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Yesterday I did a review and a plug for Bob martin’s ">’>49 Ways to Make a Living in the Philippines.  In the spirit of over-delivering I thought I’d do more than just a sales pitch sort of entry today.  I wanted to show you how you can take some of those nebulous ideas you hear about out there about people making money online and translate them into something concrete that you can actually make into a system that would be ideal for earning here in the Philippines and could be implemented by anyone with average skills for virtually nothing in the way of an investment.

Disclaimer:  I have not set up a business that follows this model.  Therefore, if it doesn’t work for you as you envisioned, it isn’t my fault.  That being said, I may very well set up a similar business in the future … the potential is there for thousands of ventures like I am going to outline for you here as a gift.

Question One: What drives all business?  Answer: Sales.  Many of us hate sales, or have no experience at it and don’t really want to get into it.  certainly sales is the most troublesome aspect of any business to me … but again, remember, it is the economic engine that drives the world.

Question Two: What is any business person most likely to shell out his/her hard earned money for? Answer:  Avoiding something s/he hates doing.

Question Three: What is the most likely thing any business person back there in your home country hates doing?  Answer:  You shou8ld be able to give me the answer without hesitation, I already mentioned it in Question One … sales.  In particular they hate that aspect of sales known as "Cold Calling" … digging up people’s phone numbers and ringing them up to try to get their "foot in the door".

Not only do salespeople hate cold calling, the people who get "cold called" hate it even more.  Who here among us hasn’t been angered by someone bugging us on the phone at home or office with unsolicited calls.  In fact under US Federal laws and some State laws many such calls are even illegal any more. 

I was in this predicament myself.  I was running a sales-oriented business in the US.  I needed prospects.  I hated cold calling, even the limited types you can do legally.  So, what did I do?

Well, I used the Internet to search and find a solution.  (you might want to remember this point, we will be returning to it again and again).  I found a fellow name of Frank Rumbauskas who sold a book and some audio CD called "Never Cold Call" and since the sales page looked promising and the package had an unconditional money back guarantee, I clicked on the order button and literally my life changed.  Not only did I turn my flagging sales around in my brick and mortar ‘conventional’ business, I found out about much easier, legitimate ways to make more money on line than I would ever earn selling little black boxes into a price-conscious, sales-resistant business market.

Already, I’m running long on this post.  (I know, I know, what else is new ;-))  I’ll continue this tomorrow. Hers’ what you can do today.  Download the sample chapters from Frank’s book … no sign-up, no money, no ’squeeze page’ or sales page hoopla, I promise, the file is there for the taking … and see if you can see what my 51st idea for making money in the Philippines will be. 

(Hint, it involves what we talked about earlier, helping businesses avoid what they don’t want to do and the easy access to communication and willing, educated folks eager to learn that you have access to here in the Philippines)

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