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Gift Basket Business World Newsletter
Your Roadmap to Tips, Resources and Tools That Increase Your Profits
April 18, 2006--Issue 88
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Last week's tip: Let the Do-It-Yourselfers Have the Easter Basket, You Have Spring

This Week's Tip: Latch Your Business to Something New, Trendy, or Unique

Do you want your business to be profitable and timely? Then look around you at the trends, the fads and fun ideas.

1. Fads can be a fun and profitable, but you must move fast. What's hot right now, for example, are reality shows, yellow wristbands and Poker. Maybe you can profit from a tie-in with one of these.

2. Do something that is not boring by putting a contest, games, puzzles or trivia on your website.

3. Give ethical bribes by offering customers something free such a list of tips or a report with purchase or for signing up for your newsletter.

4. Find a niche that hasn't been filled. Two stay-at-home moms felt that Easter baskets should carry the message of Christ, for example, so they created Christian Easter baskets.

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