The "players", left-to-right: Shaun McCowat (the Underdog) and his trusted advisors: Dr Alex Davidovic (the master of Internet commerce), Penelope Herbert (the PR legend), Terry Reeves (salient marketing whiz), and Terry's daughter Nikita (the beautiful face behind the camera)
Newsflash:
Who is Shaun McCowat?
Hi, Dr Alex here...
Have you ever been afraid of being publicly humiliated? I certainly have and I must admit that right now this fear is in the back of my mind.
Why? Because when I agreed to help Shaun build a business out of nothing, there was this voice of doubt inside me repeating, "what if it is a flop, what if it is a flop, what if it is a flop..."
Indeed, why wouldn't it be a flop: Shaun is only 18, his experience of starting, building or running a business is nil; zilch; nada... he has no money and no rich auntie around the block to help him out...
What's more, Shaun is a personal trainer, and fitness industry is EXTREMELY competitive and with well-entrenched deep-pocket players. Just type "get fit" in the Google search box and you get 24,100,000 results - not exactly a tiny niche market you can easily monopolize.
What can I say - Shaun is a big-time underdog.
And yet... what if he does succeed? Putting your reputation on the line to meet the challenge against all odds is exhilarating and energizing - so much so that it earned me a speeding ticket two hours after my meeting with Shaun! ( I even posted the details of this in my Underdog Marketing blog )
Besides, Shaun does know his job - I must say some of his get-fit ideas are cool, more than cool in fact, but they have never been tested, so what if they don't work at all... ( ah, here's that nagging voice of doubt again )
( by "we" I mean PR legend Penelope Herbert, salient marketing whiz Terry Reeves, and yours truly - we'll be Shaun's trusted advisors as he too faces the biggest challenge in his life )
And let me tell you, you're in for a treat...
If you are a skeptic, let me assure you: this is NOT some scheme to get your email so I could bombard you with annoying commercial messages... in fact, our Underdog Marketing Formula 1.0 is currently off the market... and I give you my word there won't be any Adsense or other pay-per-click revenue-collecting schemes either.
The challenge is HUGE, though - so we'll be putting our marketing abilities to a true test - and in the process we'll be revealing to YOU our deepest, mightiest PR secrets that you can use instantly to wire, inspire and uplift YOUR OWN BUSINESS!
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