There is a writer in the United States who has written novels for seven or eight years without making any money, and his wife can't stand running away with other men. Just as he was smoking in a depressed mood, a card dropped from the cigarette box gave him a bold idea that six months later he made $600,000 from.
This man, called Beta, is obsessed with writing, but I don't know if it is bad luck or no talent, he has been writing for seven or eight years, but he has always been plain, and the submission will be returned. His wife repeatedly advised him not to hang himself from a tree and to find a decent job to make ends meet.
Beta firmly believes that gold will always shine, one day she will be famous in the world, a few years later, her wife is disappointed in it, unwilling to live such a life, divorced beta and her first love went to the field!
The departure of his wife was like a blow to Beta, who was addicted to the world of writing, and made him doubt for a time whether his persistence for so many years was really wrong, his life was a mess, and his wife also left him...
Beta was depressed all day, smoking cigarette after cigarette, this day he just smoked a cigarette, a small card fell out of the cigarette box, the front of the card is a large "box" word, below the writing of a line of small characters: set "get, incense, smoke, one, box" and other 5 cards can be exchanged for a box of cigarettes.
Beta glanced over and saw that there was nothing on the back, and in an instant, a flash of inspiration came to mind with a way to make money: to serialize her novel in pieces on the back of the card.
Dry and dry, Beta contacted the manufacturer who specializes in printing cigarette paper for cigarettes, informed them of his ideas, and the person in charge felt very interesting after listening to it, if this method works, it will definitely attract many customers to buy this brand of cigarettes, so that the orders in their own factories will also increase.
Watching the person in charge think deeply, Beta felt that there was a drama and continued: "I can help write all kinds of novels, as well as articles such as character biographies, but I need you to pay me some writing fees, the character biographies are relatively short, $100 a piece, and $200 for a serial novel." ”
The person in charge decided to give it a try, after all, if he succeeded, the cost of these manuscripts would be a dime a dozen for him. After the two negotiated, they signed a contract to write 50 character biographies and 50 serial novels according to beta's requested fee!
Each article was not long, beta nested at home in half a month to complete, the printing house reviewed his novels one by one is very satisfied, on the spot very happy to give him 15,000 US dollars in manuscript fees.
Subsequently, the printing factory first printed 10 biographies and 5 novels on the back of the card, and the front was replaced by a photo of the star. Sure enough, with the blessing of these articles, more and more people are buying cigarettes of this brand, cigarette sales have been greatly improved, and orders from printing plants have also increased!
Beta was thus given a long-term contract with the printing house, and in order to improve efficiency, Beta contacted many authors and hired them to write for themselves in the form of commissions, using 20% of the remuneration she received as their commission.
In just a few months, Beta made a whopping $600,000. After that, Beta took the money again, opened her own magazine, and became the boss.
Beta is successful because she has a pair of eyes that are good at finding business opportunities, know how to change thinking, and know how to seize opportunities.
This is a story from the Talmud, the Jewish Bible of Getting Rich, which is called "the poor earn by their hands, and the rich earn by their brains." So what is making money with your brain? In fact, it is to open up thinking and innovate new ways.
All avenues lead to Rome, the road traveled by others is very crowded, create a path of your own, you may reach the end point before people!
In the long river of history, many Jewish historical celebrities have been born, including the world's new richest man "stock god" Buffett, the scientific giant Albert Einstein, and the oil king Rockefeller.
In the world, there are only 16 million Jews, less than half of our China, but they have won nearly half of the Nobel Prize, and they have given birth to commercial giants, scientific giants.
However, many people may wonder, is this Jew born so intelligent? Are they all so good at business?
In fact, there is nothing in this world that is unearned, just like the Jews, do not feel that their wisdom is given by God, they are all through the day after tomorrow's study and hard work, they can get such wisdom.