The Cocktail Wiener Strategy for Online Business

Written by Heather Reimer


Don't you just love those nice ladies who stand in grocery store aisles handing out tiny food samples? Garlic sausage hot offrepparttar griddle...repparttar 121346 latest processed cheese food on a cracker... cocktail weenies. I was thinking about those ladies and how popular they are while I ponderedrepparttar 121347 marketing of my web content services.

You see, recently I decided to copyrepparttar 121348 cocktail weiner strategy and give something away for free. I had read tons of articles aboutrepparttar 121349 magic of "free" but for a long time was skeptical about whether it would work for me... I mean, what on earth can a writer give away free? And hasn'trepparttar 121350 impact of that over-used four letter word worn off by now?

Apparently not.

Internet marketing kahuna Jim Daniels gives away copies of his e-book precisely because free works. He says, "Offering a free manual gives me an opportunity to show off my expertise and possibly gain a few more potential prospects and customers... If you can give it away for free, people will remember you."

Well, I don't have an e-book to give away. But this is what I did and what you can do, too.

My primary means of promoting my writing services is through distributing business- and writing-related articles like this one (a freebie in itself). Atrepparttar 121351 end of each one is a short author's tag which acts as a plug for my services. This is repparttar 121352 ONLY advertising I do. Until I had my cocktail wiener epiphany, that tag read like this:

"How can you free up more of your precious time and improve your traffic and revenues? Hire an experienced content provider to write and regularly refresh your online material. Heather Reimer has been a professional writer for 16 years. She specializes in custom web content... blah, blah, blah."

A Lesson From The Trenches

Written by John Colanzi


Before I became addicted torepparttar internet, one of my hobbies was mail order.

One lesson I learned was that mail order dealers are willing to share their ideas, if you're willing to takerepparttar 121345 time to listen.

I still remember a letter I received from an old timer byrepparttar 121346 name of David. For some reason he decided to share how he got started in mail order.

His story is an amazing account of how to think like a winner.

David's first exposure to mail order was through one of those "How To Make $100 A Day" ads. He sent in his money and eagerly waited for his money making plan.

A few weeks later he received his envelope inrepparttar 121347 mail. He opened it up and low and behold he'd been hustled.

The secret plan turned out to be nothing more than a letter telling him to post classified ads likerepparttar 121348 one he had responded to and sendrepparttar 121349 letter to buyers telling them to dorepparttar 121350 same.

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