$3,040 Today!
 

Hey! I'm excited!

It's now 4:30 in the afternoon. I just got back from a SIX Sale day....like "picking up dollar bills off the street"! I went out and made some sales calls at 10:30am...took off for lunch at 11:30...went back out at 2pm and headed home at 4pm.

So...for a total of 3 hours "work"...I collected $3,040 from 6 local businesses!

With my "Tv Channel Listings" guides which are placed in Hotel Rooms.

Yesterday afternoon (Weds) I decided to put together my "Sales Pitch" for the 3 Hotels (total of $245 rooms) that have agreed to have little ol' ME provide them with my FREE "TV Channel Listings guides...which are nothing more than sheets of LAMINATED Card Stock....with the Hotel's Logo at top... the TV Listings in the middle and an ad for a Pizza Delivery biz at the bottom... on side 1....and 5 ads on side 2. (2 fast food places, 2 sit down restaurants and 1 realtor)

This was all done with about $2 worth of paper and ink (on my inkjet) and $5 to have my local copy shop laminate some Sample Sheets...a $3, 3-ring binder and 4 Top Loader Sheet Protectors (about another $1)

Just goes to show...it does NOT take "money to make money". It's ALL in... "WHAT'S ON THE PAPER!"

Allright....I will tell you 'WHY" people are paid ME $3,040 to be on MY "Sheets of Paper";

1) The 2nd most frequent call the front desk of any Hotel/Motel gets is ... "WHERE'S THE TV CHANNEL LISTINGS?" (The MOST calls come from guests asking "Where Do We Eat?")
The hotels/motels TRY to keep their "Sheets of Tv Listings" on the desks of their rooms BUT....these are usually typed on 20lb bond and most wind up getting mixed in with newspapers and other "garbage" in the room... HOWEVER, the maids in these places do not promptly replace all these "Tv Listing Sheets". (Sometimes these are laminated but, makes no difference)

Therefore...when "I" "ride up on my white horse" and show them a way to "STOP" these phone calls AND...provide MORE SERVICE to their guests....they let ME "do MY thing"!...and provide them with MY program.

2) Local eating places or businesses (like realtors and Gift Shops) can see INSTANTLY...the benefit to their businesses...of having an ad for their biz IN EVERY ROOM....THAT WILL BE REFERRED TO AND SEEN 5 to 10 Times an evening by the occupants of the rooms.

This is called "Captive Audience" advertising!

AND...couple the above with the fact their are LIMITED SPACES on my Guides...where they realize, upon seeing my samples, they had better join me NOW...because the spaces are going fast and there's not many of them!

This is one of those..."Wham-Bam-Thank-Ya-Mam!' type of deals where they know they'd better "pee or get off the pot!"....no dilly-dallying here.

So...I am able to walk into a business...find the owner...show him my samples...tell him where they are going and for how long...and how much a space will cost him (I also build in some Incentives for making an "instant" decision) and it's either Yay or Nay. I either get the OK and a check or I go to the next business.

$3,000 in a day...from a simple idea!

Granted...I don't do this every day. I don't have the energy anymore. But hey...if I do this once a week....or once a month....how bad ya doin'?...on an investment of $10?

Thanks for reading,

Don Alm

P.S. I understand that most of the viewers here would rather disect dead bodies in a CSI Lab....than make a "Sales Call" on a business....HOWEVER, when you get tired of trying to make some extra money from the internet...and "reality" sets in....you MIGHT want to consider 'selling something" to local business people...something they are willing and able to pay for...because it will benefit them. When THAT DAY comes...maybe you'll remember this post.

To DEbunk
 

Don,

Thanks for telling us about your day.

I'd like to Object to a Common Phrase Debunk - yes, I need to Debunk the Debunking. Let me explain...

You wrote...


As if to Debunk the common held thought, "It takes money to make money".

However, the common phrase is More Right than the debunk.

You see, it Does take money to make money. Maybe not your own, but somebody's. Because as Glenn has be known to say... ALL money comes from other people.

