I have been closing some brand new deals lately, including hiring a competant webmaster to help me redesign and monetize the blog, to better service clients and cut through the jungles of traffic generation options available.
Meanwhile I have been learning how to take my MLM business much more seriously and using an Ebay aution for a new experiment.
Now, here is where the leverage of TIME comes in...I just created a very real job out of thin air, using money I don't have yet, to buy a skill set that I don't have the time or the patience to acquire.
Leverage? Using the contacts and contracts I already have in the blog site, developed over 2 years of MY time, I can base my new hire exclusively on *generated results* ...Hey Presto, TIME + CONTACTS = SERIOUS MONEY!
Meanwhile, John gets a very real shot at making maybe 5 figures in (his estimate) two or three days.
So building the blog has forced the very thing I was hoping for...it has taught me how to take my business to the next level. As I get more assurances of better contacts, people have begun taking me more seriously. My professional reputation begins to snowball as more people become familiar with my commitment to win-win solutions.
Want to know the real secret to becoming an expert?
Write a book in the field. When your knowledge is collected for sale, you are already an expert.
Steve Manning already knows this first hand.
Sucess, Wolfspyder
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Result: Contacts Are Being Made
My newnetmail contact group has increased over the last week, and given me unexpected access to a really good MLM training coach. The terms of service at her site prohibit my mentioning her name here (since I cannot link for commercial purposes without direct permission from her organization.)
One thing I can say that she teaches right away and from first to last...learn to listen and ask questions. Always remember that retaining a prospect or a customer is more about the relationship than about the product.
Success,
Wolfspyder
One thing I can say that she teaches right away and from first to last...learn to listen and ask questions. Always remember that retaining a prospect or a customer is more about the relationship than about the product.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
The Rants and Raves of Thickness: Rave: Opus Dei
The Rants and Raves of Thickness: Rave: Opus Dei
I definitely support this idea. There have been a lot of bad impacts when people of faith rant and rave against new films or artistic properties, but Opus Dei is not doing that here.
I definitely support this idea. There have been a lot of bad impacts when people of faith rant and rave against new films or artistic properties, but Opus Dei is not doing that here.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
John's Blog
John's Blog
This one is just a tiny bit more ON-topic.
Perhaps John and I can eventually collaborate on an infoproduct or two?
This one is just a tiny bit more ON-topic.
Perhaps John and I can eventually collaborate on an infoproduct or two?
Smile of the Day
Smile of the Day
Here is another wonderful find. Eventually I will learn how to set up a blog list for the places I frequent.
Here is another wonderful find. Eventually I will learn how to set up a blog list for the places I frequent.
The Rants and Raves of Thickness: Merchandise Pricing and the Surprise Discount
The Rants and Raves of Thickness: Merchandise Pricing and the Surprise Discount
Another bit of randomness. I like doing this from time to time, whether or not it will make sales for me.
Another bit of randomness. I like doing this from time to time, whether or not it will make sales for me.
A Surprise From My Brother
Will wonders never cease? Now my blog is big enough to excite some interest from my brother, who says he would like to see me develop a product for sale on Ebay. I don't have my own Ebay account yet, but apparently that is not a problem.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Cooking with Chef Tim: New Recipes For This Week!!!
Cooking with Chef Tim: New Recipes For This Week!!!
Just something I found while strolling through the blogosphere on my shameless money quest.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Just something I found while strolling through the blogosphere on my shameless money quest.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Secure Spam-Proof Email
I will definitely want to tell Bryan about this one. Ever so gradually I have been weeding out old subscriptions to mass-mail servers, hoping that will help me to concentrate on paid traffic and listing programs.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Wealth as a Numbers Game
As I thought...that database program is strengthening my daily productivity by quite a bit.
If I can't get a list of individuals, and I see no particular reason why they should trust me over anyone else whose name they may or may not have heard of, then even a minimum of work can put me in touch with a lot of the companies willing to pay me a little at a time.
So far I have been zapping out all the articles which contain any "questionable" content whatsoever. That means all the drafts I have been using to "artificially" inflate my blog article count, since basically I don't have the market positioning yet to worry about permissions for the entire stack. Also anyone whose programs I don't know ALL of how to implement by the time I mention them publicly, and any article for which I have even a hint of a question about a "non-compete" responsibility.
Of course, by now Spider Robinson has probably forgotten that he was ever part of the project.
Eventually, I will have to update somehow with the Googleplex, and determine why a certain very popular e-currency processor got mad at me many months ago and terminated my account.
So far I draw in just a little bit of money from things like PTR programs and survey firms and traffic exchanges. My participation in MLM has increased. I was really impressed by linguistics expert Kim Klaver's work...
Several of my book projects are moving forward at the same time thanks to the Steve Mannning System.
Meanwhile, Bryan Mize is off to Hawaii for a week or two.
I have integrated almost 50 programs into the new database, and that is far from all of them.
The principle I am using is very simple...if I build up enough individual streams at different market positions, then at least some of them cannot fail to produce strong money over the long term.
By this time Blogger has implemented a "human check system" to verify that comments are actually coming from people rather than from bots. Bryan wanted me to join up with a new hosting company, but I have already seen their offer several times, and so far I already have more sites than I can handle.
Right now it is obvious that I am actually involved with too many services, and it will take more work to straighten out the final shape of my contracts with the bigger players than with the small ones.
I quietly go about my day, taking surveys, surfing the traffic exchanges, fulfilling PTR scripts so that I can make the programs "pay for themselves" as much as possible. One thing I don't want to do is to become "part of the problem" by telling people where I failed, where I lost a contract, who I am mad at, where the cheaters are.
This is not because I am not concerned with ethics or justice, but because bringing any publicity to cheaters without absolute PROOF only increases ill feeling between the parties involved. I see a lot of that thinking in the PTR industry and among webmasters concerned with search engine optimization questions. While they are busy wasting the energy ragging on each other in various forums, I will be quietly moving up the publicity ladder and the income food-chain.
While the people who know more about program coding than I ever will are busy creating the newest widget for generating blog spam, I quietly surf for individuals with whom I can leave comments that will strengthen them in whatever they are passionate enough to write about.
This is my contribution to personalizing the facelessness of the internet.
I don't join new lists or exchanges to "make money." Money is a side-effect of actually doing the work that fulfills the script...or the contract. So a lot of people will have very "quietly" been handing me money on the small contracts before a bigger deal comes along.
To quote Dr. Dolf DeRoos, partner and friend of financial mentor Robert Kiyosaki ,
the truth of the matter is that "the Deal of the Century actually comes along about once a week." When you really understand the principle that the real money is always in the contracts, not the contacts, not the mailing lists, not always "the other guy's pocket," but that it is all a complicated GAME and it is ALWAYS MOVING, then you are ready to understand why I cannot fail.
If I can't get a list of individuals, and I see no particular reason why they should trust me over anyone else whose name they may or may not have heard of, then even a minimum of work can put me in touch with a lot of the companies willing to pay me a little at a time.
So far I have been zapping out all the articles which contain any "questionable" content whatsoever. That means all the drafts I have been using to "artificially" inflate my blog article count, since basically I don't have the market positioning yet to worry about permissions for the entire stack. Also anyone whose programs I don't know ALL of how to implement by the time I mention them publicly, and any article for which I have even a hint of a question about a "non-compete" responsibility.
Of course, by now Spider Robinson has probably forgotten that he was ever part of the project.
Eventually, I will have to update somehow with the Googleplex, and determine why a certain very popular e-currency processor got mad at me many months ago and terminated my account.
So far I draw in just a little bit of money from things like PTR programs and survey firms and traffic exchanges. My participation in MLM has increased. I was really impressed by linguistics expert Kim Klaver's work...
Several of my book projects are moving forward at the same time thanks to the Steve Mannning System.
Meanwhile, Bryan Mize is off to Hawaii for a week or two.
I have integrated almost 50 programs into the new database, and that is far from all of them.
The principle I am using is very simple...if I build up enough individual streams at different market positions, then at least some of them cannot fail to produce strong money over the long term.
By this time Blogger has implemented a "human check system" to verify that comments are actually coming from people rather than from bots. Bryan wanted me to join up with a new hosting company, but I have already seen their offer several times, and so far I already have more sites than I can handle.
Right now it is obvious that I am actually involved with too many services, and it will take more work to straighten out the final shape of my contracts with the bigger players than with the small ones.
I quietly go about my day, taking surveys, surfing the traffic exchanges, fulfilling PTR scripts so that I can make the programs "pay for themselves" as much as possible. One thing I don't want to do is to become "part of the problem" by telling people where I failed, where I lost a contract, who I am mad at, where the cheaters are.
