Would you give me $5,000 to attend a course of mine that I guarantee that if you follow the steps I give, you will be making $100,000 a year? It’s a good investment – you give me $5,000 and I give you the ability to make $100,000 a year.
I’m not the one offering the course. Someone’s done it before me already, and many others are already doing it.
But first, let me clarify: it’s not a scam. It sounds fishy and suspiciously like one, but it’s not. At least not in a way that I can see.
I had spent the last two days attending a workshop where I heard about this guy called Ewen Chia, a self-made Singaporean millionaire, who reportedly made his first million on the Internet. Someone in the course had the opportunity to attend his course free of charge, and was in disbelief at how easy it is to make money.
Here, let me explain how it works.
Let’s say the person doing this goes by the name of Nigel. Nigel gives a talk to 500 people and invites them to sign up for his $5,000 course which promises that if the participants attend his course, he will teach them how to make$100,000 a year. It’s a good price to pay – $5,000 for a $100,000 a year, isn’t it? Convinced by his charisma and marketing, 100 people immediately sign up for the course. How much does Nigel make from giving one talk?
$5,000 x 100 = $500,000
Okay, so the people attend the course, and what does Nigel teach them? I’m not sure, because I didn’t attend the course. But I believe that what Nigel teaches them is sales tactics and how to sell other people the same idea that he just sold them – that they can make money by teaching other people how to make money. And those people make money by teaching other people how to make money. And so on.
Nigel is proof that the method works, because there are always people who want to learn how to make money. It’s not a scam either, because Nigel has shown that he does make money.
When I heard about it and thought it through carefully, I was struck by how simple it is to make money! It’s a sound idea, as far as I can see, because Nigel is not scamming anyone. If the course participants actually do what he teaches them, they will find it just as easy to make money.
Of course part of the criteria is that the participants must be willing to learn new skills which includes salesmanship, marketing, public speaking, etc, all of which Nigel can offer training for, or has people under him to offer that training. It might take a year or two before a participant is sufficiently trained to go solo, but Nigel keeps his word – he does teach people how to make money, and it is that simple.
In addition, I do not see anything ethically wrong with such a business idea. I think it’s a novel idea! All it takes is great determination, unwavering confidence, lots of patience, and the humility to learn skills from others who have made it. Of course at the end of it, you will have become a very persuasive and convincing person as well, because you need that to sell your idea to others who might have doubts.
It’s not complicated to get rich, but it’s not easy either. It takes a lot of hard work, but it’s proof that you don’t need a lot of money to become rich. You simply have to want to do whatever it takes (ethically) to become rich.
No guts, no glory!
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Hi Assamite,
“I’m simply selling my services.”
So you have something against the process of selling, or against the way some people sell? Admittedly, I have seen my fair share of unscrupulous salesmen, but I have also seen good salesmen who have gone from selling me something, to changing me to be a better person, and who have become my friends.
Naturally what I’ve written here in this post focuses on the system, not the way such a system is sold. A better salesman than me will be better able to package it properly in terms of attractiveness and fairness to the buyers and sellers.
It is not fair to ask the seller to provide a refund if the buyer cannot provide proof that he has done all he can to follow the instructions. But yes, if such a system really works, the person (let’s call him the salesman) should be willing to offer a refund if you can prove that you have followed the instructions to the dot. Most people who don’t succeed will definitely be able to find that they have not followed the instructions to the dot or have just been plain lazy to put the effort needed to carry out the instructions and want to take short-cuts.
I also believe that it is also to the best of both parties that the salesman mentor the willing buyer in his progress to follow the instructions, to help the buyer to achieve success, rather than simply to offer refunds. It certainly cannot be easy to do so, otherwise everyone would be rich by now. But at the same time it does not have to be complicated and difficult. Mentoring is always important, which is why RCIA always has sponsors. It is important to learn from someone who has actually walked the path to success.
“It’s hard to dislike something without a reason.”
I don’t like this method of making money because I don’t have the natural talents and charisma to make this process easy for me. As in, this method does not make use of my natural talents, but requires that I have to learn new skills and practise them until perfect. I would rather use a skill that I already have a natural flair for. Simple personal preference, nothing to do with conscience and what not.
