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Featured Money Making Idea for the Month of March 2023:
Go Hog Wild and Start a Fortune 500 Company!
Go Hog Wild and Start a Fortune 500 Company!
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Let's be honest here: if you’re anything like me, you’ve spent years of your life browsing the Internet for ways of “How to Make Money” (maybe that search has even been "How to Make Money Online” at times :)). Com’on, admit it!!! This is a safe space to let the truth out of the bag! You’ve probably come across the usual “Become a pet sitter,” “Get into professional garage saleing” (if that’s even a word!), “Open a B&B in your spare room,” etc. These are all fine ideas for those who see the opportunity in them, there’s no doubt about that! And these are all ideas discussed here at Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises LLC, too; but some people are looking to really go in for the kill from the get go. Why open a B&B in your spare room and stop there, for example, if your ultimate goal is to create a world-wide motel chain with a presence on every continent on Earth (yes, even Antarctica, I dare say - if you are feeling the ambition, go for it!!)? If you want your company to be big, start with big ideas that are straightforward enough to get started with, then scale them by launching them to the moon!
Becoming a Fortune 500 company isn't so much about the idea as it is about the scale and method of execution of the idea! That's what separates WalMart from your local IGA, even though you can buy toilet paper at either one of them (assuming there isn't a pandemic-style bum-rush on the their T.P. inventory!).
Becoming a Fortune 500 company isn't so much about the idea as it is about the scale and method of execution of the idea! That's what separates WalMart from your local IGA, even though you can buy toilet paper at either one of them (assuming there isn't a pandemic-style bum-rush on the their T.P. inventory!).
Here are some articles that might inspire you along your Fortune 500 Company journey
(Articles are both hyperlinked and included in plain text URLs below for you old-school, safety-conscious, paranoid copy-and-paste fanatics! It's ok, I know you're reading this and I'm not judging you! Trust me, there's nothing wrong with putting safety first! There are still some of us left out there - you, me, and my Uncle Joe [ok, I don't actually have an Uncle Joe, but hey! If I did I'm sure he'd copy-and-paste plain text URLs into his browser rather than clicking on links because he would be that kind of a guy!])
(Articles are both hyperlinked and included in plain text URLs below for you old-school, safety-conscious, paranoid copy-and-paste fanatics! It's ok, I know you're reading this and I'm not judging you! Trust me, there's nothing wrong with putting safety first! There are still some of us left out there - you, me, and my Uncle Joe [ok, I don't actually have an Uncle Joe, but hey! If I did I'm sure he'd copy-and-paste plain text URLs into his browser rather than clicking on links because he would be that kind of a guy!])
How to Start a Fortune 500 Company
https://bizfluent.com/how-6798720-start-fortune-500-company.html
Plain Text URL for the paranoid:
https://bizfluent.com/how-6798720-start-fortune-500-company.html
How to Build Your Business Like a Fortune 500 CEO
https://www.inc.com/young-entrepreneur-council/how-to-build-your-business-like-a-fortune-500-ceo.html
Plain Text URL for the paranoid:
https://www.inc.com/young-entrepreneur-council/how-to-build-your-business-like-a-fortune-500-ceo.html
What a Startup Can Teach A Fortune 500 Company
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisacurtis/2019/03/06/what-a-startup-can-teach-a-fortune-500-company/?sh=17d1f8eb18ad
Plain Text URL for the paranoid:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisacurtis/2019/03/06/what-a-startup-can-teach-a-fortune-500-company/?sh=17d1f8eb18ad
How to Make Your Startup Look Like a Fortune 500 Company
https://www.danstrangfeld.com/blog/how-to-make-your-startup-look-like-a-fortune-500-company
Plain Text URL for the paranoid:
https://www.danstrangfeld.com/blog/how-to-make-your-startup-look-like-a-fortune-500-company
https://bizfluent.com/how-6798720-start-fortune-500-company.html
Plain Text URL for the paranoid:
https://bizfluent.com/how-6798720-start-fortune-500-company.html
How to Build Your Business Like a Fortune 500 CEO
https://www.inc.com/young-entrepreneur-council/how-to-build-your-business-like-a-fortune-500-ceo.html
Plain Text URL for the paranoid:
https://www.inc.com/young-entrepreneur-council/how-to-build-your-business-like-a-fortune-500-ceo.html
What a Startup Can Teach A Fortune 500 Company
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisacurtis/2019/03/06/what-a-startup-can-teach-a-fortune-500-company/?sh=17d1f8eb18ad
Plain Text URL for the paranoid:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisacurtis/2019/03/06/what-a-startup-can-teach-a-fortune-500-company/?sh=17d1f8eb18ad
How to Make Your Startup Look Like a Fortune 500 Company
https://www.danstrangfeld.com/blog/how-to-make-your-startup-look-like-a-fortune-500-company
Plain Text URL for the paranoid:
https://www.danstrangfeld.com/blog/how-to-make-your-startup-look-like-a-fortune-500-company
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On This Page:
1 - What is "MONEY"?
