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Are You Using This Internet Marketing Secret?
If you are trying to sell a product or service on the Internet,
then you are probably doing so through an affiliate program. You
signed up as an affiliate (usually for free) and they gave you an
affiliate ID (user name or number). They may have...
Gifts that Carry a Marketing Message
When we decide on a price for our products and services we have established our chosen profit margin. As part of that process we figure in the cost of marketing, but this figure does not always include purchasing gifts for our clients. Gifts are...
Marketing Miracle Phrases
"...A powerful agent is the right word..." --Mark Twain And what true words those are! Your marketing efforts have the ability to succeed or to fail based on the words you choose to represent your products, services, and yourself in your ads. You...
Online Marketing Through Newsletters
So you want to start publishing an online newsletter? Why? Because that’s what all the online marketing experts and gurus said to do. You’ve been told you’ll pull in lots of new customers if you just start publishing an online newsletter AND...
Seminar Marketing: Boost Your Business by Running Seminars
All professional practices have the perennial problem of how to attract new clients. The comfortable days that some of us once knew have long since gone and competition is now the order of the day. Professionals who have not been trained in...
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Email Marketing Systems to Help Boost Exposure and Profits... System #1 - 2-Step Process for Your Advertising
Ok, ok we are not talking about dancing the 2-step, however, there is a 2 step process that you can follow with respect to advertising. A process that will help you gain exposure, because that is what advertising is all about, but if you plan it the right way you could find yourself building a list and eventually never having to advertise again!
Think about that for a second...because it is quite powerful and it is also what the "guru's" do. Yes, they started advertising in ezines and/ or newsletters initially, however eventually they used this very same process to set themselves up so that eventually they would never have to advertise again...or at the very least be more selective.
Have I gotten your attention now???? Excellent...
Ok, the idea behind advertising is to gain exposure, however, you need to understand that a one time shot in an ezine, regardless of how big the subscriber base is, isn't going to give you the exposure you need. This is a misconception that many people have about advertising, whether it be on or off line. People will get all excited thinking mannn I just paid for an ad in such and such ezine with a subscriber base of 225,000 or their local city paper with a subscriber base of 150,000 and their sales counter or phone is going to ring off the wall.
I am sorry to break this to you...but it isn't going to happen. Yes, you "may" receive a couple of queries but you aren't going to receive the response you are anticipating. Why? Well, for one thing you have a huge compeition pool. Your ad is jockeying for attention along with the other 15-25 (or so) ads that have been placed in the very same ezine.
The other problem is that people are sending prospects to a sales page where they will be pitched, while yes it is understandable you want to make a sale...you really are
missing the boat. Nine times out of ten when people send a prospect directly to a sales page, there is NO download. A prospect comes...perhaps reads your information and they are gone. You will NEVER get them back again, which means you are continually having to go out and spend money trying to get more prospects to your sales page. Can you afford to keep doing that?? I'm suspecting not.
Instead of sending a prospect to your page, send them to where they can get a report, or ecourse at no cost to them. Use this course/report to educate your prospect and build a relationship with them, gain their trust. Within the confines of your report the information you are providing leads them to your sales page. The operative word here is "lead" not pull them by the scruff of the neck and force them to your sales page.
Having said all that...you write a classified that will send a prospect to your report or ecourse (that's Step 1). From there they download the report and read your information. What is cool for you is that now you have the email address of a prospect. A prospect that you can follow up with on a regular basis and build trust and rapport with (Step 2).
This process is used by all the guru's. They don't lead you to a sales page, they lead you through a simple little process that builds trust and rapport along the way.
The idea is to work smarter...not harder and this one simple process will certainly put you on that right track ;o)
About the Author
Denise Ryder is a Marketing Coach writing from her home office in Northern Ontario (Canada). Hey...are you a do-it yourself marketer? Are you struggling a little? Need just a little help??? Can you imagine how far your business could grow with a Marketing Coach in your pocket??? Take a no cost Test Drive TODAY!! http://www.profitspace.com/coach
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