best make your money now, Spanky

Some of my biggest marketing “influences” aren’t even marketers. And even for those who are, it’s not their marketing knowledge I benefit the most from. For example, these guys: * Dan Kennedy’s newsletter he does with Pete The Printer — there’s some business and marketing advice, but majority of it seems like he's ultimately talking about politics (he's like the Rush Limbaugh of marketing) - especially complaining about the laziness of younger generations (that his generation raised by giving them participation trophies and farming them out to commie teachers every day, but that makes him no less correct necessarily…), the evilness of woke ideology, and how society is basically screwed * Ken McCarthy — writes more about the corruption in the medical and financial system than he does marketing these days, and I eat every word of it, and have for almost 20 years now * Vox Day — who predicted the break up of the US back in 2004 on his blog, the last great recession when everyone said he was nuts for saying so, and who explains almost daily about the inevitability of the US losing all its super power status (and even its being a political entity at all) by 2033 * Karl Denninger — documents the impossible-to-fix corruption of the political class and utter stupidity of the so-called scientists and medical establishment, and who also called a lot of the deaths (and saved a lot of people from death as a result) you’re seeing now in the aftermath of the mass jabbing propaganda * Robert Kiyosaki — been saying the sky is going to fall since the 90’s, and while his timing was off by 30 years, even some in the mainstream media are reluctantly agreeing with his overall assessment with their talk of a new depression that could dwarf the 1929 depression Why do I listen to these voices of doom? And how does it improve my marketing and business endeavors? The answer is simple: Because they are a constant yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, and sometimes even hourly reminder about why NOW is the time to quadruple down on my business. To put more hours than ever into it. To invest more money than ever into it. And to inject more ways than ever to serve my customers into it. Now is the time, baby. I don’t care if you’re brand spanking new or a seasoned veteran in the game. The days of fast and easy liquidity are coming to an abrupt end unless, I suppose, you’re having your money laundered into the Ukraine right now. For the rest of us? * Make your money now, before it gets even more taxed into oblivion by making it later. (Inevitable with the spending going on) * Make your money now, before the break-up of the US in about 10 years. (Commerce will still happen, and people will still be buying stuff, be positioned well in advance) * Make your money now, before the next fake pandemic. (Lockdowns, etc — guys who are clearly too evil to die are already talking about this) I don’t care how you do it. But everyone has to play their own game. And playing someone else’s game — as I wrote in the 2022 April Email Players issue — is a recipe for misery and perpetual struggle. While playing your game is like playing the game on easy mode in many ways. Whatever your game is play it now. Get better at it now. And make as much money as you can with it now. What? You think this is all nonsense? Maybe it is. I can’t see the future any more than you can. But, it’s like the people who were warned in January 2020 about the supply chain problems, food and supply runs (luckily I listened to them — and was well stocked up on all the essentials the boomers were all fighting each other over at Costco) who balked at anything happening, while the TV garden gnome doctor said it was all overkill and to put your masks away even as Pelosi told everyone to hug a Chinaman… you got nobody to blame but yourself if you’re caught with your pants down. Personally, I always err on the side of the doomsayers. Worst case, they are wrong and I gain marketshare anyway. Best case, they are right, and I gain even more marketshare since I’m ready. This is my gift to my list today. A gift many will reject, mock, and troll. But the wise ones? They’ll listen. And the really wise ones? They will take action as if all the bad stuff is going to happen, and maybe even “times” their worst fears about it happening by 100 in their heads, and then sally forth and prepare accordingly. Working harder and smarter. Getting more educated on how to out market and out sell their competition. And stock up on money (dollars, metals, bitcoin, whatever) so when deals do appear, they can exploit them. Yeesh. This is almost starting to sound like one of those Agora Financial sales pitches. So I’ll just end with this: I believe the info inside the upcoming February Email Players (about my approach to funnels, to help sustain more secure cashflow and sales for your business) can potentially go a long way towards helping businesses be one of the “readied” instead of one of the “panicking”... that will no doubt be the two classes of businesses when it all collapses into something you wouldn’t even be able to recognize if you were given a glimpse at the future and saw it now. 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