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- CHAPTER 5
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- SECRETS OF POWER THINKING
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- I have always likened the business of selling to fish-
- ing. By instinct or with a fish finder you've found the
- spot where the fish are feeding. You cast your line and bait
- into the water, then comes the excitement of landing your
- catch.
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- Talking about fishing and selling, have you ever no-
- ticed the similarity between sharks and shoppers? Sometimes
- you can walk into a store and find it almost devoid of
- customers. Walk into the same store a few hours later and
- it's packed. It appears that when a couple of people start
- shopping, everyone else wants to join in. The Feeding
- Frenzy.
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- In retail sales, this 'feast or famine' manifestation
- is recognized and catered to. When an item is "hot", you
- will find it featured in big displays in the stores, you'll
- find it prominent in advertising and it becomes used as
- 'specials' to draw people into the store, where, hopefully,
- they will buy other less popular items.
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- If you give it some thought, you can take advantage of
- this strange psychological phenomena.
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- Max Davis owns several large shoe stores. When busi-
- ness slacks off at times they should be busy, he tells half
- of his sales people to put on their outdoor clothes and have
- the remaining sales people try fitting them with shoes,
- giving the appearance of a busy shop. It is a ploy that is
- amazingly successful.
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- His motto - Stir up the water, throw in some bait and
- wait for a feeding frenzy.
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- A couple of questions: - Do people avoid shopping at
- stores which are avoided by other people?
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- Do you ever wonder what is wrong with a store when it
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- never seems to have any customers?
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- With the right bait,(advertising), in the right loca-
- tion, (market), you are rarely disappointed. When people
- start to buy - they buy and buy. Think about Hula Hoops,
- Cabbage Patch Kids and Pet Rocks.
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- I once met the man who said, "Hula Hoops? They'll
- never sell."
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- You need to think, to concentrate. Let's break market-
- ing down into it's most important parts. There are other
- parts, just as important that you will discover for your-
- self, but for the moment, the following will get you well on
- the road to a profitable business.
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- Don't take these thoughts on selling lightly. Study
- each one carefully, give it your full attention. Think about
- them when you get up in the morning and give them considera-
- tion before you fall asleep at night.
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- You must be resolute and utterly determined to succeed.
- There should be no doubts, no hesitations, no qualifi-
- cations. You WILL be your own business person. You WILL own
- and run your own business. It will make you wealthy and it
- will provide you with luxuries for which you have long
- dreamed, but you must be determined.
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- I cannot stress this strongly enough. One degree of
- lost confidence or wavering of purpose will take ten degrees
- of fight-back. That energy can be expended more profitably.
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- The skill of deep thinking is understood by very few
- people - the successful ones. They say it is the ability
- which separates human from animal. It is something you must
- learn to do and it is something you must practice daily. By
- Thinking, I don't mean standing in front of a row of
- products deciding which one you will select, and I don't
- mean giving your Mail Order business a couple of minutes
- thought during commercials on the television. I mean pure,
- unadulterated concentration.
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- Set aside fifteen minutes EVERY day. Later you'll find
- that you're stretching it to thirty minutes, but for now
- allocate fifteen minutes which you can spend alone and
- uninterrupted.
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- Get seated in a comfortable chair - not so comfortable
- that you'll fall asleep - place a notebook and pencil on
- your knees and start thinking about your business.
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- Don't force thoughts to come. Just sit there and wait.
- The human mind is unable to keep still. Even if you tried
- to prevent it, your mind will begin going over events.
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- At first, until it grows accustomed to what you expect
- it to do, your mind will flit about like a butterfly in a
- field of daisies. Keep bringing it back to contemplation of
- your business, not to any special part of your business, it
- will eventually find what you need all by itself.
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- After you have done this thinking, or meditation as
- some people call it, two or three times, your mind will know
- what you expect it to do and ideas will begin to flow.
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- This is the astonishing part, and believe me, it will
- happen to you, your mind will begin providing you with
- knowledge it seems impossible for it to possess. It will
- tell you where to look for the most popular products. It
- will line up ideas on promotion and publicity so fast you'll
- hardly have time to write them down. Opportunities and
- potential sales will flood your mind in a way that's com-
- pletely incredible, but the greatest benefit of this concen-
- trated thinking is yet to come, the After Flow.
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- When you have finished your 'think session', your mind
- will continue working. Fresh ideas will be in the forefront
- of your mind when you wake in the morning. A new and bril-
- liant idea for advertising will pop into your mind while you
- are shaving in the morning or as you drive the kids to
- school. While you are eating lunch you will suddenly know
- the answer to a problem that's been nagging at you. Ideas,
- thoughts, schemes, programs, will pop into your mind when
- you least expect it. They will even wake you in the middle
- of the night.
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- WRITE THEM DOWN.
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- Keep a pencil and pad of paper beside your bed. Carry
- a small note book wherever you go. NEVER, NEVER say to
- yourself, "I'll remember that."
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- IF YOU DON'T WRITE IT DOWN YOU'LL FORGET IT.
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- You've just learned the Number One secret of making
- money. You didn't have to go to school to learn it. You
- didn't pay an immense sum to attend a seminar. You didn't
- even have to leave your armchair to discover the greatest
- money making secret of all. Thought. Calculated thinking.
- Believe me, it works.
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