“MOST greedy and scrupulous scammers will not hesitate to leverage on this.”
You cannot control how other people are going to use your system, but again, a good salesman will be able to package it properly with legal consequences for those who abuse this system.
“What would drive me to go for the exact same talk (presentation and content, everything is kept the same so that it’s the same “product”) a 2nd time considering that all things are the same?”
Why do you go for Easter Vigil every year, considering that everything is the same down to the readings? You go for it every year because you are not the same person any more. You look at the situation in a different light, because you have changed. And because you have changed, you learn something new from it.
Why are there people who keep going for LISS every year? Some would say because they like the spiritual high, but I would say it is because the person who attends the LISS is different every year. He has changed.
Why do you keep reading the same Bible over and over again? Because every time you read it, you gain a new insight. You do that because the person reading it today, is not the same person reading it three months ago. You learn new things because you look at things from a different perspective. You’ve changed.
So, what would drive you to go for the exact same talk is the desire to learn more from the same material. Each time I listen to the talk, and put into practice what I have learnt previously, I can learn something new. I can learn what I did wrong previously, and I can pick up something I didn’t pick up the first time.
“Well I don’t know why anyone would want two or more music players at one time considering you have only two ears.”
I also don’t know, but clearly what Apple is doing works, so there must be something there that we can learn from. It is good that you come to admit your own inability to understand how a company like Apple can sell the same thing to one person more than once. Different packaging and good marketing helps, methinks.
“The presence of alternatives allow for this to happen”
I don’t understand the example given. Can you elaborate further?
“The possibility of a baby entering into the faith is 1/x where x is the number of religions available”
There are also other ways of making money. This system does not claim that it is the only possible way of making money, so there are also alternatives.
“So A gets a +1 to his score while B gets a -1 to his tally. Do we say B didn’t work the system correctly?”
This is about variables. Person 1 may give A a +1 to his score and give B a -1 to his score, but Person 2 may come along, and based on his individual preference, may give A a -1 to his score and give B a +1 to his score. Again it’s about personal preference. Think of the early Christians who went, “I am for Paul” or “I am for Apollos”.
“If the students who go for the lesson and not want to run the system, then I think the teacher has failed.”
That’s personal opinion again. I think if the students go for the lesson and learn something new from it, the teacher has succeeded. Of course that’s my personal opinion.
“How is it that the people who are willing to fork out $5000 to learn a skill to get them the money they promised?”
Like I said to Andy, the figures $100,000 and $5000 are arbitrary numbers. You can change the numbers to find out what figures work best for the system. The emphasis here is the system and if there is anything wrong with it.
“In fact, if you think about it, if you go for the talk and delay looking for participants for your own talk, the market from which you can draw from shrinks.”
Agreed.
“That’s what I meant when I said the first one who comes through the market with this product/idea gets the first cut.”
No, you’re talking about a scam where the one who came up with the idea is the only one who benefits. I’m talking about a perpetuating system (though not necessarily indefinitely) that can transcend Nigel himself and can go on to benefit those who learn from him.
“Don’t tell me you don’t go to the Pope and the Magisterium or CCC for issues regarding faith and morals.”
Hate to tell you this, but no, I don’t. I’ve never even met the Pope before, or have his email address. I don’t know the people in the Magisterium. And the CCC is not exactly a person. I go to another Christian who has learnt from these, or perhaps another Christian who has learnt from another Christian, who has learnt from another Christian, etc, who has met the Pope and the people in the Magisterium. (That’s the system, by the way.) But hey, if you’ve got a direct line to the Pope, must share okay?
“But if the whole group goes out and you are not there, do you not miss out on an opportunity to spend time with them?”
You do. Then comes a question of priorities. Is it more important to spend my money now on my friends, or to save the money for another purpose, such as my family’s future? In other words…
“Just because I want to save money, I forsake the things that are important?”
