The Reckoning - Dead or Alive

A couple of months ago I wrote an article that showed how Cash Gifting could make you or anyone a millionaire. At the time that seemed like a pretty big goal, but now that gas is over $4 per gallon, prices for foods like rice have doubled, and the dollar continue to go down in value, a million dollars doesn’t seem like so much. Or perhaps I should say: “a million dollars ain’t what it used to be”. With that in mind and some new personal development under my belt, I need a new goal.

Now you have to understand, when it comes to goals, there are a number of things that are always said, well maybe not always, but frequent enough:

“Anything you can conceive, you can achieve”
“If you say you can, or you can’t, you’re right”

But almost no one comes out and says what perhaps is most important – THINK BIG! If you set a goal you are more than likely going to achieve it if you really commit yourself to it. That’s how the universe works after all. So if that’s the case why think small? Why go for something that’s well within reach already?

I remember signing up for the Carlton Sheets Real Estate course. At the time they were offering the coaching program as well. Since it seemed like a pretty useful program to get you going, I grabbed them both. Now with course in hand I met with my coach over the phone. I can still remember the first session because the emphasis is on setting goals, but I didn’t have any. She kept trying to get me to come up with a goal, but I said I really can’t think of anything I want that I don’t just go and get. Finally, we came up with a Porsche. She asked what I wanted, and I said a Porsche would be nice. Well low and behold in a couple of weeks (not months) I was driving a Porsche. In fact, I would put money on it that the Porsche I bought was one of the best Porsches in the entire state. I sold it a few years ago, but my friend still has it, and smiles with every mention. Great car! That car is still worth more today that what I paid for it.

Anyway, I could go on and on, but the point of the story is not going out and getting a fancy European sports car. Believe me I could write books on that, I love cars. The point is simply to demonstrate that by setting that random goal, I kicked into action the forces of attraction. In fact I can look back and say that’s been the case throughout my life. I have always ended up in places that by all rights I had no business being. But what’s amazing is that there’s nothing special about that working for me as opposed to anyone else.

With that said making the million is too easy, it’s not really a stretch when you look at the math. Remember, $1M per year breaks down to less than $3000 per day. When I saw that I could believe that people peddle stuff trying to make $100 a day. That comes down to productivity. Believe who you want, but I say this, if you can get your friends and family to buy something for $100 you could have sold something for $3000. Most people don’t acquire the skills to do either. So if you follow my logic, you know that it didn’t take much for me to conclude by simply doing the math a couple of months ago that with the Cash Gifting programs that have higher values, anyone of them could make you a millionaire.

Most people will still think it’s impossible. Even though I showed how easy it was at that time combined with the fact that today it hardly seems like enough. Sad isn’t it, the average household income is somewhere around $50,000 per year, average salary is said to be around $30,000 to $40,000, and to get into the top 5% of income earners in the USA you only have to make more than around $150,000. The remarkable thing about all those numbers is how small they are compared to $1,000,000 the amount I say is not just easy, but not enough.

My new goal is $3M in 6 months, that’s three million dollars US generated in only six months. I honestly don’t know where it came from or how I can do it, but that’s what popped into my head, $3M in 6 months. So according to the way the universe works a solution to that should just “show up” if I can recognize it, and it did. Think I could do it with cash gifting? Another home based business? Design a product? Wait until you see how simple it is. Then tell me what you think.

Yes! President Bush would be in prison if he were Black.

Based on just some of the details from his history and the accompanying exploits, President Bush would have gone to jail at least seven times if he had been Black. If you take into consideration that he lived in Texas, he may have even managed to get himself killed by some of them good ol’ boys.

Now don’t take this the wrong way. I’m not bitter about the things he and his administration have done that all follow an obviously, tried and true formula to deceive people across the world. Things that come into question like:

1. Apparently staging the entire “War on Terror” to promote oil interests
2. Waging campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq that are pointless
3. Ruining the economy by increasing gas prices to gain drilling rights
4. Maintaining close, personal ties to very rich Saudi families and officials
5. Promoting yet another war, this time with Iran
6. Attacking civil liberty with vigor because people are stupid
7. Promoting acts of torture and privacy infringement

That list is left for Michael Moore or at the least another time. Listed above is a totally separate seven topics that people would argue and go on and on about, but putting someone in prison for those things would not even come up in the discussion. In fact I should actually refer to those as big rich White Man crimes. Crimes so big no one really thinks of them as criminal. What I’m talking about when I say President Bush would be in prison is plain, simple, and straightforward: if President Bush had done the exact same things he did to get to his current position and you change only the color of his skin and make him a Black Man, instead of being President he would have gone to prison.

Background

As we countdown the days to The Reckoning, December 21, 2012 WE are becoming more and more aware. Things that used to make sense, will make no sense. Things that used to go undetected will be highly visible in plain sight. Some people have always have the gift for uncovering the truth, the difference now is that WE, the masses, will have that same ability.