This is not because I am not concerned with ethics or justice, but because bringing any publicity to cheaters without absolute PROOF only increases ill feeling between the parties involved. I see a lot of that thinking in the PTR industry and among webmasters concerned with search engine optimization questions. While they are busy wasting the energy ragging on each other in various forums, I will be quietly moving up the publicity ladder and the income food-chain.
While the people who know more about program coding than I ever will are busy creating the newest widget for generating blog spam, I quietly surf for individuals with whom I can leave comments that will strengthen them in whatever they are passionate enough to write about.
This is my contribution to personalizing the facelessness of the internet.
I don't join new lists or exchanges to "make money." Money is a side-effect of actually doing the work that fulfills the script...or the contract. So a lot of people will have very "quietly" been handing me money on the small contracts before a bigger deal comes along.
To quote Dr. Dolf DeRoos, partner and friend of financial mentor Robert Kiyosaki ,
the truth of the matter is that "the Deal of the Century actually comes along about once a week." When you really understand the principle that the real money is always in the contracts, not the contacts, not the mailing lists, not always "the other guy's pocket," but that it is all a complicated GAME and it is ALWAYS MOVING, then you are ready to understand why I cannot fail.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Getting Serious About PTR
I haven't been doing as much with the blog lately because I have been getting together some serious stats and information about just how many different potential streams of income are running through here.
One thing I did right over the past few weeks was investing in a neat little Paid To Read database program called The Paid Help This allows me to track earnings for every site and script I currently have anything to do with.
I can't mention any actual earnings here, of course, but the tracking on just a few programs so far is helping me stay much more consistent about participating with the programs I want, and the results show me that money is actually coming in faster than I expected.
Meanwhile I am also tracking a considerably larger deal with one of my MLM clients.
I was promised a 33% share of his downline if I could promote his signup site effectively.
Between these deals and what I got a few months ago from Steve Manning, I can definitely see the light at the end of the poverty tunnel.
One thing I did right over the past few weeks was investing in a neat little Paid To Read database program called The Paid Help This allows me to track earnings for every site and script I currently have anything to do with.
I can't mention any actual earnings here, of course, but the tracking on just a few programs so far is helping me stay much more consistent about participating with the programs I want, and the results show me that money is actually coming in faster than I expected.
Meanwhile I am also tracking a considerably larger deal with one of my MLM clients.
I was promised a 33% share of his downline if I could promote his signup site effectively.
Between these deals and what I got a few months ago from Steve Manning, I can definitely see the light at the end of the poverty tunnel.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Meeting With My First Real Estate Agent
The meeting with my first real estate agent went well, until she tried to bind me into an exclusive contract before showing any properties! There really isn't much more to say, except that I will keep looking on my own...I have seen at least three or four potential deals within the first week of working with this system.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Success,
Wolfspyder
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Continuing My Real Estate Education
Today is my 41st birthday. I just finished a long, loving phone call from my mother. I've also just gotten a powerful course in real estate investing from T.C. and Vickie Bradley. If you are tired of renting, I can create a solution, even if the bank won't talk to you yet.
If you are a Motivated Seller looking to do a FOR SALE BY OWNER, I can get you 101% of your asking price on any deal we close together...and I prefer closing WITHIN 90 days!
For renters who want to be owners... Bad Credit? No Credit? No Equity? NO PROBLEM!
YES, it is THAT powerful!
If you are a Motivated Seller looking to do a FOR SALE BY OWNER, I can get you 101% of your asking price on any deal we close together...and I prefer closing WITHIN 90 days!
For renters who want to be owners... Bad Credit? No Credit? No Equity? NO PROBLEM!
YES, it is THAT powerful!
Thursday, January 26, 2006
The Countdown to Breakout Day
Even a Do-It-Yourself approach eventually works...if you have the patience.
While my lack of transportation and the lack of a viable mailing list is apparently "preventing" the conversion of any new cashflow notes, my next deal should be an incredible boost to my overall portfolio.
What new people who are just joining this process may not understand, is that anything complex or "overcomplicated" about the design of this blog, actually represents the various STAGES of one deal or contract after another that I have entered into over the past two years.
The fact is that I have been working on SEVERAL different income streams SIMULTANEOUSLY, knowing that eventually, some, most, or ALL of the ones which are still in business at the end of that process, will be feeding me new money.
A LOT of people on the net, fail to understand that MOST moneymaking scripts are only dealing with a certain discrete pocket of people...sometimes only a few hundred or a few thousand.
So, you have basically two options to truly make money on the net...charge large fees for specialized information (these can LITERALLY be set at the discretion of the person creating them, generated for pennies on the dollar, and pulled OFF the market at ANY TIME and for ANY REASON) or equip yourself to make SMALL amounts from each sale to an individual user, while advertising to a base audience of at least hundreds of thousands of users at any one time, and accepting that your bottom line profits will be provided by a fraction of that fraction.
Please remember that you are probably NOT seeing this article in it's final form. The competitive advantage I have created for myself in putting it here, is that since I control the words of the text, I have copyright authority (within the legal limits of other contracts, of course) to detamine how the words are arranged, and more or less what they will sell for.
However, the fact remains that as soon as I can close a large enough deal to solve the central problem for which this site was created in the first place, my financial leverage will be completely unlocked by that deal.
When that happens, I will also be able to leverage myself into a better web design...probably at the domain level, and then I practically cannot avoid becoming a Master Marketer!
Why do I say that?
Because so far, most of my marketing efforts have been directed at a process close to "re-inventing the wheel. "
So far I have discovered that the bigger a player is in the internet market, the less chance they have of liking what I am doing. But if they DO like what I am doing here, the midsized fish tend to leave even a dormant account strictly alone for longish periods...and then it becomes yet another potential income stream in my own internet empire!
While my lack of transportation and the lack of a viable mailing list is apparently "preventing" the conversion of any new cashflow notes, my next deal should be an incredible boost to my overall portfolio.
What new people who are just joining this process may not understand, is that anything complex or "overcomplicated" about the design of this blog, actually represents the various STAGES of one deal or contract after another that I have entered into over the past two years.
The fact is that I have been working on SEVERAL different income streams SIMULTANEOUSLY, knowing that eventually, some, most, or ALL of the ones which are still in business at the end of that process, will be feeding me new money.
A LOT of people on the net, fail to understand that MOST moneymaking scripts are only dealing with a certain discrete pocket of people...sometimes only a few hundred or a few thousand.
So, you have basically two options to truly make money on the net...charge large fees for specialized information (these can LITERALLY be set at the discretion of the person creating them, generated for pennies on the dollar, and pulled OFF the market at ANY TIME and for ANY REASON) or equip yourself to make SMALL amounts from each sale to an individual user, while advertising to a base audience of at least hundreds of thousands of users at any one time, and accepting that your bottom line profits will be provided by a fraction of that fraction.
Please remember that you are probably NOT seeing this article in it's final form. The competitive advantage I have created for myself in putting it here, is that since I control the words of the text, I have copyright authority (within the legal limits of other contracts, of course) to detamine how the words are arranged, and more or less what they will sell for.
However, the fact remains that as soon as I can close a large enough deal to solve the central problem for which this site was created in the first place, my financial leverage will be completely unlocked by that deal.
When that happens, I will also be able to leverage myself into a better web design...probably at the domain level, and then I practically cannot avoid becoming a Master Marketer!
Why do I say that?
Because so far, most of my marketing efforts have been directed at a process close to "re-inventing the wheel. "
So far I have discovered that the bigger a player is in the internet market, the less chance they have of liking what I am doing. But if they DO like what I am doing here, the midsized fish tend to leave even a dormant account strictly alone for longish periods...and then it becomes yet another potential income stream in my own internet empire!
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Real Estate Options & Exit Strategy
Ok, folks. Now I need to say something about leverage. The fact is that at this moment, my "complete" business is a sleeping giant...I have more potential income at my fingertips than I could ever possibly use. It's so big after two years of effort, that not even I know the full extent of everything I am involved in.
The learning curve toward my first deal is almost complete...and it only cost me a little more than $10,000. Within three or four weeks, my first real estate deal will be in process and accellerating toward closing.
Two major mistakes I made during all of 2004 and 2005 were...
1) Not having an EXIT STRATEGY.
I am now convinced that this is why 90% or more of all startups fail.
Remember: the money for ANY job, product or service, anywhere, is NOT in the hourly trades.
It's in the CONTRACTS. I can make a millionaire for $20 if I want to. If I know how to structure the right deal, I can make my own million for just $1.00...the problem is in simplifying the build of that contract so that others can understand it...and I might not want to do that, because it increases my competition. :-)
2) Confusing FREE information with WORTHLESS information. Free information need not be WORTHLESS if you get enough of it, nor is it ever worthless if you know how to use it practically.