… (In other words) it becomes a question of what is more important – friends or family. If my friends cannot accept that I don’t want to spend money unnecessarily and go for something more affordable to me, then are they really my friends? Of course if it is you that is too embarrassed to tell your friends that you want to save, then cannot blame your friends lah. Can only blame yourself for thinking that these friends will not be your friends if you don’t have the money to go out with them.
Concrete example: My friends want to go pubbing. I want to join them for their company, but I hate clubbing because it’s such a waste of money. I offer a cheaper alternative. I invite them to my place, play some music, ask them to potluck food and alcohol, and we spend the evening at my place, wining and dining. Two possible outcomes:
A) My friends agree. All happy.
B) My friends say: “Your place got no atmosphere for pubbing. We better go to the pub.” Then you must see whether they place atmosphere above your company. If you still want to be with them but cannot afford it, maybe let go of your pride and say, “I really can’t afford it, but would like to go. Can someone help me out?” If your friends value your company, they should help you out. If not, perhaps it’s time to find friends who are satisfied with just your company, regardless of atmosphere.
Incidentally, you’re assuming that even if you spend time (and money) with your friends today, you will still be friends 30 years down the road. And you’re assuming that in the course of these 30 years, you will not make any new friends.
Really, the proof is in the pudding. Money can be used as a gauge for where your priorities are. If you give more money to your friends than to your family or to God, then you are showing that your priority is your friends. Also, if you give only what you have left at the end of the month to God, it shows that God is the bottom-most priority. That is why when it comes to tithing, it is always recommended that this amount is the first that you set aside (even before taxes and CPF).
For me:
- I first set aside 10% of my income for God.
- Then the government takes my money (taxes and CPF), which is about 20%.
- Then I set aside money for necessities (which are my present needs), which amounts to about 20% of my income.
- Then I set aside money for insurance and long-term savings (which are for my future family), which is about 30% of my income.
- Then I set aside money for self-improvement, which is about 7-10% of my income.
- Then I set aside money (if there is any left) for gifts and outings with friends, which is about 7-10% of my income.
- Finally, I set aside money for unexpected expenses, which is the remaining percentage of my income.
Hence, my priorities when it comes to using money as a gauge are clear: God, government (no choice here), self, family, self-improvement, friends. You could try working out a similar structure for your income.
Many Catholics in Singapore give, unfortunately, only a tiny percentage to God. I used to give $2 per Sunday, which amounts to less than a percentage point. Even giving $10 per Sunday is slightly above a percentage point. So when I started planning my finances, I realised that if God was my highest priority, I had to make sure my accounting reflected that. If all Catholics in Singapore, gave a 10 percent tithe to God, we would not need to keep asking for funds to renovate and build churches, or even need to have a Charities’ Week.
We have 100,000 Catholics in Singapore, and say 1 person in 4 earns just $1,000, that would be $25m earned by all Catholics in Singapore in a month. 10% of that is $2.5m a month for the Catholic Church. Of course a better accountant and statistician could do a much better job than me, but you get the idea.
Although the Catholic Church does not impose a tithe on its members (not in Singapore anyway), this does not mean that Singapore Catholics don’t need to give 10 percent. They are still required to, and should be doing it voluntarily already.
“I’m glad that you can agree on this point and I’m glad you are keeping yourself in check.”
Rest assured that I am. It constantly bugs me that I even need to spend time thinking about how to make money, instead of spending that time doing the Lord’s work, but I’ve recognised that if I can free myself from this need of thinking about how to make money by becoming financially free, I will be better able to carry out the Lord’s work, and perhaps in better ways. It comes back to stewardship. If I can use the money I have to make more money, and I will be trusted to apply the same principles in other areas of God’s kingdom. If I cannot be trusted to handle and invest my own money, how will anyone trust me with theirs, or something much more important?
God bless,
Catholic Writer
“So you have something against the process of selling, or against the way some people sell?
Selling something in itself has nothing wrong. It has existed for years. It’s the way and the product that is being sold. I
think “It’s only selling.” is a very irresponsible thing to say and it’s what people would use to clear their conscience. It’s almost as good as saying “I’m just here for the money. Whatever happens to you has nothing to do with me once the transaction is complete.” Or do you think otherwise?
