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Finally Carolyn Duncan has published the Entrepreneur Story which is one of 100 dollar business project.

Although the publication was postponed numerous times, I am happy to announce that it's finally there.

What is a 100 dollar business project ?

Well it's an idea that with only $100 it maybe could get profitable and make a good business startup.

And what is the Entrepreneur Story?

The Entrepreneur Story was a project of publishing 100 stories of successful businessmen and businesswomen. Each of them would write their story and it would be included in the Entrepreneur Story.

You can get more information and of course a copy from the site http://theentrepreneurstory.com/

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Ok here is another one. Carolynn says on her Hundred Dollar Business blog that in order to get customers you got to ask people to buy your product or service.

Continuing my series of "42 ways to get customers" by Hundred Dollar Business blog today I will write about how to get customers through events and by spotlighting your product.

This is actually a very good way to promote your business, your products and services. Although an event can be very expensive you can make an event with little cost too.

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The third way to get customers according to the hundred dollar business blog is to “Blog It”.

You know sometimes things are in front of our eyes but we can't simple see them.

It is very simple to blog about your products or services and build more trust between you and your customers.

Gimme more info plz:

Ok here we are. Here are some simple tips to get you start blogging without any further question.

• Write some news about your products. How well they are going. If they are selling. Or what is selling more. What people buy what products.
• Write detailed information about your products. Take your time and think as a customer. Think how your customer can benefit from your product. Many products are bought from different people. Which means that a product has different meanings to the people. Write about it !
• Announce your new or upcoming products. Write what should your customers will expect from them and what benefits they have.
• If you have nothing else to write, then just take your time. Take a product, if it's a service print it's specifications on a paper, and think some ideas about it. How it can be improved. Then don't do it but Blog It first ! By getting feedback you can improve the ideas and the new inventions.

Now If you do all the above, It's time to go to the commercial part.
If you use your blog not as media for your commercial site (e-shop) then you have to setup products as posts.

After each post you should have a "buy now" button. "Buy now" buttons are very easy to create. I am using paypal to create them.

We are all hearing from Ebay and it's power on selling stuff. Making money etc etc.

Well I must say that I couldn't withstand the temptation to try it myself.

So I give you some tips so you can learn from my mistakes:

Rule #1: Never start an action before knowing what to pay for !

Learn exactly what your shipment costs, your packaging costs, your money transfer costs are.

The second way to get customers according to the hundred dollar business blog is to “
Hand out fliers”. This is really easy to accomplish.

The first thing that you have to do is to design a flier that you will hand out. There are many ways to design it but I prefer my way. Because the flier will represent you and your business and not someone's other business.

To design it you don't have to have a computer or designing skills. Of course if you possess this skills than you can design your flier in a image processing software like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator or even in a free software like Gimp.

But if you don't have that skills than you can probably get some friend or relative to do that stuff with you instructions.

If you have not this option than you can just paint your flier yourself. Take some crayons, some paint and your fantasy and design a flier.

Then all you have to do is to go to your local copy shop and make some photo copies from the original flier.

Now we have finished the productive part. We have to hand out that fliers.

Ok it's Sunday and I attach the real statistics from my occupation as an Informer.

I went to total 29 businesses which include Coffee Shops, Restaurants, Clothing, Accessories .

From this 29, only in 17 talked with the supervisor/business owner.

From this 17 I made the presentation only to 6 businesses.

And from this 6 businesses only 3 have shown interest to be sponsor.

From this 3 businesses only 1 managed to be sponsor.