THE SITUATION: There will be disruptions. And the church
seems monetarily weak. Debts/defaults, job losses, increased poverty, moral
crises…and to do things costs.
[This could be stated MUCH more
radically]
Disruptions where? 1—From increased technology. It increases
the space over which one can operate, decreases the time it takes to do
something, and destroys old groups.*
And 2—From changes in governing. [This could also be stated MUCH more
radically]
But this is the best time in history to make money.
A SOLUTION: Everyone needs another source
of income, preferably internet-based. (Gary
‘2 hours a day’ North) He’s written 40+ books in 2 hours a day since 1973.
--
I’ll help.**
What seem to be some of the best options?
1—You Talk. I Write. Your Book. (If businessmen with money
are approached in the right way by showing them how to use a book (electronic)
to gain new customers, and what the
lifetime value of a new customer is, namely, the number of years a
customer/client stays with a business, times the amount of business done, times
the profit margin. [5 years x $1000 per
year @ 10% margin equals $500, for example].
Use talk to text or
Naturally Speaking. The 5 Most Dangerous Threats to Your _____ Busimess in the
Year Ahead.
2—Grow Food Not Lawns (Covault Gardening). Customer has
lawn, customer pays gardener, gardener tills (if necessary), plants, weeds (or
uses straw or hay, etc.), and customer harvests, eats, enjoys. Many additional services can be offered.
Examples: Year One, do gardens and write
a book as you go. Year Two, sell book and do consulting, and expand services.
Year Three, do a membership site. @ $5 a month x 500 people this would provide
good income.
3—Community Supported Artist. This is good, but almost
impossible.
4—There may be some way to become a teacher in various niche
curricula, such as the Ron Paul Curriculum.
In that one (RPC) the teachers get half the course fee, and teach only
by video lecture.
6--If 50% of the food is wasted, there’s something of value
to be done. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jan/10/half-world-food-waste
7--There are many other opportunities. Here’s a client of mine who has published
ebooks. He’ll help in that area for a fee. One of his books:http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-reason-season-ebook/dp/B00AKXVB6E
He consults on ebook writing and publishing.
Dan Spencer: dds344@hotmail.com :: Half-hour phone consultation, $25
When you have another source of income,
you are more stable
during disruptions, economic and
political.
--
What does my help cost? 5% of gross profit, plus 5% of stock.
10% of gross until stock.
PLUS
the same to the church. I do this latter for two reasons.
1—It’s good business, every one will help everyone else. 2—It’s temporary. We
don’t want to be like the Roman Catholics who for a temporary purpose, church
discipline *Rosenstock-Huessy says, forbade priests to marry, and wrongly said
this was the way it always was and always had to be OR the Wesleyans, who did
something similar with drinking and Sunday activities.
You don’t have to retain me.
Free wisdom from Jay Abraham is at http://www.abraham.com/profitresources/
Jay’s the highest-paid marketing consultant.
Here’s a distillation of important Jay principles:
REBUILTNNEEWW.
Risk Reversal,
Endorsements, Back-end, Unique Service Proposition, direct response not
Indirect, Love your client/customer, Test, address Needs, market to the
decision-maker and No one else, Educate your way out of a problem, make it Easy
to do business, when something Works keep doing it, give a reason Why.
--
What I’d do if I were
unemployed, and am doing before I need to do it.
The story is that
Henry Ford was asked during the Great Depression what HE would do if HE were
unemployed. Here’s what he is reported
to have said:
If I
were unemployed, I'd do something like this. Go down the street asking at
houses if there were anything they wanted done, free. Do one thing, go to the
next house. Keep going. After a while, people might hear of me and ask if I
could help them. I'd have a longer and longer list of chores, and eventually
someone would offer to pay me something to get to the top of the list, maybe?
Were I good at selling, or helping businesses, etc., I'd do the same for
businesses. Moral: Do something, get noticed. There's lots to be done.
--
Call to action: Tell
me a little about what business you might want to do, and OK the monetary
arrangements, so we can talk. After we talk, you can OK them again and we can
get started—the monetary arrangements aren’t final until we both agree after
we’ve talked.
A little about what
business you might want to do: (Please also write on the back of this sheet,
if needed). Start with 25 words, your ‘elevator pitch’.
OK: _____
Name ____________________________________________________
PS: Per the 80/20
rule, 16 possible entrepreneurs could mean 3 or so businesses.
I’ll be doing this
too (my calling): http://chuckhartmanhistoryconductor.blogspot.com/2013/03/revolutions-of-west-gardner-summarizes.html
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