“It certainly cannot be easy to do so, otherwise everyone would be rich by now.”
Agreed! Which is why I say, there is no such thing as a 100% guarantee. Heck, if it were really working, why are we still having this discussion? Let’s go and rake in the big bucks already!
I refer back to your earlier reply:
“1) You don’t have money? Ok, I’ve got this plan that can make you money. You just have to follow these steps exactly, and I GUARANTEE that you will be making money.
2) You got money? Ok, I’ve got this plan that can make you money. You just have to follow these steps exactly, and I GUARANTEE that you will be making money.”
“I don’t like this method of making money because I don’t have the natural talents and charisma to make this process easy for me. As in, this method does not make use of my natural talents, but requires that I have to learn new skills and practise them until perfect. I would rather use a skill that I already have a natural flair for. Simple personal preference, nothing to do with conscience and what not.”
Remember the first time you learnt how ride the bicycle? Did you fall off your bicycle and say this is too difficult and stop? No, you carried on even though you fell off. Well at least that’s what I believe if not you wouldn’t be cycling your way around. (Unless maybe you are one of those who learnt how to cycle without falling off their bicycle then this example becomes meaningless to you.)
In everything there is a need for hard work. Even if it was a natural talent, if I do not hone it, it all goes to naught. Nobody, even those at the top, can say that they got there without ever having to put in effort. If I really believe and convicted that this system works, would I not do everything in my power to work it? Sure it’ll cost me time and money, much sweat and blood but at the end of the day if I can see the fruits of my efforts do I say it’s a waste? Unless of course, I choose to say, “There must be another way, this way is too difficult.”
“Why do you go for Easter Vigil every year, considering that everything is the same down to the readings?”
Are the people who get baptized each year at Easter Vigil the same?
“Why are there people who keep going for LISS every year?”
Are the participants at every LISS the same? Is the content of each LISS the same?
“Why do you keep reading the same Bible over and over again?”
Why do you eat your meals everyday? It’s always the same rice/noodles, meat and vegetables. If you want to further break it down then it’s carbs, protein and fibre. Similarly, the Bible is spiritual food. It nourishes my soul. Another reason is that the Bible is alive (Heb 4:12) and not something dead.
“I also don’t know, but clearly what Apple is doing works, so there must be something there that we can learn from. It is good that you come to admit your own inability to understand how a company like Apple can sell the same thing to one person more than once. Different packaging and good marketing helps, methinks.”
I did say that iPods, touch, nano, shuffles are all music players but they are differentiated by the product name. I wouldn’t call it different packaging since obviously a iPod is clearly different from an iPod Touch. If an iPod is the same as an iPod Touch then why call it an iPod Touch? They are clearly 2 distinct and different products where one has more functions than the other.
So if I do own a iPod and want to buy a iPod Touch, I’m buying the Touch for the added functions which the iPod doesn’t have. Good marketing perhaps. Which is why if assuming I had gone for the first original “how to teach someone how to make money” talk, I cannot see the reason why I would go for a second “how to teach someone how to make money” talk if the content is exactly the same.
“I don’t understand the example given. Can you elaborate further?
There are also other ways of making money. This system does not claim that it is the only possible way of making money, so there are also alternatives.”
Your case of why after 2000 over years yet there is still room for evangelization and using it to draw a parallel to the system which you propose is clearly because of the presence of alternatives. When a baby is born, usually he will adopt the family religion but when the baby grows up, he will come to know and learn of the other religions that are in the world. And precisely because there are so many of them in the world, there is still room for evangelization. Even at a person’s death bed, there is always the possibility of conversion. In that sense, in the realm of Christianity, there isn’t really a saturation point.
In Christianity, does time play a factor in reducing the pool from which evangelisation works? If you can agree that the market from which a person can draw from shrinks over time, then would it be a fair comparison?
”This is about variables. Person 1 may give A a +1 to his score and give B a -1 to his score, but Person 2 may come along, and based on his individual preference, may give A a -1 to his score and give B a +1 to his score.”
