The Day I Washed A Poop Covered Cow…
and what I learned about solving problems in a smelly barnyard…
I was a newly minted member of a MLM organization (whose name shall not be mentioned but you might be able to guess it as you read on) and was anxious to start making some sales of “product” to secure my place in the pantheon of recently minted/up-and-coming business owners.
Among the amazing products in my MLM arsenal was a cleaner which made the claim that it would “make water wetter” — and who doesn’t like their water to be as wet as it can be? I decided that I would find a way to utilize this amazing product in a sales demonstration that would land me a decent sized purchase. The thought behind the virtue of making water “wetter” was that it allowed you to use less of water based compounds by reducing the surface tension (the bond that makes a drop of water a drop of water). Things like detergents work better with the addition of “surfactants” since they make it easier for water to penetrate the fabric. They can also make water more easily absorbed into solutions and more likely to stay put on slippery surfaces. Armed with this information, I started to look for a customer who would value these properties and allow me to ring the cash register!
