How To Get Free Rent

You can get free rent through one of three methods:
1) Manage an apartment.
2) As a building caretaker.
3) House-sitting.

Opportunities to get free rent by all three of these methods may be found simply by checking the classified advertising section of newspapers in the area you wish to live in. Most of the opportunities will be listed under "Help Wanted". Managing apartments consists of collecting rents, showing vacancies, making minor repairs such as leaky faucets, replacing light bulbs - and taking care of the grounds. Some units even pay a small salary - depending on the size of the complex. In a very large complex there is usually a separate maintenance man and/or caretaker. The manager only handles rent collecting and showing the vacant units.

These positions normally pay only a token salary along with free rent. House-sitting is much moremore attractive to the average person. The only drawback is that most opportunities are for short terms, 3 months to a year. However, if you only want to locate to an area for a short period of time, this is the way to do it and live rent-free. Many people would rather have someone occupy their home during their absence than have it sit empty. You would be expected to maintain the premises and treat it "better" than as if it were your own. For more insight into the business of apartment managing, write to: APARTMENT MANAGER NEWS, 65 CHERRY AVE., WATERTOWN, CT 06795, for a copy of their publication.

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THE BIRTH OF DRTV

A comparison of infomercials and DRTV Spots with all types of TV advertising from 30 years ago reveals what made direct response TV advertising feasible. Three services made available during the last decade made direct response television possible.
They are:

TOLL FREE 800 NUMBERS
- The consumer is now able to respond or interact directly with the advertiser. The numbers are widely available, convenient, and most importantly, free to the consumer.

PROLIFERATION OF CREDIT CARDS
- Over 100 million credit cares are in circulation in the U.S. alone. This tool enables a huge number of consumers to make purchases over the telephone.

OVERNIGHT DELIVERY
- To get consumers to respond to your sales offer right away, make sure you give them the satisfaction of having you product right away. Remember, consumers are willing to pay a premium to get you product overnight. They want it now!!

MERCHANT ACCOUNT
- Service bureaus that handle order taking for you will almost certainly require you to have your own merchant account. Without a merchant account, you will not be able to accept credit card payments. Needless to say, this will seriously affect your overall sales figures. If you do not have your own merchant account to process credit card orders, it is essential that you use a service bureaus or enter into a joint marketing venture with a company that is able to extend you this privilege.

ACCEPTING CHECKS OVER THE PHONE
- Don't limit your phone in sales to credit card holders. By expanding the way TV viewers can pay for their purchases, you increase you probability of making a sale (with the introduction of checks-by-ph9one, your potential market is likely to grow by another 30%). Check Verification makes you product available to millions of people who do not have a credit card but do have a checking account. Here are some practical reasons why you should consider accepting check orders over the phone:

IT COMMITS THE BUYER
- The buyer doesn't have to write a check, write his name and address on a piece of paper, look for an envelope, get postage, and then mail the order. These steps can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few days. The longer it takes, the higher the odds your potential buyer will change his mind.

INSTANT GRATIFICATION
- Your customer's order can be cleared and processed faster if he doesn't have to mail a check which you bank has to clear before the order is processed. With Check Verification, you get the money within 48 hours and you customer receives you product sooner.

COMPETITIVE RATES
- If your ticket price is over $59.00, you unit cost to process a check order by phone will be almost the same as the commission the bank charges your merchant account. As this service become more readily available, and as merchant account become more difficult to acquire, accepting check orders over telephone is a feature DRTV marketers can no longer ignore.

CONTINUITY PROGRAMS
- Develop a product or service that will fit into your back-end marketing program. Remember, the easiest person to sell is one who has already purchased from you. A continually program will product sales or products or services to customers who have just made a purchase through an infomercial. The best way to promote a continuity item is through a brochure or other sales literature inserted with the original order. Developing a successful continuity program will only enhance you bottom line, particularly since your advertising message is usually delivered at not additional expense to you. Furthermore, your continuity item is being offered to satisfied customers, because your company made their TV buying pleasant and satisfying.

SEEK RELATED ITEMS
- Continuity items should normally be related to the initial product. The consumer purchases your initial product to satisfy a specific need, so it stands to reason that auxiliary products catering to this same need stand a higher chance of success than totally unrelated products. For example: If an exercise machine is you main product in the infomercial, a monthly vitamin subscription plan can be an ideal continuity program of you.; It is related to the customer's original need (to be healthy and fit), and you can count on a hefty profit margin because you advertising costs for the vitamin subscription are minimal.

RELATIONSHIP MARKETING
- Continuity may also be looked at as a means to establish a marketing relationship with your customers. Through profile response cars and other dynamic data, you can product a catalog that features several products that cater to the needs and wants defined by your customer base.
To continue with the example above, you can offer your customer (who originally purchased exercise equipment via your infomercial) a wide variety of products and services in a catalog - duffel bags, running shorts, portable CD players, you name it. As the cost of acquiring new customers increases, selling more to the same customers expands the potential for DRTV in almost any market.