I’m trying to keep things simple here for the sake of explanation: for each person that goes for A’s talk effectively means that he cannot go for B’s talk. For simplicity sake, in this market where A and B are advertising for their “how to teach people how to make money” talk, there are 100 people. The possible number of people that A can get is X where X lies between 0 and 100 and for B is 100 – X. For A to get the MAXIMUM returns for his $5000 investment, he needs all the 100 people. So assuming A gets all the 100 people, that leaves B with 100 – 100 = 0, nothing. B with zero participants in his “how to teach people how to make money” talk, gets nothing out of his $5000 investment. Ok so at the end of the day, our friend B here, got some knowledge here which he wants to put to practice but can’t because there is no market for it plus a hole where $5000 used to be! What of the $100,000 promised to him? If both A and B work the system the same way, and B got nothing, how now?
Even if the speaker offers a refund, there’s always the issue of pride. B can say, “I didn’t make it but A did. To ask for a refund is to admit defeat. Perhaps I should go for another talk. I wasn’t fooled. I’m not a failure!” And the cycle goes on again and B goes deeper into the red now $10,000 poorer than before.
If you can agree that if I delay starting the system, the pool from which I can draw my people from shrinks and my teacher told me that I would be reaping in big bucks when I signed for his course and I really need the money (be it for my sick mother or for funds to a mission home), why would I not want to run the system immediately? This still puzzles me.
“Is it more important to spend my money now on my friends, or to save the money for another purpose, such as my family’s future? In other words, it becomes a question of what is more important – friends or family. If my friends cannot accept that I don’t want to spend money unnecessarily and go for something more affordable to me, then are they really my friends? Of course if it is you that is too embarrassed to tell your friends that you want to save, then cannot blame your friends lah. Can only blame yourself for thinking that these friends will not be your friends if you don’t have the money to go out with them.”
Once again, it’s not about the people not being your friends if you don’t go out with them. I think you missed what I said about the FRAGILITY OF LIFE.
I refer to your latest post on 14/5, “I mean, I’d rather spend $20 on a meal with her than the same amount on a meal for myself with my other friends… wouldn’t you?”
You wouldn’t mind spending $20 on a friend now and why? Why no “if I save this $20 and earn the interest I can get a big sum”? If you don’t spend $20 on a meal with her, she’ll cease to be your friend? I don’t think so. Obviously the reason is because you value this friendship and you believe that she’ll benefit from your company. I’m not saying that EVERY time your friends are out there spending money you HAVE to be there. What I’m saying is that WHEN the occasion calls for spending and it is for a worthy reason then you should.
From the way you phrase it, EVERY time your friends go out, you don’t join them because you want to save money. Even if you do offer your place to your friends, do you not spend money as well? Agreed that the amount is lesser, but still you still spend money right? What I’m saying is, in everything, do in moderation.
I have no problem with people who teach you a real skill to make money and then you pay them a fee (eg that what people who take professional courses do anyway). But when people just say do this or do that and you will be rich when they do it is really not that easily doable then that to me is a SCAM. Talk is cheap, that’s why people talk so much but do so little. It’s not the amount, it’s the principle. If people can make money themselves, do you think they would be so kind as to charge XX dollars to teach people how to do the same when they can do it themselves? And if they can make money for themselves so easily, they should talk to FREE if they are really charitable!
Aside to rich mindset, it is one thing to have a rich mindset, always looking for opportunities to make money off friends, family, aquintances and it is another to have a rich, kind, ethical and moral mindset. Of the 2 the latter is going to be challenging for a christian to achieve. Do find your good way out to that and if you got time, write a book (should be easy for you), put in 2 fictitious characters to it and call it Rich Mom, Poor Mum and sell it for a few hundred dollars a pop to help.
Hi Assamite,
Sorry for the late response. Been busy with my new book.
“It’s the way and the product that is being sold.”
Clearly, we are not talking about the same thing. As I said from the beginning, it is not a product that is being sold, but a system. The person who adopts this business system is not selling a product, but a system. To put it simply, he is letting you in on the secret of his business system for a price.