2 - Relationships with money
3 - My personal views and philosophy regarding money
4 - Money making ideas
1 - What is "MONEY"?
2 - Relationships with money
3 - My personal views and philosophy regarding money
4 - Money making ideas
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1) What is MONEY?
Money - yeah, it's more than just coins and banknotes. Even those things are almost starting to seem like 'ancient relics' for many our modern world! While many dictionaries will indeed give at least one of the definitions of "money" as a form or denomination of coin or paper money, it's the first definition given for MONEY in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary that we will be using here as we discuss money:
1) something generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment: such as
a: officially coined or stamped metal currency - e.g. newly minted money
b: money of account
c: paper money - e.g. handed the bank teller a wad of money
Just like grams and ounces are used to measure mass and weight, money is a system of measurement as well, it is one way of measuring the value of both tangible and intangible things in an agreed-upon quantifiable sense.
Money - yeah, it's more than just coins and banknotes. Even those things are almost starting to seem like 'ancient relics' for many our modern world! While many dictionaries will indeed give at least one of the definitions of "money" as a form or denomination of coin or paper money, it's the first definition given for MONEY in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary that we will be using here as we discuss money:
1) something generally accepted as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment: such as
a: officially coined or stamped metal currency - e.g. newly minted money
b: money of account
c: paper money - e.g. handed the bank teller a wad of money
Just like grams and ounces are used to measure mass and weight, money is a system of measurement as well, it is one way of measuring the value of both tangible and intangible things in an agreed-upon quantifiable sense.
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2) Relationships with money:
Just like your relationship with your friend, sister, car, bed, brother, significant other, exercise, or the printer at work, relationships with animate and inanimate objects - even concepts and ideas - are all a part of everyone's lives. As we've already established, the underlying premise of this website is that almost all of us spend a significant portion of our lives trying to acquire, guard, manage, and otherwise deal with money in this 21st Century world of ours, so it is probably safe to say that the vast majority of us have some kind of an ongoing relationship with money in our lives.
Just like any other relationship we have with anything or anyone in life, people's relationships with money can and do vary enormously. Robert Kiyosaki's "holy grail" 1997 book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and several other publications that have come out over the years since, talk about people's relationships with money beautifully. No, this isn't a "plug" for his book, ha, ha!
What if I were to tell you that a lot of people out there fear money! Yes, even those very same people who say they "wish they were rich," or they "wish they had more money" - yes, them! Would you believe me?
What if I were to tell you that there are also a lot of people out there who think that money is bad! Yes, BAD, like "the root of all evil" kind of bad - it doesn't get much worse than that! Would you believe me if I told you that you can even catch people out there in this world with this kind of self-professed relationship with money who claim they desire to have more of it?!
There are also many out there who are forced to interact and engage with money in their lives (just like most of us on this planet), but don't have a clear, conscious relationship with money. I mean, clearly, they are engaged and interacting with money, by that definition in and of itself they have a relationship of sorts with it, but they cannot conceptualize it, vocalize it, organize their thoughts around it, or form a personal "game plan" when it comes to money in their lives. Most engagements these kinds of people have with money run something like a continually-looping "first high school dance" type of story - awkward and clueless.
