that's sure a nice Lexus (tm) over there. I WANT THAT CAR...so how do I set up my next job? Who can I* give* it to, and how do I make the True Currency trades a WIN-WIN situation for everybody? Who are my best contacts to set up the NEW INCOME SOURCE? HOW DO I STRUCTURE MY NEXT DEAL TO MAKE THAT CAR PAY FOR ITSELF?
2. Doing The Job
POOR THINKING: I don't get enough time off. On top of that, this job isn't paying enough to meet my expenses. Maybe I need to take a second job. Why is it that everybody is always after MY money?
MIDDLE-CLASS THINKING: Maybe I can get some good overtime and put some of it into my investments. I like this job. There are some good incentives here if I do my job well. My boss...well, he's a good guy, but someday I might want my own business...he doesn't seem like he works all that hard, and yet he is ROLLING in money!
RICH THINKING: I am always in business for myself, no matter who is cutting my next check.
The SMARTER I work, the more effective CONTACTS I can make, so of course I need to do MORE than I am being paid for right now. Eventually I can TEACH this job to someone else, so that I can move on to the next, bigger deal...
3. Abundance/Paying Bills
POOR THINKING: Gas bills, electric bills, phone bills, cable bills, internet bills...Everybody wants my money! My credit cards are maxed out, I'm working two jobs already, the kids need new school clothes, my rent is going up next month, and I haven't even bought smokes or groceries yet!
Meanwhile, Uncle Bill wants me to invest something for Baby Susan's COLLEGE FUND...INVEST?!? Are you crazy? There's not enough money to go around as it is!
MIDDLE CLASS THINKING: I'm sure glad Uncle Bill turned us on to that financial planner at XYZ Associates. If I follow the budget plan she helped us set up, we can be free of all of our unsecured debts within three to five years, and so our investment strategy will see serious improvement, unless inflation eats it all up within that time...
RICH THINKING: The Smith & Jones stock split deal will close next week, and net about $25,000,000...That's the perfect amount to close on that duplex house up the hill, and I'll immediately put the property in trust for Little Susie...with inflation as it is, it should appreciate nicely, so by the time she really needs it, Vassar will be paid for.
"Hello, Jack? Did you get the codicil? That's right...If Susan should fail to attain a Net Worth of at least $2.5 Million by age 35, her general share of the estate reverts to the charity of her choice, Excepting the maintainance account. Read it back to me, please?...OK, you got it, fax it back and close by end-of-business tomorrow. Yeah, I read the reports on that new IPO by the Wolfspyder Project...looks good, but I still have a question or two. Drop by next week, we'll hammer it out. Golf next weekend? Beautiful! Thanks!"
Are you beginning to see the difference?
Congratulations...you are well on your way!
Success, Wolfspyder
Saturday, October 02, 2004
Concept #12: Building the Buzz
Last night, I generated a little more "buzz" for Anna.
She has a neat little "form" tool on her site which can generate Q&A interviews for newsletters in a snap.
I am hoping she decides to use the interview I gave her within the next few weeks. If not, then I will simply keep submitting until we get to one she can use.
That leads me to my next tip for "building business buzz": Always give the decision-maker something he can use immediately, even if it isn't money.
Today, my best trade was for that "How Love-Smart Are You?" graphic that appears in my sidebar. I gave away an article to the content provider before I even pulled the display code.
That inspired me to try finding a literary agent...and although they DO charge a tiny little monthly fee...yep! you guessed it! I FOUND YET ANOTHER AFFILIATE PROGRAM!
I also had to shy away from another contract for a very interesting reason...they put a wierd, tight deadline on the implementation of their linking program. Something like, "put in your links within ten business days or we will drop you." Oh well. That particular company might not have proven much use to me anyway, since I don't own a cell-phone yet.
It will also be interesting to see just how fast The Texan gets back to me, if at all.
Today, my hit counter is running just shy of 400 or so. Only 400 hits, in three months. Yet I am just about to sign my 90th client. In fact, when you hear the real story of how and why I originally decided to include 1001 clients in the project, it will be a guaranteed belly-laugh.
By sometime next week, I should have approval from my newest affiliate, even though it's still an open question to me whether that means that any human being actually evaluated the site, or if this is a kind of inclusion-by-default.
Ironically enough, your lack of contact is the only thing contractually protecting me.