One way people will begin to experience this is that they’ll notice that coincidences will start to be much more noticeable and frequent. Thoughts and insights will appear in their minds from seemingly nowhere. The old lies that have been used to establish our current societies will start to erode. This is indeed an amazing time to be alive.

This writing is an example of one of these sequences as it happened to me. How events that have virtually nothing in common, no links, suddenly come together as something to be shared as inspiration.

Justice and the Black Man

Growing up as a Black Man I am extremely familiar with the disparity of what we refer to as the justice system. In fact I even take it as a given without giving it much thought. The obvious truth is becoming more apparent:

There has been a continuous effort to imprint and maintain a direct association between Black Men, Crime, and Prison across American society.

Making that statement does not make me a genius or even deeply insightful, it’s obvious. It manifests itself in the way that the justice system applies itself.

Answer these questions:

Is Michael (Mike) Vick a Professional Football Player?

Is Wesley Snipes is a World Renowned Actor?

No matter what your answers are, at the beginning and end of the day

Michael Vick is a Black Man.
Wesley Snipes is a Black Man.

So when they are accused of anything that requires them to enter the realm of the US Judicial system it does not matter what they’ve done they are Black Men and they are therefore expected to be prison inmates.

Did you know that when Michael Vick was being accused and facing prison time for killing dogs, there was another celebrity getting away with blatantly killing a human being? In neither case did the general public bat an eye when the verdicts were handed down. When Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion, even though he paid $5 Million dollars, no one had a problem. Black people simply called him stupid and I honestly don’t know if White people even thought about it. But I guarantee no one was surprised he was going to jail. Now for some reason when you have a White person commit the same crime, they end up with probation.

But we know this, we see Paris Hilton go in and out of jail. Lindsay Lohan, Robert Downey, and yes we can add our President to that same drunk driving, cocaine using crowd that is subject to a different kind of law.

What led me to write this? It was an interesting sequence of information exposure:

1. President Bush calling for drilling rights in order to address the high gas prices. He must really have a lot of faith in two things, the stupidity of the American people and the fact that what the government does really isn’t based on what the American people think anyway.

2. An article talking to the fact that Wesley Snipes is going to prison for not paying taxes while someone else gets probation. Even though they did not pay a lot more in taxes than he did.

3. But most importantly, a segment on the Bill Moyer show that talks about a recent book: Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon. This book actually quantifies some of the degrees of injustice that Blacks were subjected to in the South not that long ago. When the author described finding fields of buried bodies just five miles outside Birmingham, Alabama:

Almost a century later, on an overgrown hillside five miles from the bustling downtown of contemporary Birmingham, I found my way to one of the only tangible relics of what Green Cottenham endured. The ground was all but completely obscured by the dense thicket. But beneath the undergrowth of privet, the faint outlines of hundreds upon hundreds of oval depressions still marked the land. Spread in haphazard rows across the forest floor, these were sunken graves of the dead from nearby prison mines once operated by U.S. Steel.2 Here and there, antediluvian headstones jutted from the foliage. No signs marked the place. No paths led to it.

These are, not were, where numerous Black people who were held as forced labor ended up being buried, right outside Birmingham, the city with the Black mayor mind you, without ever being noticed until a White man who lives in Atlanta finds them. I was just amazed. These are the kinds of truths that define Live Reckoning they will continue to appear right before our eyes from right under our noses.

Allow me to introduce myself, I’m John Berry and I need your kindness. Please excuse this interruption, but as I said I need to ask for your favor.

 

As I went to pump my gas this morning, I realized I am on the verge of financial ruin. In that moment I accepted the reality – my job is not going to get it done. The sad thing is that I’ve got a pretty good job too. I’ve decided that rather than keeping this all to myself, I’m reaching out to you, your spirit of kindness, your generosity, and all the attributes that make up an abundance mentality. As someone experiencing success will you lend a hand to someone in need?

 

This is not a sales pitch and this is not a ploy, this is real. I have lots of real bills, I have real assets being repossessed, I have real foreclosure notices, and I am really on the verge of Bankruptcy. I think this could happen to anyone and if I had the opportunity, I would help them.

 

Take a look at my past few months:

 

I have been hit with an $180,000 lawsuit

Dex wants over $50,000 for yellow page listings that generated no business

I was forced to sell one of my homes at a loss just before foreclosure

My Assisted Living Van has been repossessed

My Concrete truck has been repossessed

The IRS levied my bank account

I have foreclosure notices for my home

I am constantly hounded by collection agencies

 

Am I smiling? Yes. Am I positive? Yes. Will I get through this? Yes. Can You Help Me? Yes.

