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Weird Fortune Cookie--Hotel--Wedding Planner Barter Triangulation
Thanks Gordon,
Here is what I did to Create a Situation where I Got F-r-e-e Fortune Cookies for Several Years. 1000's of Free Fortune Cookies. FIRST - Mike at FancyFortuneCookies.com and I were talking. And Mike said, "I'd love to have a bunch more Wedding Planner Customers. They Order a LOT of Fortune Cookies." So I Offered to Try and Find Him "A bunch" of these Wedding Planner folks since they were among his best prospects. ***IF - Mike would let me Give Away FORTUNE COOKIE Thank you Baskets. ***IF - I found him 50 or more Mike Agreed to Mail Customized Thank you Fortune Cookie Baskets to my Marketing Consulting Prospects BEFORE I called them. ***And IF - Mike would give me the Name, Address and Ph # and Job Title a Bunch of his Best Repeat Buyers of Fortune Cookies to call up. ALL of WHICH WE Agreed on. FUNNY THINGS HAPPEN When you offer to Help Business Owners THANK REWARD their Best Clients. My 3rd Phone call into the List was to TOM - Whose job Title is "Banquet Facilities Manager" at a major Hotel in Chicago. Tom LOVED the idea of Paying NOTHING to Send a Thank You Basket of Fortune Cookies to HIS Best - Most Frequent Banquet Facilities Users - Wedding Planner Company owners. I asked Tom, "How many Wedding Planner Clients do you have?" Tom said, "Oh, a few HUNDRED." ME - "COUGH, Cough, Cough. Sorry frog in my throat." I called Mike up with the GOOD NEWS. And Mike said, "Thanks. Please STOP. I've gotta call Tom at the Hotel and figure out what Fortune Cookie Baskets he wants to send 200 to 300 Wedding Planners. And THEN figure out how to Follow up with all of them." IF BARTER is Trading goods and Services for other Goods and Services without munny. IF Barter is Swapping Value for Value. a - We Traded Our Time And Experience to Find 300 of Mikes Best Prospects - in Return for some Free Gifts for MY Prospects. b - Then Mike Traded 300 Thank you Reward Fortune Cookie Baskets to the Facilities Manager at the Hotel (Thank You Rewards That got the Hotel More Bookings) - to Get INTRODUCED to 300 Wedding Planners. Sort of Mind Boggling if you think about the Possibilities for this idea. Thanks, Glenn |
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