Its tough to keep up that pace, but its one of the techniques that he used to earn $1M from his first chicken soup book.

Even if you did make 10K on the deal (which is unlikely), that would only be a 7% return on your cash investment with substantial risk of that number being much lower.Again, maybe I am a scared little chicken.

If there's any BUSINESS benefit at all to sitting behind a computer screen racking up "ratings" or "points" and numbers of semi-anonymous "friends", giving away useless ebooks, blogging, "internet marketing", posting every random thought you've ever had, and alerting people to the fact you just took a dump and now you're going to walk the dog-- I sure haven't found what it is other than ego, and it really shouldn't even stroke a sensible person's ego.Again, I hope to make great contacts here and do business-- but I'm not counting any social networking chickens just yet...

It's hard deciding between deal or funding because it's chicken or egg and they usually have to happen in very fast succession.Here's exactly what I did.

We need these smart folks engineering things to make our lives better...not playing chicken with the IRS over ridiculous tax codes.

Here in Oregon, there are developments where manufactured homes are situated on leased land.If you can sell a manufactured on a land lease, you can sell a frame built on a land lease.I have to warn you, though, that they sell for chicken scratch, and that's only if they can find a buyer.

"Find some debt/equity partners" - you really need to find a deal first (kind of chicken and egg here but you need to do it).

Chicken little has cried out too many times and now no one believes it.

Transactional funding investors aren't going to give you a dime until you've got a property under contract.So as you can see, it's a Catch-22, Chicken-or-the-Egg thing.

Jon K, a beautiful family with beautiful voices.Even the chicken was in good voice (you know, for a chicken).Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New year to all.