Not many academics are multimillionaires.
I had lunch with a bunch of professors not long ago, and one of them was indeed a multimillionaire.
It came time to leave, and everyone asked for separate checks.
(I hate that; when you have that many people, you are making your server insane by asking for separate checks.)
Anyway, this guy left his tip in cash.
A whopping $1.
Maybe it's because my mother used to wait tables when I was little, but that kind of thing really burns me up. Cheapskates in general bother me, but that $1 tip took the cake.
So when he stepped away from the table, I stayed back, threw some more money onto his tip, and then rejoined the group as we exited the restaurant.
Now:
In general you are not being complimented when someone calls you a cheapskate.
But there's one area where it's all right, and quite admirable, to be a cheapskate.
When you can avoid it, don't pay for website traffic. Maximize the traffic you get for free.
The problem with free traffic, according to the conventional wisdom, is that although it's free, it takes time to really amount to much.
Paid traffic (via ads, etc.) generates results immediately, but it costs you.
So you're paying for your traffic either with time or money.
My friend Kevin Fahey, whose private insiders group I've been a member of for years, says hang on: it's possible to get free traffic that doesn't take forever to materialize.
You can have your cake and eat it, too.
So:
(1) It's impossible to have an online business without traffic.
(2) The traditional view is that you can either get free traffic (but it takes forever before you get enough of it to matter) or paid traffic (which costs you $).
(3) What if (2) isn't so, and you can get quality free traffic without waiting forever or jumping off a cliff or committing an atrocity?
That's what Kevin teaches you in his new training.
There is no more important thing to master than traffic, and wouldn't you rather it be free than cost you lots of dough?
So while you should never dream of leaving a $1 tip, I order you to be a cheapskate with your traffic.
Here's how:
Tom Woods