$1 million in 10 days from Comedy

Now that the snow is starting to make its presence in Finland and the Christmas feelings are all around I want to share what happened to Comedian Louis C.K. He was annoyed that he never saw a royalty check from sales of his standup specials through traditional outlets like DVD or iTunes. So he produced his own recent special, sold it online directly to fans for $5 -- and made a cool million in just 10 days. That is one of the great advantages of technology during this times, and this is just the beginning, many cases like this will flow during 2012

Louis C.K. announced the sales milestone on Wednesday night's episode of "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."

Louis C.K. began selling the special, filmed at New York's Beacon Theater, on December 10. He put up a simple website that directed customers to "buy the thing" through eBay's (EBAY, Fortune 500) PayPal for $5. A footnote explained that the file has "no regional restrictions, no crap. You can download this file, play it as much as you like, burn it to a DVD, whatever."

Louis C.K. called it an "experiment" when he launched the sale. Wednesday's $1 million milestone showed that it's paying off.

Jimmy Fallon asked: "You just said 'Hey, everyone who wants to see the show, you give five bucks'?"

Louis C.K. paid to produce the special "out of my own money," he responded. "So I had it. And I said, I can just give it to people for a little bit of money."

A friend told him "everyone's going to steal it...so I just wrote a note that said, you know, please don't do it," Louis C.K. said, as the audience laughed. "And they didn't. So it made a lot of money."

Louis C.K. said he was shocked as he watched the orders come in -- and then began to feel guilty about the amount he'd netted.

"I've never had a million dollars all at once. I grew up pretty poor and I was like, this is not even my money," he said. "This is just a five-dollar impulse that 220,000 people had, and now I have it. And I felt uncomfortable about having that much money."

So Louis C.K. set aside $250,000 to cover the cost of the expenses of producing the special, then doled out another $250,000 in bonuses for his staffers.

He then donated $280,000 to five charities: The Fistula Foundation, The Pablove Foundation, charity: water, Kiva and Green Chimneys.

"I was going to [donate] $100,000, but it's like blackjack -- I just kept dishing it out," he told Fallon.

That leaves $220,000 left over.

"Some of that will pay my rent and will care for my childen [sic]. The rest I will do terrible, horrible things with and none of that is any of your business," Louis C.K. wrote in a statement posted on his website.

A $220,000 profit is plenty, he added.

"I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'The money.' It's a resource. if it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system," he wrote. "If I make another million, I'll give more of it away."

Great idea to end the year...Hope all the celebrations are full of hope and love keep witting the objective of 1 Million Euros in less than 5 years is closer than ever!

Please give me one Million Dollars (Euros)

During this cold and lovely month of february, in search of One Million Euros in less than 5 years, more ideas come to mind, new strategies of investing, some interesting news for Nokia and Microsoft let's see what comes later out of this multicultural marriage...

I remembered a quiet evening telling my wife about and idea that comes to mind on the basic subject and premise of this blog "One Million Euros in less than 5 years welcome to my journey" So I told her what if I explain and expose my reasons, She said what you mean?

So I told her the idea of making a video about my self and the reasons why I need the Million Euros, I have been quietly working on the project until of course I could not be the ONLY one right?

So sketch comedian Craig Rowin put out a video request back in November for a millionaire to give him one million dollars saying, “I don’t need it for anything specific, but I think it would be awesome.” Well, guess what? It looked like a millionaire was making Craig’s wish come true!

The original ‘Please Give Me One Million Dollars’ clip went up on November 21, 2010 followed by another video by the same title to update millionaires. He told viewers that he had not yet received one million dollars but he had received many emails at his PleaseGiveMeOneMillionDollars@gmail.com email account. A couple of weeks later Craig updated viewers once again in ‘Still Please Give Me One Million Dollars’, in which he rips up a $5,000 check because he asked for one million dollars! His arguments are quite interesting you might hate him but the idea is great!!!

Craig even plead his case and requested one million dollars from Alabama’s millionaires in an interview on Wake Up Alabama. In the interview he says, “I don’t have any current debt, but I am asking for a million dollars because it would be pretty awesome to have.” Helping Craig’s case was the fact that he really is hilarious. In the Alabama interview you can hear the anchors cracking up while he’s answering their questions. And surely the guy who has decided to give Craig one million dollars must have a great sense of humor as well.

In one of his latest video uploaded to the RoryAndCraig YouTube channel, which Craig shares with his fellow sketch-comedian in crime Rory, Craig announces his success! We don’t get any specifics, aside from the fact that the millionaire who is giving him the money is named Benjamin and that he will be receiving the money live on stage at the UCB Theatre on February 2 at 8 PM. He says he has received a notarized letter that he will give Craig one million dollars and expect nothing in return. “On February 2 I will be a One Millionaire!”

Now of course I was expecting to find out what happened on February 2, Did he got his Million? or was all that an act? to attract publicity after all he is a Comedian, see the video to find out,



So after all this joke I still have some hope and time to make my own version of my own idea and maybe acomplish my goal in less time than expected. So all Millionaires reading this Blog...contact me and give me one Million Euros!

keep letting the snow ball rolling and keep in touch...