I think this is horse***t – and there are other things you should worry about

Are you about to be ripped off? Advice from the Department of Homeland Security

Horse meat

Five years ago my beloved took me on a surprise birthday trip to a glorious restaurant overlooking Lake Garda.
I ordered carpaccio. Just as I was about to eat it, she said “That is actually donkey meat.”
“Is that true?” I asked the waiter.
“Si, signor,” he replied. “But only the old ones.”
I ate it and it was excellent.
When I was at Prep school in 1943 there was still a war going on and you got some odd food. One day they served us horse steak. I didn’t care for it, but I lived.
At one time I had six horses and ponies. I was very fond of them, except when I did the mucking out. I also had 56 sheep. I liked them too, especially the lambs. But it didn’t stop me eating them.
We British are really illogical about food. The Chinese eat everything. A friend in Shanghai told me he had eaten donkey’s penis. He is from Birmingham, but is acclimatised.
If you want to worry, pay attention to the latest from the Department of Homeland Security. This body costs billions each year, irritates travellers to little effect, has never caught anybody, ever, but has just announced that there is a flaw in Java software which may be responsible for as many as half the internet cyber attacks. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9803426/Web-users-must-disable-Java.html
There is also a flaw in most people’s brains. This flaw makes them think they can get rich without working.
They dream they can enjoy a part time income without lifting a finger, or have a “passive income” easy as pie and so on.
For some years now my partner Al and I have been working away on getting a passive income.
He has had a couple of streams going for a while, like an extended test, and now we have got two more going
If you would like to know in detail how we did it, we shall be explaining at EADIM in October. I think they will be bringing at least £400 a day net profit by then. That’s about $220,000 a year.
What is weird is that three of the four are on subjects we know little or nothing about. One came about by accident, really.
In case you’re wondering, “passive” is highly misleading. It took a lot of work, and once it gets going you must keep an eye on it. But it does keep coming in – and growing.
And if you’re wondering about EADIM, this year it is going to be all about one thing. Selling.
A friend who is one of the best sales trainers in the world will be speaking. He has written two books on the subject, been named Sales Trainer of the Year and taught me a hell of lot about how to speak in public. He is also very funny – which helps.
I have no idea who or what else will be featured, but I’ll keep you posted.
I shall reveal more when I know more. You will get an idea about what happens if you go to http://www.eadim.com/2010-certificate-course/.
You will also wonder how I manage to  drag 2010 into it. Incompetence is the answer. There are now 38 places available out of 40 for this year. I must be slowing down: last year I had sold over half the places by now.

Anyhow, if you follow the link and book I will a) offer you each monthly terms and b) save you loadsa money

About the Author

In 2003, the Chartered Institute of Marketing named Drayton one of 50 living individuals who have shaped today’s marketing.

He has worked in 55 countries with many of the world’s greatest brands. These include American Express, Audi, Bentley, British Airways, Cisco, Columbia Business School, Deutsche Post, Ford, IBM, McKinsey, Mercedes, Microsoft, Nestle, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, Unilever, Visa and Volkswagen.

Drayton has helped sell everything from Airbus planes to Peppa Pig. His book, Commonsense Direct and Digital Marketing, out in 17 languages, has been the UK’s best seller on the subject every year since 1982. He has also run his own businesses in the U.K., Portugal and Malaysia.

He was a main board member of the Ogilvy Group, a founding member of the Superbrands Organisation, one of the first eight Honorary Fellows of the Institute of Direct Marketing and one of the first three people named to the Hall of Fame of the Direct Marketing Association of India. He has also been given Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Caples Organisation in New York and Early To Rise in Florida.

2 Comments

  1. Glyn

    That’s great Drayton.
    Are any of the ‘Four Passive Incomes’ telling people you have ‘Four Passive Incomes’ and then charging for telling them how you do it?

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  2. Ross Boardman

    Passive income hmmm?

    Is that making money for passive people or making money while you are passive? Sadly the ones buying the stuff from scammers tend to think they can make a packet while watching daytime TV. Oh and they probably don’t finish reading how the little scheme works, they can’t be that bothered.

    I am a great fan of passive income. If you have the spare time, money or some form of skill/inventiveness then surely it can be invested. Writing a book, buying a property or spending time designing perpetual motion machines may yield passive income. Spending commuting time reading is an investment which could lead to better fees if the stuff taken on board is useful.

    Making use of idle resources is something that many or most could benefit from but some spend too much time concentrating on the “idle” bit?

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