The Story of the Octopus and One-Trick Pony

April 17, 2020

Whether you’re just starting your new soap business, or you’re an expert soap maker looking to grow, this historic Coronavirus thing has probably got you worried about your business.

Fear not.

Though many mom and pop businesses will never start now, and many will never reopen (because they’ve just been revealed as one-trick ponies who only had one way to get money – likely just selling their products) you are not like them.

I know you’re smarter, because you’re here.

Be inspired by the fact that many of the most successful businesses you know and use now, got started during a recession or down stock market.

The Kaufman Foundation recently published this list of winners that started in and thrived tough tough times:

3M, Adobe Systems, Amgen, Apple, Bath and Body Works,
BET, Broadcom, Buffalo Wild Wings, CNN, Chevron,
Dave and Buster’s, Disney, Electronic Arts, Enterprise Rent-A-Car,
Exxon Mobil, FedEx, Gallup, Genentech, General Electric, Genzyme,
Guess, Hyatt, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, The Learning Company,
Lotus Software, Merck, Microsoft, O’Reilly Auto Parts, Pizza Hut,
Princeton Review, QuikTrip, Quiznos, Scottrade, Southwest Airlines,
United Technologies, Urban Outfitters, Valero, Whole Foods.

Take particular note of Bath and Body Works and Johnson and Johnson.
The fact is, they started and grew during difficult business times.

Those two companies both cater to the same personal care customers as us!

Throughout history, the companies that succeed and grow, through good times and bad, are the ones that grow many tentacles to grab money by providing for the many diverse needs and desires of their clients.

They are The Octopus.

If you only sold soap over the counter in your now closed soap shop, you might be out of business now. Many small businesses like this are just one bad sales month away from closing.

They are the One-Trick Ponies.

In my Special Report : 101 Ways to Sell More Soap I give you so many ways to get cash, beyond just selling your soap, that, if you’re willing to do the work, you can’t possibly fail!

You’ll grow many money-grabbing tentacles!

Whether stuck at home in quarantine, or through any disaster or calamity, the money keeps coming in for you once you become The Octopus..

Which will you choose to be: Octopus or One-Trick Pony?

If you haven’t gotten your copy of 101 Ways To Sell More Soap, at SellMoreSoap.com use your stimulus or unemployment check and do it now – courtesy of gov’t money.

If you have it already, pick one technique and get to work on it now instead of watching TV or cleaning your house…again!

“DO THE WORK” is the original, and the only real secret to success.

Use this forced down time now to read up and put your new skills in place. You can be making money – instead of excuses or complaints – even now, during this big coronavirus mess – right from home. You’ll be ready to fly out of the gates when social isolation lifts. While lesser beings struggle to get into gear again.

Octopus or One-Trick Pony?

We may have lost many freedoms now, but not the freedom to choose.

– Robert Schwarztrauber

P.S. You don’t have to be in the “soap business” to benefit from this Special Report. The report was compiled using proven sales-boosting techniques from dozens of industries. ANY business can use the report as an idea template to improve sales and service to their customers by simply asking, “How could I use this technique in my business?”

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