How To Get More Business With Little Or No Work On Your Part

I'm sort of a stranger in these parts.

Right now I'm editing a book on home based businesses I wrote a while back. I came across one of the marketing methods and thought it would be something smart folks in the offline arena might put to use.

Years ago I knew a guy who had a kickass lawn cutting service. He'd get about 90% of his new clients by paying kids $5. Any kid who got him a new client would get $5. Of course they'd bug their parents and many of them gave his service a try... Some of them actually stuck. Whether the client stayed or not the lawn guy more than made up the $5 finder's incentive with his regular lawn fee.

Why not apply that to your Web services? You might want to offer a bigger incentive than $5. Maybe $10 or $20. You might be surprised at how many business owners kids know. And here's the cool part. Kids tell other kids and then they go out and pitch your services too. So your incentive offer goes real-world viral.

The beauty is, you don't pay anyone until you get a gig. Print up some smart looking flyers with your services plainly outlined on them and turn that army of hustlers loose. I'll bet you'll get some takers. Peace.