 

Just one year ago you could have talked to me about my job and my businesses and I would have said everything was on track. Were there challenges yes, but nothing especially bad. My concrete delivery business, my assisted living homes, my real estate and rental property, online businesses, and all sorts of other things were fine. Fast forward to now and it’s a different story and I have to acknowledge that the walls are quickly caving in on me.

 

So what happened? Was I doing too many things? Was I not capable? Or could the same thing happen to you? Read and learn.

 

Longest Yard Concrete LLC

 

Longest Yard Concrete is still the top ranked website for categories on Google and Yahoo, out ranking much larger companies like YellowPages.com and Dex. I had great employees, high quality product, the latest equipment, and competitive prices. In fact LYC is still the only ready mix concrete company in the Phoenix metro area listed in the BBB directory. I constantly overcame adversary with LYC. My “partner” disappeared and left my holding the bag, the prices for materials went through the roof, a constant stream of new competitors opening in the area, all this and I was still holding my own. In 2008 however our challenges came from a virtually insurmountable source – the government and the media. The government is engaging in a campaign that has Diesel at over $4 per gallon. The media has everyone afraid to spend on anything housing related. Those two things are killers to small concrete businesses.

 

Sharon’s Adult Care

 

When I bought Sharon’s it had a number of outstanding qualities – the only 10 bed Assisted Living Home listed with the state in Chandler, Arizona; over a ten year legacy of warm, tender attention and care; located within a few miles of retirement communities; an owner who as a Christian testified about the daily traffic from neighbors because of the good standing Sharon’s had in the community. None of those things, true or false (and you can guess which one was a lie) has resulted in any success. To this day, I have yet to make a dollar off that home, but the owner insists on calling in payment of an additional $180,000 even though I already paid more than the home was probably ever worth thank to bogus appraising and loan practices.

 

Enter the IRS

 

I hope you never have the pleasure of opening up your bank account to find all you money gone. If you do don’t look around for some cyber criminal, look for the IRS. That’s what has happened to me. The IRS swoops in take the money – far in excess of what is owned, and leaves you to figure out how to pay employees, utility bills, groceries and all those little things.

 

The Van is Gone!

 

Of course all that isn’t enough, my bank decided to repossess my Assisted Living van, the same van that has over $7000 of custom wrap on it because the payments were behind. If you ever have a choice, I don’t know if I could really recommend Compass Bank by the way. So apparently they intend to sell my van at auction and leave me holding the bill for whatever else is due. I had never had anything repo’d so it was a new experience.

 

What the Concrete Truck too!

 

Yep! Literally, like the next day I get a call from a guy saying he’s taking the truck. Now these guys had a case for repo, I can’t blame them. Due to the slow business I had not made a payment for around 9 months, and they would still work with me. So yes, I would recommend Key Equipment Finance to anyone. When I looked at it I could not justify making the lease payment when I needed to buy materials, gas, pay workers, and oh yeah pay the mortgage.

 

Yes, there’s more but I won’t go on. If you read this far you need a little irony so here it is:

 

I am asking for your kindness and some would argue I’m here for being too kind.

 

I am asking for your trust and belief when yes I trusted and believed.

 

My financial world started to unravel primarily because of really two individuals, just two. You could include my “partner” that I mentioned before and that would make it three, but I got over him and say it’s really two. One is a former professional football player and minister. He leased one of my homes to conduct a business as an Assisted Living provider. Well all was going well when the payments stopped coming. Since we all have hard times I tried to work with him and he assured me he was going to catch it up. I know, anyone reading this who has owned a rental is saying no one ever catches up. So I was working with him, he assured me he would pay me. Then he got hard to reach on any phone. It got to the point that I told him honestly, the house was going to go into foreclosure. Again, he said he’d pay. He said the NFL owned him a lot of money and he would be able to make everything right. In the end, I lost my house, he helped ruin my credit, and cost me an extra $7000 plus for good measure, and today he can’t even answer his phone if I call. This was bad, but then there’s the second guy. He taught me that at the least:

 

The Secret is Real!

 

But that’s not the funny one, the second person was a roommate. When I met Mark, it was as my Chiropractor and he is a great Chiropractor. Unfortunately, that greatness does not spill over into his other endeavors. Anyway, as it turned out one day when I was getting adjusted he mentioned he was looking for a place to live or at least store some belongings. I mentioned that I had room at a home and he was welcome to keep some stuff there and I actually used to have a roommate. Once he saw the place he recognized that is was a smokin’ deal – beautiful home, large, private bath, internet, etc and I was hardly ever there all for a couple of hundred bucks for a room plus utilities. Long story short, he not only moved in, he moved a house worth of furniture in. I let him store stuff in the garage, use the office for patients. Great deal right? First rent was late – he thought his accountant was paying it. Then he was behind on the utilities. At about the time the lease was going to run out he decided to leave town and move back to Oregon, but he still owed for a years utilities, at least $3000. As he was leaving he assured me he was not trying to stiff me and that he fully intended to pay what he owed me.

