Get-Rich-Quick schemes

[radhead]

Does anyone have any experiences with these ideas?

Ugh. I (reluctantly) just spent a worthless evening at a get-rich-quick seminar. I'm not even going to describe the nature of the idea.

But I walked away after hearing this great presentation, realizing, nothing has really changed in thousands of years. If you want to get rich...

(1) You have to offer a product or service that no one else has. You have to have your own vision.

(2) You have to be a real salesman. No product in itself is strong enough to make money for just anyone.

I also believe what the Bible says in Genesis. Man will work by the sweat of his brow all the days of his life. That's another reason I don't trust these Get-Rich-Quick people.

 

[fishin4christ]

Most envolve very risky ideas. I've seen a couple focus on foreclosures, but the thing what that is you gotta have money before you can make it. I personally believe they are just schemes to get the person who's marketing the product rich.

 

[radhead]

Most envolve very risky ideas. I've seen a couple focus on foreclosures, but the thing what that is you gotta have money before you can make it. I personally believe they are just schemes to get the person who's marketing the product rich.

That's EXACTLY what a lot of them are. The marketers are visionaries in the sense that, they know the pulse of the people, where people imagine that great money will potentially be made. So they are great salesmen to those people.

These same marketers will move into another scheme when the business world changes for their first idea.

 

[forsakic]

I'm glad you have the discretion to recognize a scam when you see one. I have a Christian friend who is entangled in the "Quixtar" scheme, which is technically not a scam but is still a poor investment.

 

[WileyCoyote]

I have defrauded thousands of people using chain letter pyramid schemes by strategically positioning my name so that it is always at the top of the pyramid. The people under me may collect some, but most of it goes to me. And when the pyramid collapses, I take my money and bounce. Yippee.


Why did I do it? My logic is:

The best way to avoid being scammed is to know how to scam.

 

[SonicBOOM]

I think it's pretty easy in America [who considers mini-m&ms a "useful" idea] to get rich quik. just come up with something that fits pop-culture [no matter how stupid the idea is] and BINGO! Your rich

 

[radhead]

I have my own idea for "jumbo" M&M's. Please don't tell anyone, though. I'm still researching the best way to present this idea to the M&M's people.

 

[radhead]

The worst product I've ever seen was "Clear Pepsi." It was clear soda which tasted like Pepsi...well, not exactly because the caramel ingredient that created the color was actually part of the flavoring. So, when people drank it they said, "Wow, this tastes just like - err, I mean sort of like real Pepsi."

Caffeine also contributes to the flavor. So, the dumbest variation was "Diet Clear Caffeine-Free Pepsi". Or, in other words, carbonated water with a strange mild undertaste, which potentially gave you cancer.

 

[mina]

I don't think any of them ever work.

 

[Apollo Celestio]

Mine will work, it involves a bow and arrow, a long rope, and lots of FIRE.

 

[SonicBOOM]

I think they already have an Legolos action figure Ishida

 

[Apollo Celestio]

*darth vader "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" ensues*

 

[Apollo Celestio]

Back to the plastic bottles and power tools idea..

 

[WileyCoyote]

The worst product I've ever seen was "Clear Pepsi." It was clear soda which tasted like Pepsi...well, not exactly because the caramel ingredient that created the color was actually part of the flavoring. So, when people drank it they said, "Wow, this tastes just like - err, I mean sort of like real Pepsi."

Caffeine also contributes to the flavor. So, the dumbest variation was "Diet Clear Caffeine-Free Pepsi". Or, in other words, carbonated water with a strange mild undertaste, which potentially gave you cancer.

LOL. I remember that. Crystal Pepsi. Weirdest thing I ever saw.


Take a look at the commercial. Do you remember it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tign09D5IgE&NR=1

 

[BellaSong]

If you send me $1000, tomorrow you will magically receive $1,000,000

 

[Peacemonger]

Anytime a seminar is involved, you can be certain that it's all manipulative marketing rather than actual substance. They make money selling seminars or audio tapes and CDs. Heck, even if the introductory material is free, the $5.95 shipping & handling multiplied by 1 million suckers is still $6 million.

Study Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford, Gates (Microsoft), Branson (Virgin), and dozens and dozens of other "great" business men and women if you want inspiration on "getting rich." Many of these people started with nothing and were quite poor.

 

[Luther073082]

My get rich quick scheme is running off with a lovely young woman at my church with an incredible singing voice to a record producer and claiming myself as her manager.

But other then that no, they are extremly risky. Also watch out for investment schemes too. There seems to be a lot of talk about buying gold these days. Don't do it.

The best way to get rich is to invest your money heavily into some diversified growth stock mutual funds and keep doing that for most of your life.

Either that or you can start your own company if its very innovative and fresh.

There are lots of ways to get rich quick. Unfortunutly with most of them you are more likely to get broke quick then get rich quick.