A Happy and a Very Prosperous New YearTo You!
Fly Like a Bee and Soar Like an Eagle in 1998
Fourteen Ways to Evaluate a Business Opportunity
By John J.OCallaghan
Question: What do perpetual business opportunity seekers
and heavy daters have in common?
Answer: They are both unable to make a commitment!
When I lost my first wife seven years ago, I was so distraught I dated over
100 women in three years. Since I had no problem getting a date, I was
spoiled for choice and became addicted to dating.
I might still be dating for ever...unable to make up my mind...never finding
a new Miss Right...if I hadnt produced a List of Fourteen Things Id Like
My Ideal Woman to Have. That helped sharpen my focus and when the field
narrowed to just three likely ladies, I was finally able to make a commitment.
How many opportunities have you looked at in the last three years? How many
will you look at in the next three? Heres a list fourteen ways to ensure you
dont
overlook the opportunity thats right for you, or invest in the one thats
wrong
for you.
1. Does the advertiser offer work at home schemes like envelope stuffing;
assembling products; knitting or sewing? If so, beware.
2. Does the advertiser give you a street address and a telephone number?
If your only contact is through a box number, beware.
3. Does the advertiser offer a money-back guarantee? If not, beware,
4. Does the advertiser want you to send out chain letters? Usually you are
told the scheme is perfectly legal. You are asked to send $5 to five people
for
a one or two-page report. You are asked to delete the bottom name, add your
own name, buy a mailing list, buy stamps and mail letters. You are promised
thousands of dollars when your name gets to the top of the list. Beware.
Chain letters are illegal.
5. Does the advertiser tell you you can make more money recruiting people
than selling products in his MLM scheme? If so, beware. Pyramid selling
schemes are illegal.
6. Does the advertiser want to
or charge a processing
fee
for helping you obtain SBA financing, repair bad credit, obtain credit cards
and
qualify for free cash grants? If so, beware.
7. Does the advertiser promise to reveal a unique secret of success?
Something
so secret, you have to buy it to find out what it is? Beware. If you are not
absolutely sure what it is you are buying, dont buy it.
8. Does the advertiser offer free consultation or advice on how to market the
product or service? If not, beware.
9. Does the advertiser promise to reveal a secret magic formula that will
change
your life overnight? Beware. There is no secret magic formula for success.
10. Does the advertiser promise an easy, lazy way to make huge amounts of
cash virtually overnight? If so, beware. There is no quick, easy, lazy way to
get rich.
11. Does the advertiser want you to tie your money up in stock, or, is he
willing to drop- ship? If he does not offer a drop-ship program, beware,
12. Does the advertiser want you to resell health products and vitamin
supplements that can be bought in health stores? If so, beware.
13. Does the advertiser offer less than fifty percent commission? If so,
beware.
14. Does the advertiser try to pressure you? If he says something like,
If you dont buy this now, chances are it wont be here tomorrow,
you should beware. Cool it and back off. It will be there tomorrow.
PS.
The late J. Paul Getty once said that opportunities were like buses.
If you missed one and cared to wait, you could catch another bus later.
But, in the end, you will pay more because the fare will have gone up!
There is truly a tide in the affairs of men, and if you dont catch it at
the opportune moment, you could pay a high price, or wait forever and
never catch it.
In everything you do there is a degree of risk. According to the law of
aerodynamics a bumble bee cannot fly. Its wing span is too small in
relation to its weight and the size of its body. But the bee doesn't know
this and when it flaps its wings, it flies.
you continue to think as you have always thought, and procrastinate
as you have always done, you will never know what it is to fly like a bee,
or soar like an eagle.
First carefully calculate the risk and when you see what looks like a good
opportunity, go for it! Have a Happy and a Very Prosperous New Year!
Get free info on John J. OCallaghans latest report, Millionaire Secrets of
Success, Money and Power. Its a gold mine for would-be entrepreneurs.
Plus a free report: The Best Business To Be In, plus a drop-ship business
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