 

So here’s where the Secret comes in. At the same time I had a bill collector calling me to get money for a Lowe’s card that LYC had used and it was about the same amount as he owed me. After several heated discussions they asked “Well, what can you pay?” and I responded that I could do around $150. Weeks later when Mark was long gone to Oregon I get a letter from his accountant. She had asked for a detailed breakdown of the bill before she could get an accurate amount. So I open the letter. Was it for my $3000 the he owned me? No.

 

It was $150.

 

There’s more to all this that I won’t even go into, but I won’t. I won’t talk about all the bill collectors that call everyday with the same question and get the same response. I guess it must be hard to understand that late fees are the least of my worries. To make a long story shorter I simply have concluded that my job is not going to get me out of all this. I have some plans in place and am exploring options, but at this point Bankruptcy looks imminent. And that brings me to you. While exploring options, I have come across other small businesses, sales programs, internet marketing programs, multi-level marketing programs, and more. Since I see so many people having success and I haven’t gotten there yet I decided to reach out to the community.

 

That brings us to today. I need money because I’m in financial trouble. I am not selling anything, and I’m not asking you do something you don’t agree with for whatever reason. I am simply making an appeal to your kindness and in return for your generosity I am not offering anything except heartfelt thanks for your kindness. I can say that it will not be forgotten.

 

If you truly believe that you give to receive here is your chance.

If you believe that what you give, comes back to you ten fold, here’s your chance.

If you embrace the concept that if you want to make money you should give some away, here is your chance.

 

As you can see I have some substantial financial challenges ahead of me,

 

$650,000 Assisted Living Home,

$180,000 lawsuit,

$156,000 second mortgage,

$100,000 Concrete Truck,

$50,000 ad fees,

$40,000 Van

And unfortunately much more.

What I am asking you for is a small simple $100 gift.

 

It can be sent to my address at

John Berry

12424 E Via De Palmas

Chandler, AZ  85249 

Or use paypal  jpb365@gmail.com

 

Thank you in advance,

 

John

 

Feel free to contact me at

480 205 7375 or email: jpb365@gmail.com

Cash Gifting, the real Cash Gifting, is quite simple. It is simply a means of transferring wealth from one individual to another without incurring unwanted costs such as taxes. Any tax accountant could tell you there are no special tricks, no traps, and no hidden secrets to gifting cash to someone, as some would have you believe. Instead, when it comes to the gifting of cash, real Cash Gifting, there are only four simple things you need to know and understand: 1) Cash Gifting is not new, 2) Cash Gifting is not Multi Level Marketing 3) Cash Gifting is not a business and 4) Cash Gifting is perfectly legal. Chances are if you don’t know these things about Cash Gifting already it’s a reflection on the economic circles that you travel in or the opportunities that you create for yourself or the fact that you don’t pay enough taxes to make Cash Gifting worthwhile.

Think of this …

On a warm spring day you come home from school and find your parents sitting at the table making plans. You also notice a suitcase by the door. Since your mother is clearly upset you ask what’s wrong hoping that your parents aren’t springing a sudden divorce on you. Don’t worry it’s not a divorce. There’s been a death in the family. Your great Uncle Maynurd passed away and your mother is on her way to pay her respects. Although you didn’t know much about Uncle Maynurd he was actually loaded. In fact, he’s been sending you $12,000 as a gift for your college fund every year. Now that he passed away the executer of his estate has identified you and many others to receive a $12,000 gift. You think that’s pretty cool until you find out how much the whole estate is worth, the little cash gift is nothing, but it’s the limit that you can receive in a year from Uncle Maynurd or any one individual without having to report it as income. Like many wealthy people, Uncle Maynurd had more money than he could ever use, cash gifts were just a normal part of distributing his assets.

And just in case you’re wondering, you will not need to bring a big bag for the cash or expect it to arrive via FedEx, UPS, or any other courier at your door in an overnight box.

Cash Gifting Is Not New

Here’s how simple it is if that was too much …

Have you ever gotten cash for your birthday? Probably a little.
Have you ever given someone cash for graduation? Probably a little more.
Have you ever bought a car and had someone help with the down payment?
How long do you think that has been going on?
Did you ever report any of those as income or think it was illegal?

Hopefully you realize that wealthy people leave money behind to other people to inherit when they die every day. That’s part of the purpose of a will and having what’s known as an estate plan. Since wealthy people have dying and people have been inheriting fortunes long before Paris Hilton, you then realize that in the same way Cash Gifting is nothing new. The amount may change, such as being raised to $12,000 per year, but the concept is still the same. It follows along the same lines as having a business and hiring you kids.
Both are credible entries on an itemized tax return. No one invented it a few years ago just as YouTube did not make it credible. What’s new to you is just that, new to you.

