Here is a sentence that should not make sense.

A company sells water. In a beer can. With a skull on it. And the name of the product is Liquid Death.

It is not flavored. It is not medicinal. It is not from a glacier that no human has ever touched. It is water.

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And people happily pay two to four dollars for a can of it, while the same water, more or less, comes out of the kitchen faucet for a fraction of a cent.

How?

The answer is one of the cleanest business lessons you will ever get. And once you understand it, you will start spotting the same trick in about a dozen things sitting in your house right now.

Let me walk you through it.

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