That is such an important statement that I am going to repeat it.
Your lack of contact is the only thing contractually protecting me.
The Secret: The moment you can prove that we have made person-to-person contact, you have placed me under a new contractual obligation. Without that, I can just keep tinkering with the site in relative peace, until I get it right.
All I really have to do is find a few hundred more publicity-hungry clients, throw about 500,000 well-chosen words at the problem, and sell them to an editor. But...the reason you are going to want "in" on this deal is that I am moving so slowly and respectfully.
The Payoff: The really big deals, once you get past all the hype, tend to move very, very slowly. A reputation, maybe several of them, are on the line for every aspect...for every least detail. The big ones only look fast. Because of the buzz. Because the experts in sales know how to use language that creates urgency. Why do they want urgency? Because urgency separates you from your money. It saves them time.
The Truth: In any legitimate deal, the money should be the LAST thing to hit the table. The TIME and the CONTACTS should ALWAYS come first.
Success,
Wolfspyder
She has a neat little "form" tool on her site which can generate Q&A interviews for newsletters in a snap.
I am hoping she decides to use the interview I gave her within the next few weeks. If not, then I will simply keep submitting until we get to one she can use.
That leads me to my next tip for "building business buzz": Always give the decision-maker something he can use immediately, even if it isn't money.
Today, my best trade was for that "How Love-Smart Are You?" graphic that appears in my sidebar. I gave away an article to the content provider before I even pulled the display code.
That inspired me to try finding a literary agent...and although they DO charge a tiny little monthly fee...yep! you guessed it! I FOUND YET ANOTHER AFFILIATE PROGRAM!
I also had to shy away from another contract for a very interesting reason...they put a wierd, tight deadline on the implementation of their linking program. Something like, "put in your links within ten business days or we will drop you." Oh well. That particular company might not have proven much use to me anyway, since I don't own a cell-phone yet.
It will also be interesting to see just how fast The Texan gets back to me, if at all.
Today, my hit counter is running just shy of 400 or so. Only 400 hits, in three months. Yet I am just about to sign my 90th client. In fact, when you hear the real story of how and why I originally decided to include 1001 clients in the project, it will be a guaranteed belly-laugh.
By sometime next week, I should have approval from my newest affiliate, even though it's still an open question to me whether that means that any human being actually evaluated the site, or if this is a kind of inclusion-by-default.
Ironically enough, your lack of contact is the only thing contractually protecting me.
That is such an important statement that I am going to repeat it.
Your lack of contact is the only thing contractually protecting me.
The Secret: The moment you can prove that we have made person-to-person contact, you have placed me under a new contractual obligation. Without that, I can just keep tinkering with the site in relative peace, until I get it right.
All I really have to do is find a few hundred more publicity-hungry clients, throw about 500,000 well-chosen words at the problem, and sell them to an editor. But...the reason you are going to want "in" on this deal is that I am moving so slowly and respectfully.
The Payoff: The really big deals, once you get past all the hype, tend to move very, very slowly. A reputation, maybe several of them, are on the line for every aspect...for every least detail. The big ones only look fast. Because of the buzz. Because the experts in sales know how to use language that creates urgency. Why do they want urgency? Because urgency separates you from your money. It saves them time.
The Truth: In any legitimate deal, the money should be the LAST thing to hit the table. The TIME and the CONTACTS should ALWAYS come first.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Friday, October 01, 2004
Covering the Bases: The Choice of Firms Question
By now (10-01-2004 or thereabouts) the strategy for my main site is beginning to firm up. The other sites and one-click empires attached to the project are probably suffering, but that is because I have yet to do anything serious toward bringing them traffic.
A word or two is in order here about how I choose companies to be involved in the overall project, and why I have to do this for free at least until the "final" book deal closes.
My first real creative Mentor was Julia Cameron. That is, she was the first one I was consciously aware of. There had been others, many others, acting subconsciously throughout my life, like Gene Roddenberry, Adam West, Robert Conrad, Stan Lee, George Lucas, Walt Disney, Glen Larson, Isaac Asimov, David Carradine.
Once you begin to play the "Name That Mentor" game it's hard to know where to stop.
Anyway, let's leave it that Julia Cameron was "the first" but not the greatest...even though she is really niether.