Cash Gifting Is Not Multi Level Marketing

Although the current cast of characters may look, think, and act the same as they do in Multi Level Marketing (MLM), Cash Gifting is not and could never be MLM. One of the key aspects is that it is a private activity between individuals. This means that unlike MLM there should be no weekly meetings, and no one is “sponsoring” anyone into a business. The main problem is that MLM can’t work and yet so many people believe it can and join up. Those people applied the same paradigms or way of thinking and simply substituted a worthless product for cash.

Cash Gifting Is Not A Business

According to Google there are immediately several definitions of business…

Definitions of business on the Web:

* a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; “he bought his brother’s business”; “a small mom-and-pop business”; “a …
* commercial enterprise: the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; “computers are now widely used in business”
* business concerns collectively; “Government and business could not agree”
* the volume of commercial activity; “business is good today”; “show me where the business was today”
* a rightful concern or responsibility; “it’s none of your business”; “mind your own business”
* occupation: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; “he’s not in my line of business”
* an immediate objective; “gossip was the main business of the evening”
* incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; “his business with the cane was hilarious”
* clientele: customers collectively; “they have an upper class clientele”

The basic premise behind real behind the examples as stated above; birthdays, graduations, etc. is a simple private exchange between individuals. This cannot be and enterprise because as stated people (plural) constitute an enterprise. It cannot fall under the second definition because there are no goods and services being provided. If you gave the lady who cleaned your windshield at the stoplight $5 and went about your merry way, you could argue there was a service. If you just give it to her as she holds up a sign in the median, it’s just a gift. Even though the answer to ‘What is Cash Gifting’ usually entails a specific reference to a section of the IRS code Cash Gifting per say is not a business. Do not expect to take a tax write off for any subscription fee to a program, do not try and deduct your telephone or office space as a result of being involved in this activity. It is not reported as income as long as it remains below the specified level, there is no profit made.

No income, no profit, no business.

Cash Gifting Is Perfectly Legal

As I was talking one day to a friend he surprised me. This friend as it turns out had joined a Cash Gifting program a while back. When we talked about it, he told me he didn’t have much luck with it because he never felt good about it. One of the things he said was “Yeah, it’s legal. But it’s just barely legal.”

Well that’s an interesting perspective. For one thing using the law or legality rather as a baseline for engaging in an activity is a pretty low standard. Think of all the things big corporations do that are legal that are far from moral or in the best interests of their customers. They realized long ago that there is no barely legal at all, it is or it isn’t. And what they want is an ability to argue while they reap the benefits. This particular activity does not fit that mold. It’s just like any other part of the tax code that we are subject to when it comes to income and what has to be reported.

Bottomline On Cash Gifting

Hopefully this shreds some misconceptions on the Cash Gifting that has been referred to as a phenomenon. If it is a phenomenon it’s one that financial planners, lawyers, and accountants among others have been tuning their wealthy clients into for years. While it’s not new gifting cash is a stable a wealth distribution. Wealthy people have benefited for years and will continue to do so, the difference now is that you too have this same information you can make Cash Gifting a stable for you as well.

Are there only 7 ways to fail at home based business? Have any good tips on how you drove a perfectly good business opportunity into the ground? When it comes to small businesses, home based business or work from home opportunities, no one seems to point out how many ingenious ways there are to fail miserably. Some are obvious, but some of them hide right in plain sight or should I say hide on plain site. Take a look at this case study and the seven ways this business utilized to go down in flames.

There is a concrete company that will remain nameless, but for this case we’ll call it Ready Mix 2 U. Ready Mix 2 U started at the height of the concrete demand in a super hot market. Big Ready Mix companies had more orders than they could handle from large contractors and so the little guy and do it yourself home owners were left with at least a month lead time for deliveries. Enter Ready Mix 2 U – champion of the shortload, those small deliveries the big companies don’t really want anyway. A perfect niche market play, right? Hot market, high demand, what more could you ask for?

Here are seven ways to fail in this scenario:

1.    Don’t Market
This is not to be confused with another tried and true method for failure, which is to not develop a sound marketing plan at all. In this case assume that the marketing plan exists, but it is not executed. This one seems like a no brainer, but there are people who put some thought into how a business should be marketed, even pay someone to develop a plan, then don’t execute it. Any small or home based business can almost certainly guarantee failure by ignoring known solutions and instead simply waiting for the phone to ring because the market is so hot for their product.

2.    Lack Passion
If all else fails don’t be excited about what the business is, in other words lack passion. When asked a direct question respond with a vague answer. Don’t tell anyone what the business is when the opportunity arises. Try mumbling so that people immediately lose interest regardless of what led them to seek out information.

