The Elevation Group

In my first post, I touched on the critics of the Elevation Group. In my second post, I gave my personal review on the Elevation Group. Here I want to elaborate and expand on what I have written in my earlier posts.

Who is the Elevation Group for?

The motto of the Elevation Group is “Taking you inside the secret “black-box” investment strategies of the rich”. Obviously the Elevation Group is not for the rich or the super-rich because we can assume that they already know how to grow, protect and increase their wealth. So the Elevation Group is for the rest of us.

The motto of the Elevation Group

As a fairly new member, after going through the materials provided in the member’s website in some detail, I can safely say that the Elevation Group is still evolving. It started out as a platform for financial education. That has not changed.

What has changed, and this is to the great benefit of the members of the Elevation Group, is the breadth or scope of that education.

This is what makes membership to the Elevation Group now even more compelling than when it first started 1-2 years ago. As far as I am aware, the membership rates have remained the same so far, so members are getting a fabulous deal.

The main objectives of the Elevation Group

When the Elevation Group first started, one of its main objectives was on preparedness; more specifically, how to prepare for the coming financial meltdown. In this respect, it offered practical information on financial preparedness and also on physical preparedness – the “Rambo” or macho stuff if you want to go all the way!

The other main objective of the Elevation Group was encapsulated in its motto. In a nutshell, this involved a concept that is known by several names – infinite banking, the bank of you, etc. It is a strategy not generally taught in formal education circles, but one that is no doubt being used by the rich to preserve and grow their wealth.

The Elevation Group includes families in their scope

In the Elevation Group, this concept of infinite banking is explained in detail and then expanded to cover families. We are talking about generational wealth here – how wealth can be safely passed down through the generations. That’s real empowerment!

The Elevation Group empowers families

So even in the case of a member is already in his or her sixties and thinking “all this is well and good but it may be too late for me personally…”, it is not too late to apply this strategy to one’s future generations! This is probably the best education that a person in this position can pass on to his or her family. This fact alone makes membership to the Elevation Group worth many many times is price!

Of course, if you are just starting out in life, joining the Elevation Group just for this reason – to learn this strategy is to me a no brainer!

Hyperinflation – covered in the Elevation Group

Still on the topic of financial preparedness, there is also a lesson in the Elevation Group that is specifically focused on what to do in a hyperinflationary situation. For this lesson, Mike Dillard has engaged Gonzalo Lira, a recognized expert in this field. Coming originally from Chile, he experienced hyperinflation first hand and hence is well positioned to offer practical advice on this topic.

Lesson 7 of the Elevation Group: How to profit from hyperinflation

Other lessons in the Elevation Group

As a follow up on adopting the investment strategies of the rich, the Elevation Group also includes complementary lessons on how to play the credit score game to maximize your investment opportunities, and how to legally free your IRA and invest your money wherever you choose.

There are even lessons on how to invest in real estate and stocks and shares. Yes, even in the current deflationary climate, there are still opportunities available to those who are empowered with the right contacts and resources. These contacts and resources are some the great hidden gems of the Elevation Group membership.

Who will benefit most from a membership to the Elevation Group?

Whether you are already earning half a million a year, or you are just presently flipping burgers for a living, there is something in the Elevation Group for you. Also whether you are in your early 20s or past 60, there is also something for you in the Elevation Group.

So what if you are in a very tight financial situation right now? So long as you can afford the monthly membership, you will benefit. The Elevation Group even envisions and provides for people this predicament. Lesson 11 is one of the few lessons where Mike Dillard himself takes the leading role. It is a massive lesson on the practical aspects of how to start your own business. It is one of the most detailed lessons in the Elevation Group website, filled to the brim with practical information distilled from no doubt Mike’s own personal experience and struggles in the world of online marketing.

Mike Dillard of the Elevation Group teaches this lesson personally

The journey so far

Without losing its focus on why it was originally formed, the Elevation Group has now expanded and moved on to provide its members with a really all rounded financial education. It has been one heck of a journey so far, and members are still learning new strategies, as new lessons come on every 1-2 months on average.

You need to take action

Knowledge is important. But there is something even more important than merely having knowledge. It is taking action! Nothing happens until a person decides to get off his butt, quit complaining, etc. and take action to change his own present circumstances.

You need to take action!

Don’t hesitate anymore. If you are on the fence thinking whether or not you should invest in your future by firstly educating yourself on your available options, my advice is: take action immediately. Join the Elevation Group and empower yourself with sound and practical knowledge.

But more important than that is that after you join the Elevation Group, don’t just consume the information available and leave it at that. You may need to change your mindset. The Elevation Group can be your vehicle for just doing that.

