By Fernando Soave Copyright © 2004

I must tell you about a rich man's son at Niagara Falls. He was an indescribable specimen of anthropologic potency. He had a skull-cap on one side of his head, with a gold tassel in top of it, and a gold-headed cane under his arm with more in it than in his head. It is a very difficult thing to describe that young man. He wore an eye- glass that he could not see through, patent- leather boots that he could not walk in, and pants that he could not sit down in--dressed like a grasshopper. This human cricket came up to clerk's desk just as I entered, adjusted his unseeing eye-glass, and spake in this wise to clerk. You see, he thought it was ``Hinglish, you know,'' to lisp. ``Thir, will you have kindness to supply me with thome papah and enwelophs!'' The hotel clerk measured that man quick, and he pulled envelopes and paper out of a drawer, threw them across counter toward young man, and then turned away to his books. You should have seen that young man when those envelopes came across that counter. He swelled up like a gobbler turkey, adjusted his unseeing eye- glass, and yelled: ``Come right back here. Now thir, will you order a thervant to take that papah and enwelophs to yondah dethk.'' Oh, poor, miserable, contemptible American monkey! He could not carry paper and envelopes twenty feet. I suppose he could not get his arms down to do it. I have no pity for such travesties upon human nature. If you have not capital I am glad of it. What you need is common sense, not copper cents.

Ever pondered... deep inside yourself, why perfectly "charismatic people" are chronospheres away from wealth, independence and personal power?

Not successful yet... despite all your legitimately intensified efforts to achieve your goals?

I'd dare to equate failure with a chronic disease that cripples millions of entrepreneurs around this Planet. In all probability, you've heard gigantic potential of Internet to creating wealth without considerable capital; so you "jumped onto wagon" and entered wondrous virtual world of "cyber entrepreneurship"...

Several months have gone by and you still have "nothing to show for it". Your acquaintances have long ago started to frown on your unique "business ideas"... your friends giggle, however you don't give-up -- not yet! You 'crawl' on every popular marketing forum, you study endless piles of business related articles and you fervently seek for "no-risk" investment ideas to create "multiple streams of income".

Your "hard-disk" is penetrated by tenths of e-books written by "success gurus"... your mind is already overwhelmed by sheer volume of information... but once more... you have not achieved your goals! Why?

The disinformation still bamboozles your mind... "they" told you to:

--> Find a niche market and then fulfill its' needs with a "perfect product" - then you'd become rich [FACT: Masses of entrepreneurs at this time zealously vie with same philosophy - when will you differentiate yourself from masses?].

--> Join a "trusted network like CJ.com"... develop "keyword-rich sites"... learn optimization... and you're off to making thousands $$$ per month [FACT: Once upon a time, these techniques used to work; ever heard of "Parasites"? You should because major players in affiliate marketing will use your resources to extract every penny from your affiliate marketing endeavors.]

--> Enroll with next MLM dynamo... ...and list goes on - no need to address every parasitic idiosyncrasy that hinders our way to success, right?

Thank God I never got diseased with all this torpor.