So while you might Think you did what you did without money, that's not actually accurate. It did take money - some of your own to buy folders, or someone else's to buy folders; the money which had been invested into the hotels in the first place - without which you would have No location. And so on.

You might think this is being Picky. But it is Not. It is being Accurate, the alternative is just plain sloppy. Sloppy like saying, "The sun went behind some coulds," or likewise.

So I am Debunking the debunk. It DOES take money to make money... just not always your own.

Michael Ross

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

When I use the term, "It does not take MONEY to make MONEY!"....I am using the word "Money" in a "comparative" form.

Starting a business project with $20, to me, is "NO Money"!... .... COMPARATIVELY!

Even though 20 bux is...."money"....it is LOW money compared to BIG Money of a few thousand to start a business program.

So....if I had said, "It does not take "BIG" money to make "Big" money!" you would probably not have "parsed" my comments.

Or...if I had said..."It takes LITTLE Money to make GOOD money!"...these phrases possibly wouldn't have clicked into your "radar" to cause you to respond on this point.

Don Alm....

Re: $3,040 Today!..wow!
 

nice day there Don !

even a nice week !

got a questionf fer ya ...

I have casinos over here..and have made efforts to locate 'the person' to allow me to put the channel guide and the room maps.iin the casino..to no avail...

all I have discovered, if that is the correct word, is that corporate decides on those things"

anyone have any ideas on locating the decisionmaker..?

thanks

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Don,

Thanks for clarifying.

Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your POV, I would have Still jumped in if you had said Big money or Little money because they are Blanket Statements which are factually Incorrect.

If you want to make Big money you need someone with Big money to spend it with you - or several smaller monied people, or Many little money people. Notice how, in each case, the money is still other people's.

But more important than that is...

Their Desire To Spend it.

In this regard I am Also against Dan Kennedy saying, "if you can't make money without money, you can't make money with money" because it is also Factually Incorrect.

For example: Imagine a place. A Kingdom. The King has ALL the money. The peasants have None. NOw here's the rub...

The single thing that the peasants have to offer, in exchange for some of the King's money, is their Labor. But, if they do not want the King's money, then it doesn't matter how much money the King has, because he cannot get anything done with it.

So for a Transaction to take place, the King must desire something to be done and to pay for it with his money - and - the peasants must desire to have some of that money. A peasant with a desire for money but a King with no desire for building or buying, ends in nothing. Just like a King with a Desire for building but peasants with No desire for his money.

Factually, it DOES take money to make money. It also takes a desire for someone to Spend that money and for someone else to want the money they want to spend.

Kennedy would be more accurate if he said, "If you cannot make money without your own money, you will not be able to make money With your own money." Because the simplest money I can make, even if I have no money, is to sell my labor.

It would be more accurate to say, "It doesn't take your Own money to make money" and a slight twist, "It doesn't need to take a Lot of your own money to make money."

The other versions - Keenedy's and what you posted - are just plain wrong. A result of Laziness to express the Correct meaning. No different than saying the Sun "Rises" or "Sets" or goes "Behind a Cloud". And similar to when people say, "Oh, I forgot..." - they did Not forget did they, as they are saying it right now (they actually remembered, just not When they wanted to).

To relay a Quote which Victor Schlosser once said, "I've seen hell. It's a place where no-one says what they mean, or means what they say. I live that hell everyday of my life."

Michael Ross

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

2 + 2 = 4.

Who says thats true? How do you know? Why is 2 + 2 not 5 or 6 or 7?

We come upon the symbolic meaning behind words and alphabets. 2 + 2 = 4 because everyone says so. Everyone agrees to it.

Its the same with gold or paper money. Gold has value because everyone agrees that it has value.

(Most people have become insanely rich not by trading their labour - but because they took advantage of the difference between value different people assign to the same thing - arbitrage / trade / chattling. But thats another discussion.)