Are there alternatives to the Elevation Group?

Finally, a person may ask, “Can I get this information elsewhere, apart from the Elevation Group?” The short answer is, “Yes, but…” There are 2 big hurdles here.

• The first is, do you know where to find this information?
• The second is, when you actually do your own research on the internet, you will discover that most of this information is only available if you are prepared to join some exclusive membership website, like what the Elevation Group is doing! That’s the simple truth.

I believe that the Elevation Group is unique in its scope of coverage. In order to acquire the same information if you did not join the Elevation Group, you will probably have to join 3 or 4 other membership subscription sites! Yet if you did just that, you still will probably not have access to the contact and resources that the Elevation Group offers its members!

Finally, let’s just cut to the chase. There is nothing to stop a person from joining the Elevation Group for just one month, downloading all the current information, and then quit after that? However, in my opinion, most people will not do that unless they are really down and out financially.

I believe that most people, when they discover this goldmine (of knowledge, contacts and resources) which is what the Elevation Group really is, will gladly pay for the annual membership unless the monthly membership is all they can afford now because of their current financial situation. Most members in this situation will convert to the annual membership as soon as they can afford to do so. Once they have been empowered by the Elevation Group, they will have to be crazy to cancel their membership!

Take the first step

For those who know they need to take action but are afraid because they are really confused and afraid to make the wrong decision, I can personally identify with that. I was in that situation before. My sincere advice is, take the first step. Join the Elevation Group. Educate yourself. Then based on this acquired knowledge, you will be empowered to take more affirmative actions to change your current situation. Besides prayer, I know of no better way to do this than joining the Elevation Group!

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The Elevation Group

Recently, I signed up as a member of the Elevation Group. I did this after watching a 90 minute presentation by Mike Dillard. The Elevation Group is a private membership website which was started by him.

The cost of the membership to The Elevation Group is not exactly cheap but I would say it is affordable to most people, and from the financial knowledge and information I have since acquired. I have been a member of the Elevation Group for a few months now.

Official logo of the Elevation Group

Since joining the Elevation Group, I have found out that the Elevation Group has (at the time of this writing) already more than 100,000 members and membership to the Elevation Group is still growing steadily every month.

How did the Elevation Group come about?

To understand how the Elevation Group came to be created, we need to know who Mike Dillard is.

Who is Mike Dillard?

Mike Dillard is the founder of the Elevation Group. Mike’s first venture into business was in the area of internet marketing, where he first struggled for several years before making his first millions. In the internet marketing field, he’s probably best known for his creation of the product “Magnetic Sponsoring”. Just this one successful product made him more than a million dollars.

Mike Dillard: Founder of The Elevation Group

Then the stock market crash of 2008 caused him to change gears. At that time, he was already aware that the world economy will eventually collapse through the writings of Robert Kiyosaki and Michael Maloney.

Original Inspiration for The Elevation Group

Robert Kiyosaki is best known for his “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” series of books, and Michael Maloney was Kiyosaki’s personal precious metals financial advisor. These guys are well known for the following quotation:

“We’re living through the greatest wealth transfer in the history of mankind. It will cause unprecedented destruction for most, and unprecedented opportunity for a few.”

Robert Kiyosaki & Michael Maloney: Original Inspiration for the Elevation Group

Many people know or already sense that the world’s economic system is in a bad shape. Most are just hoping that it will not happen but have practically lost all hope. Yet, here are people who are saying that some (a few) will benefit tremendously from the coming collapse! Instead of looking at the situation as one of gloom and doom, they look at it as one of great opportunity! What a concept!

Why the Elevation Group was Created

So what is the factor that will determine whether a person will benefit or lose everything? Knowledge! Knowing what is happening and knowing how to turn that information into opportunity. This was the original reason why Mike created the Elevation Group. The Elevation Group was created to provide its members with the education, contacts and resources needed to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The Elevation Group membership provides not just one but 3 things:

• knowledge,
• contacts and
• resources.

In my opinion, the price of membership would have been well worth it just because of the financial education that the membership to the Elevation Group provided. However, joining the Elevation Group actually gets much better than that. Being a member of the Elevation Group myself, I know first-hand that the contacts and resources available to its members are real. It is very hard to put a price to these things if one were to try to acquire them without this membership to the Elevation Group!

The following are just some of the issues discussed in The Elevation Group:

• How to profit from the greatest wealth transfer in history that is going on right now
• How to think like the rich and handle money like the rich
• How to empower your children to create a billion dollar family legacy
• Practical tips on how to prepare for the worst of times
• How to increase your monthly cash flow with a home business

In my opinion, the value of this last module above alone is worth the whole cost of membership to the Elevation Group, but then again, this can also be said of many other modules, or “lessons”, which currently already number at 14, and with additional lessons being added roughly every 1 to 2 months.