Secondly, I am not the one selling you the system. If I were, I would have phrased it in a much better way. All along, I have not been trying to sell you the system. I have been asking you, and everyone else reading this post, what is wrong with this system, but you keep on coming back to “the way it is sold”. You are missing the entire point of this post, which is to find out what is wrong with this system, if there is anything wrong with it.
“Heck, if it were really working, why are we still having this discussion? Let’s go and rake in the big bucks already!”
Because it takes a lot more effort to package it properly, so as to ensure that it does not break any laws. And the reason we’re having this discussion is because I want to find out what’s wrong with the system (not the selling process).
“I refer back to your earlier reply: GUARANTEE”
Now you’re nitpicking on the selling process. Again, I ask, what is wrong with the system? I am not asking: what is wrong with the way this system is sold?
“Remember the first time you learnt how ride the bicycle?”
“In everything there is a need for hard work.”
I also remember the many times I kept failing my Chinese at ‘O’ and ‘A’ Levels. I remember how I spent all my effort working on trying to pass my Chinese and my F Maths in J1 that I got ‘C’s for everything. But in J2, I dropped my F Maths and stopped focusing so much attention on my Chinese, and I got 2 As and 1 B, even though I failed my Chinese.
“Unless of course, I choose to say, “There must be another way, this way is too difficult.””
Sometimes we fail to see that there really is another way, because we stubbornly hold on to the false belief that our way is the only way. I am trying to explore other ways, because even doing the maths, I still don’t see how hard work with my current mentality will bring me what I need. Yet when I look around me and see other people achieving what I want to achieve, I have no choice but to admit that there must be another way that I don’t know about. It’s like stubbornly trying to get into Heaven on my own means, but Jesus is standing by the side and saying, “Stop doing things your way, and come follow me.”
“Why do you go for Easter Vigil every year, considering that everything is the same down to the readings?”
Are the people who get baptized each year at Easter Vigil the same?
“Why are there people who keep going for LISS every year?”
Are the participants at every LISS the same? Is the content of each LISS the same?
You’ve made my point for me. Similarly, the people who attend the same course or workshop are different each time, and we can always learn from the experiences of others attending the same workshop.
“Similarly, the Bible is spiritual food. It nourishes my soul.”
Similarly, such a workshop can be considered food for the financial area of your brain. If you don’t use that part of the brain, if you don’t constantly feed it with new information (even if it means reading the same book again or attending the same workshop again), it dies.
“They are clearly 2 distinct and different products where one has more functions than the other.”
“So if I do own a iPod and want to buy a iPod Touch, I’m buying the Touch for the added functions which the iPod doesn’t have.”
That’s what they tell you, and you believe it. That’s effective packaging and marketing. At the very heart, they are the same thing – MP3 players. Similarly, how do you think Nokia can sell handphone after handphone to their customers? Those added functions are packaging that comes with the MP3 player or phone.
“If you can agree that the market from which a person can draw from shrinks over time, then would it be a fair comparison?”
I have no idea what you’re talking about… or what point you are trying to make…
“for each person that goes for A’s talk effectively means that he cannot go for B’s talk.”
Why not? X people can go for both A’s and B’s talks. Even if they are the same content, they can have different packaging and different “added functions”.
“Even if the speaker offers a refund, there’s always the issue of pride.”
This goes way beyond the scope of the post on the system. It’s in the realm of conjecture and assumption already.
“If you can agree that if I delay starting the system, the pool from which I can draw my people from shrinks and my teacher told me that I would be reaping in big bucks when I signed for his course and I really need the money (be it for my sick mother or for funds to a mission home), why would I not want to run the system immediately? This still puzzles me.”
There are a multitude of reasons: doubt as to whether such a thing really works, lack of guts, doubt as to whether this is ethically sound, lack of necessary skills or aptitude, etc.
“What I’m saying is that WHEN the occasion calls for spending and it is for a worthy reason then you should.”
I agree with this, and I have been doing things in moderation. Apparently, you don’t think so… and I wonder why… Maybe it seems extreme, because I have gone from zero to moderate… which might seem like the difference between moderate and extreme… I’m rambling, aren’t I?
