One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

CHAPTER III.

MONEY IN TRADE. What Kind of Advertisements Pay--“Don’t Fail to See the Blizzard Saturday Night”--The Keynote of a $20,000,000 Sale--Selling Goods by the Mile--Watches for Bait--How to Get Five-Year Customers--“Trade With Me and Get a House and Lot”--Why Trade at Push and Pluck’s?--Bargains in Buttons Often Means High Prices in Broadcloth. Thousands fail in business every year when an idea put into practical operation would have tided them over the trouble and opened the road to a competence. This chapter will tell you how to succeed. No man with common ability and industry who puts the half or even the quarter of these ideas into practice can possibly fail. The great thing is to make people buy your goods. But to induce them to purchase you must first of all call attention to what you have to sell. Here are a few of the ways in which this is to be done. The following methods will fairly compel the people to trade with you, but you must bear in mind that as soon as the influence of one device begins to flag it must be immediately succeeded by another.