The Ultimate Referral System Webinar
January 29, 2008
“If You Only Had $500 In Your Budget and You Needed To Double Your Customers, What Would You Spend It On?”
I’ve been asked that exact same question hundreds of times from business owners who are frustrated with their marketing results.
My simple answer is, “Referral Marketing!”
In a study done by our company with 2,134 small business owners, we found that over 55% said that they received the highest return on their investment from referral marketing. Referrals are the lifeblood of your small business. You know it and I know it. Without referrals, our businesses would dry up and blow away.
That’s why I’ve developed the “Referral Marketing Best Practices Webinar.” This is a one hour webinar in which I share with you what the best referral marketers are doing to generate more referrals. I want to invite YOU to attend one of my webinars.
If you’ve been frustrated with your ability to get more referrals or to motivate your clients and customers to talk about you, then you must attend this webinar.
It’s not too late to register for tomorrow’s event - Wednesday January 30, 2008 at 1 pm Pacific (3 pm Central, 4 pm Eastern)
We will be using GoToMeeting for the Webinar. Go here to register for this fr.ee event: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/893400884
There will be a special bonus announced at the end of the event. You don’t want to miss this.
Ipod Nano Winner! “The Content Maven”
January 29, 2008
Remember back in December when I ran a contest? Guess what I have a winner! The plan was to announce the winner on December 10th. We only had one person that commented on the contest. Somehow I managed to see some information that made me think the comment that was posted was from someone in the UK. One of the rules of the contest was that the individual commenting needed to reside in the USA. A reader of my blog called my attention to this error.
Sorry, Meryl! This is much delayed but nevertheless rectified. Let me introduce to you our WINNER!
Meryl K. Evans, Content Maven, has written and edited for AbsoluteWrite, ECT News Network, The Dallas Morning News, Digital Web, Lockergnome, MarketingProfs, PC Today, O’Reilly, Pearson, Sams, Wiley, and WROX. Meryl has written copy for businesses as well as Fib-or-Not? and Meet, Mix, and Mingle games.
Meryl writes and edits content for businesses and publications. She helps business build and maintain relationships with clients and prospects.
She is Editor-in-Chief of Shavlik’s The Remediator Security Digest, a popular newsletter on computer security with over 100,000 subscribers. She’s also the editor of Professional Service Journal, an email newsletter for business-to-business (B2B) service providers, Intel Solution Services’ Connected Digest, and TailoredMail’s Focus eJournal.
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Meryl is also an educator with New York University’s online graduate program. She has worked for two Fortune 500 telecom companies, federal government in Washington, D.C. and IT consulting. A native Texan, she lives a heartbeat north of Dallas in Plano, Texas with her husband and three kiddos.
Here is the comment that won:
I use various strategies when in need of sources for my business. If I need a product, but don’t know which brand or model — I do research on the Internet to narrow the list.
Once narrowed, I check reviews, blogs, and articles on the product keeping in mind that some reviews could be biased. After deciding on the product, I use shopping comparison sites to find the best deal.
Also I check for the basics: Is transaction secure (some places still haven’t caught on)? Is it easy to contact customer service? Does the store/seller have a good reputation? How is payment handled?
Please check out Meryl’s Website. You can contact her at her website. Congratulate her! And, if you need writing projects done, she’s the one to call.
The Ultimate Referral System Series
January 18, 2008
Today on www.GetMoreBusinessPodcast.com we covered part one of a series of shows on The Ultimate Referral Marketing System.
We covered several “best practices” of what makes a good “intentional” referral marketing plan that you can predict a steady flow of referrals from when you’re offering a quality product or service.
Even if you’re a superior technician in you business there is no guarantee of referral business if you don’t have a system in place to generate referrals.
In this series I give you all the secrets - well, today was just part one of all the secrets used by the all the “business by referral” gurus.
Join me in a live webinar where I cover all the best practices and strategies for this gold mine marketing technique by sending me your information below so I can send you the date and time of the event.
When you attend the Live Webinar “The Ulitmate Referral System” I will send you a 2008 Referral Marketing Plan that you can use as a guide to help you prepare your own personalized system for getting all the referrals you can handle.
