Banksy's "Girl with Balloon" shreds itself after being sold for over £1M at the Sotheby's in London.

Congratulations, you do the same mundane job that countless other people in the world can do.

Nope. 90% of all traders fail. In other words only about 10% of the population can do what i do.

In fact, the only other professions that are statistically as hard to succeed at are top athletic sports.

But any child can do a doodle of a girl with a balloon (or better yet - spray paint a stencil).

And sure, as someone whose original career was in marketing, I commend the marketing. I know you can sell millions of dollars or worthless cheap products.

But that's all it is.

Get back to me when you can doodle for 10 seconds, sell it for a million dollars, shred it, sell the trash for even more money.

Just takes decent marketing -- direct marketing mixed in with gorilla marketing.

For example, start a PR campaign after creating a mysterious story around a certain art piece.

Make the story so sensational it gets picked up on major news networks (it's a lot easier than you think).

Pay some publications to write lonf articles about it.

Pay a bunch of copywriters to spread faux reviews and discussion about it on Reddit and other social media.

Do a documentary and pay to get it to go viral.

Within a year people will be clamoring to pay millions.

If I thought it was qorth it - I'd do it in a heartbeat.

People are easy and predictable.

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