Anyways, my point is: "if you can't make money without money, you can't make money with money" maybe factually incorrect. But its symbolically correct. Everyone who reads that knows that Dan Kennedy is talking about the person's own money. Not the community money. "If you can't make money without community money, you can't make money with community money" - doesn't make much sense. So people don't take it into account.

"I've seen hell. It's a place where no-one says what they mean, or means what they say. I live that hell everyday of my life."

That statement is factually incorrect too. How can you live a place?

To communicate, you have to forget such factual incorrectness and jump for the symbolic correctness. Yes there will be communication errors this way - but its the best we've got. Because if you try to be 100% factually correct, you'll be writing 20 pages of footnotes for every one sentence (and you'll need 20 pages of footnote for each sentence in the footnote too... and 20 pages of ----).

Just like this:
http://fair-use.org/mind/1895/04/wha...id-to-achilles

The best you can hope for is try being as clear as possible without sounding silly.

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Way to go Don!

I have got to hand it to you. I can sell directly and I have gone out cold-calling. But you make the case for ENJOYING it! You seem to have more fun talking to folks than anyone I've seen.

I like to talk to folks too....the difference with you, is that you have shown us time and again how to make it profitable.

THANKS.

Millard Grubb

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Ankesh,

I'm confused.

Do you think Michael understood what Don thought he was saying, or did Don say what Michael thought he understood him to say????? : )

I think you're 100% right . . . it's the understanding imparted by the symbols (words) that's important . . . not the particular symbols themselves.

If you can get your concept across, with understanding by the other party, you have communicated. Regardless of the words used.

Getting stuck in the "proper" use of words is like viewing a painting with a microscope. It may be interesting, but it is not necessary to get the viewpoint the artist intended to convey.

Anyway, that's one man's opinion . . .

---- Hugh

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Hi Millard....yep....ya gotta ENJOY what ya do. I REALLY ENJOY going into a business....meeting the owner...showing him/her how I can bring them more business...quote a price and get them to write me a check.

VEERY REWARDING for ME! They could drop me from a plane and within a day, I'd have figured a way to make money without "looking for a job".

THIS "TV Channel Listing" thing is soo easy. The hotels go for this right off, in fact...I've been wanting to get to the Coast before bad weather hits so, I'm going to pick a town...go get 3 hotels to give the OK for my Guides and 1 of them WILL give me 3 nights FREE LODGING. Also, I will be trading off MEALS with the restaurants I put on these.

YOU could be doing this in Branson!

Oopps. Sorry. Branson has too many "Corporate" restaurants and hotels where the "Decision-Maker" is back in Chicago or Denver or LA...in their "Corporate" offices. Forget that! Give me small towns anyday...where there's Mom & Pops who can "give me a decision NOW...Yay or Nay!"

I just revamped my Guide piece whereby I can get 6 Ads on the front and 4 on the back of a larger piece....10 ads for a nifty 4 Grand Gross. Not bad for 2 or 3 days "work".

Don Alm

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Thanks for asking Hugh :)

My post was in response to Michael's post. Not Dons.

I have a very high opinion of Michael - he usually understands not only what is written - but things that are unwritten too. He gets the complete picture.

I'm not sure about the reason behind Michael's post to Don (you'll have to ask him). But I thought I had to reply to his post - and so I did. :p

I don't get it....
 

Why is it when "I" post stuff up here about "Marketing & Sales" things that "I" do (that could be beneficial to some viewers here) someone has to take something I said....which has NOTHING to do with the "Topic" of the post...and "work it and work it and work it"?

MY use of the word "Money" has little or NOTHING to do with the MAIN POINT of the post!

Unless I'm missing something...."here"!

Don Alm

P.S. My use of the word "work" above, in MY humble opinion, means "BELABOR". (It's in Webster's)

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Ankesh,

Thanks for jumping in.


Because if we take the physical representation of the numbers - such as Two peas or Two marbles - and place them next to another two, we will See we have Four Marbles not Five. It is inconvenient to carry around a bag of marbles so we can count them as needed. And inconvenient to carry around an abacus for the same purpose. So we use Figures to represent the factual. Those figures are a Part of the Written language. In maths, that language is across the board. In the written version of the spoken word - and even the spoken word - things are not the same.

