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Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by Kevin Turner

Kevin Turner — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:50:26 +0000

Hello every one, looks like 95% of you didn’t take the first step towards wealth, you got scared of a sales men which YOU have to become to be a success, lets look at Robert Kiosaki, how did he wind up making 3 million dollars a year and barely pass highschool? His Rich dad tought him about money and how to invest. That’s what the coaching is I am in it. You get a FULL YEARS WORTH OF ACCESS TO MILLION AIRES. If you cant make any-money with that then you need to pick up Tony Robbins book awaken the Giant within or find Jesus and lose the fear. Oh one more thing 95% of Americans make under 100k a year. Another thing The Women who made Harry Potter made 300 mill by printing money on a napkin cuase she was homeless. Its true a select few do succeed.

Comment on Zecco.com hates Safari and iPhone users by Akshita

Akshita — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:48:39 +0000

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Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by Joe Wasylyk

Joe Wasylyk — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:23:09 +0000

Fortunately ‘financial education’ is an on going process not some short-term ‘miracle cloth’ process or some parking meter telling you the time has expired, and you well need to put some more ‘thousands of dollars’ in the meter to continue. Listen, with all the ‘ponzi schemes’ that are going on now it’s ‘buyer beware’ because in this economic meltdown all they care about is getting your money and as fast as possible.

By the way in the last year I purchased 6 only Robert K. books for $6.00 or $1.00 ea. for paperbacks at my Downtown Library used book sale and in this instance folks I definitely got my money’s worth. So, always look for VALUE and don’t be influenced by salespeople. Make your own financial decision. Good Luck!

Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by helen

helen — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:42:58 +0000

After reading the Cashflow Quadrant I decided to call to find out about their coaching program. The salesperson, Alicia, after asking a bunch a questions said that I was qualified to go to the next level. I asked what that was and she said more questions. the light should have gone on in my head when she asked if I can make a decision without my husband input.

The program Manager called, Kory, i Nevada started to ask a bunch a “qualifying” questions. It was a real pressure call to make a decision by the end of the call. He mentioned that I can use my cc to pay for the program. He quoted $8200 (paid in 3 increments) for a one year coaching which consists of 20, half hour coaching plus developing a business plan. Another light blub should have gone into my head when he did not offer information that I can change my mind in 3 days of receiving the information package. After uneasily giving him my cc information I decided to research the program and found this website. I have emailed he that I am not ready to participate in the program at this time. I will cancel my cc tomorrow to ensure that they do not charge me. Overall I am disappointed that they would not allow me to take time to make a decision and I am disappointed that I fell for the sale pitch.

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Comment on Outsourcing – Get the Whole Story! by Steven Bredenberg

Steven Bredenberg — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:24:45 +0000

Oh. In that case, $4/hour will buy you pre-written or generated code. Hefty profits on the contractor’s side.

Comment on Outsourcing – Get the Whole Story! by Evil Buck

Evil Buck — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:51:42 +0000

I should clarify that he was speaking about programming work. Mostly php developers.

Comment on Outsourcing – Get the Whole Story! by Steven Bredenberg

Steven Bredenberg — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:53:02 +0000

You can get HTML, article writing, and link building work done fairly cheap and without too much of a hassle, because there are a lot of people that offer these services, and most of them are not writers, or web designers, or marketing experts primarily. They’re usually full-time outsource workers, who expand their skill-set to cover what people are buying. So, it’s pretty typical to see $4/hour guys doing this.

For most anything outside of this, you’ll have to pay a reasonable rate ($12-25/hour) for decent quality work from professionals. There are some exceptions, but you really have to dig for them.

Comment on Don’t be cheap by Evil Buck

Evil Buck — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:30:27 +0000

I agree on some counts. If you have the means to train… and the time, then I think that is a good asset. Not everyone possesses those qualities. I personally like to see a good mix of employees and encourage mentorship.
What I was really addressing, is the selection of a contractor/employee based on price alone. If you require a certain experience level or qualifications to be successful for the task at hand. Don’t hire the guy that isn’t going to get it done, but costs what you’re willing to pay. You’ll end up paying more in the long run.
In short, hire the right person for the situation.

