Ever felt like you’re just spinning your wheels? Ever had times when you’ve worked yourself ragged, for months, maybe even years, and came up empty? I can remember pitching the Amway program 118 times in a row without a single sign up. Brutal. But, I believe that nothing I’ve done or learned has gone to waste. I’ve just applied those hard lessons of experience it in ways I never could have anticipated while I was enduring them. Do you believe that “in all labor there is profit”? Watch my short video and tell me your story.
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Perry Marshall has launched two revolutions in sales and marketing. In Pay-Per-Click advertising, he pioneered best practices and wrote the world's best selling book on Google advertising. And he's driven the 80/20 Principle deeper than any other author, creating a new movement in business.
He is referenced across the Internet and by Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, INC and Forbes Magazine.
3 Comments on “In All Labor There Is Profit”
I’ve personally had some very bad streaks in my sales career. Much of that was down to bad teachers and mentors that were passing on unproven and outdated methods. I could have been taught from day one how to sell correctly. There was absolutely no profit in the time I wasted.
It’s also good to keep in mind what that proverb was contrasting:
“In all toil there is profit,
but MERE TALK tends only to poverty.” (Pr 14:23)
I’ve found that getting a product or service out to market is always more profitable than just buying another info product. Even if my attempt fails, then at least I’ll know where I need help.
Plus marketing advice is WAY more helpful when you’re actually in the trenches with an ad campaign running and real money being spent.
“In all labour there is profit” (and that is how it’s spelled in the King James Bible ;-) )
Today it’s more like “In all conscious labor there’s profit” – because too many people are driving the highways as the human interface between the satnav and the vehicle’s onboard computer.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned this year, it’s that there are two kinds of businesses. The distinction really is that clear! There are those that are beating the odds, and those being crushed by them – and the leverage point is the same in each case. The one is looking to their customers, the other isn’t.
So, I can see this, right? But speak with the guys getting it right, they’re up to speed with their business and are doin’ okay. Those who aren’t don’t know why – and the bone-cruncher is this: the reason for their business’ failure is because the boss doesn’t want to change. And just try telling them! That’s when folk start shouting at me because I must be wrong, not them. They’ve got the letters after their name, the experience and the evidence (all of which points to a year on year decline, but we’ll gloss over that detail, okay?)
No point in marketing to them, then, is there?
So I’m putting my skills to other uses. It won’t earn me any money, but I’ve got a small private income. And I don’t need much to live on. No fussing.
If you are working hard and you’re applying your intelligence to it, you’re learning from it. Just make sure it’s nibbling away at your comfort zone ;-)