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Would you like a free copy of my new eBook?
January 4, 2008
Whenever I do coaching or presenting I receive a number of questions on the Law of Attraction -
- What is it?
- How does it work?
- Does it work for everyone?
- What causes it not to work (actually it ALWAYS works)?
Have you seen the movie The Secret? You can order the dvd directly from my website - this is a movie you’ll want to own so you can watch it over and over to understand and implement the concepts.
I need to hear from you. I have a very short - only five questions - survey. Your participation will help me determine relevant contant for the frequently asked questions on this topic. Please go to my survey page and do the survey now! It will take less than five minutes.
How to Choose a Profitable Niche Market
January 3, 2008
Does it always seem like others find all the profitable markets…while you’re stuck slaving away looking for a good opportunity? On January 4th, 2008, Terry Dean, Author & Marketing Coach will join me on Get More Business Podcast to discuss what he’s called a “virtually fool-proof method of chooosing slam dunk markets.”
Terry Dean is an Internet Business Coach Focused on Helping Small Business Owners Use the Internet to Earn More, Work Less, and Enjoy Life. He started his first online business way back in 1996…an eternity in Internet time.
Before he started online, he was delivering pizzas for a living at LIttle Caesar’s for $8 an hour. Using the power of the Internet, he was full-time in business online in less than 6 months. Two years later he started teaching others on how they too could use the Internet to grow an online business…whether they work from home or run a local business marketing to a local audience.
One of his most memorable moments was sharing how to profit online in front of live audiences…producing as much as $96,250 in sales from a single email to his list during a weekend conference.
His Netbreakthroughs membership site was a Whos-Who on Internet Marketing Experts and Gurus. He sold this consulting business in 2004 to take time off and now concentrates more on using his knowledge and background to coach others to success online.
Download Terry Dean’s special report for Virtually Foolproof Method of Choose Slam Dunk Markets. Here’s what you will learn in this special report:
- How to Come Up With Ideas for Markets
- Come Up With Ideas Off the Internet
- Affinity Markets or Objective Markets
- Is It Cost Effective to Reach the Target Market
- Some Markets Are Not Reachable Online
- Is There Enough Money In The Market
- What About the Competition
- Survey Your Market to Know Them
- How to Estimate Your Future Cost Per Sale With Surveys
- Survey Questions You Should Use
- Choose Your Market Eight Step System
- Choose Your Market Flowchart
I was stunned when I saw how easy it is to use tools on the internet to discover where the money is flowing - who’s buying what and where.
You can listen live on Friday at 9 am Pacific. Join in on the call with Q & A at the end of the call. If you miss the call listen in to the archived podcast.
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The Ultimate Referral System Series
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Opportunity Favors Preparation
January 2, 2008
“What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.” H.P. Liddon
A friend of mine is a pilot. He regularly goes through training on what to do in case of an in-flight emergency. My friend has determined that he must have his subconscious mind take over when his conscious mind might be filled with anxious thoughts of the emergency at hand. For example, if an engine were to fail on his jet he knows exactly what to say to control tower and what switches to flip. He has physically and mentall rehearsed how to save his life in this emergency.
Athletes prepare both mentally and physically for their most formidable competition. That is the point of the hours of practice - building both physical and mental muscle, training actions, reactions and instincts to respons appropriately for a win.
If you’re in sales - it’s the hours of script writing and role playing, discovering all of the potential objections and preformulating responses that draw your clients in to purchase your product or service.
If you’re a doctor, a lawyer or accountant - it’s the hours of school and internship that prepares you for fieldwork.
If you would be truly successful you must begin acting and living successful before the evidence appears in your life. I work with my coaching clients about “stepping into character.”
You must prepare your mind to “be” what your intention is. What does success in your field look like? Opportunity will pass you by if you’re not prepared to “be” a player. And your instincts won’t be prepared to quickly act on opportunity when and if it does present itself to you.
This year - whatever goal you are striving to reach - prepare yourself for the fulfillment of your desire. How would you live, how would you conduct yourself when you succeed? Begin today writing that book if you would be an author, prepare for the presentation if you would be a speaker, role play your sales calls.
Prepare.
Get ready to answer the door when Opportunity knocks.
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