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Thanks Dien,
Here's How You Can BARTER to find out what Self Made Millionaires and Even Self made Billionaires Are REALLY Doing to make make Big Bucks. I often work as a "Shadow Consultant" to other Consultants when they have A CLIENT EMERGENCY. Dorothy called. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hanson had a "How to Write a Best Selling Book" Seminar coming up in 5 days - 250 Seats where UN-SOLD. A Staffer Called Dorothy-The-Marketing-Consultant in a PANIC. a - Dorothy called us. We dictated an Email. b - Dorothy and the "Team" Emailed millions of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book buyers an Offer to SPEAK to and ASK Questions of Mark and Jack - F-r-e-e. c - Inside the email we "mentioned" 3 new book authors Mark and Jack had mentored - would be on the call to share their experience. AFTER 90 Minutes of the FREEBIE Conference Call all 250 seats SOLD OUT. As a Result Dorothy told me How Jack Got a SIX FIGURE Advance on a book they were writing together. Jack put the Total Book Sales of His Previous Book on a page. Then the # of people on their "Chicken Soup..." Mailing and Email list. Then listed the # of Attendees in seats at their Various Giant Seminars. (Including back of room book sales) AND a Mock-Up of the book cover. Table of Contents. And Bullets and cover design for the back and front of the book. ***The MUNNY TOTAL Went At Bottom.*** BASICALLY Jack Had his Team Do all the Work FOR The Book Companies. Then Jack sent this page to the TOP DOG at 3 Competing Book Publishing companies. With a cover letter that said, "Top Advance Bid Gets This Book." AND Waited for his phone to ring. Thanks, Glenn |
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Thanks Gordon,
Here is a Wangdoozler of a Barter Story! Glenn ======== ======== A Trash Bin That Barters for Free Wii Fi This is Genius! Some Techies who couldn't find a cell signal at a Fair Created a Internet Trash Can. Basically - when you toss in trash you get a few minutes of F-r-e-e Wii Fi signal for your phone or other internet devices. Here is a YouTube Link to a video which should stay up for a long time. If Not. Google- "Wi Fi Trash Bin" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsozqe9Xn8w Sent in by Arabella in Scotland |
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Thanks Gordon,
Paper Roses Cost me about 50 cents each. Instant Scratch off Lotto tickets - 1.00 each So I Bartered about 4.50 to Get This 350.00 Apple iPad Mini. In a Restaurant. Our Brunette waitress was smiling and happy and getting us all kinds of Extra stuff from the kitchen. A clean soup spoon. More Ketchup. (My Dad puts ketchup on his string beans) Extra Napkins. So I smiled and Thanked her and Gave her a LOTTO ticket. Then While she watched I made her a Red Paper Rose I got at www.Napkinrose.com Then another LOTTO ticket. Then a Yellow Rose. A 3rd Lotto ticket and a Purple Rose. This Girl Was Skipping and dancing. The end of the meal comes and Sue brings over some Raffle Tickets. Sue says, "The Restaurant chain is celebrating it's 20th Anniversary. You've Been SO Great here are 10 Chances to win a Free Drink or a meal or even a Computer." My Dad is 96 and says, "What's the holdup? Let's go." I am scratching madly away and say, "Just a minute." 3 Scratch-Cards in and The spoon I am Scratching cards with Uncovers the words... GRAND PRIZE WINNER And Darn if I didn't win an Apple iPod Mini. I - I put the rest of the scratch-offs in my pocket so Sue didn't get into trouble for giving me 10 Cards. II - Then we had to wait for the manager. III - I signed about 10 pages of FORMS. IV - The manager is muttering, "I can't believe it. 2nd day of the Promotion and our only Grand Prize is gone." Turns out they issued ONE Apple Mini to each Restaurant and I GOT IT. Thanks, Glenn |
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Glenn
Nice going, I really like that story Trevor |
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Thanks Gordon,
I got Referred to a Fellow who is what we call a Serial Entrepreneur. Meaning he creates, Operates and sells multiple businesses at once. I was hired to increase Sales at his LIMO Biz. I Asked Questions: #1 - Do you have a Yellow PAge ad? NO. #2 - Do you advertise on the Radio or TV? NO. #3 - Do you have a Website? YES - but it's just for show. Doesn't make us a dime. #4 - Do you call Past clients for repeat business? NO. #5 - Do you ASK Customers for Referrals? NO. #6 - Not even while they are DRUNK? NO. Exasperated I said, "Well, How in the World do You Get Clients to use your LIMO Service? ANSWER: "I Barter Champagne & A Fr-e-e LIMO Ride For 2 Plus Use Barter To Arrange a FREE Night-On-The-Town At Swanky Restaurants, Clubs & Bars with The Concierge of Two Major Hotels. I asked, "Isn't that Against Hotel Rules? "Don't The Big Hotels Have Referral Deals with XYZ Limo Service? CLIENT ANSWER: "They do but the Concierge Gets NOTHING for those referrals. "So they send All they can to me. WOW-MY Marketing Job was EASY after that. I Made a List of Big Hotels and Took the Concierge To Lunch and explained the "Barter-for-Referrals To-LIMO-Rental-Clients Plan-BENEFITS." Several Came on Board even tho Our LIMO Barter Referral System was Somewhat BLACK - OPPS. Thanks, Glenn |
