Thanks to Dien for EH & comments on TOLL and Proprietary positions that pump cash

[GordonJ]

to their owners (controllers).

First, Thanks Dien for the updated Entrepreneur’s Hotsheet, thanks for taking your time to help us all out, it is appreciated.

A thought or two about PROPRIETARY products that can lead to a TOLL position.

A TOLL booth just sits there and collects money...it can be (and often is) left unattended, perhaps it is one of the original automated profit generators created. If you want to get from here to there, be that across a bridge, a road, or a turnpike...you have to pay the toll.

A ferry is used in many parts of the world, just as they were in ancient times to help people cross a body of water...for a FEE.

The most in depth body of work I’ve read on the subject of TOLL positioning was done by Harvey Brody many years ago and since then I’ve read and studied several other splinter works done, but none as comprehensive as Harvey’s...that covered Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Tools and Dies, Molds...etc. etc.

It was the best 600 bux I ever spent on a "course".

I have PROPRIETARY positions with most of my own products, some have formal copyrights, others have public copyrights and some I’ve sold off. You can do that when you OWN the thing.

Without going into to much detail, I’m currently working with Jim Straw’s Mercantile Connections Exchange (MCE) on some TOLL booths and FINDER’S FEES. This is what I call a THROWBACK business...but with modern technology tossed in for efficiency.

Jim and his partner (and then, the group) made millions of dollars hooking people up...

I remember my first FINDER’S FEE, when I hooked up a guy looking for a business with a guy who was looking to buy one...OH sure, it wasn’t the million dollars that Jim made, but it was a couple of grand and at the time it sure LOOKED like a million bux to me. I also got a nice consultant’s contract out of the deal too.

Currently I’m trying to hook up marketing companies with products (mostly small time inventors who aren’t getting any younger). Now of course you have to have your t’s crossed and your i’s dotted as Jim outlines in his FINDER’S FEE course (included with the Millionaire in a Year Course). OH, if you don’t know about the Millionaire in a Year Course, here’s my affiliate link:

https://paydotcom.com/r/11834/gjabiz/498243/

There are also a LOT of so-called "Stored Value" products just sitting around...this was another concept of Harvey Brody’s; and is just as doable and workable today as it was in the mid 70’s, maybe even better today as manufacturing is fleeing to China. Maybe I’ll knock off a quick little 7 buck ebook on the subject of Stored Value...hey, you got your 7 Dollar Secrets yet?

http://www.gordonjayalexander.com/7dollarsecrets/ go get it and if you’re willing to tell me a little about yourself, I’ll give you a few ideas on quickly creating your own 7 Dollar project and how to use it as a TOLL booth to other things that people WANT.

Personally, I think the 7 Dollar thing is a fad, perhaps I’ll be proven wrong...most of the reports I’ve seen aren’t worth the 7 bux, and I wouldn’t pass them on to anyone, even for FREE.

I do like the tested and proven stuff, OH, say some of the reports that Jim Straw has been selling for over 30 years...go check out his tried and proven ways to really make some cash...http://www.businesslyceum.com/ Not some FAD of the day, but tested and proven for those that work for what they want.

OF course, it is my opinion that the fastest and easiest way to get some cash flow happening is with Chatteling, and anyone can do this:

http://www.chatteling.com/b/gordon/

and I’ll answer your questions via email (preferably) or at the GJA Chatteling forum hosted here at Seeds of Wisdom Publishing.

Take a good long and hard look at the Internet....and see if you can find a few TOLL booths hard at work for the hardly working owners.
NOW, you don’t have to OWN the product, just control it...like with a book on, say, Vinegar or some natural remedy...like what you might find at www.jamesdirect.com A local guy who runs full page ads in PARADE Magazine.


YOU could find a ton of books, audio programs, content of all kind, not to mention local businesses that are closing; we just lost a Music Store in Akron {Lentine’s} after 30 years, and although it was sad to see a local guy close his doors, it was, for the local chattelers, a GREAT opportunity to buy over here and sell over there.

