Nightingale, Hill, et al., are they for real?

> Wolfgang....(I don't know if that's your
> real name or not BUT...the first
> "Wolfgang" I ever met was at the
> Mount Alyeska Ski Resort outside of
> Anchorage Alaska one snowy, wintery New
> Years Eve.

> We came in for Apres Ski and started doing
> what was known at that time
> as..."zipping down minters". Which
> was a slang term for drinking shots of Creme
> de Menthe. Each person in our group would
> take turns buying a round of "mint
> zippers".

> Thus...after about 8 or 10 rounds (we were
> also eating goodies in between
> toasts)...most of us were "feeling no
> pain". However, we were all in our mid
> 20's at the time and could
> "handle" our drinking.

> Yah...sure!

> Anyway...as the evening progressed in this
> wonderful ski lodge in Alaska on New Years
> Eve...I happen to notice a guy with his
> guitar at the microphone, singing an old
> German folk song.

> We all stop what we're doing and listen to
> this guy singing. His voice was
> beautiful...singing these German folk songs
> in his native tongue.

> The whole crowd was mesmerized by this guy
> and he could also sing American songs. THIS
> guy knew almost every song there was...and
> he kept a crowd of 250 mid-twenties yuppies
> entertained until about 4 in the morn.

> What a wonderful FIRST experience with
> someone named "Wolfgang". (I can't
> remember what his last name was or whatever
> became of him...but for one evening, some 30
> odd yrs ago...a guy named "Wolfgang
> made an indelible impression on me and my
> wife.

> Anyway...back to the question at hand;

> I was introduced to Earl Nightingale by a
> man named W. Clement Stone (founder of
> Success Magazine and United Insurance)

> I hired Earl Nightingale as the
> "entertainment" at my company's
> Christmas Party in 1972 in Chicago. He was
> WONDERFUL! What a motivational speaker. I
> had my entire staff and friends (300 people)
> at a bash I popped for at the Conrad Hilton
> Hotel in Chgo.

> I was making so much money with my security
> company (Securitronics Corp) that I bought
> 17 Mink Stoles (for you younger folks...MINK
> STOLES in the 70's was THE "IN"
> thingee)...and gave them to the WIVES of my
> top salespeople and installers.

> WHAT A NIGHT "THAT" WAS! (Which is
> another story)

> Anyway...back to the "subject at
> hand"; Earl Nightingale was a MASTER
> PSYCHOLOGIST...MASTER SPEAKER...MASTER
> MOTIVATOR. I don't remember how he got his
> MOXEY (moxey is short for
> "know-how") BUT...the guy could
> hold an audience of 300 people in the PALM
> OF HIS HAND.

> And, yes Wolfgang...in his later years he
> did make a bundle "WRITING" about
> "marketing"...but when I met and
> got to know "MR" Nightingale...the
> guy was "for real". He could
> motivate a SLUG to move 10 times faster....a
> "thinker" to "think" 10
> times faster...whatever it was...HE HAD IT!

> Then, he teamed up with others and used his
> MOXEY of motivation and persuasion to sell
> millions of dollars of Tapes and Manuals.

> BUT...when I met and got to know MR
> Nightingale.. HE was a MASTER at what he
> did.

> ALSO...I have to say that a guy named GARY
> HALBERT had a marked influence on MY life.

> Gary learned the HARD WAY...."HOW TO
> SELL AND PERSUADE PEOPLE TO BUY WHAT HE WAS
> SELLING"...thru the venue of
> "Encyclopedias"!

> Where I...yours truly ALSO spent an entire
> summer break from studies at Northwestern
> Univiversity in Evanston, ILL...making BIG
> money by using my BRAIN instead of my BRAWN,
> working construction.

> In my first summer at Northwestern, because
> I was a "jock" on an
> "athletic scholarship"...I TOILED
> at the "usual summer job for
> jocks"...which was CONSTRUCTION LABOR!
> YUK!

