Great idea Don

Can I ask a few questions please? I know it's a new idea, but I'll ask anyway...

For the price you mentioned, would that be for a fixed number of hotels?

Any problems from a hotel with its own restaurant?

Would the restaurant pay monthly, quarterly, yearly?

Would you have a "send me a new menu whenever you like and I'll update the guide" arrangement with the restaurants.

Are you only targeting the ones in which you have your wall maps?

If you have a moment to answer these queries, Don, I'd be grateful

Best

Nick

> I thought I'd SHARE a NEW money-making idea
> I just came up with;

> Get out your pencils and put on your
> "thinking caps"...."Professor
> Don is going to teach you something!"

> I just finished setting up a program where I
> got 8 Hotels to allow me to mount my
> "INFO BOARDS" on the wall of their
> lobbies. A total of over 500 rooms.

> This Info Board has a MAP of the area with
> ads around it of interest to Hotel Guests.

> I have room for 18 advertisers and as I was
> talking to one advertiser (the owner of the
> nicest restaurant in my town)....he asked me
> if I could arrange to also have his MENU
> available at the front desk of each of these
> locations.

> I checked with the hotel managers and they
> all said fine...in fact...one manager gave
> me a GREAT IDEA. An Idea I probably would
> not have gotten had I NOT been "in the
> field talking to real business people".

> Here's what it is;

> Take the MENUS of local restaurants and
> place them in a nice BINDER and place the
> binder on a nice, free-standing wood desk
> which can set on a coffee table or it's own
> lectern-type stand. Anchor the Binder so it
> can't be removed.

> Now...when a guest asks the clerk,
> "Where's a good Mexican
> restaurant?"....or, "Where's a
> good Chinese place"...etc....the desk
> clerks can point them to the
> "Menu-Desk".

> Now....WHY is THIS a "BIG"
> potential money maker?

> Because restaurants must "SELL THEIR
> FOOD"! If they don't it gets stale and
> must be tossed away and they must close
> their doors.

> So...restaurants are LOOKING FOR WAYS TO
> HELP SELL THEIR FOOD!

> Having their MENUS in a handy place, easily
> accessible to people who MUST EAT AT A
> RESTAURANT....is VERY ENTICING to restaurant
> owners.

> So...as I was putting this one together I
> was thinking I could probably get $700 to
> $800 a Year from each restaurant.

> To "test" this price point I ran
> the idea by 3 restaurant owners who had
> bought an ad on my Info Boards....and they
> AGREED that $700 would be fine with them.
> Then they asked me, "HOW SOON can I put
> it together?"

> So...just from keeping my eyes and ears
> open...I'm off on another
> "AD"venture.

> Let's see...this program is SO STRONG...I
> believe I can get 40 restaurants per town.
> 40 x $700 = $28,000 per town. Just five
> towns could be worth a cool $140,000
> AND....THIS ONE would also be RENEWABLE by
> most all participants.

> All from being aware and being in the REAL
> WORLD... mingling with REAL business people
> and not behind a PC screen.

> Now...jot down some ideas...put together a
> Sample and a PLAN and .....GO DO IT!
> Restaurant owners are WAITING to give YOU
> their money!!!!....there's 343,000 of them
> in this country!

> Thanks for reading.....

> Don Alm