When I retired from active day- to-day business at the end of the last century to concentrate on Tai Chi; and [among other things] on researching, writing, polishing, revising and editing my book '7 Ways to get your money'-from unwilling payment bilking customers, one of the things that bothered me was whether my market place would still be relevant when I was finished. I needn't have worried....
In other words would the problem of extracting payments from elusive customers still be a valid basis for a product devoted to aggressively combating this scourge. Alternatively, would the newly, rights oriented environment, in which we allegedly now live, have contributed to an amelioration of what is a terminally deadly disease that has debilitating cumulative effects on an economy. In other words would my book have become obsolete? Would we have become a more honest society?
Again i say: I needn't have worried.
My first corporate customer for my book: an allegedly respectable company, has not only proved the need still exists, but has demonstrated that non-payment for goods received could well have become a basic principle of business performance: a part of 'the business model' to use current jargon.
I don't know whether to be enraged that I have been proved right, or overjoyed to find that the market for my new book could be bigger than I ever anticipated. Or perhaps I am overjoyed to find that I have been proved right-which is not much of a discovery after all. I always knew I was right. When I muttered to my bank manager about it last Wednesday she reminded me that I had planned for delayed payment back in July when the order had first been mooted.
Proving that people and corporations duck on their responsibility to pay their debts is like proving that the sun comes up daily. The real problem is how to reduce the amount of time and money you lose hassling after outstanding payments when you could be doing something more productive. I am pissed off that I had to wait an excessive time for my money because my customer has issues-so we'll have a count down here to 'Name and Shame' day. They have shown some evidence of compliance and I have no desire to burn one of my customers-If I don't have my money in the next few days which they have belately promised will occur then I can burn them for being unworthy.
What this means is that I am satisfied at this stage that the strategies outlined in my book have proved effective and so the point of this blog is to tell you: that after testing and proving okay, the second phase of the launch of my now not so new book '7 Ways to get your money-without resorting to violence or the law' got under way on Friday 27th October. On the occasion of my sixtieth birthday I set the programme for the arrival of 7 Ways edition two -The Alpha edition.
I have to tell you that we were caught by surprise at the immediate popularity of 7 Ways-It looks good, it is set out in easy to read prose-much easier than anything I ever put on the blog-which is mostly just typing as Mr Capote once observed of Mr Kerouack, and it provides a highly readable and entertaining tale with some seriously usable information, not only according to me but now also according to a number of happy readers.
And this immediate episode with a non-paying customer, apart from shifting my blood around in a way that has been absent for awhile, simply means that more and more people are going to want to read my collection of fables called '7 ways to get your money' -
What I know now having had to field test my book and find that it is not wanting, is that this book is set to be the hottest book published this decade in this country and you reading this have the opportunity to be in on the ground floor-You can one of the first to read a revolutionary piece of writing on a subject that the corporate sector, for apparently now obvious reasons, would have preferred not to have been written..
However because I have unresolved doubts about the integrity of those who operate in the public sphere [i.e. I have no interest in dealing with people who fuck me around on payments] there is no way at present that you can get this book other than through the address below-my previously identified web outlet has had unclarified issues of its own, possibly as a result of the exchange rate shift lately, and is no longer able to function effectively apparently-[this means that the web address I gave you in a previous blog should be regarded as dysfunctional for the time being from the point of view of this book.]
I have also revised the book slightly following feedback from readers and the 2nd edition will be the definitive Alpha edition, which will also have a limited print run. I may assume that a few million people will eventually own this book but right now I shall settle for a few thousand. So order yours before stocks run out, and remember that people are reading this blog in Vladivostok and they also have problems collecting money there. So I'm told by a guy who ordered 7 Ways off one of my web sites.
To purchase a copy of '7 ways to get your money' in the revised, Azanian produced, new Alpha edition [available from mid-November]
Send R135.00 plus R25.00 for postage to
Leofric House Publishing,
P O Box 891224
Lyndhurst, 2106 RSA/Azania.
Allow ten days for cheque clearance and if you want some other way to pay that's quicker then tell me and I'll tell you.
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