How can you ever expect to be happy in your romantic relationship if you have a terrible relationship with your significant other? How can you ever expect to be productive and feel fulfilled and successful at work if you have a terrible relationship with your job? How can you ever expect to be financially wealthy if you have a terrible relationship with money? The answer to all these questions is: unless you act to change your terrible relationships, your long-term success is, ultimately, most likely going to be pretty limited and very difficult to achieve, if it can be achieved at all!
Of course, there are also people in this world who have very healthy relationships with money.
A whole book could be written on relationships with money (Kiyosaki and others have written such books, and I encourage you to read these famous books!), so I won't go any further with this section. I will leave us with some thoughts and questions to ponder... What kind of a relationship do you have with money right now? Are you happy with the current relationship you have with money? If you are not, how would you change your relationship with money? What kind of a relationship do you wish you had with money?
Just like your relationship with your friend, sister, car, bed, brother, significant other, exercise, or the printer at work, relationships with animate and inanimate objects - even concepts and ideas - are all a part of everyone's lives. As we've already established, the underlying premise of this website is that almost all of us spend a significant portion of our lives trying to acquire, guard, manage, and otherwise deal with money in this 21st Century world of ours, so it is probably safe to say that the vast majority of us have some kind of an ongoing relationship with money in our lives.
Just like any other relationship we have with anything or anyone in life, people's relationships with money can and do vary enormously. Robert Kiyosaki's "holy grail" 1997 book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and several other publications that have come out over the years since, talk about people's relationships with money beautifully. No, this isn't a "plug" for his book, ha, ha!
What if I were to tell you that a lot of people out there fear money! Yes, even those very same people who say they "wish they were rich," or they "wish they had more money" - yes, them! Would you believe me?
What if I were to tell you that there are also a lot of people out there who think that money is bad! Yes, BAD, like "the root of all evil" kind of bad - it doesn't get much worse than that! Would you believe me if I told you that you can even catch people out there in this world with this kind of self-professed relationship with money who claim they desire to have more of it?!
There are also many out there who are forced to interact and engage with money in their lives (just like most of us on this planet), but don't have a clear, conscious relationship with money. I mean, clearly, they are engaged and interacting with money, by that definition in and of itself they have a relationship of sorts with it, but they cannot conceptualize it, vocalize it, organize their thoughts around it, or form a personal "game plan" when it comes to money in their lives. Most engagements these kinds of people have with money run something like a continually-looping "first high school dance" type of story - awkward and clueless.
How can you ever expect to be happy in your romantic relationship if you have a terrible relationship with your significant other? How can you ever expect to be productive and feel fulfilled and successful at work if you have a terrible relationship with your job? How can you ever expect to be financially wealthy if you have a terrible relationship with money? The answer to all these questions is: unless you act to change your terrible relationships, your long-term success is, ultimately, most likely going to be pretty limited and very difficult to achieve, if it can be achieved at all!
Of course, there are also people in this world who have very healthy relationships with money.
A whole book could be written on relationships with money (Kiyosaki and others have written such books, and I encourage you to read these famous books!), so I won't go any further with this section. I will leave us with some thoughts and questions to ponder... What kind of a relationship do you have with money right now? Are you happy with the current relationship you have with money? If you are not, how would you change your relationship with money? What kind of a relationship do you wish you had with money?
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3) My personal views and philosophy regarding money:
Coming Soon!
Coming Soon!
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4) Money making ideas:
This list is not static. I add to it from time to time when I have more content and information ready to create another section. Making money is also a frequent topic I write about on the Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises blog, which you can access right here.
This list is not static. I add to it from time to time when I have more content and information ready to create another section. Making money is also a frequent topic I write about on the Andreas Philip Gross Enterprises blog, which you can access right here.
Ideas, Inspiration, Opportunity - may you be inspired!
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