I didn't "set out" to write a book on either money, or creativity. What Julia had taught me was that success in any creative endeavor actually begins with a willingness to do it badly...to take small, childlike, experimental steps toward a dream...and politely refuse to listen to anyone shocked enough to say with a gasp, "oh, but you JUST CAN'T do that?!?"
Once I had really integrated her insights into my daily practice of life, I was left with another problem..."how do I find another Mentor?" That led me to Brian Tracy. Brian Tracy, of course, is one of the most popular seminar coaches at Nightingale-Conant...and I had heard of Nightingale BEFORE in connection with wealth-coaching...
In a sense, I had come full-circle. I had reached a specific point where everybody I heard about in connection with my "next step" toward sucess, was actively quoting *each other* in one or another context to support their own work. By the fifth or sixth time I saw this happen, I was thinking, "OK, God...I get it! I get it!"
In October of 2003, after losing all of "my" income, I finally managed to derive the inescapable conclusion that the government was NOT actually going to help me acheive any of my goals, and that I was stuck in a space where my only "job" was to sit around and be over-analyzed for the sole purpose of giving the various medical and social service people around me the ILLUSION that they were actually being productive and "aiding my FUTURE independance."
The fact that I was already working on two books at the time, didn't phaze the government's minions one little bit...legally, that was a "hobby," not a job.
Psychologically, I was deriving a "substantial emotional payoff" from all of this "not working" and "not having specific or realistic goals," said the official reports of the government minions.
Free Translation: "Where in the HELL is your four-year degree, son? What ONE field of endeavor are you prepared to hang the rest of your career on? No, we know you CAN'T write for a living because you have yet to be published anywhere outside of a school-room...and besides, if you DID try to wite for a living, your income would become irregular, so you need to file a P.A.S.S. plan...no, wait, that's for people who ALREADY work...Yes, Vocational Rehabilitation is a required part of your diagnostic and casework package...no, I'm not sure exactly who requires it...She stuck you where? A Sheltered Workshop? How in the name of Uncle Sam and all his drunken cousins did she screw up your file with THAT sort of nonsense?
And you're SURE you are NOT a schizophrenic? OK...thank you for filling out my forms today, I'll call you back in 4-6 weeks when I've actually had time to READ your case and decide who needs a reprimand...(4-6 weeks later) Great news! I've been given a raise and transferred to the division across town...unfortunately for you, that means a new case worker..." and so on, and so on, and so on.
Since this is the sort of opinion on my own government that too easily gets me classed with "extremists"like Colin Powell, Ken Hamblin and Rush Limbaugh, and I would like to defend my right to stay a monetized blog I suppose my mere personal experience is lagely irrelevant to the present discussion.
What actually happened a couple paragraphs ago was an example of a powerful Julia Cameron technique for stream-of-consciousness writing gone (slightly)awry...my actual point is, of course, that a certain bias is inevitable and entirely subconscious in my choices for firms to participate in and/or link to this project.
1. Participating Clients must be able to attract my personal attention with a unique selling point.
2. Participating Clients must be FREE TO JOIN, barring usual protocols regarding legal & necessary individual registration information. No restrictions are made on THIRD PARTY CONTENT, and any unreasonable attempt to regulate any portion of the main site material or content whose copyright vests clearly, exclusively & individually in Francis X. Carmody IV or any member or customer of the Wolfspyder Project, may in my sole discretion be considered grounds for nonconsent/withdrawl/suspension from the project itself, with or without cause.
3. Wherever possible, Clients will be taken from a non-repeated market SECTOR. Expect about 3-5 examples of each client type, to provide consumer choice rather than competition/brand exclusivity.
4. At least 100 articles over the course of the project are expected to reference charitable organizations. This is not intended to endorse or promote one such organization or cause over another.
5. At least 100 articles over the course of the project are expected to have reference to Success Mentors. This is not intended to promote one such individual over another, nor to discriminate upon the basis of class, race, religious or political affiliation, age, handicap, gender,phillosophy or sexual orientation.
6. Participants are free to disagree at any time, to any degree, with any expressed personal opinions which may from time to time occur on this site, PROVIDED that they do so either PRIVATELY, publicly within the guidelines of basic nettiquette, and/or without negativistic reference to any formal regulatory body or court of law.
This is not intended to limit available legal relief or remedy sought by any individual, company, or entity, but to provide notice that any failure to follow the above policy will be handled in strict accordance with Paragraph 2, above.
