TW (and others) Very good discussin. IMHO

What JA teaches (as I understand it) is about finding untapped resources, etc. -- but then setting up (what I would call) toll postitions -- I stand between you and getting higher profits, and collect a toll for every dollar that goes ("flows") through what (the better-ROI systems) I have set up. I am the choke point through which the higher profits must flow. That can be set-it-and-forget-it systems.

What I meant by free-standing as opposed to custom-built is, setting up toll boths to which both sides can come (and then leave) at will. Example: eBay.

A 'portal' that charges people (one one side or the other, or both sides) to use it. A free-standing toll booth.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by toll position altogether.

Can you write a definiton for us -- in one or two lines. Can you define the optimum situation or system you're talking about?

Thanks.

-- TW

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by -TW

Can you write a definiton for us -- in one or two lines. Can you define the optimum situation or system you're talking about?

Thanks.

-- TW

NO TW, I can't. The reason? There is the Harvey Brody document that explains it all. Gives examples. Tells people exactly how to get started. Read that, then you'll know what a real toll position is.

In your examples, you say JA shows a "set it and forget it" toll. Give me ONE example, just one...

where there has been a toll position in place for more than 3 decades?

gjabiz

PS. Here is the link to the document. http://www.sowpub.net/files/harveybrody.pdf

Mr. Prospect, you're not recontacting your previous customers -- in a systematized, optimal way.

I will set up a system that does that.

I will not give you fish -- I will set up the fishing system.

Thenm you pay me a % of the addt'l biz that system brings in -- even after I leave it in place for you (after I leave the situation).

In other words, I get it up-n-runnin' and you keep paying me for as long as YOU use the system.

Now -- I've heard the problem is just that -- biz's want to pay for the increased biz (a %) -- they don't want to agree to do it (pay out) ad infinitum. But that IS the theory JA espouses, as I understand it.

-- TW