Comment on Don’t be cheap by Aaron Evans

Aaron Evans — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:22:49 +0000

So what’s the solution? Only hire experienced people (who will realize that the job is beneath them much quicker than the less experienced hire.)

Hiring inexperienced employees isn’t for everyone. It takes skill to train, it takes time to mentor, and it takes incentive to keep them from leaving when they see greener pastures elsewhere.

You can hire middle of the road “experienced” bodies looking to settle in, or you can seek out, nurture, and grow top candidates early in their career. But you’ve got to be a top employer to keep them, and you’ve got to take the risk that you might lose them if you don’t keep them satisfied.

Turning down this kind of long term potential is short sighted. Trying to save a few bucks over a few months (or even years) by being unwilling to take a chance on fresh blood leads to stagnation.

Even if you can’t keep the star employees long, if you get a reputation for hiring rookie Michael Jordans, people will start thinking you’ve got something going.

Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by CLEMENTS30Liliana

CLEMENTS30Liliana — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:04:49 +0000

Houses are quite expensive and not everyone can buy it. Nevertheless, home loans was created to aid people in such kind of situations.

Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by Mission

Mission — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:43:58 +0000

We had the same experience on 01 July. Got a call on the 29th June, caught me off guard, and interupted the spain vs. portugal fifa world cup soccer game I was watching. Timing people, timing. Said I had been “specially selected” and will call back the next night. Said no, made it for Thursday night. He said I needed to answer certain questions to think and prepare myself. I read over them and said I wanted my partner to be involved. Mitchell wasn’t too happy and said mentoring was one-on-one, not done with partners but agreed to both of us being on speaker phone. Went through the IDENTICAL speech and when we said we needed time to think about the $5 399 (R43 000) he got very aggressive. He never raised his voice, never shouted but was extremely verbally abusive from a passive-aggressive perspective – nothing to think about, we had time to do our research (excuse me but what do we research when we don’t know what we’re being sold?), you’re obviously not ready, you’re not worthy to be on this programme, limited space, he’s withdrawing the offer, we said we had the money, it’s on our credit cards and on our bond and now we’re saying we don’t have it, it’s good debt not bad debt, we agreed to make a decision at the beginning of the call, we’ll make the money back in less than 6 months, we’re procrastinators, this is why we’re not wealthy, wealthy people make decisions now and don’t wait a day to make an investment decision (we did remind him it was 11pm at night and the JSE is closed and no-one makes deals at that time of the night but he just kept reeling at us), we can pay half now, the remainder over the next 2 months – this is when it just disintegrated and we knew it was a load of nonsense. He told us to trust our gut and we told him our gut is saying no and we don’t think Robert K would be using these selling techniques and aggressiveness. He said he was just being “firm”. Something he never asked was what professions we’re in and our level of education…we’re both degreed and both have professional jobs. We’re comfortable but want to be rich and work less and earn more. Who doesn’t! but we’re not suckers and we could see through his BS as soon as money was mentioned. Sad thing for him is that if he had been amiable and agreed to let us think over it for a day we would never have looked for and found this website and there was about a 90% chance we would have signed up. Next time they should check education and intelligence and drop the aggressiveness and they may be able to hook a lot more suckers! We might live in South Africa but when the USA sneezed the rest of the world, including us, caught a (financial) cold.

Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by Montana

Montana — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:59:56 +0000

The coaching would have cost me &7,500, It seems they ask these questions to determine how much they should ask you to pay. Of course, I declined to buy their coaching. For one, they never really tell you what the coaching consists of. I wonder why?

Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by BlackMage

BlackMage — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:37:07 +0000

I must agree, this is a TOTAL waste of money and sales pitch. I wrote a small article on how they do it here: http://www.parodybox.com/forums/6-general-discussion/38-rich-dad-poor-dadthe-dad-that-will-try-and-steal-your-money#38

Its the psychology behind them.

