Recently I have recieved an email about how a beggar making a sales. See this interesting story:
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A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said:
‘I am blind, please help.’ There were only a few coins in the hat.
A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, ‘Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?’
The man said, ‘I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.’
What he had written was: ‘Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.’
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?
Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively.
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From this story you can see how amazing that by changing the headline and increase sales by a hundred fold. So the next time when you are trying to make a sale make sure you use an attention grabbing headline as this can increase sale dramatically.
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Internet marketing is a difficult business, many people have failed because after spending hundred and thousand of hours on a blog or a website, they still earn no money. You need to have the passion in what ever you do in order for you to achieve your dream. If whenever you feel about to give up, just think of how much success and money some of the major online businesses makes. Use them as a motivation to get you going again. Here is a statistic for the top 30 earning websites in 2008.
| Rank |
Website |
Founders |
Annual Revenue |
Per Second |
| 1 |
|
Larry Page & Sergey Brin |
$21,800,000,000 |
$691.27 |
| 2 |
|
Jeff Bezos |
$19,166,000,000 |
$607.75 |
| 3 |
|
Jerry Yang & David Filo |
$7,200,000,000 |
$228.31 |
| 4 |
|
Pierre Omidyar |
$6,290,000,000 |
$199.45 |
| 5 |
|
Nathan Myhrvold |
$3,214,000,000 |
$101.92 |
| 6 |
|
Max Levchin, Peter Thiel & Luke Nosek, |
$2,250,000,000 |
$71.35 |
| 7 |
|
Jeff Robbin |
$1,900,000,000 |
$60.25 |
| 8 |
|
Marshal Vace |
$1,892,000,000 |
$59.99 |
| 9 |
|
Jesse Fink |
$1,884,000,000 |
$59.74 |
| 10 |
|
Added Mark Schroeder |
$1,447,000,000 |
$45.88 |
| 11 |
|
Reed Hastings |
$1,200,000,000 |
$38.05 |
| 12 |
|
Terry Jones |
$1,100,000,000 |
$34.88 |
| 13 |
|
Nick Swinmurn |
$1,000,000,000 |
$31.71 |
| 14 |
|
David Litman |
$1,000,000,000 |
$31.71 |
| 15 |
|
Erik Prince |
$968,000,000 |
$30.70 |
| 16 |
|
Jeff Katz |
$870,000,000 |
$27.59 |
| 17 |
|
Robert Brazell |
$834,000,000 |
$26.45 |
| 18 |
|
Tom Anderson |
$800,000,000 |
$25.37 |
| 19 |
|
Niklas Zennstrom |
$550,841,000 |
$17.47 |
| 20 |
|
Zhang Chaoyang |
$429,000,000 |
$13.60 |
| 21 |
|
Robb Brock |
$400,000,000 |
$12.68 |
| 22 |
|
Eric Baker |
$400,000,000 |
$12.68 |
| 23 |
|
Jack Ma |
$316,000,000 |
$10.02 |
| 24 |
|
Mark Zuckerberg |
$300,000,000 |
$9.51 |
| 25 |
|
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, |
$300,000,000 |
$9.51 |
| 26 |
|
Mark Vadon |
$295,000,000 |
$9.35 |
| 27 |
|
Stephen Kaufer |
$260,000,000 |
$8.24 |
| 28 |
|
Mark Getty |
$233,200,000 |
$7.39 |
| 29 |
|
Garry Itkin |
$207,000,000 |
$6.56 |
| 30 |
|
Henry Jarvis Raymond |
$175,000,000 |
$5.55 |
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