Listening to Felix Dennis & Uncle G talk about the dirty word around here (money) it's inspiring to hear how they regard it as something meaninglessness. While not a new concept for us people that have read Unscripted , ''money'' is just a piece of paper printed by the government with pictures of some dead people on it and distributed throughout the globe as a means of modern day slavery (do this shitty job and I'll give you some pieces of paper, or a bunch of numbers deposited into your bank account every second Friday of the week)
Really, do wealthy people even see money? The people that do 6-8+ digits annually when is the last time they even touched an actual paper money? With everything slowly switching over to credit cards / bank cards especially during this ''pandemic'' some stores are beginning to become cashless and refuse to accept legal tender.
I think we can all agree Americans are some of the biggest spenders around, they will blow money on almost anything
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Drinking beer on Independence Day: $1 billion
Lighting up fireworks: $800 million
Lighting up (legal) marijuana: $6.9 billion
(“Sales are projected to increase to $21.6 billion by the year 2021,” according to Arcview Market Research.)
Eating Cheetos, Doritos, and Funyuns: $4.8 billion
Fixing car damage caused by potholes: $3 billion
De-icing streets with road salt: $2.3 billion
Buying bags of ice: $3 billion
Shopping for (artificial) Christmas trees: $854 million
Chopping (real) Christmas trees: $1.3 billion
Enjoying the great outdoors: $646 billion [PDF]
(If this number appears inflated, that’s because it reflects the total impact of outdoor recreation, including trip-related sales such as hotels, food services, and vacation expenses.)
Fishing trips: $41.8 billion
Bicycling trips: $81 billion [PDF]
Rock climbing/hiking trips: $12 billion [PDF]
Treating trips and falls: $76.3 billion
Birdwatching: $26 billion [PDF]
Paying for wild birdfeed: $3 billion
Treating dog bites: $570 million
Going under the knife for aesthetic cosmetic surgery: $13.5 billion
Purchasing cosmetics: $62 billion
Getting your nails done: $7.47 billion [PDF]
Getting hammered: $223.5 billion
(According to the CDC, this includes the cost of lost workplace productivity, health care expenses, law enforcement expenses, and impaired driving accidents.)
Binging at food trucks: $2.7 billion
Treating acid indigestion: $2 billion
Eating quinoa: $1.32 billion
Chewing chewing gum: $2 billion
Chewing chewing tobacco: $5.93 billion
Buying chew toys: $32 million
Going back to school: $75.8 billion
Prepping for standardized tests: $12 billion
Treating stress-related illnesses: $300 billion
Purchasing fake degrees: ~$100 million
(More than 100,000 fake degrees are sold each year in the U.S., at approximately $1000 a pop.)
Giving graduation gifts: $5.4 billion
Playing Fantasy Football: $4.6 billion
Watching the Patriots-Falcons Super Bowl: $14.1 billion
Eating pizza: $32 billion
Eating supermarket hot dogs: $2.4 billion
Treating Ischemic heart disease: $88.1 billion
Buying heartfelt Valentine’s Day jewelry: $4.3 billion
Taking a risk with lottery tickets: $80.55 billion
Taking a risk with online dating: $2 billion
Buying flowers: $31.3 billion
Freshening up with mouthwashes, gargles, and rinses: $1.8 billion
Going to the bar: $20 billion [PDF]
Hitting the nightclub: $1.9 billion
Popping Himalayan Viagra: $5 to 11 billion
(Yarsagumba, or caterpillar fungus, is a parasitic fungus made by ghost moth larvae. This “Himalayan Viagra” has been considered an aphrodisiac for millennia. Numbers reflect global sales.)
Tuning the radio to smooth jazz: $190 million
Pregnancy: $55.6 billion
The money is out there, our jobs as Unscripted entrepreneurs is to dig in a mountain, and get our share. I thought to myself as I was floating around on a small dinghy in the Vancouver Harbour looking at all the multi million dollar homes on the waterfront with their little yachts parked outside (like jeez some people have boats less than 50 meters away from their back yard with a private dock) #GOALS
Maybe my own personal dreams and goals (yours aswell!) Could be to small? And we could ''think bigger and kill bigger?'' I'll need to give credit to @Kak for that quote.
Here is a list from Felix Dennis, a high school drop out on a ''rich list''
£1m – £2m ($1.53 million – $3 million) The comfortable poor
£3m – £4m The comfortably off
£5m – £4m The comfortably wealthy
£16m – £39m The lesser rich
£40m – £74m The comfortably rich
£75m – £99m The rich
£100m – £199m The seriously rich
£200m – £399m The truly rich
£400m – £999m The filthy rich
Over £1bn The super rich
Ok, not to sound cheesy, maybe a measly few million dollars really is ''spare change'' ?
Selling my product to less than 10% of my ''local area'' Vancouver / Vancouver Island <300,000 makes me a multi millionaire which means I can have a 90% rejection rate and still join the ranks of the comfortable poor. (I'm not a millionaire just yet)
With HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people alone in the United States (and a small just shy of 40 million in Canada) There are tons of consumers and absolutely no shortage of money out there. Seriously, why not aim for the moon? Selling a product i.e to a small portion of the population alone could net you millions of dollars, and with the right marketing strategy you could even have people lining up outside your store at 5am sleeping in a tent to get those amazing deals!
