Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - Volume 2 Issue 18
Colin Evans, Editor (mailto:
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In this issue
- From the Editor
- Featured Success Article - Sentenced to Success - By Chris Widener
- Featured Online Marketing Article - How to invest in money doublers so you don't lose the shirt off your back - By Colin Evans
- Motivational Quotes
- Take A Break - Lawyers...
- Tell Me what You Think
From the Editor - Colin Evans
Hi Everyone 
Welcome to this edition of Cols-A-To-Z.
Whoa! You nearly didn't get an ezine edition this week. I have a
bad dose of the flu.
Cold, wet and windy weather, what should I expect?
The worst part is trying to decide whether I'm hot or cold, it's
irritating!
Enough moaning and on with business...
Have you noticed the recent explosion on the internet of the "so
called "money doublers?
Initially I was going to add a few tips for making money with
them in this section but I got carried away, and ended up writing
a full blown article.
Solved the problem for finding this edition's Featured Internet
Marketing Article
Folks, money doublers are not the scams you think they are.
Admitedly some are thinly disguised Ponzi schemes, but those that
aren't can make you some good money. Many of them are trying to
copy the granddaddy of them all and a few are getting real close.
I am a member of the "granddaddy" doubler and I'm not allowed to
use it's name in any email so you'll have to go to my new website
dealing with money doublers to get more details.
Actually I'm not even supposed to associate it with being a money
doubler.
My interest in money doublers comes as a result of joining the
"granddaddy" through a subscriber of this ezine - thanks Ken.
So when the latest crop of money doublers started opening for
business I was curious and committed the cardinal sin of
borrowing money to use in a doubler.
Fortunately I got it back. It has been an anxious time, but well
worth the education.
Until the next time...
Featured Success Article - Sentenced to Success - By Chris Widener
I once heard a speaker use the statement, “I have been sentenced
to success!” I heard that almost twenty years ago, yet it still
sticks in my head.
Imagine that. What if we had been given a life sentence to serve,
say 75 years, and the sentence was to do time in a place called
“Success”? The truth is that we have.
Let me back up. We have been given a life sentence. But, unlike a
sentencing in a real life courtroom, we get to actually choose
where we will “do our time.”
Here are some of the choices people make:
The prison of poverty.
Poor people are no better or kinder or anything else than people
with money. People are people regardless of how much money they
have. Frankly, I have had little and I have had a lot, and yes, I
will choose having a lot! When you choose to live in poverty you
are in a prison that does not allow you the freedoms we were
intended to experience. We are unable to help others as we
desire. My advice? Don’t choose a sentence to the prison of
poverty.
The prison of depression.
Depression is like a blanket that overwhelms you and eventually
smothers you. Now before you go accusing me with, “Chris. You
just don’t understand.” Yes I do. I have had a history of
depression. Depression is rampant in my family of origin. I know
firsthand what a prison depression is. When you are locked up in
depression you cannot live life as it was intended. But you can
get out! My advice? Don’t choose a sentence to the prison of
depression.
The prison of the lack of health.
Lacking health is a real pain! The freedom we lose when we choose
to live in a state of a lack of health is terrible – and
unnecessary! We don’t have to live in that prison. We can choose
a different sentence! We can choose health! My advice? Don’t
choose a sentence to the prison of the lack of health.
The prison of doubt, worry, and fear.
This is a dark, dark prison. It is one that haunts you the whole
time you reside there. It makes you believe that the surroundings
are worse than the really are. It keeps you from enjoying life
and becoming the kind of person you were intended to become! My
advice? Don’t choose a sentence to the prison of poverty. My
advice? Don’t choose a sentence to the prison of doubt, worry and
fear.
There is another option. You can choose to be sentenced to
success! You can choose to actually be set free! You can choose
to walk out of that courtroom and live the life that you choose!
What can you experience when you are sentenced to success How
about these:
- Good health
- Financial abundance
- Emotional freedom
- Positive relationships
- A career you love
- Spiritual liberty
And how will you experience these? By choice. Your choice. You
choose exactly what kind of life you will live. You choose the
sentence you will serve here on earth and the experience that you
have. Will you languish in a dark prison or in the open freedom
that comes from the sentence of success? That depends on the
choices you make.
I challenge you to choose this day to:
- Pursue financial independence
- Develop yourself spiritually
- Make a change so you are in a career you love
- Re-commit yourself to loving relationships
- Achieve emotional health
Make a choice TODAY. Do not spend another day in a prison where
you do not belong! Where will you serve your sentence? You get to
decide.
As for me?
I have been sentenced to success!
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lives and achieve their dreams.
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Featured Online Marketing Article - How to invest in money doublers so you don't lose the shirt off your back - By Colin Evans
Have you noticed the recent explosion on the internet of the "so
called" money doublers?
There's a new one popping up nearly every day.