The learning curve toward my first deal is almost complete...and it only cost me a little more than $10,000. Within three or four weeks, my first real estate deal will be in process and accellerating toward closing.
Two major mistakes I made during all of 2004 and 2005 were...
1) Not having an EXIT STRATEGY.
I am now convinced that this is why 90% or more of all startups fail.
Remember: the money for ANY job, product or service, anywhere, is NOT in the hourly trades.
It's in the CONTRACTS. I can make a millionaire for $20 if I want to. If I know how to structure the right deal, I can make my own million for just $1.00...the problem is in simplifying the build of that contract so that others can understand it...and I might not want to do that, because it increases my competition. :-)
2) Confusing FREE information with WORTHLESS information. Free information need not be WORTHLESS if you get enough of it, nor is it ever worthless if you know how to use it practically.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Paypal Premiere Status
One more way I know I can get more customers (for my own products now!) is by upgrading to Paypal Premiere. Meanwhile, I am slowly going through my email at wolfspyder100@yahoo.com, to determine just how many income streams I currently have which are not too complicated or bound by exclusivity agreements.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
2006 Begins With a Bang!
The first part of 2006, about 2 years into my experiment, is starting off with a bang.
So far I have been following the "Nike Doctrine" for successful investing...Just Do It!
The most successful positions I took in 2005 were the Steve Manning Course, and Myfreeshares.com. As of today, I am also participating in a 101 Day Success Program called "Cracking The Millionaire Code" by Robert G. Allen and Mark Victor Hansen.
The last investment position I took in December 2005 was a credit repair book from Consumer Education Group. It does require a little personal research and effort, but I think I have a new strategy for settling the dispute that helped to begin this project.
Now that I have gotten beyond the attitude barrier so that I am no longer "scared of the numbers," the process of wealth-creation is becoming fun again.
Today I discussed the possibilities of Contract-For-Deed with Larry Tietz.
Just a very preliminary discussion, but it has me thinking hard.
Meanwhile, my novels are all moving forward as well, and options exist to help me study various techniques for No Money Down real estate.
So far I have been following the "Nike Doctrine" for successful investing...Just Do It!
The most successful positions I took in 2005 were the Steve Manning Course, and Myfreeshares.com. As of today, I am also participating in a 101 Day Success Program called "Cracking The Millionaire Code" by Robert G. Allen and Mark Victor Hansen.
The last investment position I took in December 2005 was a credit repair book from Consumer Education Group. It does require a little personal research and effort, but I think I have a new strategy for settling the dispute that helped to begin this project.
Now that I have gotten beyond the attitude barrier so that I am no longer "scared of the numbers," the process of wealth-creation is becoming fun again.
Today I discussed the possibilities of Contract-For-Deed with Larry Tietz.
Just a very preliminary discussion, but it has me thinking hard.
Meanwhile, my novels are all moving forward as well, and options exist to help me study various techniques for No Money Down real estate.
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Result: Creating Cashflow
Success! The note deal between myself and Bryan actually worked!
That allowed me to pick up some major personal coaching at a total net cost of about $10,000.
The Other People's Money principle is working for me, and more leverage is being created by the day. I am looking at getting a FAX machine for Christmas, so that I can stay connected to my various coaches at all times.
Why am I not worried about picking up valid website traffic?
Because I am not presently selling products, nor am I teaching you to sell products.
That all comes from a later stage of the business.
Right now, the LACK of traffic to my site serves as a protection against undesirable legal liabilities. Don't ever let anyone convince you that making money on the net is "one click easy," because that is a pitch designed to separate you from your risk cash.
What have I learned lately?
I learned something even better...how to draw up a Promissory Note.
It's not nearly as complicated as your lawyer or your accountant would have you believe...but that one document, properly executed, can CREATE money for you out of thin air!
All it takes is a desire to exchange money between at least two people, a reasonable amopunt of time for repayment, and (usually) a piece of valuable property to act as "security" for the note, such as a house or a car.
In my particular case, I created a $6,000 or so profit for my first client, literally out of thin air, and used no security whatsoever. Why? Because HE had the money I needed to pay my next financial literacy mentor...who, in turn, had convinced me that he could teach me to deal with sums of money in the high 6-7 figure ranges...by putting myself in the middle of some lucrative, confidential contracts between high-end investors!
One principle I have been using throughout this project, is not to WAIT for anything to become productive. I am pursuing my training in commercial financing, at the same time as I am developing this blog, at the same time as I am writing up the blueprint for my first book according to the Steve Manning system, and learning how to promote two or more different MLM companies, as well as actually generating small amounts of cash from surveys and Paid To Read situations...all of this in the same 24 hour day, and no mention yet of my various affiliate programs.
Meanwhile, the only obligation I have ever taken on in the project, is to see that OTHER PEOPLE get paid...according to whichever of the 3 True Currencies they most want to see at the time.
That's a whole different attitude.
"Do more than what you are paid for, and you will soon be paid for more than you do." I believe master motivator Og Mandino said that...but I would welcome corrections from anyone who knows of a better original source.
Sucess, Wolfspyder
That allowed me to pick up some major personal coaching at a total net cost of about $10,000.
The Other People's Money principle is working for me, and more leverage is being created by the day. I am looking at getting a FAX machine for Christmas, so that I can stay connected to my various coaches at all times.
Why am I not worried about picking up valid website traffic?
Because I am not presently selling products, nor am I teaching you to sell products.
That all comes from a later stage of the business.
Right now, the LACK of traffic to my site serves as a protection against undesirable legal liabilities. Don't ever let anyone convince you that making money on the net is "one click easy," because that is a pitch designed to separate you from your risk cash.
What have I learned lately?
I learned something even better...how to draw up a Promissory Note.
It's not nearly as complicated as your lawyer or your accountant would have you believe...but that one document, properly executed, can CREATE money for you out of thin air!
All it takes is a desire to exchange money between at least two people, a reasonable amopunt of time for repayment, and (usually) a piece of valuable property to act as "security" for the note, such as a house or a car.
In my particular case, I created a $6,000 or so profit for my first client, literally out of thin air, and used no security whatsoever. Why? Because HE had the money I needed to pay my next financial literacy mentor...who, in turn, had convinced me that he could teach me to deal with sums of money in the high 6-7 figure ranges...by putting myself in the middle of some lucrative, confidential contracts between high-end investors!
One principle I have been using throughout this project, is not to WAIT for anything to become productive. I am pursuing my training in commercial financing, at the same time as I am developing this blog, at the same time as I am writing up the blueprint for my first book according to the Steve Manning system, and learning how to promote two or more different MLM companies, as well as actually generating small amounts of cash from surveys and Paid To Read situations...all of this in the same 24 hour day, and no mention yet of my various affiliate programs.
Meanwhile, the only obligation I have ever taken on in the project, is to see that OTHER PEOPLE get paid...according to whichever of the 3 True Currencies they most want to see at the time.
That's a whole different attitude.
"Do more than what you are paid for, and you will soon be paid for more than you do." I believe master motivator Og Mandino said that...but I would welcome corrections from anyone who knows of a better original source.
Sucess, Wolfspyder
Friday, November 04, 2005
My First Financing Angel
I've gathered more than 43 different "Active" streams since the beginning of the project...and the project itself may be terminating quickly because of some unexpected positive results.
It never occurred to me before, but some people have the skills to deal with the really BIG numbers without getting scared...and others will even train you to do that. Steve Manning started the cycle...Now Bryan Mize may be helping to complete it...Why?
Any successful longterm relationship, tends to give a certain amount of political capital over time. Bryan and I have been working together for a long time, "unsuccessfully", at developing our MLM business, and that has led to a lot of other interactions. In the language of the street, what can I say? We're just "tight!"
It's why I offered him a directorate (even before I knew what the directorate was going to do.)
It's why I sponsored him into my Vortex team...
And today, it's why we are looking seriously at doing a commercial financing deal together.
Because with the right skills...there is a place where you can create money out of a proposal, instead of just finding it. I've finally found a trainer I believe can help me do that...and this time, I am keeping his name to myself.
Success,
Wolfspyder
It never occurred to me before, but some people have the skills to deal with the really BIG numbers without getting scared...and others will even train you to do that. Steve Manning started the cycle...Now Bryan Mize may be helping to complete it...Why?
Any successful longterm relationship, tends to give a certain amount of political capital over time. Bryan and I have been working together for a long time, "unsuccessfully", at developing our MLM business, and that has led to a lot of other interactions. In the language of the street, what can I say? We're just "tight!"
