This story is part of the success-stories I share with you, my friends, on this board.
Most of these stories have in common that the direct marketers they feature has successfully self-published, marketed and sold information products on all OTHER kinds of subjects than how to earn money. Some of them have published books on money-making too. But primarily they have sold products on all other kinds of subjects.
Sometimes you’ll hear the objection that you can only succeed selling information on how to make money.
These success-stories clearly show that this objection is wrong!
Today I have chosen to tell you about a marvelous woman who has really succeeded selling her self-published books.
The woman I am talking about is Margie Garrison.
Margie Garrison had arthritis for more than forty years.
She had to take an almost endless list of pills and huge doses of drugs just to keep the pain from getting so strong that she couldn’t function.
She was told by the doctors that nothing could be done for her. They said her case was so serious that she was sentenced to a life as a cripple.
Margie says: “At the age of twenty-nine, a doctor informed me that I would be in a wheel chair with-in five years.”
But Margie refused to let the arthritis win over her!
She searched and searched for a cure in every direction. She followed every medical advice the doctors gave her. She read everything she could on how to get well through natural means.
Then one day she met two nutritional counselors, Jack Goldstein and Felor K. Jourdikian. Felor K. Jourdikian is the founder and director of Ortho-Molecular Nutrition Institute in Detroit, and Jack Goldstein is the author of the book “Triumph Over Disease Thru Fasting".
Felor and Jack showed Margie the old natural method of FASTING.
Yes, fasting!
You know skipping food, either just for a few hours or up to forty days.
Why shouldn’t Margie try fasting, too? She had already tried so many other so called “cures”, that yet another attempt couldn’t hurt.
Do you know what happened?
Yes, you guessed it!
In five months Margie was cured and pain free!
She had been ill for forty years and was fifty-five years old. But now she was cured!
Wow!
Margie just had to tell other people how she was cured of ahtritis.
So in 1981 Margie wrote and self-published her first book “I Cured My Arthritis You Can Too”.
Margie was helped by master marketer Bob Serling when she began marketing her new book.
Can you imagine, she sold 225,000 copies of this self-published book – many of them through mail-order and the Internet?!
Pretty nice, don’t you think?!
“I Cured My Arthritis You Can Too” costs $18.50. If Margie has earned just ten dollars on each book, she has made a $2,250,000. I don’t know if that’s the actual amount Margie did earn from this book. But it illustrates how profitable her book must have been.
Some years later Margie wrote her second book, “Lost 120 Pounds You Can Too”. This book has sold 10,000 copies!
Margie’s third book is on self-publishing, and has the title “How To Write, Publish and Sell Your First Book”.
If you want to read more about Margie Garrison, you can go to the following website:
The first of these websites used to be Margie Garrison’s official website, but when I tried to download the site, I got a failure-message. So I don’t know for sure if it’s still up and running.
At the second site you can still find and order Margie’s two books on arthritis and weight-loss.
My dear friends, I hope you found this story interesting!
I will soon bring you some more inspiring stories about successful direct marketers.
Sincerely,
Klaus
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