I posted this about a year ago. It got such a wonderful response that I thought I'd bring it back. It's a take-off on how a typical car salesmen would break down the price of a car. I was thinking about what I do, which is really selling my words. So accordingly, here is the breakdown of the price for a... Word Salesman: Words ..............................................................................$14.95 Title Fee .............................................................................$1.73 Order Tax (ya gotta have the words in the right order!) ...$20.99 Translation Fee (so my thoughts are in ENGLISH) ..........$10.75 Punctuation Accessories ...................................................$7.95 Adjective Fee ....................................................................$4.95 Paragraph Charge ..............................................................$2.23 PDF Handy Carrying Case ................................................$17.95 Years of Research and Education .................................$1059.72 ———————————————————————————————————- Total cost for one communication study! ......................$1141.22 For more moderately...
Last week I posted a Friday Funny called Cow Salesman where we found out what would happen if cow salesmen were like car salesmen. I got an 'off blog' comment that we all should price our products this way. So I thought I'd play with the numbers and here's what I came up with: Words ....................................................................................................$14.95 Title Fee ..................................................................................................$1.73 Order Tax (ya gotta have the words in the right order!) .........$20.99 Translation Fee (so my thoughts are in ENGLISH) ....................$10.75 Punctuation Accessories .....................................................................$7.95 Adjective Fee ..........................................................................................$4.95 Paragraph Charge ................................................................................$2.23 PDF Handy Carrying Case .................................................................$17.95 Years of Research and Education ...............................................$1059.72 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total cost for one communication study! ..................................$1141.22 ...But for more moderately priced (LOL) Speech Communication studies, visit Art of...
