Whiskey Myers
Snake oil salesman
More years than I care to admit it at this point, there is a product that comes on the market called Zoom. It is promoted as an energy pill, and thought I needed more energy, I gave him a chance.
Now when I say that for more years than I care admit that I am referring to the fact that it might make me seem old, who wants to do that? There is another factor in how many years was, as I was young and impressionable and had not yet learned to read labels with a magnifying glass to make sure I was not getting a pig in a poke.
It took about a month of using this pill miraculous that raise my blood pressure to the range of motion. This is probably where he began to give closer scrutiny to the labels and ingredients. Knowing that the only What was different was this miracle pill, I took the bottle and began to read.
The only active ingredient was the guarana, which is actually a misnomer and that the correct name would have been guaranine, which is the pure caffeine from guarana berry. I think he said something like 100% pure guarana or guarana pure. It doesn't really matter now since he lifted the guarana and discovered I had been taking mega doses of pure caffeine and at that time was also a great drinker coffee.
The cut caffeine and sugar for three months and at that moment I realized that I had low blood pressure more than normal. I remember thinking to myself I will NEVER be a snake oil salesman.
Well, if you want to change your life, you first have to change his mind. Snake Oil is a medicine traditional among the Chinese, as it is effective in the treatment of joint pain. As I get older, I have a lot of that but that's another story. There was a boy named Nebraska Joseph Myers, who was very enterprising again in the 1880s who learned from the Indians that was helping his crop plant medicine which made her a tonic for treat everything from bee stings to the bites of rabid dogs and rattlesnakes, the wounds of all kinds, fever, and almost anything that ailed them.
Joe began make your own version of plant tonic adding a good amount of whiskey and began selling the entire American West. It was a cure for all that ails you, a miracle in a bottle. He became known as the snake oil salesman.
Since then, the snake oil salesman term has come to mean someone selling something worthless. False priests, and those who sell anything that turns out to be false, fraudulent or ineffective.
I started thinking about network marketing and realized by current standards, most (not all now) internet marketers today are the snake oil salesmen. (According to the current use of the term as false that is)
If you ever joined a network marketing group and found they were expected to pretend until you do and stuck with it, you too you're a snake oil salesman.
Now, I'm a snake oil salesman, but I use the term in its archaic sense. I remember I told you NEVER to be a seller snake oil? Well, I had to change my mind when I found a business that the plan was so good, good enough products to be patented, and a plan compensation for the likes of which had not encountered before.
The Indians have not bothered to produce the tone for not having worked for some if not all their ailments. Today the trend is back to natural foods, natural tonics, holistic and homeopathic treatments because they work. Often the best things invented in test tubes and chemical plants. Maybe it's time to go back to the origins and find the term snake oil as a good thing.
I read online that had used a snake oil salesman or snake oil to market their homeopathic cures or otherwise, so I took a little surprised when I tried to register any of them as a domain. Both were taken. One came with a blank page that index of parent directory, which is I guess something in the works, and the other was a parked domain is not used. (You think I need to raise the value of that domain?)
I managed to register but do not bother snakeoilsaleswoman.com go there but not as I had an opportunity to get something up and running as of this writing. I certainly need to go into the history of the term, and how is the objective of the site to retrieve the origins of the term and make it a symbol of honor and ethical online business practices.
About the Author
Maurine is an avid traveller, photographer, writer, woodcarver and bicycle touring advocate residing in So Calif.
Whiskey Myers