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Strike Gold in Your Business: A Tale from the Prospector’s Notebook

Mark Thompson
2 min readMay 29, 2023

Hey there, got a wild yarn to spin for ya.

It’s about this dude, R.U. Harby, a gold prospector in Colorado from back in the day. Had himself some good strikes, but then it all dried up.

Figured he’d squeezed all the juice he could from the orange, sold his gear and claim, and headed back East.

The new owner wasn’t so quick to throw in the towel. Hired himself a mining engineer and — get this — they hit the jackpot three feet from where old R.U. had packed it in.

Just goes to show, right?

(Sorry, I don’t think I can keep up that persona for a whole article! yeehaw)

Now, if you’re a coach, this story is pure gold. No joke. It’s all about shaking things up, bringing in a new perspective.

The guy with the shovel and the grit wasn’t the one who hit the jackpot, it was the one with the knowledge and experience.

So who’s your mining engineer?

If your online business is a goldmine already, you can probably skip this part. But if you’re still swinging the pickaxe and coming up empty, let me drop some wisdom on ya.

First things first, put down the Swiss army knife. You don’t need every tool under the sun. In…

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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson

Written by Mark Thompson

Veteran Content Marketer, Keeping it Simple and Sharing What Works in my regular newsletter: https://substack.com/@simpleisprofit

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