The solution was a no brainer for anyone on the outside looking in. Using good business sense to get this country on it’s feet again - That’s the crux of the matter. Uncle Arthur is ready to share this recently used approach to solving the “people problems” of our nation - but with a creative twist. Uncle Arthur may call it “NO LEGISLATION LEFT BEHIND” or “REAL GOVERNMENT FOR A REAL NATION” or any other catchy phrase to feed the media.

There are lots of “good” corporate citizens out there willing to run our government - many of them have been trying to do it for years. But, now with Uncle Arthur’s new plan, the USA won’t have to pay off the expensive middlemen (politicians) to get this country on the move again toward greatness. The saddest part of our past has been that these middlemen (elected officials) seldom deliver any value added to the edicts of our sleek corporate masters.

Now Uncle Arthur feels it’s time to stop mincing words. Aren’t you sick of voting for the strutting, windbag primadonnas who want to give an impression of importance when they really only spoon feed you the previously made decisions from the theatre of “Government.”

Government-coated candy pills delivered from the Mount of Powerful Committees - a story line that just isn’t necessary anymore. When was the last time you voted for a policy instead of a politician. What? Did you just say - “What is a POLICY?????” Uncle Arthur is ashamed of you. We better define what a policy is right now.

A “policy” is what the people in Washington talk about, but don’t want to write down unless it’s 1) written to sound good but skirts all deep issues 2) can’t be porked out any further 3) good for “favorite” corporations 4) and is simple enough for an idiot (citizen) to believe in with all their heart.

To get people to replace our “elected” middlemen we can use cross-promotion tactics - an easy, inexpensive method for generating more traffic and more revenue for business and government that is closer to a real democracy than our current corporatocracy.

A simple example of good cross-promotion is swapping business cards with another business in your locale. The idea is to find a related but non-competing operation, give them a stack of your cards to hand out and take a stack of their cards in exchange.

On websites and website templates you can exchange Thank You Page Ads or confirmation pages that prospects see after they make a purchase or register for a free mailing list are great places to post promotions. The people who see these pages are action takers, making them the ultimate target for a good advertisement to participate in policy making. You can place an ad for your cross-promotion partner on one or more of your thank you pages and have them do the same for you.

Unannounced Member Bonus - If you and your promotional partner run membership programs, you could place unannounced bonuses within one another’s secure member areas of youir websites. For instance, when members login to your site they could find a “free gift” from your partner, and be required to register at your partner’s Website to receive access to their free gift; of course you would place a similar promotion in your promotion partner’s member area. And you can get the participants’ opinions on alternative energy policies, who to declare war on next, or why we should have a basic nationwide health insurance for citizens.

You can include an email in your automated message series promoting your partner’s committee and they could reciprocate with an email for you. You could even promote as affiliates for one another so you both earn commissions in the process.

Cover Page Promotions are a good idea if you and your partner both produce digital information products such as e-books and special reports. You just swap promotions on the first page of your PDF products. This would provide both of you with quality exposure as your ads would be seen by the people who purchase and actually participate in public policy making as well. These people can not only express informed opinion, they are action takers - not payola seekers.

These are just four examples of how we can use cross promotion tactics on the web to liberate our government and society from self-serving middlemen (congress and elected officials) who stare pork and PACs in the eye everyday and just can’t say no. Tell ‘em Uncle Arthur sent ya.

Save the Country!!!!!
Uncle Arthur “Save the Country” Browning