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Chicken Little Was Wrong by Chris Kilian
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Remember Chicken Little? Hit in the head with an acorn or something, he
was certain "the sky is falling, the sky is falling." It wasn't. He
was completely
wrong. He was convinced, and fooled a few others, but he was still wrong.
Sometime folks on the net tend to run in packs like sheep or like lemmings to
the edge of disaster. Just because many people are doing "it" does not
mean
you have to do "it" too. You mother was right when she said, "If all
your
friends want to jump off a cliff, you DO NOT have to jump with them."
Why am I reminded of that this week?
AOL GOES MUTI-LEVEL!!!!!! (Repeat for emphasis here if you wish.)
Excuse me while I yawn.
So the 800 pound gorilla wants to eat up all the online connection money
expected to be added by the millions of new surfers? OK, Mr. G would
appreciate that philosophy.
OK. So here come thousands of new users who will need to have online
service and AOL is an established name and they may get up to half of the
new accounts and if you know as few as three people going online, and they
know as few as three...Lots of money could be made. Right?
But wait. Let us think about this for a minute.
What can you do that millions of new computers already loaded AOL
and millions more CDs delivered by mail can not do? I have so many
AOL offers with the free Zillion hour trial period on CDs I cannot use them
all as coasters. I liked the old days when the pitch came on a disk that I
at least could reuse for my personal projects.
So AOL is multi-level, but this may not be for you.
The basic cost is about $20, but you can only sell AOL and you are paid
for only the first three levels. For about $80 bucks more you can add
Direct TV and IBM hardware to you list of products. But, if you really
want to make money, you need to spend $500 which gets you an affiliate
template (not available for public veiwing).
So for $20 you can talk to everyone who is not already using AOL who you
used to sell Amway products, if they are still talking to you. Or for $500
you can have a website that is only available online which means your "market"
is already using some online service, which means they are not shopping for
one, which means very few sales if I have this figured out. The potential new
signups will not see your really cool website until it is too late. What part of
the market is left? The folks who had AOL at one time and hate it, or the
ones who were warned away from it by people who fall into the first category.
Guard your inbox. I was hit with six emails just this week. Expect many
more as the "lemming effect" takes hold. Just don't expect me to play
along.
I do not care if there are only 500 in this ground floor opportunity, and why
am I hearing from people who I have never had contact with in the past?
Of course this is soley my personal opinion. I could be wrong. I didn't buy
Ebay, Dell, or even MicroSoft in the beginning either. AOL, IBM and Direct
TV all have respectable products and this could be really, really big.
You should decide for yourself. This opportunity just doesn't feel right to me.
I am guessing that the only folks who really will make any money on this
deal are the ones who are in at the beginning. No. Not the first
respresentatives.
The first people to decide to sell this idea to whomever will buy into the
concept at $20, $99 or $500 a pop.
That started me thinking... "Coca-Cola goes multi-level!!! Coca-Cola goes
muti-level!! Do you have $500 for my cool affiliate webpage to sell this
idea? Send your checks to us here at ....."
Chris Kilian operates Stealth
Promotions.
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