Real entrepreneurs are a different kind of human being.
In a good way.
It’s the one reason I enjoy working with them.
Case in point: Mr. Harold Bloom
Harold was in the audience at a recent speach I gave for the Jewish Community Business Circle in Charlotte, NC. From there, he went to my squeeze page (www.JustinQuick.net) and joined my list.
Smart man!
Anyhoo…
There seem to be two classes of entrepreneurs. The difference is vast.
There are those that implement and those that don’t. Those that don’t implement show all the “normal” signs of trying – they show up to learn, they read, they study, but for some reason, they never implement what they learn.
I could speculate as to why, but I don’t care…it doesn’t matter for our purpose here today.
An interesting statistic: only around 1% of book-readers ever implement anything they learn from a book.
But I digress!
Let me tell you what Harold Bloom did…
He received the last email I sent (the one with your first name in the subject line two times with an exclamation mark after each one), read the article on the blog, and then sent me a friendly email to say it was “excellent”.
Thanks!
The next day, I receive another email from the now excited Harold Bloom stating, “It worked! Sent out some follow up emails yesterday, and to my surprise, I actually got back some responses. Thank you.”
Of course, I couldn’t leave it at that. I emailed Harold and told him to tell me EXACTLY what he did.
Here’s the email he sent back:
Let me explain: I taught the “if/then” introduction at the speech Harold attended – an excellent way to begin any peice of communication – especially if you’ve got the Writer’s Block blues.
Harold swipes my subject line and creates an “if/when” statement to go inside the email. The function of the email is to contact prospects that had shown interest in buying a health insurance policy, but had not moved forward.
Harold’s goal was simply to get a response (something I’d imagine he had a more difficult time with before.)
He swiped and implmented a marketing strategy, it worked, and now he’s got something to work with he didn’t have before.
Congratulations to you Harold! – that’s what happens to smart people that aren’t afraid to try something new and implement strategies they learn.
Keep it up and you’ll gain a lot more.