Really, do wealthy people even see money? The people that do 6-8+ digits annually when is the last time they even touched an actual paper money? With everything slowly switching over to credit cards / bank cards especially during this ''pandemic'' some stores are beginning to become cashless and refuse to accept legal tender.
I think we can all agree Americans are some of the biggest spenders around, they will blow money on almost anything
By the Numbers: How Americans Spend (More of) Their Money
Every day, according to Gallup, Americans spend an average of $101. A surprising amount of that goes toward Funyuns.
www.mentalfloss.com
Drinking beer on Independence Day: $1 billion
Lighting up fireworks: $800 million
Lighting up (legal) marijuana: $6.9 billion
(“Sales are projected to increase to $21.6 billion by the year 2021,” according to Arcview Market Research.)
Eating Cheetos, Doritos, and Funyuns: $4.8 billion
Fixing car damage caused by potholes: $3 billion
De-icing streets with road salt: $2.3 billion
Buying bags of ice: $3 billion
Shopping for (artificial) Christmas trees: $854 million
Chopping (real) Christmas trees: $1.3 billion
Enjoying the great outdoors: $646 billion [PDF]
(If this number appears inflated, that’s because it reflects the total impact of outdoor recreation, including trip-related sales such as hotels, food services, and vacation expenses.)
Fishing trips: $41.8 billion
Bicycling trips: $81 billion [PDF]
Rock climbing/hiking trips: $12 billion [PDF]
Treating trips and falls: $76.3 billion
Birdwatching: $26 billion [PDF]
Paying for wild birdfeed: $3 billion
Treating dog bites: $570 million
Going under the knife for aesthetic cosmetic surgery: $13.5 billion
Purchasing cosmetics: $62 billion
Getting your nails done: $7.47 billion [PDF]
Getting hammered: $223.5 billion
(According to the CDC, this includes the cost of lost workplace productivity, health care expenses, law enforcement expenses, and impaired driving accidents.)
Binging at food trucks: $2.7 billion
Treating acid indigestion: $2 billion
Eating quinoa: $1.32 billion
Chewing chewing gum: $2 billion
Chewing chewing tobacco: $5.93 billion
Buying chew toys: $32 million
Going back to school: $75.8 billion
Prepping for standardized tests: $12 billion
Treating stress-related illnesses: $300 billion
Purchasing fake degrees: ~$100 million
(More than 100,000 fake degrees are sold each year in the U.S., at approximately $1000 a pop.)
Giving graduation gifts: $5.4 billion
Playing Fantasy Football: $4.6 billion
Watching the Patriots-Falcons Super Bowl: $14.1 billion
Eating pizza: $32 billion
Eating supermarket hot dogs: $2.4 billion
Treating Ischemic heart disease: $88.1 billion
Buying heartfelt Valentine’s Day jewelry: $4.3 billion
Taking a risk with lottery tickets: $80.55 billion
Taking a risk with online dating: $2 billion
Buying flowers: $31.3 billion
Freshening up with mouthwashes, gargles, and rinses: $1.8 billion
Going to the bar: $20 billion [PDF]
Hitting the nightclub: $1.9 billion
Popping Himalayan Viagra: $5 to 11 billion
(Yarsagumba, or caterpillar fungus, is a parasitic fungus made by ghost moth larvae. This “Himalayan Viagra” has been considered an aphrodisiac for millennia. Numbers reflect global sales.)
Tuning the radio to smooth jazz: $190 million
Pregnancy: $55.6 billion
The money is out there, our jobs as Unscripted entrepreneurs is to dig in a mountain, and get our share. I thought to myself as I was floating around on a small dinghy in the Vancouver Harbour looking at all the multi million dollar homes on the waterfront with their little yachts parked outside (like jeez some people have boats less than 50 meters away from their back yard with a private dock) #GOALS
Maybe my own personal dreams and goals (yours aswell!) Could be to small? And we could ''think bigger and kill bigger?'' I'll need to give credit to @Kak for that quote.
Here is a list from Felix Dennis, a high school drop out on a ''rich list''
£1m – £2m ($1.53 million – $3 million) The comfortable poor
£3m – £4m The comfortably off
£5m – £4m The comfortably wealthy
£16m – £39m The lesser rich
£40m – £74m The comfortably rich
£75m – £99m The rich
£100m – £199m The seriously rich
£200m – £399m The truly rich
£400m – £999m The filthy rich
Over £1bn The super rich
Ok, not to sound cheesy, maybe a measly few million dollars really is ''spare change'' ?
Selling my product to less than 10% of my ''local area'' Vancouver / Vancouver Island <300,000 makes me a multi millionaire which means I can have a 90% rejection rate and still join the ranks of the comfortable poor. (I'm not a millionaire just yet)With HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people alone in the United States (and a small just shy of 40 million in Canada) There are tons of consumers and absolutely no shortage of money out there. Seriously, why not aim for the moon? Selling a product i.e to a small portion of the population alone could net you millions of dollars, and with the right marketing strategy you could even have people lining up outside your store at 5am sleeping in a tent to get those amazing deals!
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