In the USA the word is spelt "Color" in Australia it is "Colour".

In the USA the word Fanny means your Bottom, in Australia it is a woman's "Groin" - to keep it Polite.

The reason numbers do not suffer the same fate is because there are only ten of them, in different arrangements. Plus, as the word now revolves around Money, the world of Global Commerce and their Constant interaction with each other, dictates the usage stays the same.


YES!!! Now you are getting it. Those who cry out that we have No Security of our Paper Money because it is Not backed by Gold and is only Backed by our Belief in it, miss the point that Gold Only has Value also because of our Belief in it.

Let me jump in here and go on a side tangent with regards to the Everyone Believes thing. *I*, personally, do Not believe Gold has Value, nor our paper Fiat money. Yet I still desire it because I need it as a Tool of Trade because Other People also desire it and will not do business with me Unless I have it. Thus, I suppose, you Could say that money, as we know it to be currently, is the result of the greatest Network Effect there is.

Onward.


Ah... for the sake of an "In". I live IN that hell...

When I was in high school there was a kid that would call people names. The odd thing was, he would call them a name which was a Verb. I used to tell him that's like calling someone a Run or a Jump.

With Kennedy's thing, I realise I need to change it to...

If you cannot make money without your own money, you won't be able to make money with your own money or larger amounts of other people's money.


First, let me say, if the Meaning is conveyed - I Understand what you mean - than Effective Communication has taken place regardless of the words, gestures or terminology used. However, that is a darn Big IF - IF the meaning is conveyed.

Also, I don't HAVE to do anything. If YOU choose to try to get by with Symbolic Correctness, that is your Choice. I choose not to.

The sad fact is, people use words without knowing Why they use those words. In fact, people do a Lot of things without knowing Why. I know why... it's because it's been a Tradition to use those words and people never question their traditions. (Before we knew better, we thought the sun Did rise and set. Now that we know better, tradition sees us use those old language patterns even though they are incorrect.)

Now in the case of Don's word choice and Dan's, both were related to Money and appeal to the Greed Gland and reek of Hype. And it's Prevalent in the Make Money arena.

For intance, you wrote...


There are Two things to note of the above...

Thing # 1: The fist word "Most" is often ignored - as is Almost, Virtually and other similar words - so the Apparent meaning is that Everyone got rich that way. I call these words, Covering Words because they allow the writer a way out if someone jumps up and says, not everyone got rich that way.

Thing # 2: You said "they took advantage of..." instead of implying that they didn't Work for it. Because we ALL work for money - even those who tell you the rich don't work for money - it's just that what one person means by the word Work and what another person means are different, and When this work took place is Left out.

To expand on the When... if I work a Job I will be paid either daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly. If I work for myself in a trade I will be paid daily, monthly, or even three monthly - depending on what arrangements I have with my clients and whether they are citizens or small or large companies. Either way, I work now and get paid later.

If I put money in the bank and earn interest it could be said I did not work for the money - as in, trade my labour for the money made, as you pointed out. However, I DID do work, in selecting the account in the first place, opening the account and then putting money into it.

So again, I did the work now and get paid later.

The main difference being, my Rate of pay and What I did to make it. No matter what, though, I Still did work.

Now it just so happens that, "making money without money" and "not working for money" are usually used by people who have something to sell you. These aren't phrases used in normal everyday conversation.

Oh, and to be even more Nit Picky... there is Only One Way To Make Money. It goes by many different names but it is still the same one way. Understand this - and associated incorrect word usage - is often the difference between those with large amounts of money and those without. Know what that one way is?

And to quote the Merlvingian...

Why is the only real source of power. Without it you are powerless.

Michael Ross

Re: I don't get it....
 

Don,

Thanks for asking.

*I* jumped in and Corrected the phrase because It Was Wrong.

I have seen others jump in and not correct Phraes but Your Numbers because They Were Wrong.

