Use This Strategy and Start Collecting All The Change

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Got a question for you...

Have you ever heard of and used the "toll-booth strategy" in your business?

Whether you realized it or not, a lot of people have already used it on you. What's the toll booth strategy?

Let me give you 2 quick examples.

I bought a new cell phone the other day and as soon as I opened the apps inside, there was zappos shoes, local deals and etc...

I have never used these sites, it's a brand new phone, but yet there in my phone.

Why?

How about this example...

You go to amazon and buy one of the newer smart televisions.

It doesn't matter what brand...it could be a sony, panasonic, or any other brand. You order the tv and it arrives a week later at your house.

You plug it in and what do you see right away?

Amazon is one of the automatic apps or channels already installed in your tv. You just opened the box, pulled out the tv and plugged it in. You didn't add amazon, but it's there.

Why and How?

Amazon, Google and others have been using the toll booth strategy.

With the Amazon example...Amazon acts as the toll booth.

If these tv companies want access to their customers through amazon, they have to pay the toll.

Not only money, but they have to install an amazon app in all their tv's before even allowed to cross the bridge into amazon land.

With the cell phone example I gave you...

Google Android uses another version of the toll booth. If zappos and other companies want access to google android customers, they have to pay a toll to google to be there.

This "toll booth strategy" can be very very profitable if done right.

Here's my question to you...

What can you do in your business starting today to use and take advantage of this strategy. If you think hard, I bet you can come up with at least 2 or 3 ideas.

At the very least, come up with one and put into action right away. Then see how fast your "business toll booth" can be collecting all that change.
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  • Profile picture of the author midasman09
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    Holy Camoly! I started my Offline advertising career using "Harvey's" (I forgot his last name)....Toll Gate technique which meant to ME...."Hey! QUALIFY the "suspects" b4 you spend any time or money on them!"

    Harvey's marketing method made me LOTS of buckoreenos!

    A "TollGate" is where you plop in some money to....get thru the gate OR... receive more info on the subject and....when you plunk down some cash... you qualify yourself as a "Prospect" rather than a "suspect"....meaning US guys selling stuff, can now spend a few more bux getting "Prospects" into our Sales Funnel.....so we have a good chance or closing sales to BONAFIDE PROSPECTS!

    Yessir....I remember Harvey's Toll-Gate program well!

    Here's how I used it to make my first BIG BUX....REMOTELY rather than doing what I was doing b4 Harvey (whom I've spoken with numerous times) introduced me to his "Super Marketing Technique"!

    I'd place a display ad in Entrepreneur Mag. The ad said, "FREE Recorded Message Reveals....xxxxxx (benefits and reasons to PHONE my NON Toll-Free recording)

    They'd hear the 2 min message (which gave more reasons why they should request MORE info) They'd leave their Name and Mailing Address and I'd send off a 4 page Sales Letter outlining the benefits they could receive by ordering my program.

    Now....my 4 page Sales Letter expounded on the benefits they'd receive by having my program and....I offered a "FREE Video" which gave them more info!

    Now....my "Free" Video wasn't really "Free"! They had to use the enclosed order Form and Return Envelope to include their "$20 REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT" for my Video. And, I explained, if they were in Any Way unsatisfied with the Video....they could just return it for a No Questions Asked REFUND!

    Well....out of hundreds of videos I sent out....I only received less that TEN that returned the video for a refund (Maybe it was "too much trouble" to send the video back)

    And.....watch this; later on....rather than sending a 4-page Sales Letter requesting a $20 "Refundable Deposit"....I put my program into a CD and... enclosed the CD (with the program I was selling...inside) and....on the last page of my Sales Letter I said;

    "Hey? Guess what? If you want to start enjoying the benefits my program can give you.....WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES.....you don't have to Wait and wonder IF it's coming or...WHEN....it's coming.....YOU ALREADY HAVE IT!

    Yup! It's INSIDE THE DISK you are holding HOWEVER....It's Encrypted!

    You need a Special UN-Lock Code to get to it. Just phone the Order # andthe clerk will give you the UN-Lock Code....right after you order."\

    My WF friends.....you can't believe the response I got fromusing this technique!

    They ALREADY HAD THE PRODUCT...in their Hot Little Hands! To get to the "Goodies" inside....all they had to do was give their CC to my clerk to get the UN-LocK Key!

    I hope you can "sense" the ABJECT POWER of this!

    Harvey....got me going onto the "Pay a Toll" thing and I perfected it with my..."YOU ALREADY HAVE IT!" thingee!

    I'm talking 25% Return.....1 out of 4 who got my Sales Letter.... ORDERED!

    THEY HAD TO SEE WHAT WAS INSIDE THAT DISKTHEY WERE HOLDING! IT WAS ALMOST UNBEARABLE! Like a "Hot Potato"!

    Anyway....in YOUR "Marketing Efforts"....think about ways to get "Prospects" to show themselves, by "Paying a Toll"! THEN....find a way to "Give Them What They Want....ENCRYPTED!

    Don Alm.....long-time Marketing Guy
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