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. (It's on YouTube.)
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.
Watch how it works before their promo/teaching week ends in 48 hours:
https://www.tomwoods.com/watch
Tom
Woods