Late one blustery night, an elderly couple dashed out of the rain into the lobby of a small City Of Brotherly Love hotel, hoping to secure a room for the night. But much to their disappointment, the hotel was full.
“There are three conventions in town,” alleged the the happy front desk clerk, “I’m afraid all the hotels are full.”
The couple started to turn away, and the clerk continued, “But I can’t send a nice couple like you out in the rain at one o’clock in the morning. Would you be willing to sleep in my room? It’s not exactly a suite,” he added, “but it will make you comfortable for the night.”
The couple was reluctant to put the man out, but he take a firm stand, “Don’t worry about me. I’ll make out just fine,” he said, and they finally accepted his offer.
When they checked out the next morning, the elderly gentleman said to the clerk, “You are the style of manager who should be the boss of the best hotel in town. Perhaps someday I’ll build one for you.” The man at the desk purely smiled and donate thanks them.
Two years later, the hotel clerk received a letter from the old gentleman. In it was round trip ticket to New York City and a memo. The note reminded the clerk of the night-time he had helped the couple and invited him to come up to visit them. Though he had forgotten the incident, he decided to take them up on their offer.
They met him at the station in New York and then took him to the corner of Thirty-fourth Street and Fifth Avenue.
“That,” said the old man, pointing a mammoth new building made of reddish stone on the corner, “is a hotel I have just built for you to manage.”
“You must be joking,” the clerk said.
“I can swear you that I am not,” said the old gentleman with a smile. The elderly man’s name was William Waldorf Astor. The huge turreted building was the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. And the young clerk was George C. Boldt, the hotel’s first manager.
We started our online journey back in 2000 and quickly discovered a little known secret. Although you will frequently hear us proclaim, “There are no secrets,” this secret remains mostly unknown today.
Listen carefully. Write this down. Make it your passion and driving force. Do this and you will succeed? It’s found in the following Chinese Proverb.
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month, get married.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help others.
Happiness and success go hand in hand. The secret here is in helping others. And we call it a secret because few teach it and fewer believe there are any benefits to doing it.
In this Internet Marketing business, we’ve experienced first hand the benefits of helping others. In our early days of web site traffic building, we found great rewards when freely offering our support to others.
Do this: Upgrade to TrafficHoopla Professional Membership primary for the testing reports. But also make full use of the opportunity to contact your referral base on a weekly basis. Don’t sell them your stuff. Instead, freely offer your support and encouragement. Do this on a consistent basis and we promise they will respond. No, not all and definitely not the majority. But viral marketing only takes a few active participates to greatly multiple things for you.