3.    Be Cheap
When launching a business put almost no capital into it. Don’t do anything that might present the appearance of professionalism. This failure mechanism is quite easy to invoke – free websites, free business cards, use a home phone line, let an out of work relative handle the phones or lead operations. The possibilities are endless. In fact this can be tied to not marketing at all.

4.    Don’t Follow-up
Of all the items on this list this is truly the coup de gras. No matter what the endeavor, a surefire, no holds barred, hit the accelerator going into the turn, way to rip failure out of the hands of success is to not follow up. To illustrate this just try it. Do everything else right, get a great product, do great marketing, hire great people, then don’t follow up and see what happens. In this scenario, the only way a sale is made is the first time direct conversion. Good luck.

5.    Don’t Be Consistent
By all means be random, if anything close to science bares its ugly face chase it away. There are no tests required, no processes in place, no systems deployed. Market a little today, follow-up sometimes, establish no roles or responsibilities. If something works take that as a queue that something else will work too. Always be different, failure can find that moving target even when nothing else can.

6.    Recreate the wheel
Believe it or not all wheels don’t have to be round. There are those other wheels that no one uses because of some sensible reason that’s confines common logic. So by all means, recreate the wheel. The beauty of this path to failure is that it has so many applications. Recreating the wheel can be applied as easily to marketing as it can to operations. In fact any place that there is structure can be a valid point of entry. To ensure demise points of emphasis should be placed on whatever’s working.

7.    Focus on meaningless tasks
How many times is the word VALUE going to be thrown around? Forget value and valued added those terms are cliché. In order to assure that a business fail lead a effort to allocate as many resources as possible to do perfectly meaningless tasks. The best way to do this is to introduce an activity based pay system, pay people for not only looking busy and acting busy, but doing the maximum amount of busy work possible. It may not seem like much, but when more focus is on optimizing the ORDER HERE button than order processing, it will have a distinct impact on the bottom line.

Not all home based business opportunities are MLMs and not all are created equal. But almost all of these 7 ways to fail at a home based business will apply.

This post appeared first on another Cash Gifting site.

What is Cash Gifting? How do you do Cash Gifting? Is Cash Gifting Legal? Is Cash Gifting right for me? Can I be successful at Cash Gifting? These are just some of the questions being asked everyday about what many are calling the MLM killer. Now read on for the reality from an insider. Learn secrets and understand hidden concepts that will allow you to answer all of these questions on your own. We fully intend to expose Cash Gifting for what it is and is not, good or bad, better or worse.

Background
First question: Have you ever given someone cash for their birthday? Graduation? Any other time you didn’t have time to buy a decent gift? Chances are you have, now for the second question: Have you ever received a card or envelop from someone that included cash? Again, chances are you have. If you have done either or both of those things congratulations you have not only participated in gifting, but you also have the experience necessary to explain the concept. Clearly you should be able to speak to your whether what you did was legal, whether or not you reported it as income, were you expecting anything in return, and other assorted concerns people have without breaking out the IRS code to make something simple more complicated than it needs to be.

A Cornucopia of Activities and Programs
Once you discover one, you’ll inevitably discover others. The amounts may vary, but in the end it’s all the same. How can that be true you ask? Because the weakest link in the chain is you. There’s a saying that goes something like - If you’re sitting in a poker game and you can’t spot the fish (sucker), IT’S YOU. That saying holds true for this case. If you look closely you’ll see that there are former multi-level marketing (MLM) losers are all over Cash Gifting like it’s the new business opportunity and they are in on the ground floor. As a result there is the same bad MLM tactics, same false MLM promises, and inevitably the same despicable MLM fallout and failure rate. So don’t be fooled by the classic my system is better or any other attempts to differentiate the many so called opportunities and programs that describe themselves as activities. If you can’t sell and or can’t market all you can do is fool yourself.

How to spot MLM’ers
Some personal favorites are all the Mike Dillard, Magnetic Sponsoring, wannabes. These are the people that are constantly trying to “brand” themselves, position themselves as experts and leaders. There is actually one guy calling his effort “Magnetic Gifting.” Now the thing to keep in mind about these people and MLM’ers in general is this – their objective is to get your money. Magnetic Sponsoring is a good book, has good information, offers good insights. But it also refers frequently to a 97% failure rate in MLM. So literally in more than 9 out of 10 cases the person you’re talking to is failing or has failed at MLM. In case you missed it or think that you read that incorrectly here’s a restatement: if only 9 out of 10 failed, that would be an improvement! All these people know this, they live this, and yet they recruit anyway. They recruit knowing full well that most of the people if not all expressing interest are throwing their money away. Even as you’re asked about what you hope to accomplish, talk about your needs and dreams, they know they are not helping you. In fact the obvious math says they are simply inviting you into the water in which they find themselves drowning.