Comment on Zecco.com hates Safari and iPhone users by os combinations

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Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by Wesley

Wesley — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:48:03 +0000

What people need to remember is that Robert never stops making money. He never knows when his other investments will not be profitable(if they really are), so “people” are just another method of cash flow. If he can get you to pay $5,000 then he has shown that he is smarter than you.

Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by LBee

LBee — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:14:32 +0000

Everything everyone has written here has been true for me as well.
I received a call from a very pushy and rude salesperson from the coaching office – or whatever it is they like to call it.
I also got an insult when I said I wanted some time to think about it.
The salesperson got angry, almost sputtering from frustration that I wouldnt allow his assertive sales pitch move me to action.
When I said I wanted a few days to let it sink in – he applied on me the “take away” – a sales technique that lets the sales person tell the potential client – that the would-be client is not worthy and/or will not a good fit for the program anyway.
If it works – the potential client should either be embarassed enough into action, or the client will get his ego up in a gander – and just to prove that he is worthy – will sign up.
“Lets part as friends…” is what he said.
Hey! I recognize that sales tactic…..
Too much sales training in my career has made me recognize all sales approaches and tactics. And getting passed the “pre-interview” is a battle unto itself.
I am so disappointed that because of the front line salespeople’s lousy sales training technique, it has actually failed in getting more people to sign up for the coaching program -
Therefore – I still dont know if the coaching program was/is any good anyway…..

Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by IM

IM — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:06:15 +0000

One thing I don’t understand, so many people think that all those programs are a scheme, but poor Robert Kiyosaki doesn’t know that his name is on the line here…
Wake up people, Robert Kiyosaki knows about everything, he created the system! It started with his books – do you really need 18 books (and counting) to tell someone “you should be rich” without actually teaching how to become rich (only some very vague concepts about money) and now all those seminars. Another way to make money for Robert!
He is the only one who is getting richer on all of that…

I also have had an experience with those programs, not going to get into details, but in short, yes, they work (to a degree) and they do provide useful information, but this information is not as good as advertised, and highly overpriced even considering the bargain price you might get.
And the “mentors” are not better than any other investor you can meet in the industry and talk with if you buy them a lunch.

Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by PS

PS — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:08:37 +0000

I was so glad that I told them I have to check with my credit company before making the decision. Thought I would do some of my own research. The interview tachniques they have been using are too pushing. The quote they gave me was $2985. Pretty sure, after knowing all my financial abilities, they came up with this number. And same as everyone else, they have asked me to put it under my credit cards.. and two of them. This is what they called OP power, but I still need to pay it back after 30days. It is going to be the same result. And I live in Australia, this sounds a bit like a trap. Thank You Very Much eveyone for providing your comments.

Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by Joe Wasylyk

Joe Wasylyk — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:58:08 +0000

I inquired about these courses directly with the Arizona Head Office to see if they could help me with my ‘Seniorpreneur Project’. One screening administrator, the necessary step before getting to talk to a Coach asked me what this Project was about. I said that my mission was to empower Seniors (60 Plus) to become Entrepreneurs. You know once all the Boomers retire they will be looking for something meaningful to do or work on to be productive and creative in their retirement life.

The administrator went on to mention some possible generic courses (modules) I could take at around $6,000.00 each. I told him that I already have a University business education and I have already taken those courses he mentioned but in a University setting. Instead of trying to specifically help me with my project he repeated the same general courses that I already had or that we proved to be useless for me. Bottom line is there is very little chance that most people would get directly needed help.

Joe Wasylyk
Seniorpreneur

Comment on Rich Dad, Poor dad coaching by julie massicot

julie massicot — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:10:38 +0000

Thanks for all of your inputs. You wonderful people just saved me some heartache and not to mention MONEY!!!!!! and time. I would like to see if I can get my $267.00 dollars back for half down payment on seminar. If any one knows how to, PLEASE let me know. I could use that money for my house note. Someone should put a stop to this scam.
THANKS AGAIN
Julie