Matt Murphy was the lucky fan who caught Barry Bonds 756th home run ball Tuesday night, breaking a 30-year Major League record. A ball that was worth $16 a few seconds before will now bring .5 Mil.
Question: What’s the difference between a $16 dollar ball and one that Matt Murphy will be able to sell and retire on?
Answer: 755 It took seven hundred and fifty five home runs for Barry Bonds to get to this hit and break the record, thousands if not millions of swings at batting practice, thousands of runs and multiple seasons. Now he is without question the best.
Incidentally, Bonds 700th home run ball brought a mere $804.00 (still not the best at 700)
The Point: I see too many people, especially small business owners, who are the best at something and still selling themselves as a $16 dollar ball. They can’t for whatever reason look beyond the hard cost of producing their product or service and assess the value of all the time they have poured into becoming excellent in what they do. If you produce the best service or product then charge the best price and do it with confidence…you may say to yourself what idiot would pay hundreds of dollars for something that only took me a few minutes to produce?
Guess what - Matt Murphy doesn’t care what idiot buys a $500,000.00 baseball - as long as the check clears, and whatever ‘idiot’ buys that ball will be a proud owner knowing they got THE BEST!