7. The question of when/what products I will or will not endorse or spend money on, shall not be influenced or controlled by any CLIENT propaganda, but may be strongly influenced by CUSTOMER advice. Customers and Client Managers should be aware that the fact that you are here at all, PROBABLY reflects my desire BOTH to SPEND on, AND to EARN from, your product lines or some part thereof.
8. If I am biased against anything, let it be clear that I am absolutely biased against the HYPE that any ONE program or product can fit ALL consumers or ALL opportunity seekers, and that I care more for the success of this project, itself, than for the sucess of any particular client or consumer, since I believe that these will happen with me or without me.
9. I implicitly believe that avoiding unnecessary criticism is also a genuine success principle,and so I refuse to engage in any "competative" attempt to negatively "spin" one project participant against another.
10. Yes, there will probably be more books, movies, software products, and general intellectual property advertised on this site than other types of products...probably a lot of Sci-Fi and Fantasy material too, since that has always been a passion of mine. Certain other biases may clarify themselves by careful analysis of my "opinion" material. I make no apology for being a Christian, for example...but in point of fact, I have a proactive obligation to support all forms of excellence, ESPECIALLY when it may occur to my ideological "enemies," if in fact I can be said to have any.
11. Affiliation with a particular program, at this time, precedes any formal mention or endorsement. In each case I am evaluating as an individual, not as a "market research" company. In MOST cases at present, my account/relationship with the site in question predates the project itself by weeks, sometimes months. Frankly, I use my own sponsor links because they are the ONLY ones that have any chance of being contractually valid FOR me to use. I don't much care if you go "around" my links, as long as you are not stealing or falsely creating your own.
12. Just because this is a "case study" does not make me any less committed to your success. The catch is that I don't know who you are until you contact me as an individual. So, be brave! Contact me today!
Success,
Wolfspyder
A word or two is in order here about how I choose companies to be involved in the overall project, and why I have to do this for free at least until the "final" book deal closes.
My first real creative Mentor was Julia Cameron. That is, she was the first one I was consciously aware of. There had been others, many others, acting subconsciously throughout my life, like Gene Roddenberry, Adam West, Robert Conrad, Stan Lee, George Lucas, Walt Disney, Glen Larson, Isaac Asimov, David Carradine.
Once you begin to play the "Name That Mentor" game it's hard to know where to stop.
Anyway, let's leave it that Julia Cameron was "the first" but not the greatest...even though she is really niether.
I didn't "set out" to write a book on either money, or creativity. What Julia had taught me was that success in any creative endeavor actually begins with a willingness to do it badly...to take small, childlike, experimental steps toward a dream...and politely refuse to listen to anyone shocked enough to say with a gasp, "oh, but you JUST CAN'T do that?!?"
Once I had really integrated her insights into my daily practice of life, I was left with another problem..."how do I find another Mentor?" That led me to Brian Tracy. Brian Tracy, of course, is one of the most popular seminar coaches at Nightingale-Conant...and I had heard of Nightingale BEFORE in connection with wealth-coaching...
In a sense, I had come full-circle. I had reached a specific point where everybody I heard about in connection with my "next step" toward sucess, was actively quoting *each other* in one or another context to support their own work. By the fifth or sixth time I saw this happen, I was thinking, "OK, God...I get it! I get it!"
In October of 2003, after losing all of "my" income, I finally managed to derive the inescapable conclusion that the government was NOT actually going to help me acheive any of my goals, and that I was stuck in a space where my only "job" was to sit around and be over-analyzed for the sole purpose of giving the various medical and social service people around me the ILLUSION that they were actually being productive and "aiding my FUTURE independance."
The fact that I was already working on two books at the time, didn't phaze the government's minions one little bit...legally, that was a "hobby," not a job.
Psychologically, I was deriving a "substantial emotional payoff" from all of this "not working" and "not having specific or realistic goals," said the official reports of the government minions.
Free Translation: "Where in the HELL is your four-year degree, son? What ONE field of endeavor are you prepared to hang the rest of your career on? No, we know you CAN'T write for a living because you have yet to be published anywhere outside of a school-room...and besides, if you DID try to wite for a living, your income would become irregular, so you need to file a P.A.S.S. plan...no, wait, that's for people who ALREADY work...Yes, Vocational Rehabilitation is a required part of your diagnostic and casework package...no, I'm not sure exactly who requires it...She stuck you where? A Sheltered Workshop? How in the name of Uncle Sam and all his drunken cousins did she screw up your file with THAT sort of nonsense?
