Everywhere I turn there are all these great conferences, coaches, courses and such but every single one of them is over $1000! I find this fee to be absurd! What if feels like to me is other people trying to steal my hard earned $$ for their own benefit. This is NOT the way I want to work this year. I want to offer up my services organically for those who need it but maybe can’t afford those $1000 programs. I know I can’t. How’s a gal supposed to get along in life and biz if I am always having to shell out $1000?
I go to a network function and the opt-in at the end for a gal, just like me, for her course, is, yep, you guessed it $1000 or more.
I go to a start up week event and the opt-in for the next level of the event is yep, $1000
I find this to be absurd!
They get with “get rich quick” schemes and “follow THIS PLAN” and “you too could be this rich” and yet people fall for it. How do I know people fall for it? I see my friends shelling out dollars after dollars, all the while they are struggling to pay for kids schools and meals and take care of car rides and baby sitting and wondering why none of their friends want to help them watch their kids. How can they not see that the only ones who are making the money are the ones at the top who have already been doing this for years?
Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying there is nothing to be learned by these people who have had success. There is. However. Buy their book. Watch their podcast. Keep your butt at home where you can afford it. There is so much to be learned online. In books. On You Tube. Via Skype. And so on. I just do not understand why people need to spend money on airline tickets, hotels, conferences, and such. It all just seems like brainwashing to me.
The “Thousandeers” as I like to call them, the ones telling you to give them $1000 or more have figured out…”Hey, if I get 200 people to give me $1000 Ill make $200,000 without batting an eye. I don’t have to work as hard and all I have to do is act like I know what I am talking about. I could sell ice cream to an Eskimo, so that should be easy!”
See, they are good at selling.
You, are good at listening.
They are good at persuasion.
You are good at opening your wallet.
You want what they’ve got.
you think by giving them your money you will get what they’ve got.
However, just by giving them you’re money, you fail to realize, you don’t have their life, their bills (or lack therof) their accountant, their lifestyle, and so on.
I am in no way trying to be a downer. I am not trying to be negative, although I am sure to them I am being just that.
I want to EDUCATE you.
You DO NOT NEED TO GIVE THEM $1000 or more.
You do not NEED what they have.
What I am trying to say is the same thing as what Glinda the good witch told Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz….
“you had the power all along my dear…”
YOU already have the answer you need inside you.
You don’t need someone to tell you how to have a great relationship.
You don’t need someone to tell you how to manage your money.
You don’t need someone to tell you how to do anything.
Guidance.
Now, THAT, you may need.
There are plenty of people, honest, good people who won’t take you for all you’ve got to help you do that. I know them. I am friends with them. They are in Chambers of commerce most likely in your area. Local folks. Mom and pop chops. A computer repair guy down the street who can fix that computer. An accountant friend who can help you manage your money and pay yourself in your own business. A healer, who can do amazing sound healing on you. An intuitive counselor, who can help you heal your broken heart.
Please consider this. Stop making the wealthy more wealthy. Help the locals support the locals.
Use sites like http://www.nextdoor.com and http://www.thumbtack.com and look around your neighborhood to find your needs. Talk to friends and family. look online. Ask GOOGLE or other sites for answers. If you are a business, talk to Chamber of Commerce or Network groups. and when you hear those crazy $1000 or more Opt-ins. Get up walk in or turn your paper over. Say no thanks.
Save your dollars and cents…common sense…
not only will it save the cents in your pocket…but it will save the sense in your soul as well.
Xoxo,
Trisha Trixie
TrishaTrixie™ Sprinkler of Fabulousness 
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