It's why I offered him a directorate (even before I knew what the directorate was going to do.)
It's why I sponsored him into my Vortex team...
And today, it's why we are looking seriously at doing a commercial financing deal together.
Because with the right skills...there is a place where you can create money out of a proposal, instead of just finding it. I've finally found a trainer I believe can help me do that...and this time, I am keeping his name to myself.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Result :Paper Bread Crumbs
Today I discovered something amazing, just by doing a search on promissory notes.
These are the same kind of notes that I can get paid commissions for finding.
I am getting closer and closer to being able to almost literally "create" money out of thin air.
The trouble is, the balance I want to create for my notes may actually be TOO SMALL to be interesting.
These are the same kind of notes that I can get paid commissions for finding.
I am getting closer and closer to being able to almost literally "create" money out of thin air.
The trouble is, the balance I want to create for my notes may actually be TOO SMALL to be interesting.
Creating the Domino Effect
So far I have a personal portfolio of more than 40 different income streams, but no particular way of initiating the Domino Effect that I need in order to get them working together. The blog is about two or three times the size it "needs" to be to accomodate the genuinely "active" streams...that is, those for which the primary links are still working, with no hedging about whether I have permission to reference them.
What that comes to, is almost one new COMPLETE BUSINESS every week or two, not counting others that have been buried in my email. All while I am only promoting in one or two traffic exchanges.
So, the first proof that I can develop these skills "for nothing," based mostly on time-trades, is satisfied.
I think I have almost hit upon a secret for the creation of paper.
If I'm right, I can create an escrow account to hold my needed funds "in abeyance" until the original tuition for my next target is satisfied.
I am going to investigate this later today, and of course I will write up the results.
Success,
Wolfspyder
What that comes to, is almost one new COMPLETE BUSINESS every week or two, not counting others that have been buried in my email. All while I am only promoting in one or two traffic exchanges.
So, the first proof that I can develop these skills "for nothing," based mostly on time-trades, is satisfied.
I think I have almost hit upon a secret for the creation of paper.
If I'm right, I can create an escrow account to hold my needed funds "in abeyance" until the original tuition for my next target is satisfied.
I am going to investigate this later today, and of course I will write up the results.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Monday, October 31, 2005
The Value of Overdelivering
One thing I know for sure about Steve Manning...he overdelivers.
This morning I was more than a little worried about paying the asking price for his Write A Book Now course...so, I made a phone call. We had already discussed concerns that the first copy of the course had not arrived on time (who knows what snafu with the delivery service...) so this was perhaps my fourth phone call...every one of which reached him immediately and personally.
Apparently Steve had shipped at least two copies already...only one ever arrived. Partly because only the spam-bots seem to be finding me so far, I am still on my fixed income, as I have discussed for a year and more now...but the instant I raised that concern, my debt was completely forgiven.
(Now if only I can trust that his *payment processor* company believes the same way we do...:-) )
Now, a money-minded man might have worried about the loss of a few hundred dollars in revenue...but Steve knows differently. He knows that "losing" this sale is going to make him a friend for life, and cross-generate an absurdly high number of "free" publicity plugs for him and his business in the forseeable future, because when *I* am rich and famous, word will get around...and even before then, as much as I can.
Steve knows what I mean when I say that the very popular TV show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, is quite simply nothing more than a glorified Sears infomercial, and that there is absolutely nothing wrong with that...because in the end, aggressive publicity MAKES his business, and it IS his business.
Why did it work out this way?
Because his passion really is about turning as many people into successful writers as possible.
I'm not saying he would do the same thing for *anybody*...after all, it wasn't something I was expecting...I am saying that he knows how to deliver what he has promised, and then some.
Success,
Wolfspyder
This morning I was more than a little worried about paying the asking price for his Write A Book Now course...so, I made a phone call. We had already discussed concerns that the first copy of the course had not arrived on time (who knows what snafu with the delivery service...) so this was perhaps my fourth phone call...every one of which reached him immediately and personally.
Apparently Steve had shipped at least two copies already...only one ever arrived. Partly because only the spam-bots seem to be finding me so far, I am still on my fixed income, as I have discussed for a year and more now...but the instant I raised that concern, my debt was completely forgiven.
(Now if only I can trust that his *payment processor* company believes the same way we do...:-) )
Now, a money-minded man might have worried about the loss of a few hundred dollars in revenue...but Steve knows differently. He knows that "losing" this sale is going to make him a friend for life, and cross-generate an absurdly high number of "free" publicity plugs for him and his business in the forseeable future, because when *I* am rich and famous, word will get around...and even before then, as much as I can.
Steve knows what I mean when I say that the very popular TV show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, is quite simply nothing more than a glorified Sears infomercial, and that there is absolutely nothing wrong with that...because in the end, aggressive publicity MAKES his business, and it IS his business.
Why did it work out this way?
Because his passion really is about turning as many people into successful writers as possible.
I'm not saying he would do the same thing for *anybody*...after all, it wasn't something I was expecting...I am saying that he knows how to deliver what he has promised, and then some.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Friday, October 28, 2005
Result:Another Director?
Please Join me now!!!
Does Scott Edwards deserve a wolfpack Elite directorate?
I think so...and the key difference between him and a lot of these other blog spammers, is the focus of his comments on *people* and providing them with success, more than on direct profits.
Scott, if there is anything I can do to help you or your business, please just drop me another line, OK?
Success,
Wolfspyder
Does Scott Edwards deserve a wolfpack Elite directorate?
I think so...and the key difference between him and a lot of these other blog spammers, is the focus of his comments on *people* and providing them with success, more than on direct profits.
Scott, if there is anything I can do to help you or your business, please just drop me another line, OK?
Success,
Wolfspyder
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Doing What You Love, Loving What You Do
This last weekend I discovered a new Delphi Forum where I am at work helping to develop a new online, table-top and LARP RPG system. Today I also went back to TrafficSoldiers and picked up some more exchange credits.
Meanwhile, I also have three or four new book blueprints in development thanks to the
Steve Manning system.
Just as I was surfing away, listening to my Mom's first Jazz piano CD, I also got some good news from her...even Social Security may want to give me more money now because of changes in my parent's work history.
My roommate and I are also being evaluated for personal mobility scooters soon.
If we qualify, it will become much easier to roam about town and look for cashflow notes.
Sharon's tip about Vortex is really turning out to be a hot one, and the news from Bryan is excellent too, since they are also in beta tests of a new internet marketing portal system.
Is anybody beginning to notice a pattern here?
A domino effect, maybe?
That's right...all six of these potential income streams are running in my favor at once, in different stages of development. My *patience* is paying off in a big way. Now, here is the amazing thing...NONE of these actually depend on "knowing what I'm doing."
Why? Because by setting up the blog/book project, I have also staked out a legitimate piece of my own intellectual property...and it will continue towork for me, over and over again, no matter how much more work is involved in reaching the final goal of the project.
It would work for me even if the names I just used had all changed to fit other businesses or other experts. Remember: The First REAL SECRET is that there ARE NO SECRETS.
The True Currency trades are still effective for me, because....
I am doing what I love. I am loving what I do. Not the part about sitting at the computer all day long....the writing, the organizing, the teaching. The possibility of getting paid for what I would do anyway, even if I were not getting paid for it.
There are people who were in business when I began this project, who are not in business any more. I now sort through literally hundreds of new contacts every day, looking for quality deals that won't conflict with each other. There are some very well known providers of "money secrets" all over the place who have literally forgotten that they know my name yet, because the first time we met, I may not have been able to close the money trades that they wanted.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you know what I am finding out about price points for some of this information? When I look hard enough, the same basic information can often be had for $30, as can be had for $300! When you look through enough different sales pitches, they all begin to look the same!
And every single one claims to have the "unbeatable, indisputible, unrepeatable" TOP position in their market through a "magic, secret, amazing new technology" that no one else has!
Why? How can they expect you to believe that, if everybody in the marketplace, for literally every product, in every niche, every single day, is saying the SAME thing about THEIR new
"Ultimate Super People-Finding Widget" that "literally sells itself?"
Because...when you buy someone's intellectual property, what you have been SOLD on, is a certain set of positive assumptions about the integrity of that person or their product. In other words, people will ALWAYS buy based on REPUTATION.
And...people will always think THEMSELVES into the sale, if only YOU can learn how to stay out of their way!
Success,
Wolfspyder
Meanwhile, I also have three or four new book blueprints in development thanks to the
Steve Manning system.
Just as I was surfing away, listening to my Mom's first Jazz piano CD, I also got some good news from her...even Social Security may want to give me more money now because of changes in my parent's work history.
