Quick and Easy Ways to Make Lots of Money

Flies to the honey-pot, that's what we are. Can you resist those calls to easy riches? I can't. I've been a student of them for 45 years. Along the way I subscribed to numerous business opportunity newsletters and gave half a dozen MLM businesses a try. But after all that time and effort, If the evidence is anything to go by, there is no such thing as QER - quick easy riches.

Actually, that reminds me of a rather neat phrase you can use in the world of sales. The prospect says, 'I like it but you have to drop your price' and the salesman can reply, 'That's possible. We can give you high quality, rapid delivery and a low price - just choose any two'.

There is a famous old quote, which says, 'There is a natural law of business balance prohibiting good quality being available at a cheap price. It can't be done. To reduce the price, you have to do something cheaper or leave something out. You can't have quality and low price'.

Let's see if the idea of 'pick any two' applies to QER.

Quick - how can you make money fast, sawn-off shotgun + post office, drug smuggling, hostage-taking + ransom. Evidently you can get your hands on money fast in illegitimate ways, but since jail is the most likely outcome, this option isn't realistic.

Easy - the lottery is easy, but the odds are so long that in practice, buying a ticket is 99.9% as bad as simply throwing your money away.

Some people inherit. That's easy enough, if you happen to be named in a will. But how can you achieve that? It's not within your control, it's a matter of chance.Geld sparen

Unless I have a blind spot, there isn't any way to achieve QER. So why are there so many sales pitches saying that it's only a credit card spend away?

It's because there are millions, probably billions of hopeful, naive, gullible people who long to believe that QER can be theirs if they can just find the magic to make it happen. But do they succeed? I never have in nearly half a century, Don't get me wrong, I have made money, sometimes large amounts, but never quick and easy.

On many occasions I've been paid $3,000 a day to talk. That's relatively quick. Was it easy? Definitely not. It took a lifetime of experience to acquire the necessary knowledge and the extra ingredient of being able to present that information to a demanding audience.

Another 'Quick one'; I sold a database of business organisations. It contained 300,000 records. Rather amazingly, they all fitted on to one CD. My buyer paid $18,000 for it. Despite the fact that handing over the CD and depositing the money to my account only took minutes, in reality, that was neither quick nor easy. To build the database had taken 5 years of painstaking additions and amendments.