See You At The Top MotherF*cker! Another post from thomashowell.org

[TJHowell123]

Not an inspiration story, but some interesting freeform food for thought from my other blog, thomashowell.org:

Everybody has a rival:

David had Goliath, Microsoft has Apple and Google, Ayrton Senna has Alain Prost.

And I have the fellow run of the mill internet marketer.

Just about every success story has it’s heroes and villians. And what is the good thing about having a rival or adversary?

1. People are not merely engaged to really like each other in a competitive environment. They are more engaged to rip each other’s heads off. Ever since Cain and Abel, everybody is trying to get over the other person for some reason, rather it is a promotion, a potential suitor, or other interesting reasons.

For the right reason, a rivalry will end up doing either one of two fates: Bloodily murder in the office floor, which we do not want to see PERIOD! Or your sales will be higher, as each rival will try to beat the other one’s sales numbers. Their conversion rate is greatly increased many fold, and you, the business owner will see more profits, as long as there is no hospital bills from them potentially beating each other up!

2. Perfectly synchronizes with the sense of commaderie and upbeat motive of the workplace. When you have a performance based organization that is bringing in business hand over foot, everybody will be pumped to get to the top of the game. People achieve more, when they are in a game against others. They will do their best to outshine each other.

3. It’s Fun! It is fast paced, adrenaline induced, and it is like a sport to see a bunch of salespeople talk shit at each other.

Now, let’s say you work for some company, and they decide to punk your ass and fire you. You damn well have the skills and knowledge, and some contacts to make a success going with your own business. Want to kick some major ass? Get fired from some larger company, and with your blood thirsty emotion and passion for what you do, start your own business and eventually topple, or even purchase the business that you were fired from!!!

Impossible? Well, maybe if the company that sacked you was Fortune 500! But an interesting thing has happened! That interesting thing is called “The Recession.”

Do you realize, if you were fired by some company, which was having issues with today’s economy, might have been pink sheeted, and probably could be purchased with the same funds you were going to use to buy that awesome Ferrari?

Circuit City, despite being in Chapter 11, almost could of been bought by Bill Gates, and could of been rendered to nothing more than his personal gadget cache, divided in different locations across the states. Now to have some cool gadgets wherever you went, cool, but if you started your own online store, selling these gadgets, you could probably blow these guys out of the water with some intuitive thinking and a drive not to fail!!!

The Sharper Image was an epic fail, but before they closed, you could of bought them for a few million! A FEW MILLION!!! As long as you could of managed and assumed a shitload of debt, but that is cool if you could bring the store and their utter useless shit to profitability. Build some “As Seen On Tv” type of chain of retail shops, you could probably hand their asses with a good market penetration. I am sure Ron Popeil wouldn’t mind sitting in the board! Set it and Forget it!!!

Hell, Tony Hsieh of Zappos built an online empire, you sure as fuck could do the same. Henry Ford is as dumb as a box of nails, but he built Ford Motor Company on the Horseless Carriage and became a huge success! It is not rocket science people. IT IS POSSIBLE!!!

Building a business and beating your rivals is not a new tale. The guy from Home Depot did it when those dumb fucks at True Value fired him. “You Sure that was a good idea to fire him? lol Epic Fail For Them!!!”

For those who have been laid off, it is time to dust the dirt off your hands and knees, wipe the tears off of your eyes, and get your shit together. Just about all of corporate america and other businesses are now on a level playing field with us. It is your decision, to take what you know, and learn more and tell your previous job to kiss your ass!

Peace Out!

Thomas Howell

[inzpiration]

Wonderful T.J! just wonderful! thanks for sharing this with us! I totally agree with you. there's no limit if you're creative and inject a lot of innovation to your projects, because money doesn't mean much when you want to start a really wonderful project with a lot of ideas, examples are many, IKEA, Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc. etc yes they surely got venture capital later but the lack of a good amount of money didn't stopped them from making their dreams come true! It is time to beat the old companies and established models and create new ones, better ones. Well done TJ. Thanks for the inspiration. Really.

i'm now more convinced to follow my dreams and fuel my projects. Be prepared

Inz

[antantnz]

competition is key for sure ... it's what pushes us to do better ...

the thing i like about this place is, lets face it, we're in competition with each other, and yet, we still take the time to help each other out ... we compete against each other in a semi-friendly way, with the hopes of conquering the world because together we are stronger than as individuals ...

or in other words, nice post