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Thanks Gordon,
We Got Referred to a Bored Special Forces Soldier - just Retired from Jumping out of planes all over the planet. Sent him CHAPTER I of "Enchanted NLP V#1" And Wally Said, "This is GREAT. People Act WEIRD when I ask them Any One of your 4 Questions." So I Challenged him a bit. "Wally, You probably can't Do This but Here's how I meet All the Waitresses AND the Manager of Restaurants BEFORE I meet a Potential Client." "If you do it RIGHT. You Can CONTROL the Restaurant and Lead All the people there - Pied Piper Style." "Get 100.00 in One dollar bills. Flirt Tip Every Waitress who passes your Table with 1.00 Bills. "Then Make Friends with the folks at a table near yours and tell them you want to impress a client when they arrive. Hand a Volunteer at their table 10 - 1.00 bills. And SAY, "Everytime I hand the waitress a 1.00 bill YOU do it too, OK?" "You Are Soon KING of The Restaurant. Waitresses and cooks Dancing around and giggling and Piling food on your table. AND the Prospect is Much More likely to PAY You When he or she sees you Leading 100's of people." Wally said, "I'm going to TRY THAT with my Mother-in-Law at the Table on my Wife's Anniversary dinner." RESULTS? Wally Reported back, "Wow, everything worked Fantastic. Even my Mother-in-Law was Impressed at the Service. And finally SHUT UP. The Joint was Jumping. And when we left 7 waitresses lined up at the door to Say Thank You." I asked, "Did you tip them all another dollar on the way out?" Laughter, "OF COURSE." Wally Then sent me 913.79 for the REST of the "Enchanted NLP Invisible Persuasion-Program. Thanks, Glenn |
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Thanks Dien,
We proposed this to Our Independent Pharmacy owner client: G - "You Would like to Visit the Headquarters of your Drug Supplier and Meet the people you are sending 1 million a month to. "Give me Permission to Call them and I'll Guarantee You get an Appointment with the CEO. Allen - "It'll never work. G - What's the down-size? They say, "No. Whoopee." Allen - "Ok. So I called the # Allen Gave me and talked to the Drug Supplier sales manager Jack. We said, "My consulting client has a check for 1.1 million dollars he'd like to bring Himself to Company headquarters. Maybe He Can Meet The CEO and you. Go to lunch. And look around at your operation. "Is that OK with you? Dick - "Let me check and I'll call you back." TWO HOURS LATER I get a call from Allen. Allen is Laughing - "What did you SAY to Jack. He just lent me 200,000.00 for a year with zero interest." And Allen sent me 5000.00 for my consulting miracle. WHY the 200Grand Loan? Allen got a HINT from Jack that other Ind Pharmacy Owners had called up wanting to DROP them as their Drug Distributor/Supplier. So Jack Panicked. And gave Allen 200Grand - as a no interest loan to pay for ads and stuff. Thanks, Glenn P.S. - Heh heh heh - I got the idea of ALWAYS getting an appointment with a Supplier with ONE PHONE CALL -Plus a Check- from my 426 Million Mentor Walter Hailey. They WANT THAT MUNNY. And you usually get a F-r-e-e Lunch too. |
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Thanks Gordon,
You know how when you buy a product and it SUCKS for some reason.... You throw it away and forget it? Well. NOT ME. I Barter for F-r-e-e Stuff! For example - I found lots of little rocks in a quart of chocolate chip ice-cream. Called up to Help them out - by reporting the problem. The Customer Satisfaction Dept Agent sent a SASE and I mailed them some of the rocks I'd saved. Result? I got 5 Coupons - worth 5.00 each in the mail. Great Fun. And You are doing the Company a BIG FAVOR cuz they can Catch problems - before somebody ELSE Sues them. Or a another consumer - gets hurt or poisoned. Thanks, Glenn |
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Thank you for sharing these incredibly valuable case studies and ideas... ![]() In fact, I'd say if you took them all together, Glenn's collected stories are probably the most valuable you'll find...! I think anyone could probably take your ideas, and if they applied them, almost immediately double their business income... I really do appreciate these diamonds you are showering us with! ![]() Best wishes, Dien |
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Thanks Dien,
I got to talking to a skinny young guy working behind the scenes at a 25,000.00 Marketing Seminar. He was working as a TEMP. I kept in touch. Last time we spoke he had taken over his Dad's Jiffy Print store in down-town L.A. Steve Noticed that many hi-rise office lights were on Late at night. So. He swapped F-r-e-e Printing work with the owner of a nearby and BUSY - 24 Hr Pizza Delivery Store. What did Steve Barter for? For the Pizza store to put his Flyer in on top of each pizza during the entire time he was doing F-r-e-e Print work. RESULT? He got so much AFTER HOURS Work from Corporate Teams working late to make deadlines -- Steve had to put on a night shift. And told me - that SO FAR - His Gross Sales had grown 800% over what it was when he took over. WIN-WIN A - The Pizza store Did NOTHING but toss a page in on top of each pizza. B - Steve Already had employees and equipment and lots of spare time - So his real costs were negligible. Thanks, Glenn |
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