The Elevation Group is a personal journey

The way the web site of the Elevation Group is structured, it is very the personal journey of its creator, a blog on his journey to financial knowledge and freedom. He shares his experiences here – both the good and bad ones. Each module or lesson in the Elevation Group is usually presented in the form of a video seminar. In a way, it is like Mike Dillard is inviting the members of the Elevation Group to join him in his personal quest for more knowledge, contacts and resources in the financial arena.

The Elevation Group: A personal journey

What I really like about the Elevation Group

Mike has put together a panel of experts to advise him on his journey. Just by being a member of the Elevation Group, I have the unexpected bonus of direct access to some of these experts. These are experts in their respective fields that normally charge their clients thousands of dollars for their time.

While I have not personally had to consult them (yet), as a member, I have been monitoring the comments and questions of other members of the Elevation Group. On many occasions I have seen these experts interacting with the Elevation Group members and solving their problems on very specific issues. The membership of the Elevation Group is very diverse, from people in their early twenties to retirees in their 90s. And these are not just wealthy or upper middle class people. What really moved me was seeing these experts respond to queries from members who are obviously “down and out” with practical information that offers them real hope and vision in their particular station.

The Elevation Group – My regrets

Do I have any regrets since joining the Elevation Group? My greatest regret is that I was not introduced to the Elevation Group earlier. I missed out on some opportunities because of this, but what I do know is it is still not too late and the greatest opportunities for this coming wealth transfer is still ahead of us!

What the Elevation Group is not

It is important, very important to note that THE ELEVATION GROUP IS NOT A FINANCIAL ADVISORY. The Elevation Group does not in any way purport or offer financial advice. It also does not offer or give any investment advice. What membership to the Elevation Group does is give you a sound and yet very practical financial education.

Is there anything negative about the Elevation Group? Well, I am not from the USA. I live in South East Asia – in Singapore. Some of the information provided is very specific to the US. For example on issues like how to (legally) avoid paying more taxes than you need to may not be directly applicable to someone who is not a US citizen and is residing outside the US. However, this is only a small part of the whole and does not cause me to think that I have wasted my money joining the Elevation Group. Most of the information offered is relevant worldwide. After all, the coming economic collapse will not be restricted to only some regions in the world – it will be worldwide in its scope and effects! Some of the investment opportunities and resources discussed by the panel of experts in the Elevation Group are based in the US. However, I understand that even foreigners may be allowed to participate in some of these opportunities.

The bottom-line is, if you already know exactly what to do to benefit from the coming economic collapse, if you already have the contacts and resources to put your financial plan into action, then perhaps membership to the Elevation Group is not for you.

The Elevation Group – Planning for the future

The information that I have acquired since joining the Elevation Group is so important and valuable that I have made it my immediate goal to pass this information down to my two children as soon as possible. The education that they will receive by going through the materials in the Elevation Group (which currently can be covered in detail in about 2 to 3 months) is I believe far more valuable than anything that they can learn in all their years of formal education.

The Elevation Group: Planning for the Future

Most parents would spend literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on without batting an eyelid on their children’s education! Yet in today’s world, even a good degree from a good university is no longer a passport to lifelong employment with a good salary! Compared with that, the cost of the membership to the Elevation Group is peanuts!

Click here to sign up for the 90 minute presentation in which Mike Dillard himself will explain more about the Elevation Group.

If you do nothing else this week, just watch this presentation on the Elevation Group. It is the most valuable presentation about money and investing I’ve ever seen.

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The Elevation Group

While doing my research on the Elevation Group, I came across some criticisms that were levelled against the Elevation Group.

The criticisms fall broadly into 2 categories:

• Those critical of Mike Dillard personally

• Those critical of the Elevation Group as a whole

Critics of Mike Dillard – founder of the Elevation Group

A few people have put You Tube videos critical of Mike Dillard, the founder of the Elevation Group. After watching several of these videos, I realized one thing. These critics are probably just people with an axe to grind. Mike is just an unfortunate victim of their pent-up angst. None of these videos critical of the Elevation Group’s founder have any sizable followings and that should say a lot about their contents.

