The Man Who Lived On Five Dollar Bills

A friend of mine told me the story once about a man who for a short time literally lived on the five dollar bills and checks he received in the mail. Now he wasn’t a bum or anything. He had known the heights and the depths of the “professional network marketer lifestyle”… a kind of boom and bust cycle for some (as opposed to all bust for many more).

(Please keep in mind that this was long before the internet became a viable business tool.)

He found himself at the bottom one of these times for a variety of reasons – some, of course, which he couldn’t control. Know the feeling?

As I said, the man was smart. He had experience, skills, and marketing savvy. He knew how to do somethings and had paid the price in terms of learning how to think and act like a business man.

MLM was in his future. He’s still in it today. But at the bottom of a “valley” like this… creating a full time income from a downline takes time and money he didn’t have.

Like you, me, everybody, he needed “right now” money.

He was determined to crawl out of that desperate situation… but how?

He had decided on a company to invest his time with. To find qualified prospects and to get some “right now money” coming in, he assembled a package of personally written reports, coupons for his consulting services, freebies from related companies that would bring in leads and business for them and had a value to the customer, etc.

There was a great deal of value involved in the product. So much in fact that $5 seemed like a very reasonable price for the package. You might even call it an “impulse buy”. That’s what he intended to create anyway.

And people who paid $5 for a series of reports and to educate themselves on a subject were obviously much better leads than someone who was a cold name on a colder list. These were live prospects.

He wrote articles and in his bio box promoted this special offer.

If he could afford it, he placed print ads in the MLM magazines. (Remember, this was before the Internet and “pay per click”, search engine optimization, etc.)

And until he got on his feet again, it was that steady flow of $5 bills that helped keep him afloat.

True story.

And it’s a valid concept even if you’re not in MLM and just want 1) “right now” money and 2) want to develop qualified leads for your business. Thanks to the internet this same thing can be done by many people who take time to develop their skills and provide value for a front end sale and a back end sale.

The internet equivalent is readily available. An inexpensive hosting account, domain name, and $7 worth of software plus the investment of your time could get you started too. The question is whether we’ll invest the time to do follow this example ourselves?

Could this be your Internet Equivalent for Living On Five Dollar Bills? (The software available at this link is worth $50 easily!)