Insurance; An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. – Ambrose Bierce There is a history of insurance that most of us – and certainly insurance companies – would like to forget. When life insurance was [...]
It has been found that children have a sense of property rights that may precede any learning about the concept. Psychologist Ori Friedman of the university of Waterloo in Canada has found that children aged four to five often value a persons ownership rights in objects more strongly than adults. He speculates that the concept [...]
This blog is about new ideas, and there are a lot of them on my new website on ways to make money. So I thought I should list a half-dozen pages that have some of the more creative ideas, along with a quick description of each. The titles link to the pages. Here they are… [...]
I have a fun new website: http://www.EveryWayToMakeMoney.com. The domain name is a bit of a bold claim perhaps, but the site will have a wider variety of ways to make money than just about any you’ll see. I started a month ago and this is the official launch. Almost 150 pages so far, with 50 [...]
I just got a sales brochure in the mail from a local rent-to-own store. It’s one of the big companies, but the name is not important since they all operate about the same way. They target the young and irresponsible and ignorant. Let me give you a quick example. One item in the brochure is [...]
Somebody asked me what was in my ebook “99Lies,” which comes with The Secrets Package. Here are some samples, but I have to warn you. These are “teasers” – meant to get you interested in the package. For the “rest of the story,” you’ll have to check out The Secret Information Site. Lie # 1 [...]
I was an angry young man many years ago, so I know a bit about the phenomenon. Unfortunately being angrily opinionated is not limited to young men or women, but during youth is when this negative power seems to be at its most dangerous. Here is what I see in the angry opinions that many [...]
How far should we go when selling a product or service? We may disagree about where the lines are when it comes to marketing ethics, but hopefully we can agree that they exist and are not simply “whatever is legal.” There are many things that marketers do that stay this side of legal, but are [...]
I am reading “The Four Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss and enjoying it very much. Some of his ideas are the same one I have had over the years, but he has organized them (and his business) in a much more consistent way. For example, I have written about how having time makes life richer [...]
We say a cat is “ours,” but who chooses who? He was hesitant to come near us at first, but soon he was laying on the porch steps and letting us pet him. We fed the cat a bit of tuna fish at some point, and he began to visit us regularly. He even ran [...]
