Always monetize trolls.
That's your business lesson for today.
The classic example from my own life was the crazed rapper Talib Kweli, who thought the Nazis had built the Berlin Wall -- and because they hated diversity.
Had Talib been capable of embarrassment, that would have been the end of our Twitter debate, but he just kept on going.
So I held an impromptu Liberty Classroom sale, just for my Twitter followers, for two hours, using coupon code TALIB.
I said: ol' Talib could use some historical knowledge, as you can see, so he (and you) can take advantage of my flash sale at Liberty Classroom.
That worked great. If I'd said on Twitter simply, "Sale at Liberty
Classroom," that would have gotten zero traction and few if any sales. Salesy posts sink without a trace on Twitter.
But if you connect your sale to ongoing drama, people engage with it and it takes on a life of its own.
That tip right there is worth its weight in gold. Use it!
Well, as you may have seen on my
libertarian list today, I attracted some trolls over the weekend when I tried to do people the biggest favor of their lives by introducing them to the Low Stress Options program that I (and many Woods readers) can personally vouch for.
Decent people with good-faith questions -- and you should have questions -- are wonderful and great, and I'm more than happy to interact with them on our live calls.
But trolls who don't know anything except that Woods must be evil and a conniver are begging for me to monetize them.
I am absolutely contemptuous of these people, which is why it is so satisfying to monetize them.
Good grief did I get some stupid comments. Options trading is too risky, and it's like "gambling," I was told.
How selling cash-secured puts according to carefully chosen criteria is supposed to be "gambling" is beyond me, but that's what the troll said, even though I doubt he even knows what a cash-secured put is.
The rest of the comments were even worse.
The blunt fact is this: I'm generating 1% returns every week, week in and
week out (which, compounded, is quite a lot), despite the trolls' assurances that this can't be possible. Who am I supposed to believe, YouTube trolls or the numbers in my Schwab account?
Let me be even more provocative, because the trolls have only emboldened me: I accomplished this with zero background -- absolutely none at all -- in options, and I do the whole thing in one to two hours per week.
Of course I expect people to be skeptical. I sure was. I get it.
I expect normal people to ask reasonable questions, not hurl insults and make fools of themselves.
But did I run away from the trolls' inane comments? Of course not. I put them FRONT AND CENTER in my email today, and thereby generated far more curiosity about the program
than I would have been able to otherwise.
Every weekday this week at 5:00pm Eastern, starting today one hour from now, I'll be holding a live call with co-creator Troy Broussard, who also happens to be the guy whose company (one of his four) powers the mobile app for my School of Life and also the mobile app for the Scott Horton Academy, which launches next month.
Please
attend, and by all means bring your normal human curiosity but also your skepticism and your questions, and indeed try to break the framework if you like. Do not go easy on us.
The good news is, I sure as heck don't have to worry about the Fed sucking the value out of my savings anymore.
No replies to this email, please. I'm holding five live calls this week and I would be
absolutely delighted to discuss anything you like and answer any questions you have related to this on those calls.
There will be no slide decks, no sales pitch, no "webinar," no replays. Just a couple of guys talking, explaining the framework, and answering questions and objections.
Click here to reserve a spot, and let's gooooooo.....
Tom Woods