BE YOUR OWN COMPETITION
- When a product becomes an infomercial success story, vultures hover in a hurry, trying to duplicate your product and you marketing campaign. Such competitors are called knock-offs. In more cases, knock-offs are cheaper versions - in both quality and price. However, one of the most brilliant knock-off DRTV campaigns we've seen broke all the files:

1. The company introduced a product of a higher quality and at a higher price than the original.
2. Both products came from the same company, so the company was actually competing against itself.
3. The same celebrity hosted the infomercials for both products.

The product was Stair Climber Plus, an upscale version of its predecessor, Super Step. Both infomercials featured Bruce Jenner, clearly showing the manufacturer's intent to present competition that did not exist - in the process preempting any legitimate competition. Neither infomercial mentioned the other product, and for a while they were running at the same time.

WHAT DOES THIS STRATEGY ACHIEVE?
Producing your own knock-offs, by competing against yourself, preempts competitors by giving them less room to maneuver. Instead of competing with just one other brand, they have to position their products somewhere between the two that are already in the market.

BROADER MARKET FOR YOU
- There is nothing wrong with producing a cheaper or more expensive version of your own product. It expands the appeal to other market segments that may be outside the range of you original product.

GUARANTEED SUCCESS
- If people bought you original product, your knock -off is likely to score the same success with its respective market segment.

CREATES A BANDWAGON EFFECT
- When viewers see two stair-climbing exercise gadgets competing against each other, it creates more awareness of stair-climbing as a method of exercise. Furthermore, the competition creates the sense that the product is both a popular and effective way to exercise.

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Up To $4,000/Day Watching TV Shows

Do you enjoy watching television? Would you like to use your television as a means of generating income? One way is to put the home shopping shows to use. Through a careful study of your local market for a wide range of consumer products you soon realize that the home shopping shows occasionally offer some real bargains. You can buy the merchandise and resell it at a profit, or contact the seller of the item and serve as a middleman to buyers that only you know, and collect for your services.

Another way to make money from watching television is to watch the infomericals now filling the airwaves and become at television ad representative. You maybe able to swing some of the infomerical advertisers to your own media outlets. despite the dollar volume of work available, there are so many television stations that this is a highly competitive industry, with stations scrambling for advertisers. Because of the intense competition for the customer's dollar, there are lucrative business opportunities open to those individuals who are able to line up customers for the stations, customers they probably would have missed otherwise. These individuals are brokers.

The broker's role is to find customers who are in the market for television time.. The broker funnels in the advertisers to the stations with whom he has established working relationships. By specializing in connecting the customer with the stations, the broker performs an important middleman function that stations are willing to pay a good commission for. Television is a highly competitive business, and advertising rates vary widely forms station to station.. Often, even large stations don't have the marketing staff to keep as much advertising in the pipeline as they need. This is where the broker come in. As a broker, it will be your job to uncover new business for your station clients.

In dealing with advertisers, you will have to demonstrate that you can save them time and money with a combination of "inside" knowledge and attention to detail. Because a customer's budget for the production of television ads is always limited, he will usually have to choose where to spend the money most effectively. He will invariably demonstrate great concern for the impact he's getting for his dollar. The broker can help the customer make these important decisions.

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The Two Hottest "Used" Products To Sell

An easy business to get into is selling used products. Many things, from books to furniture, are commonly sold when used. However, there are two products which are exploding into the "used" market. These are Compact Disks and Video Game Cartridges. Compact Disks (CDs) have almost totally replaced records and tapes as the most popular way to listen to music. They have all the advantages: they provide the highest quality sound, and won't wear out, like records and tapes will. The only disadvantage is the price.

CDs retail for around $12 to $17, depending upon the local competition. The fact that they won't wear out, though, makes them ideal for the used market. People frequently buy CDs and either don't like them, or get tired of them. What you can do is buy them for resale. Advertise in a classified ad that you will buy CDs for $2 to $5. Pay the higher price for the more popular and newer CDs. Be sure the booklet insert that came with the CD is included, and the CD is relatively free of scratches. You can then easily resell them for $7 to $10.

Selling used CDs can be done by mail, or in a retail store. In my city, there is a store that sells ONLY used CDs, and they are ALWAYS packed full of buying customers. If they can do it, so can you! Along the same lines, Video Game Cartridges are a goldmine. New games for the Nintendo and Sega systems go for up to $70! Yet, people buy a game and get tired of it, or figure it out. Offer them $5 to $20 for their old games, depending upon the popularity of the games they want to sell. You can then resell them for $10 to $35. Make sure the instruction booklet is included with the cartridge.

Both CDs and Video Game Cartridges take up little room, and can easily double your investment upon sale. Ideally, you should handle both, so you can expand your potential markets.

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