ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jack Foster was 18 years old and working in an insurance company with about 150 other people when he got the idea to raffle off his weekly paycheck. Fifty cents a chance to win $27.50.
The first week he made a profit of six dollars.
The next week he had collected $53 for the raffle when his boss found out what he was doing. He ordered Jack to return the money.
Then he fired him.
Ever since, Jack’s been trying to come up with ideas that wouldn’t get him fired.
Mostly he’s succeeded.
He lucked into the advertising business 45 years ago as a writer and has been coming up with ideas ever since: Ideas for scores of companies including ...
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