Can you actually predict the future? Here's one proven way
I want you to picture an intelligent financial advisor named Frank.
Frank is trying to find a devoted audience for his newsletter on stock markets. Frank read all the advice and books about True Fans and how to turn a newsletter into a business.
But Frank also knows how to predict the future.
In his research, Frank came across a method to get 10,000,000 real email addresses. Sure, it required a few bucks to purchase from a dubious source, but Frank didn’t mind — Frank had a mission to accomplish.
He had a few goals:
To invest as little as possible
To charge a $250 monthly fee for his newsletter after one year
To make $1 million in the second year
Year 1
On the first day of the month, Frank sent out his initial prediction.
“The S&P 500 will go up in price this month. Bookmark this.”
And it did. Millions of people viewed his short email and didn’t pay much attention.
The next month, Frank sent out another one.
“The S&P 500 will go down in price this month. Bookmark this for your own good.”
Lo and behold, the market did go down. And people paid a bit more attention this time.
In the third month, he predicted correctly again.
And again. And again. 12 times in a row.
Frank was more than just an investment guru by this point.
Frank was a godlike financial clairvoyant.
Year 2
After 12 months of insanely accurate predictions, Frank now had his followers. Although by this point, they should probably be referred to as worshipers.
Oddly enough, there were also many non-believers.
In fact, Frank had lost almost all of his subscriber base. Of the 10 million initial email addresses, he only had a few thousand left.
But these few thousand were quite willing to pay a monthly fee of $250 to keep hearing his predictions. I’m sure they would’ve spent considerably more than that, too, if he had asked.
But he didn’t. Frank was a gracious god to his worshipers.
Year 3
On the second anniversary of his newsletter, Frank shut it down with no notice.
Shockingly, his subscriber base had shrunk down to just one person.
Yet Frank had made his million dollars — and then some. Almost $1.25 million, in fact.
And he made that one last person an incredible amount of money as well. And cost potentially thousands of people their own precious savings.
Did you figure out what happened?
(Link goes to my story on Medium.com)
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