Gary Halbert · whole document (100)
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To Communicate Things
I Know Will Increase Sales!
Now, I'm going to tell you a story and show you a piece of
writing which should lay to rest forever the slightest suspicion there's anyone
else on this entire planet who can write copy as well as I can. And, after I do
that, I'm going to show you...
How You Can Make A LOT Of Money
By Simply Receiving Checks In The Mail
And Depositing Them Into YOUR Bank
Account!
Remember I told you the best thing you can do for yourself
when you're feeling down is to do something nice for someone else? Well, a short
time ago I had a small seminar on how to increase website profits. There was a
woman here in Miami who wanted to come but told me she didn't have enough money
to pay the attendance fee. I responded, "No problem, you can pay for it in
three installments." But soon after that she called me and this time had to
inform me she had since been diagnosed with cancer (there sure is a lot of that
going around these days, isn't there?) and she couldn't afford to pay the
attendance fee... even if... she was allowed to pay for it in three
installments. My heart reached out to her and I replied, "Well then, I guess
you're going to have to come as my guest." And, she did.
She has turned out to be one of the best friends I now
have. She just had a hysterectomy with her uterus and ovaries removed... but...
they tell her she still has Stage III cancer. That means, statistically, she has
a 20% chance of surviving the next five years. But statistics are often
bullshit.
Brian Keith Voiles had a grapefruit-sized tumor on his
brain about 14 years ago. All the doctors told him it was incurable and he
should begin making preparations for his demise which was going to occur in the
very near future. I remember thinking there was no doctor in the world who had
the right to make such a statement to one of his patients. Only God determines
when people are going to die. Often, when a doctor makes a statement like that,
it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I told my readers I was betting Brian was going to live a
LOT longer than the few months the doctors predicted. And you know what? His
grapefruit-sized tumor has since completely vanished... and... a short time ago
he flew to Phoenix, Arizona. He flew to a seminar I was speaking at... just
because... he wanted to shake my hand and thank me for the encouraging words I
had written so many, many years ago.