The simple solution, instead of crying hard done by, is to stop posting wrong stuff.

For instance, you just wrote "MY use of the word "Money" has little or NOTHING to do with the MAIN POINT of the post" and yet it wasn't your use of the word Money I Corrected. It was your phrase "it does NOT take "money to make money"". So even in this simple post of yours you Got It Wrong. See it?

Michael Ross

Reminds me of....
 

My good friend Stan who's a "far leftie". Whenever a discussion comes up about our President....if he can't whack George W for the "topic" of his speech or interview...he whacks him for his "pronunciation"...especially of the definitive article "the".

When da Pres is giving a speech..."the" comes out as "tha". And when he's being interviewed or holding a press conference..."the" comes out as "ta".

So...Stan...instead of commenting about the MAIN issues the Pres was talking about...ol' Stan brings up George W's use of "ta".

Same difference.

We all look at Stan, shrug our shoulders, roll out eyes back, pause a minute to take a deep breath and go onto a more serious topic.

Don Alm

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Hi Guys..I see a lot of what my grandma used to call quibbling. Since she was an important influence in my young life, I tend to agree with her.

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Re: Reminds me of....
 

Making an Incorrect statment about making money, and the way someone pronounces the word The are completely different. Surely even you can see this.

Michael Ross

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Capt,

Thanks for chiming in.

If we cannot talk Accurately about money and any Corrections are deemed Quibling, what can we talk accurately about? Or is this question just Quibling too?

Michael Ross

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Why is it 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9
instead of 0-1-2-4-3-7-6-5-9-8 ?

(Yes there is a meaning behind the numeric symbols. But hardly anyone knows the inherent "meaning" yet everyone has the same inherent "value" attached to these numerals. I find it very interesting how these symbols work because of tradition. Cult / religious leaders know that symbols last even after people have forgotten the meaning! Very few businesses have discovered this yet.)

"Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?"
- Steven Wright
:D

Anyways, forget about it because that is not as interesting as:


You can't leave that as a puzzle Michael! Do tell us what the way is please.

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

It's quibbling, not quibling. I'm sure there is no problem pointing this out, since if we cannot talk accurately about the spelling of quibbling and any corrections are deemed quibbling, what can we accurately talk about?

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

And you dear Ankesh can not leave your puzzle unsolved.
You've piqued my curiosity...I would love to know just
what is the meaning behind the numeric symbols?
Carol

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Ankesh,

Thanks for Asking about the Meaning of numbers - why they are Those numbers and not some other figures.

Certainly, the same can be Asked of words. Why do was say Floor, for example, instead of Wobstan? Why Aqua instead of Ooba? And so on.

I am Not certain on All words. Just some. Based on their Ancient meanings and the like. Car being short for Carriage; Sky coming from old words for Clouds - which you could understand as the peasants of an Occupied English Isle asked their Occupiers what they called That - as they pointed up to the sky - and the Occupiers saw Clouds and gave Their word for clouds. But why did They have that word? You'd need to delve back into that. And there are those who Do.

For interest, read this about Guy Fawkes to see where we get the word Guy from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

With numbers, as we know them, I can Imagine a start from the Roman Numerals days. Where a One was I and Two was II - as they looked to be written representatives of the physical. And I can see how this representation could Slowly change appearance under different writing styles - much like how language can change due to Bastardising words (and English Is a Bastradised language).

But to more Important things...

The whole world revolves around VALUE. The business of making money is all about having a VALUE for VALUE exchange. Or to sum that up in one word... TRADE.

I TRADE my labor for money. I TRADE my money for Goods. If I buy a property and rent it out, I TRADE accommodation for Money. If I rent property I TRADE my money for accommodation.

The business of making money is all about having a VALUE for VALUE exchange - TRADING.

Michael Ross

Re: Reminds me of....
 

LOL...The only argument liberals seem to know is (BUSH IS AN IDIOT) the words of a wise man who once said it always takes one to know one comes to mind...