First Hand Insight
Here’s how this plays out. You come across an ad, maybe it’s the classifieds, maybe Craigslist which is a favorite posting place. But in any case you eventually see a website with people opening FedEx or UPS envelops full of cash. You think – “What is this?” As you learn more, watch a video, read some other information, you convince yourself this is the one for you. This is the chance you’ve been waiting for and you just need to know where to start. You get to the point that you can’t wait to send your own good money to a probably less than perfect stranger. Hold your horses, before you can give away your money, you need to register in a tracking system and pay a nominal fee of course. Only then are you on the path to parting with your cash according to the instructions from your inviter. Those instructions include a statement where you declare that it is indeed a gift. It’s not an investment, or any type of payment, it is a gift. Off goes the cash with the statement using your courier of choice. Once you realize that you may have just given a FedEx driver a really nice tip you start to worry. Lucky for you there’s tracking information so you’ll be able to see where exactly your package got lost. But wait, low and behold, the status of your package says delivered. Now comes a different sweat. The stranger has not acknowledged receipt of the package, you’re not in the system, you may have just done exactly what you intended – given away your money to someone you didn’t know.

Welcome to Cash Gifting
You gave your money, now what? Undoubtedly your leader will dispense some real mind blowing tips on Marketing. Remember there is no selling, so the key to success is generating leads in the form of calls and emails. You have no product yet deal in something everybody desires. The key therefore is marketing also spelled and better known as advertising to the common man. The leader will give you some golden advice on getting out there in front. Advice like – post ads on Craigslist or other free classifieds. Post ads other places. Your chances of making that work without more information is slim to none, but it’s a little late in the game to realize that so press on. You’ll discover that people are marketing by postcards and having luck, everybody’s doing it, Pay-Per-Click too. Problem is, both these solutions take money. If you ever figure it out the beautiful thing then is that your first member goes to your sponsor in almost all cases. This is shown in the video information as a 1-up now it hits home that you still have nothing to show for your efforts. But if you can find one, you can find another, so the game is on.

By now you’ve all read about the Polygamist Sect down in Texas right? Well, Shyla Batliwall wrote a really funny piece on Becoming a Polygamist’s Wife which led me to realize that the list sounds an awful lot like joining Amway or one of the countless other MLM sects, oops I mean groups. Take a look. Now I have to admit, I’ve been there,I’ve joined an MLM,in fact I’m losing money in one now. But I’m counting that as research and learning on the way to discovering my cash gifting activity and my home based business. Below is Shyla’s list (you’ll have to read the article for the complete description):

1. No Need for a Profession
2. Prairie Fashion Rocks
3. Nightly Orgies
4. The Ridiculously Hot Body
5. I Can Sport Rockin’ Sausage Curls
6. Entertainment Provided by Grassy Pastures
7. No Need to Find a Date—Jesus Does It for You

Number 1 is like a slogan for MLM. How many ads do you read where that guy, Average Joe is doing amazing things with no degree, no experience, just some good ol’ boot straps he had laying around. Her article even mentioned three-ways and multiple partners, yeah all MLM’ers know about three ways with their sponsor or one of the higher ups. And I’m waiting for the message to announce that a new MLM is starting up where Jesus does the sponsoring for you, I know it’s coming.

But lately, I’ve been reminded of how stupid people are to sign up for an MLM, yet we do it every single day regardless of the how bad we failed in the past. When will we stop being victims of our own greed or insecurities? Is MLM really a business opportunity? Or is it more like becoming a Polygamist’s wife? After doing a little research and reading Shyla’s article, I started to notice a few too many similarities.

You might want to take good look at your MLM Opportunity because you may actually be a POLYGAMIST’S WIFE!

7. Is Your organization based out of Utah?

We all know about the Polygamist’s in Utah, but what about MLM? But did you know:

“Utah leads the nation in density of MLM companies headquartered in the state“

XanGo? Maybe you’d prefer a little Tahitian Noni? Anyone?

6. Have you come to realize you might get a little out of the deal, but the guy on top is really making out?
Everyone knows the guy at the top of the pyramid with the big downline is doing a lot better than those under him. Sound familiar?

5. Did Your family and friends warn you?
Even though you didn’t listen, you were warned. But you joined anyway after you found a sponsor you could really trust and believe in.

If you got in early you get the most out of the deal

4. Is Your sponsor more than willing to grow his downline by putting people under you?

You realize your sponsor is better at bring in people than you are. In fact it’s easier to let him help build your organization. If you stick with your sponsor he’ll help develop your downline and that downline is where it’s at. Of course your sponsor is busy growing multiple downlines and you can’t really seem to break away.

3. You spend most of your time with others in the same predicament?

After sponsoring you, your sponsor doesn’t tend to spend as much time and attention on you does he? In fact it seems like he is more interested in sponsoring others or developing his other downlines. You on the other hand, find out you’re responsible for your own downline that he put under you. The others you talk to are doing the same. No one really seems to be getting ahead, but you’re following through with what your sponsor told you you should do.

