Networking Basics Turn Yourself Into A Profit Making GiantWritten by Costa Dedes
I would like to introduce you to one of my brick and mortar business I run. It is called AFM Computer Repair. This business takes me about 5 hours a week, yet I usually make a few hundred dollars cash in my pocket spending money a week. Now I know what everyone is thinking, "How HELL do you run a brick and mortar business with only 5 hours of your time a week!". Well its quite simple. Its called networking. Ok I admit location isn't mine, it doesn't have my name on it. But benefits are great I don't pay monthly bills! This is like a dream come true, your own store with no bills. OK let me explain a little more. The business sells refurbished computers that are supplied by a local computer recycler. I networked myself with a few local business owner in my home town and managed to find a few people who could be interested in selling PC products. After getting names and locations of each business I wrote up a presentation and showed them benefits of having me in store selling my products. The owners almost dropped to their knees begging me to setup my displays. A week later I had three shops all selling computer for ME. I had no overhead I did not even need to be in store for more then a few hours each week. The secrets to networking is to find a product you are interested in. Once you have found product learn more about it. Once you learned enough about product, read about it some more until it is so well into your memory you have no questions about it. Then prepare a list of possible business to market your product in. I recommend small locally owned businesses in downtown parts of your town, example would be a corner store where people hang out to buy beer and cigarettes you know people will be in and out all day. Then prepare your presentation. Make sure you can answer most outrageous questions on your products. Do not forget part that will make your perspective partner drop to his knees asking you to come sell in his shop. The secret to this is "Make him an offer he cant refuse". No no, I don't mean get mob over and break his knees. What you need to do is tell him that your product will give him extra cash with no investment. The owner does not have to purchase any of your products up front. You own all products until they are sold. Once they are sold you write up a bill and give it to shop owner. You make sure you give them a good cut of money. Depending on your product that can be anywhere from 15% to 60%. If you keep shop owner happy I promise you that money you see will continue to come for years.
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Thank you for visiting my site. My name is Costa Dedes and I have been in internet business for years now. Recently I have started a small numeric pager company over internet. This company sells pagers and airtime to customers all over country. The business is run by myself, no employees I do all work and collect all money. The nice thing about paging business is fact your have re-occurring payments. This means every month I receive money from my clients and it takes virtually no work on my part once initial programming and activation of pager is done. If you are looking into a business venture I recommend you try to find a business with re-occurring payments. You are guaranteed money as long as customer subscribes, and if you provide good customer service when they need it this can be for years. This business is an excellent example of people believing there is no way to still make money in a particular market. As everyone probably knows paging industry has slowed down and everyone is using cell phones now. Well by using specific marketing techniques outlined in Cory's programs I made it possible to bring back a dieing business and make it profitable. I advertise on google.com and receive most of my business through them. The adwords program is a monster for marketing. The problems I ran into were I was constantly being outbid for placement. After purchasing googlecash program I managed to turn paging company into a cash cow.
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