In 1961, the great Jackie Gleason, best known for playing Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners but a prolific entertainer across various media, hosted an ill-fated, short-lived show called You're in the Picture.

You've probably never heard of it.

That's because...

...it bombed.

Really, really badly.

The premise was simple, and indeed amusing enough: a large drawing was brought on stage, with holes where the heads should be. A panel of actors, standing behind the drawing and with no idea of what the drawing was, put their heads through the holes. Then, through a series of questions and answers, they would try to determine what kind of scene their heads were helping to depict.

When they tried it out with Gleason and members of his agency in the room, it was hysterical.

But on live television, it bombed.

So the following week, Gleason did something that to my knowledge had never been done before and hasn't been done since.

Instead of airing another episode, Gleason spent the half hour apologizing to America for such a terrible piece of entertainment the previous week.

Gleason's apology was hilarious, as you might imagine. I just watched it this weekend. I hadn't known of its existence until this very day.

That took guts. It also took humility, a commodity that is always in short supply.

Humility is also in short supply in the Internet marketing game.

There are plenty of people showing off their cars and houses, and making wild promises.

The guys who pioneered the program of Amazon selling we've been discussing lately are, to the contrary, decent and honest, and don't make ridiculous, over-the-top promises or implications about what your results are likely to be.

With a business like this you don't have to worry about websites, landing pages, email marketing, building an audience, driving traffic to an offer -- all of which I myself quite enjoy doing, but which I admit many people would rather stick a fork in their eyeballs than attempt to do themselves.

Instead, they say: we will show you how to do this, and if you put in the work you can generate a consistent result that you will find highly satisfactory.

They are running one final demonstration of how it works, at the end of which they will be taking your questions. If you missed the first one, that's all right. They will give you a recap. But if you're even a little curious about this it's worth making the time to attend:

https://www.tomwoods.com/moreinfo

Tom Woods