The basic principle behind a money doubler is that you purchase a
product and the money is put into a scheme where you earn double
the amount within a certain time period.
The mechanics of the scheme are such that the money from every
two or three people who make a purchase is used to double the
money of one person who purchased before them.
This is not a Ponzi scheme (an investment swindle named after
Italian speculator Charles Ponzi in which high profits are
promised and early investors are paid off from funds raised from
later ones) because tangible products are purchased, the money
doubling aspect is secondary to the sale. The products are often
"in-house" and heavily subsidized to make the doubler cost
effective.
But beware...
The immediate reaction of "Great, a way of making some quick
money" can very quickly turn into "How on earth am I going to
recover from this loss?"
Don't get me wrong, not all money doubling programs are bad, some
of them are run by honest, hard working people, but most won't
last. Many of the newer ones are thinly disguised Ponzi schemes
and are going to get shut down by the authorities fairly soon.
If you are thinking of investing in any of them, take a few notes
from one who's been stung once or twice:
- Make sure you receive tangible products for your purchases.
These products can include:
- Points that you accumulate to swap for various physical goods.
- Contributions towards Pay Per Click advertising.
- Advertising points that can be used for mailing an in-house list.
- Guaranteed hits to your website.
- Opt-in email leads.
The money doublers to be wary of are those that only have a
list of eBooks and programs that you get to download with your
first purchase and that's it. You get nothing but a position
in the doubling matrix for all subsequent purchases.
- Only join a money doubler that has the following features:
- An active forum.
Reading responses to negative posts will tell you a lot
about how a doubler is run. An active forum generally means
active members. Active members are more likely to re-invest
and bring in new members.
- Only one line for the doubling matrix e.g. $10 x 200%.
For a doubler to be effective, all the effort must be
focused into cycling one line.
- A membership that is growing.
Doublers exist only because new members make fresh purchases
and existing members re-invest.
If you decide to chance a thinly disguised Ponzi scheme,
remember that a doubler that offers a tangible product has a
lot more chance of getting new members and fresh
re-purchases from existing members.
- Has the backing of big downline clubs.
This increases the enrolment of new members and thus new
investment.
- An automatic mandatory 50% re-investment of your earnings.
Some of the best doublers are those that have a limit you
must reach on the earning per share before you can withdraw
any earnings.
For example, some have a 50/50 $320 re-investment/$320
residual income. This simply means your share will double
over and over until it reaches $640 in value. At that point
$320 will be paid to you and $320 will be re-invested, all
done automatically.
Using this type of system, $10 a day invested for three
months in a doubler with a constant 90 day cycle time, will
become a recurring income of $9600 per month in eighteen
months time.
- Only spend money that you can afford to loose. DO NOT borrow
money to put into a money doubler.
- If you can, take your initial investment out on the first
cycle (your money has doubled for the first time).
This is important for new doublers that have no track record.
- On all subsequent cycles remove 25% and re-invest 75%. Don't
be greedy, it's money for nothing so you're still scoring big.
Re-investing your earnings keeps the doubler cycling and will
help those who are behind you in the matrix.
- Don't believe the "you don't have to recruit" myth that nearly
all doublers put in their sales copy. A doubler depends on new
members joining to keep cycling.
Doublers with big memberships are stable and pay out big sums
of money. The granddaddy of them all has paid out nearly 30
million dollars to its members in only six months.
- If a money doubler starts going over a 120 day cycle time, its
time to consider the money you have in it "lost." People are
going to avoid the program and/or leave it to join others with
a lower cycle time.
There is a certain amount of "first mover’s advantage" if you
manage to join a new doubler that goes from strength to strength,
but these are rare. Generally you only make quick money if you
are within the first 75 members to join and invest. You will
probably make one quick cycle and then the "herd" will catch up
with you.
Joining new doublers to make quick money is gambling and is
dangerous!
The safest way to invest in money doublers is to take the view
that your money will double every 90 days, and anything quicker
is a bonus.
More importantly, invest with the future in mind. Join money
doublers that have a good track record and only invest money you
can afford to spend (and could loose) now.
Eighteen months from now you'll be glad you read this article.
Written by Colin Evans © 2004 - All rights reserved. To find
other tips and advice on how to make money using money doublers
and to get your own "no cost" Cycle Time Calculator visit:
http://www.money-doublers.com
Motivational Quotes
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as
evidence of a need for change, you aren’t defeated by it. You’re
learning from it.
- Bill Gates
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
Take A Break - Lawyers...
An American attorney had just finished a guest lecture at a law
school in Italy when an Italian lawyer approached him and asked,
"Is it true that a person can fall down on a sidewalk in your
county and then sue the landowners for lots of money?"
Told that it was true, the lawyer turned to his partner and
started speaking rapidly in Italian. When they stopped, the
American attorney asked if they wanted to go to America to
practice law.
"No, no," one replied. "We want to go to America and fall down
on sidewalks."
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