Ten ways to sell apples and get rich, which one will YOU choose? (Personal favourite = Last one)
The hard-selling way: Stand out alone in the open street and peddle your apples from morning till night. You will face the scorns and smiles of people passing by. You sold apples, you get paid; you get lazy and you can kiss your earnings goodbye.
The Scam way: There are 101 case studies and theories to expound on. Other more common scams are: substandard apples, waxing the apples’ skin or even masquerading China apples as Fuji apples. Some unique models include: Selling a red banana disguised as an apple or peddling magic apple seeds.
The Direct sales way: Ask your friends and relative to promote your apples to their friends and relatives. You will find strangers calling you at night claiming they are the ex-classmates of your godmother’s colleague’s son-in-law’s neighbour’s doctors’ deceased patients’ classmates. Fascinating ^ ^
The MLM way: Convince a gullible dumb ass that your apples are the best among the industry and he should recommend it to five more friends. Best of all, he can get paid and enjoy the millionaire lifestyle if he teaches his friends to recruit five more dumb asses each to sell the apples and they in turn recruit five more and duplicate it infinitely. Sounds Egyptian-y, doesn’t it?
The Franchise way: Make a public announcement that anyone, including strangers who have never seen your apples before, can sell it to others. These people will pay you to get the franchise rights and earn commissions while you will be reaping the largest share of the pie. Your apples will be sold all around the world and your reputation will travel with it. So far so good, until the day when your franchisee set up a rival stall and you’re history.
The Business way: Borrow huge capitals, set up apple stall in the heartlands and register it. You will employ people to assist you but still spend all day at the apple stall. You will sell more apples, earn big bucks, get interviewed and showered with flatteries, but realise that your mum had forgotten your name.
The Hitler way: Impose your will upon the world that your apple is the BEST and the only thing they ever need to survive. Lie that bananas, oranges and other fruits are actually apple impersonations and they deserve to be send to some collective chute and be fumed.
The JV Way: Liase with other organisations. They will help you peddle your goods in exchange for the same favour. Win-Win Situation. Alternatively, both of you can pool resources to create something else with more value than the total of individual resources. For example, Mac sell apple for their cross-selling. You can sell apples and give away Mac vouchers.
IM way: Set up an online stall to display your apples to the world audience. Success hangs on how you draw traffic to the cyber stall and persuade the visitors to order your apples. You will be making a living from the Internet while sitting in front of the computer in just your underwear, or maybe not.
Ultimate way WARNING, not for the faint hearted. Zero capital, moderate effort, extreme wealth. Successfully utilised by my best friend Jim Dognum. The following is his story.
At the age of twenty, Jim have decided that he wanted to be a millionaire. Without a single dime to his name, he went around asking for 50 cents to start his business. One good-hearted passerby gave him the money and he bought an apple with it.
He used his clothes to polish the apple till his teeth reflection is visible on the skin. With a bit of sympathy, he managed to sell the apple for a dollar and bought two more apples. He repeated the process day by day, always reminding himself that he would be a millionaire. By the end of the month, he stood as the proud owner of an apple-selling enterprise and had $5,000 to his name. And finally, one day…
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His millionaire mother-in-law died and left the daughter and her husband a million.
THE END
The Scam way: There are 101 case studies and theories to expound on. Other more common scams are: substandard apples, waxing the apples’ skin or even masquerading China apples as Fuji apples. Some unique models include: Selling a red banana disguised as an apple or peddling magic apple seeds.
The Direct sales way: Ask your friends and relative to promote your apples to their friends and relatives. You will find strangers calling you at night claiming they are the ex-classmates of your godmother’s colleague’s son-in-law’s neighbour’s doctors’ deceased patients’ classmates. Fascinating ^ ^
The MLM way: Convince a gullible dumb ass that your apples are the best among the industry and he should recommend it to five more friends. Best of all, he can get paid and enjoy the millionaire lifestyle if he teaches his friends to recruit five more dumb asses each to sell the apples and they in turn recruit five more and duplicate it infinitely. Sounds Egyptian-y, doesn’t it?
The Franchise way: Make a public announcement that anyone, including strangers who have never seen your apples before, can sell it to others. These people will pay you to get the franchise rights and earn commissions while you will be reaping the largest share of the pie. Your apples will be sold all around the world and your reputation will travel with it. So far so good, until the day when your franchisee set up a rival stall and you’re history.
The Business way: Borrow huge capitals, set up apple stall in the heartlands and register it. You will employ people to assist you but still spend all day at the apple stall. You will sell more apples, earn big bucks, get interviewed and showered with flatteries, but realise that your mum had forgotten your name.
The Hitler way: Impose your will upon the world that your apple is the BEST and the only thing they ever need to survive. Lie that bananas, oranges and other fruits are actually apple impersonations and they deserve to be send to some collective chute and be fumed.
The JV Way: Liase with other organisations. They will help you peddle your goods in exchange for the same favour. Win-Win Situation. Alternatively, both of you can pool resources to create something else with more value than the total of individual resources. For example, Mac sell apple for their cross-selling. You can sell apples and give away Mac vouchers.
IM way: Set up an online stall to display your apples to the world audience. Success hangs on how you draw traffic to the cyber stall and persuade the visitors to order your apples. You will be making a living from the Internet while sitting in front of the computer in just your underwear, or maybe not.
Ultimate way WARNING, not for the faint hearted. Zero capital, moderate effort, extreme wealth. Successfully utilised by my best friend Jim Dognum. The following is his story.
At the age of twenty, Jim have decided that he wanted to be a millionaire. Without a single dime to his name, he went around asking for 50 cents to start his business. One good-hearted passerby gave him the money and he bought an apple with it.
He used his clothes to polish the apple till his teeth reflection is visible on the skin. With a bit of sympathy, he managed to sell the apple for a dollar and bought two more apples. He repeated the process day by day, always reminding himself that he would be a millionaire. By the end of the month, he stood as the proud owner of an apple-selling enterprise and had $5,000 to his name. And finally, one day…
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His millionaire mother-in-law died and left the daughter and her husband a million.
THE END
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