There are businesses FOR SALE in your area that someone somewhere else might be interested in, especially profitable, established ones...that could lead you to a nice little HOOK UP fee, oh, let’s call it a FINDER’s FEE, OK. And if you have a few bux and some Marketing Skills, you could source products, say at www.ealliancemaker.com and buy the minimum of a certain widget and sell it on ebay or a NICHE web site...and YES, I’m working on that too.
It all ties together for me...and although may appear scattered and diverse, it comes down to one basic IDEA that is working for me...I’m the HOOK UP guy.

I’ll stand between the people with chattel to sell and those who buy and I’ll take a little profit.

I’ll be in the gap between a business owner, Liquidators, a surplus guy over there...and hook him up with someone over here.

I’ll be the small TOLL bridge that collects the 7 Bux from people who want to get from where they are to where they think they want to go, with the help of the latest information product...

and within that sentence is my cryptic formula for both finding/creating/acquiring products and also writing the promotions to sell em. Simple stuff really: Before/AFTER.

Well, I really just wanted to THANK Dien Rice for getting the New Improved Version of the Entrepreneur’s Hotsheet out, but Dien, could you make it LESS GOOD? I’m spending too much time on the great finds you put in the EH. OK?

OH? That’s my problem.

You’re right sir, thanks anyhow.

Gordon Jay Alexander

PS. It really is about TIME for the most part, and how you choose to use it. But I may be wrong again.

Aloha Friends,

I was going through withdrawls too -- and was happy to see a copy of E Hotsheet in my inbox this morning. Thanks Dien! Another good issue.

Aloha,

Jason Cain

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by Goldblogger

Aloha Friends,

I was going through withdrawls too -- and was happy to see a copy of E Hotsheet in my inbox this morning. Thanks Dien! Another good issue.

Thanks Jason and Gordon,

I'm glad you like it! The Entrepreneur's Hotsheet does have a dedicated group of those who like it - particularly of those who are serious about business and entrepreneurship...

For those who aren't subscribed you can check it out here...

http://www.sowpub.com/entrhotsheet.shtml

Till later,

Dien

...products like those which Harvey Brody has created and "sells" the "rights" to large companies.

"Toll Position" products can be;

1) 2ft by 3ft Framed Maps...mounted on the Walls of Lobbies of Hotels...with Ads around the edges...for which Advertisers pay a yearly "Toll" to have their Ads on the Maps

2) "Book of Menus" on a small stand placed in Hotel Lobbies for guests to see the Menus of many local restaurants....for which restaurants pay a yearly "Toll" to have their Menu in the Books

3) "Plastic Stands" that sit on TV Sets in Hotel rooms with TV Channels listed AND Ads for "PIZZA Delivery" and other restaurants

4) "11 by 17", Full Color, MAPS....on glossy paper....with Ads of local businesses that want to attract "Toruists"....placed in "Take One Displays" in Hotel lobbies

5) "Home Buyer Guides"....with Maps of the Area....handy info for home buyers and ADS of businesses wanting to reach people looking to buy houses...placed in Real Estate offices

ALL the advertisers on the above programs pay ME a "yearly TOLL" to keep their Ads on my "products".

Granted....these "Toll Positions" do not come close to those that Mr Brody has created HOWEVER....they are still...."Toll Positions" because the businesses must pay ME a "yearly TOLL" to keep their ads.

And...these "Toll Positions" were created from scratch and some "initial Leg Work"....but when the anniversary of the start of each program comes around...a simple Invoice gets most participants to "pay their Toll Fee".

Don Alm

...forgot my best "Toll Position" producers;

MENU ADS
and
TAKE OUT MENU ADS

I provide FREE Menus to restaurants and charge businesses a "Toll Fee" to have an ad for their biz in the Menus.

Then there are...

"DAILY SPECIAL BOARDS"....4ft by 5ft Boards mounted on the wall or hanging from the ceiling or sitting on a Free-Standing display....with a "Write-On-Wipe-Off board with 8 by 10 Display Ads around the sides and bottom.

Ohhh....and there is also my...

"MOTEL MATS"!

These are a Pad of 8 1/2 by 14 Sheets of paper that sit on the front desk of Motels. On one side is a "Room Guide" (a drawing of where the rooms are) and on the backside is a Map of the area with Ads on each side.

Again....business people pay me a "Toll" to have their Ads on these every year.

Don Alm