> Sure...we made good money...and my coach, by
> the way...was ARA PARSEGHIAN...who went on
> to FAME at Notre Dame. Ara got all of us
> construction jobs during the summer so that,
> even though we were on a "Free
> Ride"...we STILL needed some
> "serious bucks" to get us thru the
> school year at a "spendy campus"
> like NU.

> After my first summer, I discovered there
> were BETTER ways of making money in a short
> time. The way "I" found was thru
> selling 2 sets of encyclopedias a DAY.

> Thus...from my early days...I was an
> "entroopeneer".

> Now... back to the question at hand;
> YES! Gary Halbert DID make money selling
> "information" products to ME and
> thousands of others BUT...only because he
> had something WORTHWHILE TO BUY!

> I...and many thousands of others were
> willing, in 1986, to send Gary whatever it
> was for a subscription to HIS newsletter.
> WHY? Because WE could "sense" that
> HE...Sir Gary of Halbert had SOMETHING WE
> WANTED! HE was and still is a, MASTER
> wordsmith.

> Using ONE technique in his NL of 1986 or 87
> I was able to FOCUS on MY method of
> "Remote Marketing".

> Via Gary Halbert's Newsletter I was able to
> clearly understand, and gather the
> CONFIDENCE to explore OTHER methods of
> reaching my "target
> markets"...OTHER THAN thru Direct
> Contact. (Also known as Person-To-Person
> sales)

> And so...since 1987...due to Gary Halbert's
> WRITINGS in 1986 thru 1990...I have made a
> small fortune WITHOUT a bunch of employees.

> Now...you should ALSO take a look at someone
> named JOE SUGARMAN!

> Go to Amazon.com and punch in the name
> "Joe Sugarman" and BUY EVERYTHING
> LISTED!

> WHY? Because Joe is the REAL THING!

> And, YES...Wolfgang...Sugarman and many
> others like him...NOW sell stuff about HOW
> to do something BUT...what THEY sell is base
> on ACTUAL experience...under BATTLEFIELD
> conditions!

> GRAB IT! SOAK IT UP! So that SUBCONSCIOUSLY
> you could...yourself...offer something that
> will be "remembered" by our
> society...like these others have done.

> Hey! I am going on long here BUT...I felt
> somewhat "inspired" this
> eve...just before New Years in 2001...to TRY
> and offer some TIDBITS of info that could
> help you or someone reading this to motivate
> yourself into TAKING A CHANCE!...STICKING
> YOUR NECK OUT!...GOING FOR THE GUSTO!

> Thanks for reading....I hope ONE person may
> have gotten something from this.

> Don Alm

Gary Halbert, in North Canton, Ohio, struggled like most of have trying to make just a little money, or even $1.00 in profit from a mail order campaign.

Like most of us he failed over and over in his attempts, but then with just one small mailing he found his niche. At the time he didn't have two cents to rub together, but from that one little success, he went on to earn millions in direct marketing.

I personally owe Gary Halbert a debt of gratitude.

Back in 1993 or 1994 Gary started writing about this thing called an internet. I never heard of such a thing, but the idea intriqued me.

Of course my only skill at the time was wheelbarrow pushing, and you had to have a computer to get to the internet.

So I bought one. A computer.

Put the dag blamed thing on my credit card, and knew I'd have to do a lot of wheelbarrow pushing to pay off the $2,500. it set me back.

Having never even turned on a computer before, I would sit here late at night and just stare at my computer. I barely knew how to turn it on, and didn't have a clue what I was going to use it for, but Gary said I needed one to get to this internet place. So here I was a computer owner, who was now an additional $2,500. in debt.

THANK YOU GARY HALBERT!

I did what you said, and I finally figured out that internet stuff, and not a day goes by that I don't pull a few bucks, or a few hundred off the net.

Thanks Gary, I will forever love you.
Mike McGroarty
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