Beauty of a story Marty - That's how you save on car insurance...!
where did you get 2 for one pizza?

I had a question I sent you a PM on...

D&C

Great thinking Marty -- There's always win-win situations waiting to happen.

Really appreciate this post, Martin. Would love to know more about this business model. Very motivating....
Tuscan

Hey Martin,

Personally I enjoy the posts that you have made. You have some very good ideas and do a good job of sharing.

This thread migh be a little self serving....but it is good information. I believe all of your methods work,,,,you just have to take action.

Thanks for posting.

I personally look forward to reading about Martin's ideas.

thanks for posting, your idea looks good.

I was thinking the same thing.

And you only need title insurance if there is a lender involved in the purchase of real property.

I cannot imagine anyone buying title insurance from someone on an IM forum.


I do not know if this is self promotion, and if it is, it's wrong and should not be tolerated.

I will take from this thread that you never know where your business will come from. When I was talking to my hair stylist the other day, I mentioned my IM businesses. Then she mentioned her husband has a product but does not know how to take it to market. We had a nice chat and I hope to be helping her husband get his product to market. For a fee.

Martin ... you trouble maker.

Good to see you here buddy. It's been a while. I hope all is well with you.

You've been talking about doing these cards since I've known you almost so it's good to see they are working for you. You deserve some success.

Randy

Very inspiring! Thanks Martin

Nice creative idea.

I don't understand what the deal is with people bringing up self promotion nowadays.

THAT'S WHAT MARKETING IS....?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!

Obviously if I am planning on selling something I am going to self-promote and try to appear as a professional and go-to guy.

WTF. It really annoys me that every time someone trys to share a method whether it be awful, great, unique, WHATEVER... the person gets flamed!

I understand that there are cliques everywhere you go but a public online forum should not be a clique. Just because there are 5-10 guys that have amazing WSOs and every time they make a thread with a method or bull&**$ advice... FLOCKS of people come in to praise and tell them how amazing they are.

Why do we help these 5-10 people promote themselves while we bash the newer guys for trying to promote themselves?

I hate to get myself involved in a pissing contest here and I was planning on posting about 5 methods of my own over the course of the next week or two as I build my business but seems like I might want to just continue lurking...

Hello Martin,

I really enjoy your posts. I purchased your Pizza Card WSO and I have a few questions. I emailed you, but haven't heard back yet.



1. I want to make the discount card business a full-time income, but only producing up to 1000 pizza cards per pizza shop would really make this difficult. I need more cards to sell, and I don't know how many pizza shops I can get signed up in my local area. Have you had any success with locally-franchised pizza chains that may allow you to produce larger numbers of cards to sell? I'm thinking BIG here, haha!


2. Do you consider your commission-only sales people "independent contractors" for tax purposes?

I have a twist that I want to apply to make this venture really take off for me.







Thanks,


Chris

I think the moral of the thread is to think outside of the box, and just strike up conversations in your every day life, you never know what could come of it.

I feel value was added here, even if the signature matches to his thread. So if I have a signature line about "how to rank on the #1st page of Google in 2 weeks!" (or something) am I not to start a single thread talking about SEO and techniques to rank?

I haven't followed this particular gentleman's posts, but I wasn't offended by it.

I have seen way worse self promotion, 0 value added, that just basically tried to get people to click on the signature line.

I thought the basics of "forum marketing" is to add value to the forum and thus people click on your signatures..

If he is building up to a WSO, It is working, can we blame Martin? I don't, make your money brotha.

The guy at this thread did a self promotion (in a way) that has 4 star rating and pages of responses. He solicited e-mails, then almost immediately sent a product offer to those e-mails. I know because I e-mailed him to ask about his SMS provider as I was about to pull the trigger for 800-1K whit-label reseller (screw twilio/openvbx it is to much techie stuff!), and building an SMS component to my offline business. The thread is still there, I suppose, because he did add a lot of value.

Anyways, just my view on things, I could be wrong, I have been wrong before.

Ryan

I thought it was a great story about keeping your eyes and ears open and taking advantage of opportunity. Then again I have a 'don't buy any WSOs" policy so I could careless about his sig.

Keep your posts coming Martin. I see nothing wrong with what you do. As a comparison, John Durham has a thread in which he outlines his plans to make 500k this year. In the sig line he has a link to his WSO on the same topic. Is this offensive? No way. We have the choice to click or not to click on the link to his WSO. Same goes for Martin. Keep em coming!

I think you just "one upped" Flo's Bundler! lol

Are you kidding me!?! Martin Buckley, John Dunham and Bob (Jake) Ross are 3 of thee classiest, coolest Warrior Forum dudes on here! They don't need to *self promote* because most of us who have spent any small time around these forums will gladly speak up and vouch for their awesome character's! Trust and believe, we all can separate the sheep from the wolves...and these guys are nobody's wolves, for sure! Just straight up, honest men who will go above and beyond to help if asked. They contribute immensely to this forum, making us think outside the box..and we and W.F are better thinker's because of it! Thanks, Martin, Bob and John! You all ROCK--solid!

Hey Martin, how are your pizza cards different than Gina Gray's pizza flyers?

This is a great post, Martin. Stories like these give me inspiration and ideas. I don't know what LegitIncomes' problem is. I do have a problem with spamming, but self promotion? Isn't that the whole idea of the forum and the internet, in fact; to get yourself out there. If you were clearly spamming (i.e. look at my program, I got rich with little effort, ...), then I would agree, but this, in no way, harms the average Joe. Continue posting, Martin, and if you get more comments from him, give him an intraction or something. Look forward to your next post, buddy.