Mike Dillard, the Elevation Group founder

The real issue is whether Mike Dillard as founder of the Elevation Group is a person of integrity. Mike Dillard himself says that the Elevation Group is first and foremost a personal journey. It is his journal of his quest to seek out answers to the coming economic collapse – how to deal with it and how to profit from it. His role is that of a seeker of knowledge. Using his experience, contacts and resources, he has sought out and built alliances with various experts in their respective fields of expertise so that he can learn from them and document these lessons on the Elevation Group’s membership website. The Elevation Group is the vehicle that allows its members to join in this quest with Mike.

The Elevation Group – Supported by experts

The materials in the Elevation Group website are organized as lessons, mostly in a video format. From watching these videos, it is obvious that Mike himself is also learning from the experts like the rest of the members of the group. He is quite open about this.

If he was a fraud as his critics claim, how is he able to gather all these experts to do the seminars, lessons, etc. for the Elevation Group? As a member of the Elevation Group, I have personally gone through every lesson in some detail. I have watched first-hand the interaction between Mike and these various experts in their fields. It is plainly obvious to me that these guys are not merely putting on a show. They are doing what they do best; educating Mike and the Elevation Group members in their respective fields of expertise. They are the real McCoy.

What really surprised me is that some of these experts actually interacted personally with members of the Elevation Group directly through the comments section of the website. These are unedited and unsolicited comments from members. They actually went the extra mile to help out members with their individual questions. If they were in this solely for the money, or if Mike Dillard is not a person of integrity, why will they do this?

These experts obviously do not think that Mike is a fraud. And neither do I. I believe that these experts go the extra mile and provide their advise free to members because they sincerely believe in what Mike is doing through the Elevation Group and they themselves identify with Mike’s vision. Who are some of these professionals? Michael Maloney, Paul Haarman, Gonzalo Lira, Kip Herriage, Tom Wheelwright, just to name a few.

Some experts of the Elevation Group

Critics of The Elevation Group

There were also one or two websites that I came across that were critical of the Elevation Group. The main grouse of these websites can be summed up loosely in the following sentence: “The Elevation Group is a rip off because they information that the membership provides can all be found in the public domain if anyone cares to do his own research.”

Is this criticism of the Elevation Group valid?

It is obvious that some of the information in the Elevation Group website can be found on other websites. However, the same can probably be said of ANY website. Therefore, this criticism applied to the Elevation Group is in my opinion not a fair one!

Having been a member of the Elevation Group for a few months now, I can assure you that while some of the information is obviously in the public domain, a lot of it is not. What is even more important is the spin or interpretation that the experts on the Elevation Group’s panel bring to the table regarding the so-called public domain information.

The interpretation is also important

Isolated pieces of information, though they may be valuable, may not be of any practical use unless they can be combined with other equally valuable pieces of information. It’s the synergy. How the experts of the Elevation Group in their fields interpret and utilize this information is the key.

The Elevation Group Also Offers Contacts and Resources

Those who criticize the Elevation Group by saying that the information that it provides is mainly a rehash of what is available in the public domain also fail to see the following point: Joining the Elevation Group is more than just about acquiring a sound financial education: the Elevation Group also offers the benefit of acquiring contacts and other resources that will be relevant for one’s personal investment strategy. That is something that the Elevation Group’s critics completely fail to see. I don’t blame them. After all, they do not have access to the group.

No one has been forced to join the Elevation Group

People who join the Elevation Group as members have a choice of either paying a monthly or yearly subscription. There are substantial savings if they join annually. However, they could pay month to month, which makes it so much more affordable to many. Those who opt for annual membership have 30 days to change their minds if they think that the Elevation Group is not to their liking.

The Elevation Group - forced to join?

The Elevation Group was started in late 2010. Now, slightly over a year later, the Elevation Group membership is already well over 100,000 and it is still growing steadily. This fact alone speaks volumes for the value of an Elevation Group membership. No one has been forced join the Elevation Group. The Elevation Group members who are unhappy can easily ask for a refund or simply not renew their memberships. So the fact that the membership of the Elevation Group is still growing is in my opinion the best testimony that its members are all happy campers.

The Elevation Group members remain members on their own free will because they find information, contacts and resources within the group that can’t be found anywhere else.

The Elevation Group Over Delivers

There is another reason why I think the Elevation Group continues to attract and retain members. Lesson #11 of the Elevation Group which one of my personal favorites is entitled “How to increase your monthly cash flow with a home business”. In Part 2 of this lesson, Mike Dillard expounds on “the core values for a long, profitable business”. One of these core values is:

“Deliver 10 Times More Value Than The Price. Whenever I produce a product, I make sure it’s worth 10 times more than the price. This is extremely important if it’s your very first product, and therefore, your very first impression on your new customers.”

In my opinion, in creating the Elevation Group, Mike Dillard has personified this core value.

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