Tech Money — The Blood Money God would be Happy With
I tried as much not to be controversial while picking the headline. But it’s click-baity yeah and a bit fishy but it works!
Now that I’ve got you hooked in, you see what I did there yeah?
I digress.
Should my mom see this, my next post would be an official apology letter to God on how I’ve been set back from a consummate to a carnal being (pun intended).
When I was a kid although the memory still selectively blurred for the right reasons, I will explain.
Nollywood was in a phase of what I call the ritual era. Their acting shone towards the narrative of the poor seeking out ways, mostly through dubious means to accrue wealth.
A good reminder why you aren’t suppose to be pandering upandan when you see someone posting material possessions up on social media.
The scenes where the protagonist would offer his mom was the saddest part. As though the sacrifice is not enough, the wife follows as well, and to show further commitment to the cult, the kids, if any are added into the mix.
The ultimate price for reneging is death. He, which likely is tony Umez or Kanayo at the end of the movie is haunted by the ghosts of his victims and gets struck with madness and confesses to a pastor right before his final moment.
This kind of story always ends with a sound warning, ill-gotten wealth is not worth it, or I guess that’s what they are trying to tell us.
The script was simple — ln fact, here is a starter guide;
You have to be in the village, poor and uncomfortable to decide between leaving for the city or living the rest of your life in penury.
Dang! After five years, everything circumvents to when you return in a sedan parked in the front yard of your father’s compound. Your village people’s eyes will now turn to you, their reach is a stone throw.
Better Japa!
The thing with Tech is it’s the same as blood money.
How dare you say that! I should stop reading before I get initiated into a cult and wind up mad or worse, dead.
To be honest, Tech is not that kind of blood money — but it’s one you have to sacrifice your time.
You should understand life is lived in between the hours, not the years, and in those hours it’s all about blood and sweat, same as blood money.
You have to sacrifice guys!
How long you can take a beating and still stand up is the most defining factor. So, tech and blood money, same thing.
Let’s establish a connection between the two and leave you with the decision.
Make Money
Yes, both guarantee you insane cash flow. My mom would always say money doesn’t grow on trees. I will tell you it’s a myth, you can make the tree. Thanks to the internet, more than 3 billion people are connected to it.
Nigeria for example has over 30 million people active on the internet, with good initiative you can at least sell your services to 100 people.
According to a post on medium, all you need is 100 true fans, if you can sell say a $100 service to the 100 fans. You can make up to $10,000.
On paper it’s easy I admit right up front, but say it’s selling a N1,000 product to hundred people. It becomes more achievable, albeit challenging.
The recent sale of PayStack to stripe which is valued at around $200 million, converted to naira amounts to more than N70 billion — The figure was close to the Otedola forte sell-off — one of the biggest Nigerian oil conglomerates if anything speaks volumes.
Liberty of Time
Money should allow you do what you love, Scott Spangler said it better;
Success is when you can spend 90 percent of your time doing the things you want to do and 10 percent doing the things you have to do. Most people’s lives are just the opposite.
Imagine being going on a vacation in the Malays, with a backpack, a few clothes stuffed inside, and your laptop. Somewhere halfway across the world and you are still making money from different portfolios online.
Not even blood money guarantees this freedom. Conventional work pays you for your time, you are tied to an office desk from 9–5. Robert Kiyosaki said the price of security is your freedom.
What you’ll notice is security stops you from taking risks, and you miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.
When you condition your mind to take calculated risks, there are chances you’ll fail but you will come out with experience on what you’d do to ensure your next business doesn’t sink.
Tech defies the rules, you are paid on the value you provide not the hours. So you could set up a sales page and it spins money while you sleep. Or trade on your laptop or set up a dropshipping website that operates on autopilot.
Keep what you own
So here’s a question which would you rather be;
- $1000 as a salary earner
- $1000 as a business owner
$1000 as a business owner is a no-brainer. Not only is the business yours you can sell the business for multiple times the average income. Say your business earns $1000 monthly in revenue, it would be valued at almost x40 the income on reputable site flippers.
A salary earner does not have equity in the first place, you can’t flip your job position to someone. It’s in the interest of the company to recruit a qualified person, not yours.
Setting up a successful digital business could set you up to build a cake factory, eat them and still make more. Because you have enough equity to diversify, this is a luxury most salary earners can’t afford.
Why Tech works Like Charm in Africa
Akon once said in an Interview that Africa is the new china.. He went further to say that it’s only in Africa you can set up a business and it turns into a fortune 500 company in five years.”
I wouldn’t tell or post figures of how much I’ve made online. Legit way, no hanky panky techniques. So clean that your parents would kiss you on the forehead. Lest I forget, African parents don’t kiss.
Earning $100 monthly might seem like a trifling amount but when you convert it to naira, it’s N20, 000 more than the minimum wage.
I once wrote a long thread on how to beat the Nigerian vicious cycle of earning off of a currency that is devalued at the CBN’s discretion.
I’ve maintained my stance of having money work for you than hoarding it in the bank which eventually loses value due to inflation, and, well, CBN’s swindle.
The conclusion was to learn some sort of trade that would make get paid in a higher currency.
Where you dey see this Money?
I often get this question, alot..
Now, this is why I volunteered to be a guide that will teach you how to go about that transformation. How to take part in what Mark Essien considers a plugged into the value of the global market.
If you want to quit talking and learn actionable tips on how to make money online through blogging, affiliate marketing, Trading and making money off of intellectual property then you need to read the golden nuggets I’d be posting on here.
In the end, you will understand that blood and Tech money share a common relationship-Money. But these similarities are juxtaposed on the side of Good and Evil.
Blood money is borderline Haram, while Tech money is Halal.
Blood money and tech money have one thing in common. It’s paradoxical yeah? Tech & ritual needs an upfront grind, investment and sacrifice — you have to sacrifice your time & finance to build up an online business.
Tech money is the kind of money that is clean and ridiculously incomprehensible to the average man, so much you’d be called a ritualist as people won’t see you working from an open shop.
But who cares, God loves that kind of money, who I’m I not to love it too?
If you’d rather stay in a dingy bet shop, banging your head against the wall, or you could commit to something that would be of value to others and create multiple streams of income?
The decision on how to make money is yours, it’s not your Fathers, mothers, friends, nobody!
Tech money or blood money?
You choose.
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