Who in here is a creative thinker?

Gary Dahl created the pet rock! Somebody was cutting the scrotums off of bulls and thought, "HEY, there MUST be a use for this!" and Bully Bags came into being! Somebody figured out that scorpions and tarantulas were fairly native to the SW, caught some, enclosed them in plastic and sold tons of them. A young girl makes jewelry from fishing lures, sells them online and makes a lot of money!

What do all these have in common... creativity and marketing know-how!

I am SO fascinated with this stuff that I am starting a chat group devoted exclusively to the subject (this is NOT a recruiting advertisement)!

Creativity and marketing go hand in hand and someone who is really creative can easily become successful online. Have you ever considered that? All you have to do is be creative, market efficiently and you have the potential to make huge amounts of money!

The problem in the world of "make money online" ideas is that the majority of people are doing what the majority of people are doing!!! It's almost like an internet marketing assembly line! When you look at all the products and services being offered out there don't you sometimes feel that it's all just the same thing but in different words? Don't you feel like when you read one course you have read them all?

I once read a book by Roger Von Oech called "A Whack On The Side Of The Head" and I was fascinated from that point on! If I had never read that book, I may never have come up with the idea for Thaddaeus T Hogg, the Hillbilly Marketeer!

One day I was sitting around thinking about how I could do something different in the internet marketing arena. Oh, there were LOTS of gladiators fighting in the arena but most of them were using the same battle techniques. So, it got me to thinking about what I could do different. That is when Thad was born.

Now, I haven't done much in the way of monetization with Thad because I just love having fun with him BUT I am getting to the point to where all these crazy ideas keep popping into my head! What if I had a logo created that suited the Thad character? What if I trademarked Thad? What if I used that logo and put "Thad Widsom" on t-shirts, coffee cups, posters, etc. What if I wrote a book on "Thadisms" and published it. There is huge potential there and I am leaning in that direction now that I am getting closer to retirement. When I retire, I will need more than my good looks to get by!

He may not remember this but I was talking to Paul Myers on the phone once and he told me that if HE had come up with the Thad character, he would be a millionaire. I have never forgotten that! I'm not a millionaire BUT I have never forgotten that!!!

The point I am trying to make is this.... the true guides are the ones that blaze the trail, not the ones that follow after. You have to be an innovator. You have to go where few have gone before. You have to think differently. You have to do all those things but furthermore, unlike myself, you have got to take action on your ideas!

Take care!