Strike Back at People Who Mess With You

Life is full of jerk-offs who love to mess with people, especially if that person is successful. I think it comes down to either two things, jealousy or greed, or a combination of the two. And sometimes there’s no money involved., as Donald Trump says, “They just do it for sport.”

The world is full of bad people who get off on being mean and nasty. Sure there are plenty of good hearted people who act in good faith. Always strive to be one of those people. But no matter how good you are you will frequently encounter people who are downright evil– in business, in the company you work for, in the government, even in your very own neighborhood. If you are doing badly, they will celebrate. If you are doing well, they’ll get jealous and try to take it from you.

Bill Zanker, Founder and CEO of The Learning Annex relates a poignant story from his life, “One time a company came out with a complete knock-off of the Learning Annex and started promoting it directly in competition with me in New York City. He was basically stealing our customers.
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Multi Level Marketing – what is it?

Multi level marketing is known as network marketing. This is a kind of business where franchising and direct selling are combined. This business makes a person associated to a company in an independent transaction approach. It is an approach where the company creates a contactor relationship to the person who wants to expand his business.

The members make their earnings based on the sales they have reached in that particular product or service. It also includes the sales of the person that they have recruited to join the business. Most of the time the individual who has recruited more members and provided a good sales output on the product compensate higher because of the effort to transact in two different fields.

There are “pyramid schemes” or Ponzi schemes, which are considered illegal. Most people associate multi level marketing to these kind of schemes because they also recognize themselves to be a legitimate networking business. Because of the bad image brought up by these schemes, many prefer to use their names for their businesses as “home based business franchising” or “affiliate marketing”.
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Economy shrinking – warning that economy will shrink until 2010.

Here is another entry about a real situation of world economy that many people talk about. As for me, I realized that this is not a “game” that we should get involve because it will effect out daily life. Over the past few months, I’ve seen quite a few fearful sounding forum threads where some people seem incredibly worried about the bad world economy.

Well this is true because the first official signs that Britain is in recession will be announced this week, with Government figures showing the economy shrinking for the first time since the dark days of 1992.

The first fall in economic output for 16 years will be matched by dismal forecasts from leading economists that there will be no recovery until 2010. They are predicting that the official Gross Domestic Product figures, due out on Friday, will show that the economy shrank by 0.2 per cent in the three months to the end of September. All agree this will be the first of at least two quarters in which the economy contracts – the official definition of recession.
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