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Michael - I was kinda sloppy about the spelling but you understood what I meant. Whether we were quibbling or quibling we understood each other and that is what we wanted to accomplish.

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Don,

You're right on about small towns...Branson is really too corporate now...I made money, but it was tougher than most of my deals....

I am with you, pardner, move 'em up...head 'em out!

Millard Grubb

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

I don’t get why you couldn’t do it in Branson…
While there are many corp. owned entities with the "Decision-Maker"
In another area, there are also many “more” Mom and Pops in your area than in a small town like Roseburg.

Take restaurants for example…..
( The following are listings that include Corp owned Restaurants)
Here is a yahoo listing of the restaurants near Roseburg


http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypResults.py?...=y&stx=8903827

There are 111 listings
Compared to Branson’s Restaurant listings

http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypResults.py?...ONz73ZI6L5Hk57

There are over 200 where you are.

The Restaurant #’s alone, suggest that you should be able to get at least 2x as many participants making 2x the dough.
Heck….. Give it a shot.

I would think that with all of the Corp competition, that this op would only play into your presentation and list of bennies to the MOM and POP’S in the area as it would be another way for them to compete with the BIG BOYS
Let us know how it works out when you go to the “Days Inn” (for example) and present them with the opportunity.

If things work out, you and Don could have a great J.V. OP with your radio program by having him on for an hour or so.

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Don,

I want to know what program you used to make the sheets, and did you actually print out 200 of these guides for each room? I'm very interested in doing this project right here.

You may remember me from the old forums, as the college kid that was interested in how to make money while in college.

I'm interested because I live in new orleans and we have a LARGE influx of construction workers in town to work on businesses and residential property. They all want to know where to eat at locally and other businesses, this will be a great pitch to sale. I am really excited, thanks.

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

You had the spelling right - Michael got the spelling wrong. That's why the post was a response to his post, not yours.

Re: Hidden meaning behind certain symbols - numerals and alphabets
 

Thanks for asking Carol :)
I'll try to answer the puzzle in a round-about fashion - because I think it'll make more sense that way. It may get a bit looong though.

But before that, let me answer Jim.


Jim - I'm not saying that numbers have magical powers or can predict stuff. They are numbers just as you are a person. But are you just a person - nothing more nothing less?

No. You are made of bones and muscles. Hundred millionss of neurons give you your own unique thought process and identity. There are layers to you that can't be seen - that are hidden.

Similarly, there are layers behind these numbers - hidden meanings. More than what meets the eye.

--Beginning of round-about explanation--

Paul Ekman studied faces. He researched various world cultures and found something that surprised the scientific community at the time. He found that it doesn't matter where people are from, what religion or culture they follow - their facial expressions for corresponding emotions are the same.

A happy person in USA will have the same look as a happy person in the forests of Amazon.

Cultures have very little influence on our facial expressions.

And similarly, cultures have very little influence on our "tones" too. (Language evolved from tones.)


If you are bilingual - you'll find that many words sound the same in different languages.

They are not so same that you'll understand the meaning without learning the language. But they use certain same "phonemes." (Phoneme = smallest unit of speech sound.)

For eg: this amazed me when I was doing research on phonemes: Almost all the languages of the world have the phonetic sound |M| in the word mother.

French : Mere
German : Mutter
Hindi : Maji
Urdu : Ammee
English : Mom, Mummy, Mother
Italian: Madre
Portuguese: Mãe
Albanian: Mëmë; Nënë; Burim; Kryemurgeshë
Belarusan: matka
Serbian: Majka
Dutch: Moeder; Moer
Estonian: Ema
Frisian: Emo, Emä, Kantaäiti, Äiti
Greek: Màna
Hawaiian: Makuahine

There are exceptions <bummer>:
Hungarian: Anya, Fu

But the exceptions are few.

Some people call Sanskrit the purest language because each phoneme in Sanskrit has a specific meaning.

In Sanskrit, we find that phoneme |M| stands for "me" or "mine."

Do you now understand why a child's first spoken word is usually "mum" or "maa"?

