What if someone approached you with a business opportunity of selling phones? Not just any phones .. video phones! This is the latest venture that has been put in front of us and we are seriously considering the partnership.
The offer is that you will receive a video phone and service on a land line for about $23 a month. The set up is about $130 out of pocket to the end user for the phone and activation. To get into the selling portion of the program you need $500 and if you sign up two of your friends in the first month for the $500 level of selling you get $1000 cash. Enough to bring on two friends!
We where presented with this opportunity and think that there is a better way. Given they have put a lot of thought into how they want to sell these new phones and service but we think there is a better way. What about giving the phones away for “free” and charging more on the back end of the service? Not so much that it is over priced, but maybe splitting up the payments for the $130 for the phone into a few monthly payments. You can always catch more flies with honey and giving things away for what seems like free will always get more people to buy.
What are your thoughts?
