Who Was First? - Business Acumen Exerpt Originally by Kevin Lam
November 23rd, 2009Here’s a very deep secret hardly any net pros are willing to share or actually say without a fee. Part of the reasons to their achievement is they were among the first to start it all. If you’ll remember hearing,’first come, first serve’ it’s the same way on the internet.
People sometimes remember who was first, not second. For instance, who was the first to sell books online? Amazon ; who was second? Who was first to start mass production cars? Ford ; who was second? Which company was first to start the fast-food chain restaurant? McDonalds ; who was second? Who was first to build an airplane? The Wright siblings ; who was second?
Did you at any point spot the crickets when I asked for the second provider?
We all tend to remember who was first but barely do we remember too much further than that. Whomever enters the market first usually makes the biggest impression. The majority of our Internet gurus are filthy rich because they were first to present their products. Is that fair? Well, from their standpoint, of course it is. But from ours, it is not very fascinating.
Now you are thinking that you have to be first at something to become rich but you don’t know what to be first at ; so, you suspect it is not possible. Take it simple, my chum. There are methods around it. Let me ask you a question. Who owns money?
Did you try asserting Bill Gates? Did you try saying Donald Trump? Did you even try asserting George Bush? It doesn’t matter WHO you claim to possess money, you are wrong. Nobody owns money. Bill Gates has money, Donald Trump has money, George Bush has money and YOU have cash but nobody will ever own it.
Though money is man-made it is very similar to nature. Nobody owns it. Nobody owns the weather we feel, nobody owns the water we drink, nobody owns the air we breathe and such like.
‘Oh, but people own land!’
Do we really?
My point is this, money belongs to no one so do not think you cannot become as wealthy as any other guru you know of. And notice that I never once related being first mechanically makes you rich. That is not always the case and that is the reason why I say the first will make the most important impression.
If wealth was made for only people who were first in line, then there would be no such thing as a line. They’d benefit before us but it does not mean we cannot benefit anything.
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Original article was written by Kevin Lam from www.TexasSEO.com - Texas SEO is a Dallas-based web marketing and consulting firm specializing in SEO & SEM, PPC, copywriting, web designing and more.