It isn’t celebrity endorsements or home spun viral videos.<\/p>\n
It isn’t social media, it isn’t Twitter <\/a><\/strong>or Facebook <\/a><\/strong>or any of that other stuff.<\/p>\n It is free money.<\/p>\n Yup, FREE MONEY.\u00a0 Throw out all those new fangled, technology-laden ideas.\u00a0 Simply give people FREE MONEY and your product or service will be a sure fired hit.<\/p>\n For those not familiar, the cash for clunkers program is a free money program for anyone who finds him or herself stuck with an old gas-guzzling car.\u00a0 You may have that gas guzzler because you were too stupid to see the coming oil crisis coming and had this fantasy that you’d be able to afford tooling around in a half-ton pickup or an SUV the size of a small school bus.<\/p>\n Or you may have that gas guzzler parked in the driveway simply because it has been 15 years since you bought a new car and you’ve been too cheap to buy a new one.<\/p>\n You see, it really didn’t ‘t matter WHY you have a gas guzzler.\u00a0 The only qualification for free money is that you HAVE a gas guzzler.\u00a0 The only criteria is possession, not motivation.<\/p>\n Bingo … you get $4,500.\u00a0 Everybody loves it.\u00a0 It was so popular that the government stumbled over itself to dole out even more FREE MONEY once the original free money ran out.<\/p>\n [In fact, I’m thinking of creating a gas guzzler secondary market — I’ll buy up gas guzzlers cheap and resell them for people looking for FREE MONEY.\u00a0 I’ll sell you a $2,000 gas guzzler and you can turn around and trade it in for a new car and get double that in FREE MONEY.\u00a0 This is a secret plan so please don’t tell anyone.]<\/p>\n The cash for clunkers is one of a long list of FREE MONEY successes of 2009.<\/p>\n Some five years ago finance companies like CountryWide Mortgage<\/a><\/strong> promised people FREE MONEY so they could buy homes they otherwise couldn’t afford.\u00a0 It was a runaway success in the U.S and abroad.\u00a0 Those folks at CountryWide couldn’t give away free money fast enough and home sales soared.\u00a0 Then there was Bernie Madoff<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 He promised FREE MONEY to anyone with a savings account.\u00a0 He gave people FREE MONEY regardless of risk and market conditions.\u00a0 Bernie was very popular.<\/p>\n But the granddaddy of the FREE MONEY marketing approach has been the U.S. government.\u00a0 They have bee doling out FREE MONEY for decades for things like agriculture, prescription drugs, military weapons, and all sorts of cheap consumer goods from abroad.\u00a0 The farmers, drug companies, defense contractors and the Chinese can’t get enough of\u00a0 it.<\/p>\n![\"money-tree\"](\"http:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/money-tree.jpg\" "\\"money-tree\\"")
The confirmation of this breakthrough discovery came late last week amidst the craze over the “cash for clunkers<\/a><\/strong>” program.<\/p>\n