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When I was a kid more than a half-century ago, I always used to see magazine ads for get-rich-quick books. I picked one that sounded promising, saved up a few d
by Stratoscope 5y ago
When I was a kid more than a half-century ago, I always used to see magazine ads for get-rich-quick books. I picked one that sounded promising, saved up a few dollars, and stuffed the cash in an envelope with the order form.
I only remember one concrete piece of advice from the book. In those days, the shipping and handling fee was where your profit was, but if a customer forgot to add it, send them the book anyway. You're not losing any money, so it's free advertising.
It did make me realize what I really needed to do. Unfortunately, I only got as far as the title, but I was proud of this title:
How to Get Rich Quick by Selling Get Rich Quick Books
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoI think you could sell that as a book full of white pages. The lesson would be that the title drives the sales.
- soedirgo 5y agoYou jest, but... https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html TL;DR: read the end of the first paragraph.
- bodge5000 5y agoA few years ago I was genuinely going to do that, other than the first page which would just say something like "Write this book" in massive letters I decided not to, mostly because of how blantantly wasteful it is (I guess blank pages which no information is less wasteful than filled pages with useless information, at least your not wasting ink, but its more blatant)
- jtsiskin 5y agoThat reminds me of this meme: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/380/563/4f4.jpg https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/380/563/4f4...
- zimpenfish 5y agoAh, that's the one I was trying to remember. https://boingboing.net/2017/07/31/buy-the-book-how-i-made-290.html https://boingboing.net/2017/07/31/buy-the-book-how-i-made-29...
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoYou could try it as an ebook :-)
- bodge5000 5y agoFor some reason I'm under the impression that an ebook wouldnt sell as well, and it'd be pretty humiliating to have this grand statement of "you can get rich just by making a get rich quick book, like this one" only for people to find out I made like £2 off it
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoIf nobody buys it, then nobody will notice it. So there is no way to lose.
- bodge5000 5y agoIts the perfect crime
- Luc 5y agoI responded to a get-rich magazine ad too, in the 80's. A book arrived from overseas called 'Practical Guide to Direct Marketing', by J.C. Frost, all about how to make money from ads in magazines.
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