Contest Update #1

    Do you want to sell your own perfume?

    Have you ever tried to write a marketing plan for a perfume, laying it all out in writing how you would sell it?

    If you want a good challenge that will cost you no money but will help you understand what is involved in marketing a perfume, take a flier at our "Marketer Most Likely To Sell The Most Perfume" contest. The prize for winners -- and hopefully there will be more than one -- is six bottles of perfume, one of my own creations, but with your name and artwork on the bottle. Sell them and the money is yours. Sell them and, if you want to sell more, you can have more and the price will be right.

    So what do you have to do to win this prize? First you have to register for the contest. This costs you nothing and it lets me give you "hints" on how you can be a winner.

    Then comes the hard part. You have to prepare a simple marketing plan. That means you have to give the project thought, creativity, and reality because the winner or winners will be the ones who prepare marketing plans which, in my judgment, they really have the ability to execute.

    If you're a winner you get perfume -- to start your own business.

    If you enter and don't win, you get the valuable experience of preparing a realistic marketing plan for a perfume of your own -- with some personal coaching from me.

    This is a great opportunity.

    For contest updates, follow this blog -- or follow me on Twitter.

    Contest ends October 31, 2014.

    Contest details here.