Re: I have stopped giving free advice and business ideas to friends.
 

What's the site, James?

> When you give away free advice they treat it
> as if it has no value. And I guess, in their
> eyes, it doesn't.

> It's really funny: All my friends know what
> I do for a living. They know I quit my job
> last year to work full time for myself. They
> know I am selling information products on
> the internet and doing quiet well (no
> bragging -- just trying to make a point) And
> one will occassionally ask me to help him
> get started doing the same thing.

> The last time, I spent an evening (note: I
> gave up my evening because he had to work
> doing the day) with him. I had identified a
> market of people just begging for a certain
> type of product and I had figured out where
> to get the content for a members only
> website to sell to this market. I gave him
> all my research, showed him what the
> competition was doing, how to dig out a
> niche that the competition was missing,
> exactly where to get all the content, how to
> set everything up on auto-pilot, etc., etc.
> This would have been about a 2 week project
> from start to finish.

> So what happened? I bumped into him about a
> month later and he said he was taking a
> frontpage class at the community college and
> "looking for office space for a new
> project."

> I went ahead and hired some people off
> elance to put together the content for the
> website. I spent about a week polishing the
> content and getting everthing set up.

> The site now earns me an additional $1000.00
> net per month.

> My friend is probably interviewing
> secretaries. :)

Re: I know the feeling
 

I sense a new "Don Alm" project comin' on. Hire a couple (few?) local gals to solicit jobs/orders and perhaps organize flyer distribution, etc. They could work for several different sales-shy entrepreneurs at the same time on some sort of commission basis. I'm sure you could work out the details a lot better than me. Sounds like an opportunity...

> I live in a high UNemployment area. Men
> whose families were loggers for years are
> now having to look for other ways to earn a
> living.

> I know a lot of these guys so I try and come
> up with programs that takes little cash to
> get going and has the potential to earn them
> 10 times what they would be earning cutting
> down trees.

> Deck Renewal and Oil Stain Removal for 2
> recent examples.

> I put the programs together AND even go out
> and get them their first few jobs BUT...for
> some reason they just will NOT even try to
> get jobs themselves. I do not know what the
> heck scares the bejeebers out of people as
> to "Selling" something.

> All they have to do is drop off some flyers
> and they'll get calls....or just simply ask
> the people where they just finished a job
> (that I got for them)...if they can give a
> name of a friend or relative who might want
> to have similar work done.

> Simply pick up the phone and CALL! Ya think
> they'd do that? No way Jose!

> They want ME to make the phone calls and get
> the jobs.

> Maybe their genes tell them that they are
> ONLY to "take orders"...do NOT
> initiate anything on your own...you might
> fail.

> Who knows. Whatever it is...they refuse to
> even try and get jobs on their own.

> Such is the mind of the "working
> class"...I guess.

> Don Alm

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