Mark Victor Hansen
If you really could become a millionaire in one minute, wouldn’t everybody be doing it? Of course they would. But for some reason Mark Victor Hansen, of Chicken Soup for the Soul, and real estate writer Robert Allen, of Nothing Down want us to believe their book, One Minute Millionaire can make us all Donald Trumps instantly. The pair claim in the book their plan for life is to create on million new millionaires to share the world’s wealth with. That’s a nice goal, but is it really plausible? They say by reading and following the steps in their book it is. The book does seem filed with a number of step-by-step instructions on how to make a lot of money. There are various avenues to make the money through, and a lot of work to get it, but it could possibly produce some millionaires. But there should be a little caution taken with the advice in the book. You have to consider the source. You see, in recent years Robert Allen has been the subject of quite a few warnings in the business community. Robert Allen has been in real estate for some time, but he has also gone through a series of bankruptcies in his real estate dealings. That doesn’t seem like a path to being a millionaire. Allen was also a big player in the multi-level marketing scam USANA. A number of people who signed up for USANA filed complaints saying they gave much of their savings to the company and got little to nothing in return. They were promised assistance starting a business, goal planning and a guarantee that if their business did not take off, USANA would give them a refund of all the money they had put in to begin their business. Many of the victims were already in debt and were promised a way to get out of debt and overcome their financial woes, becoming once again financially independent if they would just come up with the starting cash. But report after report says that while they were pushed into handing over their cash through high-pressure sales pitches, once the business started failing they could not get any assistance from USANA. They would continue trying to keep the business afloat, spending money on promotions, marketing and ads, but in the end, it wouldn’t happen and they lost their savings, still getting none of the promised help from USANA. In addition some found out, after the fact that they services they were being forced to pay for, could have been found for free on the Internet. The lesson to learn from this, and possibly the moral of this story, is that as soon as someone asks for money to start a business, you should end the conversation with them immediately. No good businessperson will tell you that you should take your life savings and risk it on a possibility that you cannot assure will support you in the long run. That is what you have to remember, and then run from the scams that are trying to tell you that you should hand all your money over to them. If you're looking for a real opportunity without all the hype and B.S., then simply join my newsletter and I'll help you avoid the potholes and show you how I work the business of my dreams... it's a lot easier than you think and you can do it too!
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