God bless,
Catholic Writer
Hi Andy,
I believe what you are saying is, if it is doable, it is not a scam. If it is not doable, then it is a scam. If the person selling this system can convince X number of people to come to his course, is it not proof that it is doable, and hence not a scam?
“If people can make money themselves, do you think they would be so kind as to charge XX dollars to teach people how to do the same when they can do it themselves? And if they can make money for themselves so easily, they should talk to FREE if they are really charitable!”
I think the mistake here is to assume that people are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. They are not. They are doing it because they believe in the system and they want to make money. They are doing it because they are working the system. As it says in the title of this post: Can you make money by teaching other people to make money? It makes it very clear that the people teaching are the people making money, and they do it by teaching people to make money.
“Do find your good way out to that and if you got time, write a book (should be easy for you), put in 2 fictitious characters to it and call it Rich Mom, Poor Mum and sell it for a few hundred dollars a pop to help.”
Oops! Too late, someone’s already done it. Check out this book titled “Rich Church, Poor Church” by John Muratori:
http://www.wellsprings.com.sg/nzc/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=14292&zenid=b980c00abd6b6d9ea8c107fcb302e9d5
My main problem is that I’m not rich and I don’t have something to teach other people about money. I’m so new to it. That’s why I’m learning from all these people who have gotten rich by being in the world of money for years. I acknowledge that I am poor and I want to learn from those who have walked the way to riches. But I need to choose a mentor who is not only rich, but one who is kind and has a moral and ethical mindset as well. Know anyone?
God bless,
Catholic Writer
I think the mistake here is to assume that people are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. They are not. They are doing it because they believe in the system and they want to make money. They are doing it because they are working the system. As it says in the title of this post: Can you make money by teaching other people to make money? It makes it very clear that the people teaching are the people making money, and they do it by teaching people to make money.
>> No I do not assume that they are doing it out of the kindness of their hearts, rather the contary. I seriously do not think they are really teaching people to make money rather teaching people to go scam others.
Here are some ways people make money off others (not recommended)
http://www.campsci.com/scams/
My main problem is that I’m not rich and I don’t have something to teach other people about money. I’m so new to it. That’s why I’m learning from all these people who have gotten rich by being in the world of money for years. I acknowledge that I am poor and I want to learn from those who have walked the way to riches. But I need to choose a mentor who is not only rich, but one who is kind and has a moral and ethical mindset as well. Know anyone?
>> I know what you are looking for but I would like to say that the people who teach you like what you have mentioned are to be avoided. Did you actually sign up up for the course?
I think you can start with your financial planner or other financial planners to give you some perspective. Again, I would never say you are poor to begin with, you have talent and two hands and a faith so that makes a lot richer than you already think. If you want to learn more, there are many seminars out there which you can go to and learn for free. Let me know if you’re interested.
Hi Andy,
> > These arrows are a good idea. I shall use them from now on!
“I seriously do not think they are really teaching people to make money rather teaching people to go scam others.”
> > Of course if you believe that what is taking place is a scam, then yes, they are teaching other people to make money by scamming others. But if you believe that what is taking place is teaching other people to make money, then it is not a scam.
“Did you actually sign up up for the course?”
> > Of course not. I’d rather create my own way to get rich. I wrote this post because I heard about this method from someone else, and decided to explore what’s wrong with the system. I still haven’t found out what’s wrong with it yet…
Why was I exploring the system? Because it’s so innovative and its simplicity intrigued me. And if there’s nothing wrong with the system, then perhaps I can adapt it when I create my own system.
“I think you can start with your financial planner or other financial planners to give you some perspective.”
> > Yup, I’ve been doing that.
“You have talent and two hands and a faith so that makes a lot richer than you already think.”
> > Amen to that. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to my latest book “Befriending Jesus”. It is a gift book that is perfect for those who are just starting to get to know Jesus, and those who want to have a deeper and more intimate friendship with our Lord.
You can find out more at my website: http://www.thecatholicwriter.com.
God bless,
Catholic Writer