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December 14, 2011, 02:27 AM
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Norway needs butter Now! ... Flying & Marketing Butter into Norway... $500 per LB! ..
Quick Example of An {Extremely} Hot [Specialized] Niche opportunity...
Think Unfortunate... Fortunate... Opportunities into Your Thinking... {Twistable} Viral Marketing! ... Spinning & Sharing... ''FREE'' Butter with our Friends in Norway...  Or... Online! ... Etc. Etc... Norway needs butter Now! ... Flying & Marketing Butter into Norway... $500 per LB! ...  The result? Fatter prices. "Online sellers have offered 500-gramme packs for up to 350 euros ($465)." Wait. What? People are paying nearly $500 for a pound? I can't believe it is butter... Just in Time for the Holidays - A Butter Shortage in Norway... http://www.cnbc.com/id/45643849 http://news.google.com/news/more?hl=...ed=0CDAQqgIwAA http://www.newsinenglish.no/2011/12/...tter-monopoly/ http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Nor...149/story.html Stephen Colbert Shows Us That Americans Eat Too Much Butter (VIDEO)... http://thestir.cafemom.com/food_part..._shows_us_that Ideas! ... Ideas! ... Endless! ... Definitely worth Thinking about... http://www.madeinthenow.com/shirt/144.html All the best... Phil Last edited by Phil : December 14, 2011 at 02:49 AM. Reason: additional info... 
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December 15, 2011, 08:41 PM
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How Joe Cossman made a mint selling emergency soap to post WWII Europe
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Thanks for the "heads up" on the butter crisis in Norway! I had some toast with butter for breakfast - just worth a few cents here, but probably worth around $50 in Norway!  (Eating this made me feel like a million bucks, by pretending I was eating it in Norway!) You also linked to an article which said how this is also due to there being a near-monopoly in dairy products (by a particular cooperative) in Norway... Maybe this low butter supply shows the danger of a lack of competition! This also reminds me of how Joe Cossman got his start. After returning to civilian life after WWII, he noticed that Europe had a big shortage... ...of soap! He rang around, and found a company (in the USA) with a big supply of soap - and arranged to sell a huge amount to Europe, for a $1.8 million dollars! It wasn't as smooth-sailing as it sounds, though... You can find this story in detail in Joe Cossman's books (I first read it in his book, "Making It!" - coauthored with William A. Cohen.) You can also read the story (as written by William Cohen) at the link below... http://www.stuffofheroes.com/Vol.%204,%20No.4.htm Thanks again, Phil! Best wishes! Dien Last edited by Dien Rice : December 17, 2011 at 01:45 AM.
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