If you are just starting out in business, and want a simple, free and fast way to get started, then this article will show you how.

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No matter what you sell -- whether it's a product or a service -- there is one very simple way that, if you sell something that's got some real value in it, is almost fool proof.

And here it is: Simply barter your product or service to newsletter list owners (who deal in products and services similar to yours) in exchange for them endorsing your product or service to their subscribers a certain amount of times.

In other words, if you're a copywriter for example (and this can apply to anything you do), find a list owner who has a couple thousand people or more, and offer to write some stuff for them for free -- in exchange for promoting you, your site, your services to their list. Maybe even multiple times over the course of the year.

Or, if you sell some kind of widget, offer to give them a free widget (along with anything else you can add to "sweeten" the deal) in exchange for promoting you or your product to their list.

All you have to do is make sure youre offering them a "can't-refuse" deal. A deal that makes it harder for them to say no than it does for them to say yes.

The late (and brilliant) copywriter and marketer Eugene Schwartz used to do a variation of this. He'd write ads for the big mailing houses for "free"...in exchange for access to their mailing list to sell his stuff to.

Ben Settle

Ben Settle is a direct response copywriter and author of "The Copywriter's Cheat Sheet" -- which contains over 300 pages of advanced copywriting secrets and rare swipe file ads not easily found anywhere else. Although Ben only accepts a handful of clients each year, he freely and generously shares his experiences and ideas at his website and on his blog.