My roommate and I are also being evaluated for personal mobility scooters soon.
If we qualify, it will become much easier to roam about town and look for cashflow notes.
Sharon's tip about Vortex is really turning out to be a hot one, and the news from Bryan is excellent too, since they are also in beta tests of a new internet marketing portal system.
Is anybody beginning to notice a pattern here?
A domino effect, maybe?
That's right...all six of these potential income streams are running in my favor at once, in different stages of development. My *patience* is paying off in a big way. Now, here is the amazing thing...NONE of these actually depend on "knowing what I'm doing."
Why? Because by setting up the blog/book project, I have also staked out a legitimate piece of my own intellectual property...and it will continue towork for me, over and over again, no matter how much more work is involved in reaching the final goal of the project.
It would work for me even if the names I just used had all changed to fit other businesses or other experts. Remember: The First REAL SECRET is that there ARE NO SECRETS.
The True Currency trades are still effective for me, because....
I am doing what I love. I am loving what I do. Not the part about sitting at the computer all day long....the writing, the organizing, the teaching. The possibility of getting paid for what I would do anyway, even if I were not getting paid for it.
There are people who were in business when I began this project, who are not in business any more. I now sort through literally hundreds of new contacts every day, looking for quality deals that won't conflict with each other. There are some very well known providers of "money secrets" all over the place who have literally forgotten that they know my name yet, because the first time we met, I may not have been able to close the money trades that they wanted.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you know what I am finding out about price points for some of this information? When I look hard enough, the same basic information can often be had for $30, as can be had for $300! When you look through enough different sales pitches, they all begin to look the same!
And every single one claims to have the "unbeatable, indisputible, unrepeatable" TOP position in their market through a "magic, secret, amazing new technology" that no one else has!
Why? How can they expect you to believe that, if everybody in the marketplace, for literally every product, in every niche, every single day, is saying the SAME thing about THEIR new
"Ultimate Super People-Finding Widget" that "literally sells itself?"
Because...when you buy someone's intellectual property, what you have been SOLD on, is a certain set of positive assumptions about the integrity of that person or their product. In other words, people will ALWAYS buy based on REPUTATION.
And...people will always think THEMSELVES into the sale, if only YOU can learn how to stay out of their way!
Success,
Wolfspyder
Monday, October 17, 2005
Steve Manning's Course Arrives
I am excited...Steve Manning's master course just got here. More than that...it CAN deliever exactly what was promised. So...the countdown has begun! Within about two weeks, I should have my first blueprint developed, perhaps even less.
I have also learned more than a few lessons about the pricing of intellectual property... but then that is another subject altogether.
Success,
Wolfspyder
I have also learned more than a few lessons about the pricing of intellectual property... but then that is another subject altogether.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
The Blog Spam Invasion
Lately I am being spammed by a lot of people who are not attatched to the Project at all and don't want to be...as a result of this I can no longer offer Directorates without some better indications that I am at very least talking to a living human being rather than a Bot.
I am still waiting for the arrival of the Write A Book Now! course...and there are still wonderful things happening with Vortex.
I am still waiting for the arrival of the Write A Book Now! course...and there are still wonderful things happening with Vortex.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Can I CREATE Cashflow Paper?
I was reviewing my course on cashflow note trades the other day (sorry I can't mention the name here as I am not a formally registered affiliate, just a student of the program) and something occurred to me...if a cashflow note is simply a binding IOU, wouldn't it be possible to CREATE some cashflow paper AROUND the investment deal I want to transact?
To test the Due Dilligence aspects, I recently filed a post in the Paper Assets thread of the Richdad community forums. What I want to do is to create a legally tight, saleable cashflow note or notes, with attractive enough terms to interest the original buyers, for which I can then use the resulting cash-stream to finance the tuition for the A.D. Kessler real estate course I was offered several months ago...
The main problem of course, being the "seasoning" or securing of the note to viable real assets...I have no doubt that the Kessler training will teach me enough techniques to acquire real estate assets quickly using Other People's Money, but how to offer complete strangers a solidly justified impression of safety in case of "my" default, is another question entirely.
I want to have all these aspects neatly and ethically resolved before I actually offer any such notes for a private sale. if any of my tiny but growing audience has any useful input on the questions above, please don't hesitate to contact me here.
Success, Wolfspyder
To test the Due Dilligence aspects, I recently filed a post in the Paper Assets thread of the Richdad community forums. What I want to do is to create a legally tight, saleable cashflow note or notes, with attractive enough terms to interest the original buyers, for which I can then use the resulting cash-stream to finance the tuition for the A.D. Kessler real estate course I was offered several months ago...
The main problem of course, being the "seasoning" or securing of the note to viable real assets...I have no doubt that the Kessler training will teach me enough techniques to acquire real estate assets quickly using Other People's Money, but how to offer complete strangers a solidly justified impression of safety in case of "my" default, is another question entirely.
I want to have all these aspects neatly and ethically resolved before I actually offer any such notes for a private sale. if any of my tiny but growing audience has any useful input on the questions above, please don't hesitate to contact me here.
Success, Wolfspyder
Monday, October 03, 2005
I'm Writing a Book NOW! :')
Well, today I took another big risk. I actually ordered Steve Manning's information on writeabooknow.com. What I have discovered lately is that my own marketing efforts will work much better when I actually believe in the products I am affiliated with.
Of course, just by putting together the blog, I am also "writing a book" in the same step...it's simply moving a lot more slowly than his techniques will. I figured the risk this way...the pricetag for the master course could potentially be "difficult" for the next month or two, given my current stream of fixed income...on the other hand, if the techniques work to allow me to write a book within 14, 15, or even 30 days, that would turn the sale of that book into "the" deal that begins to unlock all of the other income streams on the site... And the leverage against my True Currency of TIME is HUGE.
Does it worry me that I "can't" pay for the course? Not for at least 30 days, it won't...and my roommate may help pay, since she wants to use the course with me. Meanwhile I am also playing to my STRONGEST talent...the writing itself. This becomes a win-win situation between me and Mr. Manning, and produces more business and an increase in reputation for both of us.
For the Rich, money is simply a numbers game. Investments are always about balancing risks with returns. October, as the "last" month of the business year (yes I know about the "big holiday sales boom" coming up in November and December) is just about the PERFECT time to take this sort of risk...why?
Well. let's assume that the techniques in this course work only HALF as well as suggested, and that I can't expect to get any more work done on my book(s) AT ALL during November and December.
WORST case, I will still HAVE the course to study during January...and February 2006...and March...and April... And if there were not SOMETHING worthwhile to learn from it, Mr. Manning would long ago have been sued for the resulting fraud, yes? Of course he would!
Which brings me back to the advantages of self-designed intellectual property.
THIS project doesn't have to be my FIRST book...it may work a lot better if it ISN'T my first book. But...there will only have to be ONE. to open doors professionally to many, many others, EACH of which is a separate STREAM of income, rights, and royalties.
A book is a simple, direct way of leveraging TIME you have already spent, into MONEY for your valuable information, and also more CONTACTS than you may know what to do with.
I never said I wouldn't be spending MY OWN money on the project...only that I wouldn't be spending yours. So...when the course arrives, I will be counting down "live" on the site, as part of my own test-drive.
Meanwhile, as always, I wish for you
Success, Wolfspyder
Of course, just by putting together the blog, I am also "writing a book" in the same step...it's simply moving a lot more slowly than his techniques will. I figured the risk this way...the pricetag for the master course could potentially be "difficult" for the next month or two, given my current stream of fixed income...on the other hand, if the techniques work to allow me to write a book within 14, 15, or even 30 days, that would turn the sale of that book into "the" deal that begins to unlock all of the other income streams on the site... And the leverage against my True Currency of TIME is HUGE.
Does it worry me that I "can't" pay for the course? Not for at least 30 days, it won't...and my roommate may help pay, since she wants to use the course with me. Meanwhile I am also playing to my STRONGEST talent...the writing itself. This becomes a win-win situation between me and Mr. Manning, and produces more business and an increase in reputation for both of us.
For the Rich, money is simply a numbers game. Investments are always about balancing risks with returns. October, as the "last" month of the business year (yes I know about the "big holiday sales boom" coming up in November and December) is just about the PERFECT time to take this sort of risk...why?
Well. let's assume that the techniques in this course work only HALF as well as suggested, and that I can't expect to get any more work done on my book(s) AT ALL during November and December.
WORST case, I will still HAVE the course to study during January...and February 2006...and March...and April... And if there were not SOMETHING worthwhile to learn from it, Mr. Manning would long ago have been sued for the resulting fraud, yes? Of course he would!
