I don't think you give yourself enough
credit for your PROMOTIONAL skills..you
left that off the list in your post...mmm
freudian slip...

It seems 80% of sales in any field is the
ability to PROMOTE either directly or remotely...
Everything you've written does an Excellent
Job at PROMOTING, yet you didn't mention this
as a skill...

Looking forward to your next projects around
this important skill!

> It is true that I've dabbled in many things.

> I have a lot of eclectic experience under my
> Santa Claus size belt (honest, my diet
> starts tomorrow)...

> But there are 3 things that I know. I'll
> accept the label of Expert or even Master if
> you will on:

> Golf.
> Pizza.
> Living with Persons with Mental
> Retardation/Developmental Disabilities.

> I don't believe I've ever claimed expertise
> in any other fields...but my mind ain't what
> it used to be either.

> I CLAIM this expertise in these 3 areas
> based on this:

> 30 years of teaching the game of golf,
> having had my own golf instruction shop,
> managed a golf shop and taught thousands of
> people the game.

> During an intense 3 year period, I
> videotaped over 10,000 different golf
> swings. In my golf shop I had laser tracking
> devices, computer analysis, radar guns and
> speed and angle measuring devices, high
> speed video cameras...the latest and
> greatest in golf technology.

> I also worked with Master PGA Professional
> Don Haftman, PGA Pros Dan Fisher and John
> Paul Jones and PGA Pro Tom McKinney who
> established and helped build one of the
> first golf courses here in Akron for people
> in wheel chairs. Neat people. I also had
> several women professionals work in my shops
> too.

> I did THINK AND REACH PAR as a seminar in
> the 80's. HOW TO PLAY AN UNKNOWN GOLF COURSE
> since the early 90's.

> I know golf. Started playing at 10, and
> building clubs in my teens. Back in the days
> when you actually had to cut and shape wood,
> do whippings, bend shafts...all of that lost
> art. Today, you just glue things together.

> I know pizza too. And working with Mentally
> Retarded people, but I'll save those for
> another day.

> Golf has been the ONE constant in my diverse
> journey. Golf has been the ONE thing I've
> not tired of nor have I learned all there is
> to know, it is a bottomless pit of knowledge
> I'll continue to explore till the day I die.

> So, I may be an "able" marketer,
> and can write some copy now and then, I've
> never claimed EXPERT status with these
> (although I have been paid well for doing it
> none the less)...but...

> here is where I'll come out of my shell and
> announce to the world, I KNOW GOLF.

> And what I know can help you or any golfer
> you know become better and enjoy the game
> even more.

> Just thought you might like to know I didn't
> just create a product for a hot market, I've
> been in that market when it was ICE cold,
> it's like being a fan of the Cleveland
> Indians...today we grin...

> but for decades we groaned.

> Now all of golf is grinning too, thanks to
> TIGER.

> Gordon (not an expert on much, but YES to
> golf) Alexander

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