2. You are encouraged to introduce others to the opportunity though that’s not your primary goal.?

You have responsibilities for nourishing your business so that it grows. In the meantime, when your sponsor has a new recruit you may be asked to help them get up to speed, so them how things work. Act as a partner for the good of the group.

1. You got screwed by your sponsor?

Do I really have to elaborate on this one? Just ask yourself this - did you get more calls before you joined or after?

Nuff Said.

Being a Millionaire is a desirable destination for many. As with any destination, you have to choose a suitable route in order to arrive at the right place. Take Cash Gifting as an example for a route to be a millionaire. We can use becoming a Millionaire for a real life application of Dead Reckoning and how it comes into play.

In reality, most people don’t know where they’re going, much less really understand where they are. We won’t get into that but just to prove my point ask a random sample the classic interview question: “Where do you see yourself in 5 years” and you’ll more likely get silence or at best some vague meaningless answer. The destination is the easy part of Dead Reckoning, you answer a simple question - Where do you want to get to from where you are? If you want to apply this to life this can refer to things like your job or career. With a destination in mind you simply have to determine how you get from where you are to where you want to be.

Now since we determined our destination as being a millionaire, we need a refinement our specific destination. Does that mean make a million dollars a year? Have a million dollars in the bank? Own a million dollars in assets? For simplicity we’ll take making a million dollars per year. How many people do you think say they want to be a millionaire, but never do two crucial things:

1. Define and breakdown what it means to be a millionaire

2. Evaluate if they can actually get there from where they are.

Clearly number 2 above is where this Dead Reckoning concept comes in. But it also involves number 1 as well because that’s the path, how you know if you’re on track.

To make exactly one million dollars a year means you have to average the following:

$1,000,000 per year where a year is defined as twelve months can also be taken as

$83,333.33 per month (change not included) or based on 52 weeks in a year

$19,230.77 per week or based on 365 days in a non leap year

$2,739.73 per day or since most of us think of a wage per hour

$114.16 per hour.

At this point we run into the people who would point out the flaws in this analysis, because it is not based on how people work. We do not all work every month, most do not work everyday, and we certainly don’t work every hour out of the 24 available. Obviously math is math and these numbers are correct, but those people must acknowledge that using that line of thinking the numbers rise. That means a person expecting to make a million dollars a year would need to exceed these numbers to hit that mark given less available time.

Enter Dead Reckoning…

What are you currently making per year? Typically CEOs see income this way.

What are you currently making per month? Typically professionals see income this way.
What are you currently making day? Typically contractors see income this way.

What are you currently making per hour? Typically seen this way by non salaried.

If you can answer any of these you have your present position versus where you want to be. Based on common census numbers that say the average annual income is around $34,000 for the USA you should see a pretty big gap. When you realize the hours involved in that $34,000 are far less than those in the calculation above, that gap is even wider.

In reality, the size of the gap is not what’s important, it simply defines the present position. To understand what this means think of a trip. Once you know how far it is to where you intend to be you decide on the best means to get you there. No one wants to walk from San Diego to San Francisco, but that’s a more acceptable scenario than walking from San Diego to New York. Those two are actually at least possible, you can’t walk from San Diego to Shanghai. Now that you know that you cannot expect to reasonably make a million dollars a year based on your current course, you have to adjust. That adjustment involves choosing the proper vehicle(s) to get you there.

Cash Gifting is simply one potential vehicle. The question here is whether or not Cash Gifting can make you $1,000,000 per year? Are there other ways or vehicles? Of course, but this is about this particular vehicle.

Cash Gifting programs range all over the place, the most popular ones have people receiving anywhere from $150 to $500 to $800 to $1500 to $3500 to $10,000. There is a government guideline for the IRS that limits individual giving to $12,o00 per person annually that most try to stay well below.

Just based on these we see that at $150, if we received one every hour for 24 hours a day we would be receiving well over $1,000,000 per year. The reality is that is not very likely or reasonable to expect over the course of an entire year, but it’s not impossible. If you have to communicate with each one it’s worse.

The attractive number is $2,739.73 per day. This total is less than one of the $3500 gifts per day or two of the $1500 gifts. That looks possible. If you can average just one $3500 gift per day, you would receive well over $1,000,000. There are businesses and salespeople who make a sale a day all over the place. The key here is just like companies that have high margins, less sales, but more money, probably less work.

The could go on, but the basic answer is clear, using the right Cash Gifting system can make you a Millionaire.

Th oft referred to book in Network Marketing these days is the classic Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

This video defines concept that we can base our journey on. It is a starting point of the Wealth Production System and defines and Ideal State that we are trying to reach.