Chapter 8. You Don’t Need Money to Make Money
many directions to fit your life. If you own your own business, having a middleman (or woman!) to help you expand your busi- ness could be extremely beneficial. If you don’t own your own business, your “middleman” ser- vices could help expand another person’s company while you make money. For example, go to smaller service-related businesses people use every day—car repair shops, plumbers, carpenters, pool cleaners, landscapers, fuel oil distributors—and tell them that you want to print up cards with a special code on them to recommend their services to everyone you know. In return, ask for a small per- centage of all sales generated by this form of advertising. Small businesses especially love advertising that they only have to pay for if they get results. Tell the business owner how much better this referral method of advertising is than an expen- sive ad with no promise of sales. Wherever you go and whenever you speak to anyone about anything, you have a list of service places for all of their needs. You are helping these companies get additional business, helping people in need of services with a referral, and you are making money in the middle, spending no money of your own! If you own your own business, you can try this same method, in reverse. Instant Pay Raise Advancing in a current job is a very real opportunity for some people, so you don’t necessarily have to quit your 9 to 5 job to become wealthy. You could possibly implement similar strate- gies to those you have learned and will learn in this book in your current job, and if they increase the company’s profit or sales, you could have the chance to get a promotion and/or a pay raise. One last thing about your job—even if you dislike it or you know it is temporary—do it as well as you can because you never know what is around the corner. I have hired waiters. I have filled positions in my companies with people in totally unrelated fields
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