By: Taban Khajehnassiri
Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet president, shared this so-called joke with some reporters: "Mitterand has 100 lovers. One has AIDS, but he doesn't know which one. Bush has 100 bodyguards. One is a terrorist, but he doesn't know which one. Gorbachev has 100 economic advisers. One is smart, but he doesn't know which one!
I still remember it very clear ... It was almost a decade ago that I wrote
it on my notebook as an interesting quotation from a famous man at that
time and even now and ever. Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet president, shared
this so-called joke with some reporters: "Mitterand has 100 lovers. One
has AIDS, but he doesn't know which one. Bush has 100 bodyguards. One is a
terrorist, but he doesn't know which one. Gorbachev has 100 economic
advisers. One is smart, but he doesn't know which one!" After all these
years, when I found it and read it again, noticed how interesting it can
be when we expand and continue it with the notion of web and marketing
via web sites and/or e-mails. Yes, according to your log files, you have
100 visitors for your web site. One is a buyer, but you don't know which
one! You just have to wait and see ... In your site, you have 100 web
pages with 100 images. One page is missing one single image and you don't
know which one. You miss 100 visitors only because of this little mistake
and WOW! On the Internet, you receive 100 "I Love You" e-mail messages a
day, one has a killing virus, but you don't know which one! You have 100
links in your directory. One is expired and/or out-of-date, but you don't
know which one and this may reduce the number of your hits and your
visitors. You have a mailing list with 100 subscribers. One is now reading
your editorial and you don't know which one, because you don't receive any
feedback. This may make you sad or disappointed! But who cares! You have
100 web sites. One will be a successful one and will make a rich man out
of you, but you don't know which one.
I have 100 dreams a day for the success of this newsletter and Webfaqt.
One is so great but I don't know which one. Isn't it interesting, I mean
the Internet and Webfaqt? This is why, you are kindly invited to share it
with others, to continue this editorial with your own sentences. In your
newsletter, we have enough room for your thoughts and views. Anyway, I
have to thank Mr. Gorbachev for the joke...
This Article published first electronically as an editorial of WWN August 5, 2000.