(The child doesn't understand why s/he uses |M| to call her/his mother - just as we don't understand how our brains work. These facial features as well as phonetic tones are ingrained in our brains from before birth.)

-

Let us look at how numbers sound in 3 different languages:

English - French - Hindi

One - Un - Ek
Two - Deux - Do
Three - Trois - Teen
Four - Quatre - Chaar
Five - Cinq - Paanch
Six - Six - Che
Seven - Sept - Saat
Eight - Huit - Aath
Nine - Neuf - Naw

Can you see the similarities?

(I don't know what each phoneme in each number denote - I haven't done research in that. But it is clear that they do have a hidden meaning.)

(To read more about phonemes and their meanings, go to this website by master linguist Margaret Magnus:
http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/
Its very heavy reading - not for everyone. But some people might find it very interesting.)

--

That is the sound of the numbers. But what about the 1-2-3-4? Do they have a story too?

You bet.

Ok - I googled to find a term I could use to explain the numeric-symbols. And I found this site in the process. This site gives a better explanation than I could possibly give:

http://www.geocities.com/rmlyra/Numbers.html

Hope you find this stuff as fascinating as I do.

Re: $3,040 Today!
 

Ha! I did not say i could not do it... I have ALREADY DONE IT!

It just took me a longer time to "Weed" through all the corporate types.

Instead of a couple of weeks to do it as Don does, it took me six weeks. I made money and in FIVE months, I'll UPGRADE for the new season and MAKE MORE MONEY.

SCORE: 25 hotels, 14 restaurants, $9, 725.00

Warmly,

Millard Grubb

Re: Hidden meaning behind certain symbols - numerals and alphabets
 

Ankesh,

Thanks for tossing this in.

Ages ago I saw a doco on words. And the HasBeen Drips Under Pressure (Experts) has traced back our First word for water as being Aqua.

Now, assuming those Scientists who study Mitopchindrial DNA are correct, we All came from the same tribe somewhere in Africa. Hence, all our languages have their Root in that First language. And, just like the Pitcan Islanders, we bastardise our first language into Similar Sounding, but Different words. Hence, the reason why the word for Mother has a similarness about it no matter which Language you look at.

There are also Groups of Languages - such as the Germanic Familiy of Languages.

Another Doco showed how the Chinese Written Language was originally formed. When Emperor Thingy wouold write a Character on a plaque that could be carried around. And as his Troops marches along, all day they saw the new Character on a plaque on the back of the soldier in front. And how the Characters are Abstract representations of the real - such as how the character for Man sort of looks like a Man.

Going back... why we should ahve chosen words like Aqua and something similar to Mother, and other such words is really Unanswerable. We just did. Welcome to that state of ISNESS once again.

Michael Ross

Sample of the sheet?
 

Don,

That's exciting.

Can you send us a copy of the laminated sheet? I have a friend who would like to try this. He's a go getter for knocking on doors and won't quit pestering me to talk about the idea more.

By the way, he had one of the very first info-commercials and has had more successful business ventures than I can shake a stick at.

THANKS!

Best regards,
John Davin

Re: Hidden meaning behind certain symbols - numerals and alphabets
 

Thanks for posting your thoughts Michael.

So there are 2 theories for language:

1. They originated from one same place - a tribe in Africa - where all other humans come from...
2. They originated from different places - but because the brain patterns are same, they sound the same.

We obviously can't go back in time to find the exact answer. But the present can show us light.

New words.
Slangs.

Margaret Magnus did this experiment once. She made up some words that had no meaning. And asked different people to guess what these words meant. And the answers were very similar.

This is very interesting: How do we understand the meaning of made-up words in Dr. Seuss's books?
http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/Suess.html

New words originate from their intended phonetic group.

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I understand what you say about ISness Michael. And I'm not trying to find a unified theory that explains everything. More questions will popup for every question we find an answer to.

But its fun - atleast for me - to find out what makes us tick.

Finding such patterns of language or emotions or facial features will help us become better commnicators too.