Which brings me back to the advantages of self-designed intellectual property.
THIS project doesn't have to be my FIRST book...it may work a lot better if it ISN'T my first book. But...there will only have to be ONE. to open doors professionally to many, many others, EACH of which is a separate STREAM of income, rights, and royalties.
A book is a simple, direct way of leveraging TIME you have already spent, into MONEY for your valuable information, and also more CONTACTS than you may know what to do with.
I never said I wouldn't be spending MY OWN money on the project...only that I wouldn't be spending yours. So...when the course arrives, I will be counting down "live" on the site, as part of my own test-drive.
Meanwhile, as always, I wish for you
Success, Wolfspyder
Friday, September 16, 2005
Scouting For Cashflow Notes and Debt Relief
This week I touched off something powerful when I began to approach some "debt resolution" companies. Make no mistake about it...DEBT is big business!
I also have a notice up about my need for a transit assistant at Minnesota State University...I am offering a small but significant cash bonus to anyone who can provide transportation to the local land records office so I can see about matching up local mortgage/cashflow notes with some private investors.
Also, it is possible (just barely) that I may be able to qualify for a loan from the federal Small Business Administration..especially since I now have easily documentable proofs (this website, for one) of having started SEVERAL businesses.
One thing I have learned about debt and risk...no matter how big the number, it is still just a number. The trick is in keeping your risk PROPORTIONAL to your available assets.
Real professionals are not bothered by the word "no."
EVERY contact can be made more valuable, even when a proper "fit" doesn't necessarily arise immediately. Your most valuable question at such times may be, "well, do know anyone else who might be interested?"
(Kim Klaver Principle).
How did I make my own luck in this situation?
I INTENTIONALLY set myself up to do TOO MUCH work to fail.
(Hello fellow R.A.H. Fans!)
Time has worked in my favor all along...chances are you won't be seeing a lot of the in-between stages and "failures" in my work.
I also have a notice up about my need for a transit assistant at Minnesota State University...I am offering a small but significant cash bonus to anyone who can provide transportation to the local land records office so I can see about matching up local mortgage/cashflow notes with some private investors.
Also, it is possible (just barely) that I may be able to qualify for a loan from the federal Small Business Administration..especially since I now have easily documentable proofs (this website, for one) of having started SEVERAL businesses.
One thing I have learned about debt and risk...no matter how big the number, it is still just a number. The trick is in keeping your risk PROPORTIONAL to your available assets.
Real professionals are not bothered by the word "no."
EVERY contact can be made more valuable, even when a proper "fit" doesn't necessarily arise immediately. Your most valuable question at such times may be, "well, do know anyone else who might be interested?"
(Kim Klaver Principle).
How did I make my own luck in this situation?
I INTENTIONALLY set myself up to do TOO MUCH work to fail.
(Hello fellow R.A.H. Fans!)
Time has worked in my favor all along...chances are you won't be seeing a lot of the in-between stages and "failures" in my work.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
To The Solipsographer :Applied Solipsism
A direct quote from Applied Solipsism, the number two site on the solipsist "pilososophy" according to Google...I suppose that since it also states that a solipsist "can't" be argued with, that will have to satisfy me as to any "inconsistencies" I find in the position, since I AM ACTUALLY just A FIGMENT OF THE SOLIPSOGRAPHER'S IMAGINATION...so he won't need to bother telling me just how badly I have "oversimplified"...the ACT of argument is ALREADY inconsistent enough....
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What is solipsism about?
Don't worry, it is quite simple. There are basically three philosophic tendencies that carry the name solipsism. To cut a long (very long) story short I will try to describe the "reality/metaphysical solipsism" or "subjective idealism" meant in this campaign (as opposed to "egoism" and "knowledge / epistemological solipsism") in my own, simple words. I am not a philosopher and it's actually quite easy for anyone to comprehend.
Solipsism states that "reality" - e.g., the sky, air, colors, this computer screen, the people walking around - are just a projection of the mind that experiences it, or: self is the whole of reality; only I exist.
The human mind has no valid ground for believing in the existence of anything but itself. There is no independent existence of an external material world, nothing but the self exists. The things of my environment, including other minds, are merely inventions of my conscience. Conscience is my conscience.
From a personal point of view, the universe for you only exists because you experience it. For you, it exists because YOU exist. If you're dead (blackness as a poor metaphor for the absence of ANY sensoric input) it will not exist for you anymore; the universe might still be there, but you couldn't tell, it doesn't exist for you anymore. Therefore, subjectively, the universe only exists because YOU exist. From there, it is only a small step to realize (or "wrongly assume", if you're not a solipsist) that the universe only exists in your mind / imagination.
Now, some of you will say (to coin it colloquially) "hey, if this is *my* universe, how come it sucks so bad?"; the answer to that is simple. Just because it only exists in your imagination doesn't mean that this projection of your mind has to be a pleasant one and/or could be intentionally completely controlled/molded/modified by you, just like you are unable to intentionally/consciously control/change/influence your dreams. You might have a good, pleasant dream or you might dream a nightmare, either way, it is uncontrollable yet it is still _your_ dream, noone else has it.
(Maybe you, like me, as a child have often wondered wether I am not just merely dreaming everything (and I was afraid what would happen when I woke up...). Well, this is a basic form of solipsism, I gave it the term "Lebenstraum" or "LifeDream". Later I found out that Descartes, too, alleged that reality was a "dream", "inventions of my mind" (although in effect he contradicted that). The term "LifeDream" shall henceforth be used here as a way to roughly describe solipsism, it is a familiar term we can work with, but we have to keep in mind that it is not the exactly same sensation normally associated with the expression "dream".)
Solipsism: the world is yours...
A solipsist does not try to define reality - he accepts it as his world. A solipsist can not be argued with, since everything you are telling him he believes he is more or less telling himself. You are, after all, just existing in his imagination. This does not, however, mean, that this LifeDream is always pleasant or that you can't influence it. It does not mean you should not / could not for example help a person in need or behave at all in a certain way. That is your way to take influence on your dream...Things do happen in this LifeDream, you can still help a needy person and feel good about something or experience pain.
Solipsism - a philosophical drug ?!
The facts above are not just strikingly logical but also have large consequences. One could argue that solipsism is a good excuse for arrogance. But this ignores the basic aim, no, wrong word, principle of solipsism. If at all it is a very subtle and hardly attackable nuance of arrogance as an unintended side effect of solipsism.
But it has great other potential. If you feel mistreated, your job is lousy, your relationship is a mess, people are annoying you all day, or a certain event or your life in general is a hassle - just remember, it is all yours, it is your dream, it all exists only in your imagination, your LifeDream; if it wasn't for you, none of it would exist. Solipsism is true solace, better than any drug.
But it is also a very dangerous idea. If one gets too indulged into it he might get carried away. If taken very serious and if you believe in it and think about it too much, the effects are just like other drugs.
************************************************************************************Ahah...so you despise me and refuse me dignity because you are actually a DRUG-ADDICT! :-))) All becomes suddenly clear...Be thankful, Sir, that your plight takes place in the 21st Century, where at least it is a LEGAL drug and will not get you pilloried or burned at the stake, for example...what a terribly unpleasant dream you have made out of me!
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What is solipsism about?
Don't worry, it is quite simple. There are basically three philosophic tendencies that carry the name solipsism. To cut a long (very long) story short I will try to describe the "reality/metaphysical solipsism" or "subjective idealism" meant in this campaign (as opposed to "egoism" and "knowledge / epistemological solipsism") in my own, simple words. I am not a philosopher and it's actually quite easy for anyone to comprehend.
Solipsism states that "reality" - e.g., the sky, air, colors, this computer screen, the people walking around - are just a projection of the mind that experiences it, or: self is the whole of reality; only I exist.
The human mind has no valid ground for believing in the existence of anything but itself. There is no independent existence of an external material world, nothing but the self exists. The things of my environment, including other minds, are merely inventions of my conscience. Conscience is my conscience.
From a personal point of view, the universe for you only exists because you experience it. For you, it exists because YOU exist. If you're dead (blackness as a poor metaphor for the absence of ANY sensoric input) it will not exist for you anymore; the universe might still be there, but you couldn't tell, it doesn't exist for you anymore. Therefore, subjectively, the universe only exists because YOU exist. From there, it is only a small step to realize (or "wrongly assume", if you're not a solipsist) that the universe only exists in your mind / imagination.
