- The commission for selling one prepaid ad unit is the same as the membership fee. So, you may become an affiliate and ask for your first commission to be applied to your membership fee.
- As an affiliate three memberships also equals the membership fee.
- You may choose your project and do a reward crowd funding as the initial step. You can use s portion of your proceeds for membership.
As the saying goes, "Where there's a will, there's a way".
How do prospective members satisfy themselves that this is not a pyramid scheme?
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteI see that I need to flesh out this page. All virality is pyramidal, which isn't bad. The nature of a ponzi scheme is that the benefit comes directly from the money contributed from 'downline'. Here the benefit is Institute Membership. So, you have the cart and horse backward. The assumption is that you want Institute membership and you don't have the $300. How do you provide effort rather than cash? One way is to become an affiliate, which is rather how the Internet works. If you would rather get subscriptions to the Polymath, that can be done, too. But you need to get about 300 of them. Or, as is mentioned here, you could become a Leonardo blogger, or start a patronage research or art project, and the $300 membership is a traffic enhancement expenditure.
ReplyDeleteAs I said, on review, this page is probably not complete and I will write something better and bigger.