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<\/p>\nIf you ever think “no one would ever buy this” for an idea you just came up with for a business, just remember there was a millionaire walking around in this world that had the bright idea to sell a “pet rock.” The great mind unfortunately past away last year, but his legacy will never be forgotten.<\/p>\n
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There are instructions out there for how to properly care for your rock, as well as how to let your pet rock have a luxury life. The sales pitch that the rock won’t make a mess for you or give you allergies. There are instructions out there on how to teach it obedience and tricks like: to roll over, stay, come, and play dead. You can get the rock’s lineage certified so no one can argue it isn’t family. The pet comes in a box with holes, of course, so it can properly breathe and you can transport it comfortably. The rock won’t talk back to you and is always there to listen to your problems. Oh, and they have a pretty long life span, so you won’t have to really worry about losing it after a few years. Kind of the all-around ideal pet.<\/p>\n
Getting to the main point, if a guy can sell over a million and a half rocks to people, you don’t really have an excuse to not be able to sell something. How you go about\u00a0selling the product\/service is equivalent to the product\/service. I would imagine just about anyone couldn’t go outside right now and pick up a rock and sell it to someone at any price to a person walking by. This guy sold a rock a piece in 1975 at $3.95. If you plug that in on an inflation calculator, that comes out to $18 in today’s money. That’s some serious cash for what some call a crazy dumb idea. It gets better, he was selling over a 100,000\u00a0rocks a day too at one point. The guy was brilliant in how he packaged the product, used humor to sell it to lazy people wanting a pet, marketed it, and assembled a business to pump out millions\u00a0of rocks to customers. He eventually sold his company and you can still buy a pet rock today at around $20 at\u00a0www.petrock.com<\/p>\n
Where there is just about anything, there is\u00a0value to someone if you do it right.<\/p>\n
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