Now, some of you will say (to coin it colloquially) "hey, if this is *my* universe, how come it sucks so bad?"; the answer to that is simple. Just because it only exists in your imagination doesn't mean that this projection of your mind has to be a pleasant one and/or could be intentionally completely controlled/molded/modified by you, just like you are unable to intentionally/consciously control/change/influence your dreams. You might have a good, pleasant dream or you might dream a nightmare, either way, it is uncontrollable yet it is still _your_ dream, noone else has it.
(Maybe you, like me, as a child have often wondered wether I am not just merely dreaming everything (and I was afraid what would happen when I woke up...). Well, this is a basic form of solipsism, I gave it the term "Lebenstraum" or "LifeDream". Later I found out that Descartes, too, alleged that reality was a "dream", "inventions of my mind" (although in effect he contradicted that). The term "LifeDream" shall henceforth be used here as a way to roughly describe solipsism, it is a familiar term we can work with, but we have to keep in mind that it is not the exactly same sensation normally associated with the expression "dream".)
Solipsism: the world is yours...
A solipsist does not try to define reality - he accepts it as his world. A solipsist can not be argued with, since everything you are telling him he believes he is more or less telling himself. You are, after all, just existing in his imagination. This does not, however, mean, that this LifeDream is always pleasant or that you can't influence it. It does not mean you should not / could not for example help a person in need or behave at all in a certain way. That is your way to take influence on your dream...Things do happen in this LifeDream, you can still help a needy person and feel good about something or experience pain.
Solipsism - a philosophical drug ?!
The facts above are not just strikingly logical but also have large consequences. One could argue that solipsism is a good excuse for arrogance. But this ignores the basic aim, no, wrong word, principle of solipsism. If at all it is a very subtle and hardly attackable nuance of arrogance as an unintended side effect of solipsism.
But it has great other potential. If you feel mistreated, your job is lousy, your relationship is a mess, people are annoying you all day, or a certain event or your life in general is a hassle - just remember, it is all yours, it is your dream, it all exists only in your imagination, your LifeDream; if it wasn't for you, none of it would exist. Solipsism is true solace, better than any drug.
But it is also a very dangerous idea. If one gets too indulged into it he might get carried away. If taken very serious and if you believe in it and think about it too much, the effects are just like other drugs.
************************************************************************************Ahah...so you despise me and refuse me dignity because you are actually a DRUG-ADDICT! :-))) All becomes suddenly clear...Be thankful, Sir, that your plight takes place in the 21st Century, where at least it is a LEGAL drug and will not get you pilloried or burned at the stake, for example...what a terribly unpleasant dream you have made out of me!
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Learning to Count Backwards...
I have decided that I am going about this all wrong.
I really ought to be counting BACKWARDS from 1001, in order to see where the progress of the central project really is.
Meanwhile, here is another listbuilder I found just this morning.
I really ought to be counting BACKWARDS from 1001, in order to see where the progress of the central project really is.
Meanwhile, here is another listbuilder I found just this morning.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
VOIP Numbers
OK. I know it has been a while since I posted here. But wonderful things are happening in the Vortex Marketing Group, as well as with my older Prime Directives project.
Now I have a few new Benefactor Voucher codes of my own to give away, and I have decided to RESERVE a special Yahoo address just for communicating with my Vortex people.
If you would like to recieve a FREE Benefactor Voucher code, please email me HERE before the 1st of October 2005.
Now I have a few new Benefactor Voucher codes of my own to give away, and I have decided to RESERVE a special Yahoo address just for communicating with my Vortex people.
If you would like to recieve a FREE Benefactor Voucher code, please email me HERE before the 1st of October 2005.
Saturday, July 30, 2005
My Computer Is Upgraded
Well, the old Gateway finally died...and since my brothers now recognize that the internet has become such a vital part of my daily personal and business life, they bought me a new computer with about 20 times my previous hard-drive space! :-)
I suspect that by the time I need to upgrade again, standard memory cores will run well into the terrabyte ranges.
Also, I am trying hard to leverage two of my PAID investments together into a single new portfolio position...Imagine my surprise when I found that one provider had not even heard of the other!
Larry Tietz wants to put together another part of the project for Business-To-Business solicitations of some kind...he hasn't left me any details yet.
And the Infidels continue to badger London...newsflash, boys: They did not bow the last time you entered into an unholy alliance for tyranny with the racist idiot Hitler, and they will not bow down to your fatally idolatrous misperceptions about the Prophet, nor about The One who watches you, either. Suicide remains a sin, whether literal or ideological in conception.
Your deaths will be righteous and better rewarded only when you have come to realize the futility of enslaving the entire feminine half of your own corporate and national soul...until then you remain infidels from first Sura unto last, and die in a futility which brings shame upon your entire line and House.
Peace Be Upon the Makers of Peace...
Amen.
I suspect that by the time I need to upgrade again, standard memory cores will run well into the terrabyte ranges.
Also, I am trying hard to leverage two of my PAID investments together into a single new portfolio position...Imagine my surprise when I found that one provider had not even heard of the other!
Larry Tietz wants to put together another part of the project for Business-To-Business solicitations of some kind...he hasn't left me any details yet.
And the Infidels continue to badger London...newsflash, boys: They did not bow the last time you entered into an unholy alliance for tyranny with the racist idiot Hitler, and they will not bow down to your fatally idolatrous misperceptions about the Prophet, nor about The One who watches you, either. Suicide remains a sin, whether literal or ideological in conception.
Your deaths will be righteous and better rewarded only when you have come to realize the futility of enslaving the entire feminine half of your own corporate and national soul...until then you remain infidels from first Sura unto last, and die in a futility which brings shame upon your entire line and House.
Peace Be Upon the Makers of Peace...
Amen.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Opinion: Hazards of Being Poor
My room mate reports for annual welfare recertification tomorrow afternoon...at her own expense. This may not seem like a big deal, unless Uncle Sam conveniently "forgot" to issue a Social Security check in the first place, despite being notified more than a month in advance that her bank had recently changed.
Added to this, was a notice I had recieved two days ago, to the effect that I was potentially responsible for the full replacement costs of two compact discs from obscure labels I had never heard of, and a hardback book I which had recently returned to a mutual acquaintance, courtesy of our county public library system...
The problem?
All three items were checked to my library card...by a "recently" fired ex-PCA who had not seen me in more than six weeks, and had, of course, done so without my permission.
Of course, it doesn't help matters that in addition to being "between" Personal Care Aides, we are also just as much between medical doctors, social workers, AND psychotherapists, all at the same instant, before buying groceries or doing laundry for the month.
So...it will take about 20% of our remaining monthly household income, just to get to an appointment we don't want, and be peered at and shamed as if we are trying to "game the System," by a brand new kid fresh out of the latest incarnation of the Radical Left's Social Engineering Directorate...
End of today's political rant.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Added to this, was a notice I had recieved two days ago, to the effect that I was potentially responsible for the full replacement costs of two compact discs from obscure labels I had never heard of, and a hardback book I which had recently returned to a mutual acquaintance, courtesy of our county public library system...
The problem?
All three items were checked to my library card...by a "recently" fired ex-PCA who had not seen me in more than six weeks, and had, of course, done so without my permission.
Of course, it doesn't help matters that in addition to being "between" Personal Care Aides, we are also just as much between medical doctors, social workers, AND psychotherapists, all at the same instant, before buying groceries or doing laundry for the month.
So...it will take about 20% of our remaining monthly household income, just to get to an appointment we don't want, and be peered at and shamed as if we are trying to "game the System," by a brand new kid fresh out of the latest incarnation of the Radical Left's Social Engineering Directorate...
End of today's political rant.
Success,
Wolfspyder
Friday, July 08, 2005
Opinion: Deals, Deals Everwhere...
...and hardly a moment to think.
At this point, the flow of my work is probably going to slow down a bit, so that I can pay proper maintainance attention to some of the many deals I already have "cooking."
If I seem to have been "plugging" certain people a lot lately, it is only because those are the people with whom I have developed the deepest, most productive contacts recently.
There is a direct relationship in any marketing situation, between endorsing a product "correctly," and endorsing it personally.
I know now that one of my earliest business mistakes, was in trying to get others to spend money on certain products before I would (or could) do so myself...that very thing is what created some of the mistaken "hype" offers in my earliest posts.
Right now, there are several simultaneous business deals going on "behind the scenes" in this project, any one of which could easily "go critical" at any given moment...and no single one of them involves "selling products" in any conventional sense.
My Simultaneous Tasks Include (But Are Not Limited To...)
1. I try to write at least one valid blog entry every day.
2. If my blog entry mentions or links to another person or website, I must take steps to notify the decision makers/agents for that person or website, that they have been referenced in the blog project.
