Get rich quick any one?

[cava]

I am not sure if this is the right place to post or not but I am wondering if anyone ever purchsed any get ritch quick books.. Now I have saw many on tv and internet but never actualy got one.. However I found one site that made be question if it actualy does help or not so realy dunno if I should get it or not.. Its 100 not much I guess .. does it actualy work or not?

Thanks

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[victor]

I think I can help.....

I found an abandoned copy of "The Lazy Man's Way to Riches" when I moved into a house some years ago.

The book has two parts.

Part 1 is about learning to love your self so much that your ears bleed. A really intensive sort of one-person hug-in.

Part 2 is about how to sell lots of things by being good at writing effective classified newspaper adverts.

I suspect later versions keep part 1 unchanged but move on to writing TV ads that shout 800 numbers at you, or eBay.

[cava]

So did it work maybe not become a millionar but some nice income at least? anyone one else?

[vincevincevince]

I discovered the means to make millions of pounds/dollars/yen a year. Like many great businesses, it exploited an undersaturated part of the market by using slightly novel or underutilised techniques. I was a millionaire within a year, and after employing a small army to help grow the business, I was a billionaire within five years.

It was at this time when I suddenly thought "Wow, if I spent about 200 hours + slaving over a computer, I could write an informative and useful book about how I get rich." I knew that thousands of new people operating in my niche sector would be a good idea, there's nothing better than competition to inflate profits!

I set to work immediately, and instead of sunning myself in the tropics and sipping pink gin, I started working long days preparing this masterpiece of a manuscript. Finally, it was near completion, 200 pages exactly. Better add another one, said I, and that made it 'over 200 pages of exclusive advice'!

The next challenge was how to promote it. I only had £1,000,000 in my back pocket at the time, so I decided the webdesigner would have to be cheap. I got given a quote at £5 per page. Right, said I, I'm going to have a ONE PAGE WEBSITE. That'll teach them to charge me so much. But... I want that page as long as most multi-page websites added together. I thought I'd fill it with testimonials (and since I have none yet, it's fair to make some up).

I was worried that nobody would part with their money to buy my e-book on widget-widget-make-money-quick-fast.biz so I bit the bullet. I'd give away not just one, but two absolutely free related e-books. What a marketing genius I am.

Finally, I decided, that as I'm so stinking rich, I can only afford payment by a third party payment processor. I don't have a merchant account of my own, and my bank managager certainly won't give me one - I've far too much money! Besides, not having my own payment processor will make me look even more reliable.

[ska_demon]

vincevincevince

'hit the nail on the head'

'to a tee'

'got it in one'

'smack on' and other phrases that mean much the same.

heh heh funniest thing I've read today

Ska

[akmac]

Thanks vincevincevince for posting. I received your Absolutely Free related guides and have since become a multimillionaire as well. It's so simple-anyone could do it. Really.

[rocknbil]

LOL . . . MORE MORE! ENCORE! BRAVO! :-)

I've assisted a few people in webifying these ebooks, and had to proof some of the copy (ugh.) Most of them, when you break it down, excel in one thing, the one true lesson that can be gleaned from them: learn to BS, and do it well, and ye shall becometh rich.

[cava]

Yep I was afraid of that but I never even tought of getting one too much bs ... but that last ad i saw i stoped and thinked for a sec.. Now I need some advice someone must have got that book they must have had a friend or someone who got it and I guess they are all the same just different cover of bs.

Thanks ppl

[DoppyNL]

The way to get rich quick is to sell books about how to get rich quick.

[httpwebwitch]

My first million was earned buying slummy real estate on credit, getting someone else to fix the property up on credit, then reselling back to the bank to pay back the contractors.

My second million was earned putting classified ads in small newspapers selling vague religious services. I had one employee that spent his day recording personalized prayers for dialup customers.

My third million was earned by hiring a troupe of out-of-work actors, giving them a cliche business motivational speech to memorize, and sending them on tour doing seminars at the local Days Inn for $300 a pop.

My fourth million was made taking everyday objects, spray-painting them orange and selling them as Art.

My fifth million was earned by repackaging Ginseng, branded as "SUPERMX LONGSTUD PILLS".

I'm working on my sixth million now. Does anyone here need a website?

[dmorison]

"The quickest way to become a millionaire is to be a billionaire and then start an airline."

-- Richard Branson

[Essex_boy]

"The Lazy Man's Way to Riches" - Oddly enough that was the first book I ever bought.

While you may poke fun at it I did find it informative in sections.

The best part was being able to take a look at things from another angle be it a product or a person, the other very good book id recommend is Millionaire mind, its not a get rich quick book but one about people who are rich and how they became rich.

[AlexMiles]

I've known a lot of rich people, and I can say with a fair amount of confidence that the best way of getting rich is to have a rich daddy.

[Added]
Other ways I could recommend is to give whatever you do 100%, only do stuff you are better than everyone else at, and only do stuff you like doing.

Its not foolproof. I mean I can think of two examples of people I know who've taken the second route. One is a famous musician who made a lot of money through songwriting, the other is my roomate who hasn't made any because her talent is drinking tea while watching tv.

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[rocknbil]

^ ^ ^ LOL . . . .

One that's been mentioned here many times - "Create a disease, then invent the cure."

[rjohara]

The radio show "Car Talk" had an imaginary sponsor at one point called the "Car Talk Investment Fund," or something like that. Their slogan was, "We guarantee a 50% return!" ("You give us $1000, and we'll return 50% of it.")

[createErrorMsg]

the best way of getting rich is to have a rich daddy

Here's the plan...you be my new daddy. Then you go find someone to be your new daddy, and he finds someone to be HIS new daddy, and so on and so on until someone in the chain finally gets a rich guy to be his daddy. It's bound to happen eventually, right? And when it does, the trickle down will make us all rich.

Who's in?

(No, no, wait. I'm going to write an eBook about it, instead.)

[oneguy]

I've bought real estate materials before that are often marketed in a "get rich quick" sort of way. They aren't cheap, either.

I also know several people who actually make a living doing those things, and they consider those materials to be worth their money.

I wouldn't recommend them for 99.9% of the people I meet. Most of the info is online someplace, anyway.

[Jane_Doe]

If you want to be rich, you may find the book The Millionaire Next Door of interest. It is written by a couple of college professors who specialize in marketing to the affluent. It is based on their research of studying and interviewing people who really are millionaires. (One of the authors also wrote Millionaire Mind, but I personally thought that was a bit of a rehash of the original book.)

[Essex_boy]

Ill take a look at that.

[oneguy]

you may find the book The Millionaire Next Door of interest.

I'll second that. I'm not sure I've applied anything I read there, but it sure was interesting.

I should probably read it again when I have some time. (was at least 2 years ago)

It is based on their research of studying and interviewing people who really are millionaires.

Sure not a roadmap, but it was a good read for the inspired. (me)

[skibum]

Bought Don Lapre's pitch back in college. I think we dropped a few hundred dollars on it, set up our own 900# and advertised it as the "executive dateline" in a few local papers. We bought a TV commercial also but they only sold you the rights to it and you had to book air time and they would send it to the station but wouldn't send it to us for some reason.

After spending another $100 or so on the ads we made with PowerPoint, we eventually got a check for about $5.00 in payouts from people calling it.

Affiliate marketing has been a bit more profitable but I don't think any book will teach it. Just some hard knocks and lots of experimentation.