"This Business has Legs": How I Used Infomercial Marketing to Create the $100,000,000 Thighmaster Craze: An Entrepreneurial Adventure StoryISBN: 978-0-471-14749-7
Paperback
224 pages
June 1996
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"Only in America could a would-be monk convince a faded televisionstar to pitch a rehabilitation device designed for Scandinavianskiers and create a nationwide sensation. The marketing strategyalone is worth the price of admission."
--Paul B. Brown Special Correspondent for the Business News Network(BNN) and coauthor of Customers for Life
"This is the first time the person behind a fad lays out the wholemarketing strategy he used. Even I learned a lot."
--Bob Rice Pet Rock Promoter
"Within a matter of months, Peter Bieler created a $100,000,000industry out of nothing. This fascinating book chroniclesstep-by-step how he did it."
--Steve Dworman Publisher, Infomercial Marketing Report
"As a jack, in an emergency, if you have a very small car ... As arack to dry homemade pasta ... Prop it on its side and presto! Twinpicture frames ... Have it bronzed and claim it's a very earlyHenry Moore ..."
--Diane White columnist for The Boston Globe on alternate uses forthe ThighMaster See Inside for Exciting Contest Details!
--Paul B. Brown Special Correspondent for the Business News Network(BNN) and coauthor of Customers for Life
"This is the first time the person behind a fad lays out the wholemarketing strategy he used. Even I learned a lot."
--Bob Rice Pet Rock Promoter
"Within a matter of months, Peter Bieler created a $100,000,000industry out of nothing. This fascinating book chroniclesstep-by-step how he did it."
--Steve Dworman Publisher, Infomercial Marketing Report
"As a jack, in an emergency, if you have a very small car ... As arack to dry homemade pasta ... Prop it on its side and presto! Twinpicture frames ... Have it bronzed and claim it's a very earlyHenry Moore ..."
--Diane White columnist for The Boston Globe on alternate uses forthe ThighMaster See Inside for Exciting Contest Details!