3. Checking my primary email (not listed here). Respond to any of my close contacts.
4. Surfing other people's blogs, looking for where I can leave in-context comments which are related strictly TO THAT BLOG, not necessarily to my businesses. This generates extra "random" profile-views and possible contacts.
5. Check secondary/PTR email accounts, for paid script traffic, or simply to clear out old or expired messages.
6. Try to correct at least one known tech issue or "style error" in the blog every day.
7. Try to "list with" at least one new affilliate program, income stream, or traffic index every day.
8. Surf with Traffic Exchange programs.
9. Struggle & juggle with any known legal or "due dilligence" concerns about the blog or the book project.
10. Continue to develop and teach the manuscript for "Prime Directives" bible study project.
11. Promote my existing business relationships with several MLM programs.
12. Seek out real estate and Cash Flow Notes.
13. Satisfy Uncle Sam's constant queries about my current legal and medical status.
14. Develop a structured business plan, in case it might help with either my attempts to obtain a government grant, support from a "corporate angel," or in defense against a near-certain eventual legal challenge or lawsuit.
15. Check Google and other search engines for new results from my traffic...and try to visit at least one site in my "empire" that hasn't seen me in a while.
16. Keep my mind and emotions clear and balanced by indulging myself in regular and disciplined creative play.
Simultaneously? I can hear the objections now...nobody can do all those things at once! True...sometimes I don't get to them all...sometimes I don't get to any of them. Life, after all, does have a peculiar way of making offline demands, as well as the simpler, online ones I have listed here.
So, are my listed items in a priority order?
Yes...but I cheat. In my mind, the one that has the strongest priority actually goes LAST...or rather, it went last this time because since it has the strongest foundation for me, it is the easiest and "briefest" to do.
"Disciplined" creative play? Aren't playfulness and discipline supposed to be logical opposites? Well...not as often as you might think.
I believe implicitly that creativity is a learnable, trainable process....and playfulness is essential in developing a creative mindset. I also believe that generating wealth is a team sport, and that intellectual property has wonderful value as "real estate."
Why is my project so diverse? Why does it seem to go in so many different directions all at once, if I KNOW that I can't possibly devote solid, sustainable effort to them all?
For that matter, why don't I just speed up the business process, generate more web traffic faster, and finally "decide" which products I "really believe in" or "really want to sell?"
Because I don't want to sell.
My "sale" will happen when YOU are ready for it, and not one instant before. Anything less would be just another GRQ--another Get Rich Quick con.
In any market, the PLAYERS will constantly change, but the principles of the GAME remain the same. I write every day, as if I am addressing tens of thousands of people, in all sorts of circumstances, because eventually I KNOW that I will be.
Recently, a marketing friend told me flat out that he believed I can write excellent commercial copy. I was flattered, even though I have never tried to write consciously to that purpose.
Do I want to? Don't I want my products and affiliate programs to sell, and sell quickly? Of course...but not at any unecessary expense to my ethics. I will take any contract he wants to broker for me, and I will do my best at it, passion and all...but I had to turn down his first offer, because it involved writing for an area in which I had no direct experience.
The fact is that when this project began, I was only trying to do one thing...write MYSELF out of a corner. The rest of it is all working because I am working...and before I am finished, it will have entered the "automatic" income phase.
Can I make you some free money?
That depends more on you than on me.
Right now, I can only make a little bit of money for my Wolfpack Elite partners...and maybe a lot more for some of my corporate partners.
It's a race...Can I keep up with all the TIME CHALLENGES?
will I find the CONTACTS, or the MONEY, first?
Will it come from SELLING, or from WRITING,or from BROKERING DEALS, or from ENDORSEMENTS, or from THE GOVERNMENT?
I don't know...I don't care. Trying to control those sorts of outcomes actually PREVENTS me from doing the work necessary to make it happen.
Meanwhile...I am going to go watch some saturday cartoons.
Playfulness is key to creativity...
Sucess,
Wolfspyder
At this point, the flow of my work is probably going to slow down a bit, so that I can pay proper maintainance attention to some of the many deals I already have "cooking."
If I seem to have been "plugging" certain people a lot lately, it is only because those are the people with whom I have developed the deepest, most productive contacts recently.
There is a direct relationship in any marketing situation, between endorsing a product "correctly," and endorsing it personally.
I know now that one of my earliest business mistakes, was in trying to get others to spend money on certain products before I would (or could) do so myself...that very thing is what created some of the mistaken "hype" offers in my earliest posts.
Right now, there are several simultaneous business deals going on "behind the scenes" in this project, any one of which could easily "go critical" at any given moment...and no single one of them involves "selling products" in any conventional sense.
My Simultaneous Tasks Include (But Are Not Limited To...)
1. I try to write at least one valid blog entry every day.
2. If my blog entry mentions or links to another person or website, I must take steps to notify the decision makers/agents for that person or website, that they have been referenced in the blog project.
3. Checking my primary email (not listed here). Respond to any of my close contacts.
4. Surfing other people's blogs, looking for where I can leave in-context comments which are related strictly TO THAT BLOG, not necessarily to my businesses. This generates extra "random" profile-views and possible contacts.
5. Check secondary/PTR email accounts, for paid script traffic, or simply to clear out old or expired messages.
6. Try to correct at least one known tech issue or "style error" in the blog every day.
7. Try to "list with" at least one new affilliate program, income stream, or traffic index every day.
8. Surf with Traffic Exchange programs.
9. Struggle & juggle with any known legal or "due dilligence" concerns about the blog or the book project.
10. Continue to develop and teach the manuscript for "Prime Directives" bible study project.
11. Promote my existing business relationships with several MLM programs.
12. Seek out real estate and Cash Flow Notes.
13. Satisfy Uncle Sam's constant queries about my current legal and medical status.
14. Develop a structured business plan, in case it might help with either my attempts to obtain a government grant, support from a "corporate angel," or in defense against a near-certain eventual legal challenge or lawsuit.
15. Check Google and other search engines for new results from my traffic...and try to visit at least one site in my "empire" that hasn't seen me in a while.
16. Keep my mind and emotions clear and balanced by indulging myself in regular and disciplined creative play.
Simultaneously? I can hear the objections now...nobody can do all those things at once! True...sometimes I don't get to them all...sometimes I don't get to any of them. Life, after all, does have a peculiar way of making offline demands, as well as the simpler, online ones I have listed here.
So, are my listed items in a priority order?
Yes...but I cheat. In my mind, the one that has the strongest priority actually goes LAST...or rather, it went last this time because since it has the strongest foundation for me, it is the easiest and "briefest" to do.
"Disciplined" creative play? Aren't playfulness and discipline supposed to be logical opposites? Well...not as often as you might think.
I believe implicitly that creativity is a learnable, trainable process....and playfulness is essential in developing a creative mindset. I also believe that generating wealth is a team sport, and that intellectual property has wonderful value as "real estate."
Why is my project so diverse? Why does it seem to go in so many different directions all at once, if I KNOW that I can't possibly devote solid, sustainable effort to them all?
For that matter, why don't I just speed up the business process, generate more web traffic faster, and finally "decide" which products I "really believe in" or "really want to sell?"
Because I don't want to sell.
My "sale" will happen when YOU are ready for it, and not one instant before. Anything less would be just another GRQ--another Get Rich Quick con.
In any market, the PLAYERS will constantly change, but the principles of the GAME remain the same. I write every day, as if I am addressing tens of thousands of people, in all sorts of circumstances, because eventually I KNOW that I will be.
Recently, a marketing friend told me flat out that he believed I can write excellent commercial copy. I was flattered, even though I have never tried to write consciously to that purpose.
Do I want to? Don't I want my products and affiliate programs to sell, and sell quickly? Of course...but not at any unecessary expense to my ethics. I will take any contract he wants to broker for me, and I will do my best at it, passion and all...but I had to turn down his first offer, because it involved writing for an area in which I had no direct experience.
The fact is that when this project began, I was only trying to do one thing...write MYSELF out of a corner. The rest of it is all working because I am working...and before I am finished, it will have entered the "automatic" income phase.
Can I make you some free money?
That depends more on you than on me.
Right now, I can only make a little bit of money for my Wolfpack Elite partners...and maybe a lot more for some of my corporate partners.
It's a race...Can I keep up with all the TIME CHALLENGES?
will I find the CONTACTS, or the MONEY, first?
Will it come from SELLING, or from WRITING,or from BROKERING DEALS, or from ENDORSEMENTS, or from THE GOVERNMENT?
I don't know...I don't care. Trying to control those sorts of outcomes actually PREVENTS me from doing the work necessary to make it happen.
Meanwhile...I am going to go watch some saturday cartoons.
Playfulness is key to creativity...
Sucess,
Wolfspyder
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