Here’s a great story for all you crazy mofos in the blogosphere. About a week ago I was domain searching for an upcoming site flip I’m working on, and after about 30 minutes of being denied I finally found a gem – www.TheStressFactor.com. Pretty sweet right? Immediately I determined that this was too good to be true (as most things in life are) and I was also suspicious because the .org and .net were registered, and when typing them into Firefox I noticed that they both redirected to the same site.
Do I grab the domain and hope that I get a sexy offer for it down the road? Or do I try and get a hold of the owner letting him know that I was interested, just in case he was waiting for the .com to become available?
Here’s where my good deed steps in…
Being the half decent guy that I am, I chose to contact the owner of the site and advise him that I was interested in purchasing TheStressFactor.com, and if he was waiting for it to become available and I didn’t hear back from him in 48 hours, I was going to go ahead with the purchase. This seemed fair to me.
Well, sure enough the next day I received a response from a guy named Ronnie Nijmeh who thanked me for contacting him, and said he was so glad to receive my email because he had been waiting for the .com to become free for quite some time! Ronnie proceeded to let me know that he owned a PLR membership site, www.PLR.me, which specializes in the self help/personal development niche, and to show his gratitude he would love to give me free access for the rest of the month to download all the December content – fuck yeah!
Karma is king…
Feeling so good about my decision, I checked up on Ronnie’s Flagship site www.ACQYR.com to see what this guy is all about, and to my surprise I discovered that not only is Ronnie the founder of a personal skill and development firm in Toronto, but he’s also nationally recognized with national broadcast appearances, live’s in Toronto currently and is from the same neck of the woods as myself – Scarborough. Talk about a small world!
I guess my whole point to this ramble is pretty simple – even though it may seem at times that the Internet business and making money online is a dog-eat-dog world, where you have to step on shoes to get to the top, the true success lies in recognizing opportunities. Whether that opportunity is to follow your intuition and reach your hand out to a complete stranger while disregarding personal gain, or a chance to sacrifice your own gain to better the situation of someone who you feel deserves the opportunity more.
One tiny good deed put me in the path to connect with an awesome, super inspirational and resourceful contact. In return that good deed got me a shit-load of free high quality PLR content in a niche that I frequent, and at the end of the day I have a kick ass post to share with you guys, to fill some silence during my dry spell. It’s win-win baby! Don’t be greedy, and you will be rewarded – I promise.
Cheers,
Elijah
Cool post and it’s nice to know that in this crazy world doing the ‘right’ thing is still the way to go.
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Hey, thanks for your comment over at my blog – and I look forward to your WSO 🙂
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That’s the way my man; always the way. 😉
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Thanks for the honorable mention, Elijah! I sincerely appreciate it. 🙂
You’re a good guy and the free PLR is the least I can do!
@Alison – It is sort of comforting, right? It seems the older I get (I’m still a young blood at 27) the more I realize that the true path is always the best path – even if at times it doesn’t seem like it.
@Ronnie – Man, the whole encounter was pretty awesome! Don’t be surprised if I email you with a “20 questions” interview in the early new year! Check out the category to see some of my last victims… and the off-beat questions I threw at them.
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Wow!
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Great stuff man! That’s what happens when you don’t follow the status quo, but do what you feel man. Most marketers would say not to do that….but following your own path paid off big time in a new contact and some sweet content!
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Good for you Elijah! I had a battle with something not too long ago on whether i did the right or wrong thing.. it wasn’t a bad thing, but this post made me think about it again.. makes me feel like i need to go back and make a change to something that’s been bothering me!
Thanks for the post!
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@Elijah 20 questions sounds awesome! I’m totally game. 🙂
Happy New Year!
We reap what we sow. If we sow goodness, we reap goodness. It reechoes to the universal truth that we should do unto others what we want others to do unto us.
Woooo !
Niche one Elijah !
I have always believed in karma. And I have been polishing it. Good deeds do come back. One for that !
happy holidays and the new year – party hardy,
All the best wishes,
The Moneyac
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Kick ass story – seems like karma is still around these days
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@Underdogblogger – A loss for words I take it?
@Joe – Forget status quo, you already know that it’s time for this network to expand and become profitable for all of us.. Karma is a great fuel source!
@JeffLeft – Hey dude! I’m glad my experience gave you that nudge you were looking for, and whatever it is, I hope you feel vindicated.
@Ronnie – Then it’s game on bro! Ya done know (scarborough slang for all you non-scarlemites)
@To Bohol – I couldn’t have said it better myself! Reechoes the universal truth… indeed.
@TheMoneyac – Yeah man, a niche one for sure! Party Hardy till the bottle’s empty…
@Andrew – Hey dude, I sure hope karma is still kicking ass.. other wise I’d be out of business!
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lol….unusual for me……That was a classy move man! Kudos to you.
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What an interesting story! There are a handful of nice guys in the blogosphere and it doesn’t come as a surprise to me that you are one of them.
Yan
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@Yan – Awww.. Thanks man! That means a lot coming from a cool dude like yourself.
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