And you're SURE you are NOT a schizophrenic? OK...thank you for filling out my forms today, I'll call you back in 4-6 weeks when I've actually had time to READ your case and decide who needs a reprimand...(4-6 weeks later) Great news! I've been given a raise and transferred to the division across town...unfortunately for you, that means a new case worker..." and so on, and so on, and so on.
Since this is the sort of opinion on my own government that too easily gets me classed with "extremists"like Colin Powell, Ken Hamblin and Rush Limbaugh, and I would like to defend my right to stay a monetized blog I suppose my mere personal experience is lagely irrelevant to the present discussion.
What actually happened a couple paragraphs ago was an example of a powerful Julia Cameron technique for stream-of-consciousness writing gone (slightly)awry...my actual point is, of course, that a certain bias is inevitable and entirely subconscious in my choices for firms to participate in and/or link to this project.
1. Participating Clients must be able to attract my personal attention with a unique selling point.
2. Participating Clients must be FREE TO JOIN, barring usual protocols regarding legal & necessary individual registration information. No restrictions are made on THIRD PARTY CONTENT, and any unreasonable attempt to regulate any portion of the main site material or content whose copyright vests clearly, exclusively & individually in Francis X. Carmody IV or any member or customer of the Wolfspyder Project, may in my sole discretion be considered grounds for nonconsent/withdrawl/suspension from the project itself, with or without cause.
3. Wherever possible, Clients will be taken from a non-repeated market SECTOR. Expect about 3-5 examples of each client type, to provide consumer choice rather than competition/brand exclusivity.
4. At least 100 articles over the course of the project are expected to reference charitable organizations. This is not intended to endorse or promote one such organization or cause over another.
5. At least 100 articles over the course of the project are expected to have reference to Success Mentors. This is not intended to promote one such individual over another, nor to discriminate upon the basis of class, race, religious or political affiliation, age, handicap, gender,phillosophy or sexual orientation.
6. Participants are free to disagree at any time, to any degree, with any expressed personal opinions which may from time to time occur on this site, PROVIDED that they do so either PRIVATELY, publicly within the guidelines of basic nettiquette, and/or without negativistic reference to any formal regulatory body or court of law.
This is not intended to limit available legal relief or remedy sought by any individual, company, or entity, but to provide notice that any failure to follow the above policy will be handled in strict accordance with Paragraph 2, above.
7. The question of when/what products I will or will not endorse or spend money on, shall not be influenced or controlled by any CLIENT propaganda, but may be strongly influenced by CUSTOMER advice. Customers and Client Managers should be aware that the fact that you are here at all, PROBABLY reflects my desire BOTH to SPEND on, AND to EARN from, your product lines or some part thereof.
8. If I am biased against anything, let it be clear that I am absolutely biased against the HYPE that any ONE program or product can fit ALL consumers or ALL opportunity seekers, and that I care more for the success of this project, itself, than for the sucess of any particular client or consumer, since I believe that these will happen with me or without me.
9. I implicitly believe that avoiding unnecessary criticism is also a genuine success principle,and so I refuse to engage in any "competative" attempt to negatively "spin" one project participant against another.
10. Yes, there will probably be more books, movies, software products, and general intellectual property advertised on this site than other types of products...probably a lot of Sci-Fi and Fantasy material too, since that has always been a passion of mine. Certain other biases may clarify themselves by careful analysis of my "opinion" material. I make no apology for being a Christian, for example...but in point of fact, I have a proactive obligation to support all forms of excellence, ESPECIALLY when it may occur to my ideological "enemies," if in fact I can be said to have any.
11. Affiliation with a particular program, at this time, precedes any formal mention or endorsement. In each case I am evaluating as an individual, not as a "market research" company. In MOST cases at present, my account/relationship with the site in question predates the project itself by weeks, sometimes months. Frankly, I use my own sponsor links because they are the ONLY ones that have any chance of being contractually valid FOR me to use. I don't much care if you go "around" my links, as long as you are not stealing or falsely creating your own.
12. Just because this is a "case study" does not make me any less committed to your success. The catch is that I don't know who you are until you contact me as an individual. So, be brave! Contact me today!
Success,
Wolfspyder
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